• ishatum@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I would say yes… for the following reasons:

    - some mobile games get updated often, with the new versions being worse than older ones, or having content cut from them etc…

    - then there are a lot of games that never gotten updated for a long time, and can no longer be installed and run on modern devices

    - perhaps there are a lot of delisted games from the Google play store since 2016?

    So I think this collection of yours does have some archival value! :)

  • PirateSKB@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    8 gigs isn’t really alot so I would say it’s worth it tbh

    Also lots of older data is getting way harder to find now, so it might be useful for you in the future too

    • quinto6@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I have a tron.ipa app from my 4th generation ipod touch that I have in case my ipod breaks and I have to get another one. I bought a Monster brand Tron light disc ipod dock, and the lighting effects only work with the tron app. Useless to probably 99.9% of people, but priceless to me.

  • keepar_69@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Not to discourage you, but I have nearly 10TB of apk files and I still think its not enough haha

    I started with small, so you can

    Good luck!

    • TheTjalian@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      How on earth do you have 10TB of APK files? Console game collections are that size and they can get pretty damn big in size per game.

      Genuinely curious, that sounds like an amazing collection.

      • keepar_69@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Web scrapping, constantly updating and keeping old files, years and years of data collection

  • throwaway_bluehair@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    A lot of old mobile games become lost media. Absolutely 100% worth it. I would honestly recommend you to see if you have some lost media in there

  • whatThePleb@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The biggest problem is all the data that’s lost because many games are sideloading content/updates on their own. So we need not only the apk’s (which are also important of course) but all the extra stuff/real content which has to be dumped from the devices.

  • LimesFruit@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    if you enjoy hoarding stuff like this then it’s worth it. 8GB of space for such a massive archive is really not that much, so it’s not like it is costing you anything to archive them.

    If you don’t want to hold on to these files for whatever reason, upload them somewhere such as archive.org then other people can hoard them if they choose to do so. I bet there is something in there that someone has been looking for, and I guess that’s what hoarding data is all about, making sure that media, in this case games, don’t get lost to time like many have.

    • lemonaintsour@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Most of them are not in playstore anymore and this folder includes OBBs. I tried running some of them but unfortunately they dont run anymore. At least on android 9+. I have deleted them now.

      • pixaline@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        No offense, but that was stupid. It’s 8 gigabyte. It doesn’t cost you anything to keep 8 GB around. If you’re really needing that space just get a flash drive or something and save it somewhere.

        • Monkeyman824@alien.topBEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I have probably 500GB on my HDD that I just don’t feel like deleting. Sometimes I download folder gets up to 500+GB before I notice.

        • rwbronco@alien.topBEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Lol right? I’ve got 8gb on an empty flash drive from 10 years ago. I download game patches bigger than that on the regular

        • lemonaintsour@alien.topOPBEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I know but I have to let them go I guess for my mental health too. I just hope this wont be me back in the future.

          • Cr0n0x@alien.topBEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            So on the grand scheme of things, someone out there is definitely holding on to them so no harm no foul. That being said, what the guy at the top comment implied is that 8GB is such a small amount of space that you shouldn’t even have to “worry” about keeping it, just keep it because its so small it won’t do you no harm to have it around.

            Or dump it into data hoarders and let someone else take the storing burden.

      • EtherMan@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        You could have tried on an older android device first. But for 8 gigs, I wouldn’t even have bothered. I’d just throw them in a bucket and be done with it.

      • mexter@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I would assume you could emulate an older version of Android and run them on that?

      • the-absolute-chad@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Idk why people are downvote u lol, if they don’t work and hold no value to you anymore, there’s no reason to keep it, whether it’s 100gb, 100gb or 100mb.

        • Tetra_hex@alien.topBEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          The downvotes are because OP made this post asking if is worth it to keep it. Then goes on and deletes them anyway. Why ask if you’ve already decided what you were going to do in the first place.

        • grouchy_fox@alien.topBEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          They do still work, just not on the latest version of android. Old devices and emulators still exist.

        • Vysair@alien.topBEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          OP thought 8gb is a lot and were proud to show it off. I had like 50gb of apk and shit. It’s not that I dont want to deletes it, I just lost it in my nested folder.