Sony has been backing up its PS5 game builds as part of a preservation effort

Sony in 2022 Hired Garrett Fredley Since then, join the newly generated conservation group working to find and maintain the documents of the 30-year history of the Playstation. Now Fredley spoke at the game developers conference to give an update about the team’s efforts. In itself Game File BulletinStephen shared details about Totilo Fredley’s talk. As can be seen, the team created the Playstation Studios Vault to store everything that Sony could find about the game preparation history.

Vault is now building a house, source code and source art, but there are also other files in all kinds. Fredley explained that this is perhaps all about a project you can find: the documents, the audio assets, prototype, something under the sun, even cultural works. “If a Playstation Studio is adjacent to the game, the team will keep it on the vault – even the game’s developer teams. The oldest element in the team’s collection was from 1994 TimeEstamp and Tactical RPG Ave. The latest documents include Playstation Studios game, as well as each debug, test, alpha, beta and stage releases. Saved more than 1,000 saves.

Currently, there are 650 terabytes of information or two main servers located in Las Vegas, Nevada and Liverpool, which stores 200 million information. This is almost 350 terabytes of information Fredley, the team is gathered in one of the talks last year. The team’s current installation data is waiting for 1 Petabyte to go ahead, especially because more games are developed, can manage the current installation.

The Protection Group uses tools to help them work, including a robot called Vaultron, who can read thousands of disks to find files. However, it has not been easy, because most studios are understood from today, and they do not keep their documents accurately in the case of decades. Forward, Fredley and team progress will have to solve a few problems they expect to open. For example, they must have good indexing tools and find a way to maintain the ability to use the files they collect.