/vr/ - Retro Games

How many more times will you spam this same image, emubaby?

HAHAHHAAHHAHAHAH
Welcome to 2020, get some goddamn digital media, you pretenders.

When you look into digital archival it's just as faulty and expensive. Just let it go, accept the ephemeral nature of life.

>>6542629
>When you look into digital archival it's just as faulty and expensive.

Disagree. PS2 roms are collected everywhere and you can get a copy of any game you want when you need it, no questions asked. There's tons of rom sites and tons of torrents.

>>6542640
>ps2 roms
You know how I know you're a zoomer? Also not retro

>>6542646
He outed himself by making this thread, of course he doesn't know what a rom or iso is.

>>6542623
Well that will happen when you store your games in a rain forest.

>>6542646
>>6542648
Born 1991 and have always called ISOs "roms", cope, physical autist.

>>6542623
>unopened
Could've been a factory defect (I know some early Dreamcast games at least were fucked from the factory and died on their own, iirc this is the reason for the HOT NEW label you see on some early games), or some sort of moisture got in the case at some point.
That is not in any way a natural form of degredation that I've ever seen described anywhere.

>>6542654
I'm not the one coping, kiddo.

>>6542623
I have a 64TB NAS with almost every single retro game and own 250+ physical games, none of which have this issue. Having a job that pays more than $15/hour and being into games since a child and you will have a pretty big "collection". Stick to your laptop.

>>6542623
I have a physical bod-

>>6542623
>someone's bullshitting on the internet but they're japanese so I believe them

>>6542654
That's because you only ever played them on an emulator and weren't able to download them until the 2010s. Even if you aren't an actual zoomer you still took the same path they did.

>>6542674
There's something mentally wrong with you, but nobodies told you because they don't lock people up in asylums anymore.

>>6542670
This but unironically.

>>6542683
Okay but what does that have to do with ISOs and you being late to the party?

>>6542623
ITT: zoom

>>6542623
spammer
>>6540814
>>6540814
>>6540814

literally all my CD-based games still function and look like brand new, though? granted, I don't live in a humid shithole

>>6542654
Imagine being like this asshole. What a shame, fuck

pirates win again yarr

>>6542623
inappropriate storage conditions

also what >>6542624 said

I haven't experienced any of this, even with discs from the early 80s

>>6542654
That's wrong.

>>6542623
I'm backing stuff up and sharing it since the early 2000s. Many of PCECD, SAT and PS1 images I dumped from my collection are still floating around on numerous emulation sites, even today. Chances are good you downloaded and played a few of them.

This day I'm saving everything on various affordable NAS systems, like the ones from QNAP. I also bough a Quantum LTO-7 early this year to do long-time backups to tape.

>>6543064
Based. While the spergs argue about emulators vs physical hardware you do something more useful and make sure we have something to actually play on them. Even if there's disc rot we can still burn games and play them. When the lasers go bad we can replace them with optical drive emulators. But more important is that every game is available regardless of what we play it on.

>>6542623
CDfags eternally cucked
I only play on cart-based systems and luckily I am able to backup any games I have digitally

>>6543064
>I'm larping on /vr/ since the early 2000s. Many of the shitposts made here in the 80s and 90s I shat from my own fingers and are still floating around in the bowl, even today. Chances are good you've seen and read a few of them

>>6542623
>Guy!

For some reason I find this hilarious

>>6543237
/vr/ wasn't around in 2000 when I started sharing backups. Distribution started on eDonkey and Freenet as well directly via IRC.
Cheers

>>6542623
>store discs in a warm, wet environment
>WHOA HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?!?

>>6542629
>he doesn't know about redumps

>>6542654
>being wrong for 29 years

>>6542654
>technologically illiterate

>>6542629
>>6542623
>>6542627

Archive all data on stone-roms and store them in a fallout shelter

>>6543367
The problem of data/digital decay is also that future generations might not have any ability to read or play back these information at all.

>>6542654
>being proud of being wrong for 30 years
>>6543034
>>6543053
>>6543346
>>6543358
>being such a pedantic little bitch that you even care about him being wrong

>>6543391
how? unless some kind of revolution happens on PC, even so is easier to find a software solution instead of hardware one.

>>6543308
Distribution started on other shit long before that. Maybe 2000 as when you used a computer for the first time.

>>6543407
"Look at me, the enlightened fence-sitter!"

Eat shit

>>6543412
More like 1982 buddy.

