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Game preservation refers to preserving old games, hardware, and related documentation through legal or gray-area means to prevent their permanent loss due to media degradation, platform obsolescence, or commercial delisting; legal game preservation typically involves museums, archives, or rights-holder-authorized projects, while unauthorized ROM distribution and porting fall in a gray area of copyright law.
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