Historic Mega Installer

[Old School Fool]

I've been looking for Don Daily's historic installer stuff for NBA Live 2003 for awhile now.

http://www.nba2kstuff.org/nba/download/home2k3.html

As you can see, the download links are completely dead and I'd be grateful if someone, anyone, had this on their computer and could reupload it to Megaupload or something for me!

[Murat]

We search these too...

[dwayne2005]

I can find programs still hosted dating back to and beyond 1998. What is with this strange phenomena for NBA Live patches disappearing from the face of the internet? Especially while their site is still online? Mine may be an embarrassment and you all may hate it, but I'm not going to let it slip into the same vacuum.

[Andrew]

I can find programs still hosted dating back to and beyond 1998. What is with this strange phenomena for NBA Live patches disappearing from the face of the internet? Especially while their site is still online? Mine may be an embarrassment and you all may hate it, but I'm not going to let it slip into the same vacuum.

It's not really that strange. For a variety of reasons, a lot of files were hosted on sites that either no longer exist or put up on free file hosting services which delete files after a period of inactivity. People in the community come and go so and people routinely delete files from their hard drive (if they downloaded them in the first place), so tracking down and re-uploading files isn't always feasible.

[dwayne2005]

I am using Mediafire right now and I just read they had 90 day limits (w/out a download) for free accounts. It surprised me... didn't think space was that important for sites these days. I can see, I guess, how the files got lost in the shuffle (although it wouldn't happen, I'm sure, with FIFA games, for instance), although they probably could have at least put back up copies on the site that hosts their website data since, evidently, those sites have a greater longevity. I don't get in the days of hundred megabyte free e-mail accounts, with e-mails that never get deleted, some as big as several megabytes, that these hosts feel they must delete inaccessed files. I can think of no other reason than to lure in subscribers, subscribers who also lose their files after their subscriptions have terminated. I may look into such a service from Yahoo or Google.

[Andrew]

In years gone by on our previous hosts, we couldn't offer to mirror files the way we can now, which certainly made things more difficult (for a while there, we had to keep our own files on Filefront and other free hosting services). That certainly didn't help the situation, though we're doing our best to ensure any files that can be recovered don't get lost again.