there have been several posts about broken links recently. This is just to remind people that audiogames.net does not actually host! the vast majority of the games mentioned on the database.

Links to download games or go to their web pages are copied from the developers' own websites, and though they are correct when the entry is written, obviously if a developers' site goes down they will no longer work.

If links stop working, we are actually just as much in the dark as anyone else, we don't have some sort of magic power to instantly access something because it was posted on the database.

Please remember, the game database exists to redirect people to find accessible games, nothing more.

This isn't to say you shouldn't report broken links, sinse obviously in some cases we can get the games rehosted by someone (as with the savage gammet and self destruct), but please bare in mind that we don't have anymore special tallent for finding given games than anyone else and cannot magically restore a game that has gone down.

If you click on a database link for an online game and it's not working, try looking for it on google and finding if it's hosted elsewhere. if a link to a downloadable game isn't working, ask around and see if anyone is willing to host it if it's a freeware game (if it's commercial there's litle we can do).

This isn't to say we won't try and find games ourselves if we notice that they're missing, only that all we can do, is pretty much what anyone else can do, we don't have some sort of magic instant game finder of doom stashed away somewhere.

So yes, report broken links, but if people could please also try to aide the situation, whether that's googling a given game to see if it's simply moved location or hosting a setup file for an old freeware audio game and providing us the link, that is even better and very much appreciated.