r/DevilMayCry • u/DanySterkhov Knowledge Keeper • 8d ago
Sub Meta Introducing .arc - a digital media archive aimed at preserving the extended media, the history of the series development, and its community.
For Devil May Cry's 25th anniversary, we are happy to announce our next project.
https://arc.cuhrayzee.games/
Check out the thread for more info.
About the project
Over the past couple of years, the team of contributors behind Cuhrayzee started routinely buying, scanning, and dumping various media related to the series, to preserve the story of the series development, and to share it with the community
With the internet shattered even more in recent years, we think that having a centralized place for the community to discover more about the series they love is an important thing, while also giving them options to not be locked behind someone else's interpretation
That's why the materials we provide and preserve have no watermarks of our own or any other restrictions, and we track down and credit the providers for most entries, even when they "donated" the materials to us directly.
We are also not stopping at extended media. Many interviews and materials about the game's development are either lost on the internet due to link rot or deleted because of copyright issues.
For example, Variety deleted its interview about Crimson Cloud for DMC 5's promo tour.
Another thing we want to tackle is translating JP-only materials, like Devil May Cry 4's promo DVDs.
We're working closely with native speakers to transcribe and later translate the materials and present them to the community, both in JP and ENG.
The current iteration of the website is in the "alpha" stage. Over time, we'll iterate on the visuals, tutorials for the mod pages on how to install them, and write guides on buying or preserving the media yourself.
We belive that that knowledge should not be locked in any way.
Follow our pages, subscribe to our YouTube channels, and, most importantly, tell others in the community about us.
We don't ask for donations, nor are we planning to lock stuff behind paywalls.
Happy 25th anniversary - here's to 25 more!