>>6543415
You probably were actually buying games in the store like a complete dope instead of dialing into BBSes to get them for free.

>>6543410
Look up "data degradation". This affects every new generation of hardware and software. Many of the current era games for example will be lost due to the nature of digital distribution.

>>6543436
Piracy and archival of pirated releases helps deal with that. We have databases of the stuff complete with checksums.

>>6542623
I've had my Sonic Adventure game since 1999. No disc rot whatsoever. The disc looks like it was out in the cold and freezing in some place, which is why it looks like that. If you're going to push disc rot as being real, John Handcock, you gotta come up with something better than this. No wonder your channel is losing subscribers.

>>6543434
Part was imported myself, part was from friends working at stores.

>>6543367
Or back up everything on gold CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays. Their expected life is around 500 years.


That's what software, music, game, and move studios do.

>>6543434
That's something I haven't heard in a while. It's up there with FTP websites you don't see any more.

>>6543448
>I've had my Sonic Adventure game since 1999. No disc rot whatsoever.
I am a CD collector so I have read many things about disc rot, because being a collector I look for the earliest pressing out there. I have some of the earliest CDs made dating back to the early 80s from West Germany & Japan. Obviously, many of these discs are close to 40 years old now and NOT ONE OF THEM HAS SUFFERED FROM DISC ROT. Ive never even seen pictures of any of those early CD suffering from disc rot. Disc rot happens when a CD isn't manufactured properly using inferior materials. This started to happen in the early 90s when lots of places were manufacturing CDs. One such place was in England. If you look up Mastered By Nimbus you should find some info on the subject. But the main point being that plant made CDs with inferior materials that caused bronzing and other problems but not actual disc rot. If a disc is manufactured properly then it doesn't rot. I have seen humidity cause disc rot but only because it was not stored in a jewel case instead it was stored in a binder. The binder causes a chemical reaction with the disc that causes it to rot. How you store a disc matters. I have 1,000s of CDs, most of them from the late 80s and early 90s, and Ive never had one rot.

>>6543505
Some guys from those days actually resurrected their old BBS and you can connect to them over telnet to download retro games. I get a lot of stuff that way.

>>6542646
technically speaking, ps2 games are on dvd-rom's, a type of rom, and the images are just plain udf filesystems, not iso9600, so it's actually accurate to use "rom" and inaccurate to use "iso" in this case

>>6543687
9660*

>>6543497
Do they last more than mdisc? Is mdisc a meme?

>>6543436
Look up "zfs". We'll be fine.

Anyway, this disc rot shit is still a fucking meme. This was a sealed disc from Japan, a notoriously hot and humid country, and it was probably stored in the back of a shop or a basement with no AC or dehumidification for like 20 years. What the fuck did you think was going to happen?

>>6543719
>Is mdisc a meme
Someone will tell you in 1000 years

>>6542623
That got wet with a solvent BTW.

>>6543745
This is true we need to liberate video games from the humid climes of Nippon

>>6542624
>emubaby
Imagine taking pride in collecting physical media

>>6543846
Imagine being poor

>>6542646
>>6542648
>>6542657
>>6542674
>>6542686
>>6543034
>>6543053
>>6543358
>>6543346
>ISOs are totally different from ROMs zoomer!!!
>CD-ROM
>GD-ROM

>>6544194
mass reply is a bannable offense

>>6544303
is there it actually a rule? because i see ones far worse all the time and they never get removed as far as i can tell

>>6542627
doesn't data corrupt over time as well?

>>6544314
It does.

>>6544323
so then what's the solution to prevent that?

>>6543592
I cant figure out how to do that on modern stuff

>>6544332
Regularly backup.

>>6543548
True. I had most of my burned CD's in a disc binder and it has rotted. But I've kept all my official music, movie and video game discs in it's original casing, I've even replaced some of those cases due to the damage on the case itself. These discs has been well preserved in the CD case, unlike the disc binder.

>>6544450
even burned cds is extreme. its hasnt been that long. dang man how did your cds rot so fast

Computers rot over the years too tho so who cares. Do you guys feel that way about keeping music CDs too?

>>6544453
They're not actually "burned", they're CD-R's. The texture used in the disc binder might have scratched the CD-R's.

>>6544560
Yes I do actually. I download flacs with cue/log files.

>>6544710
>They're not actually "burned", they're CD-R's.
yea, which work by heating a chemical dye on the recording layer so it changes colour, altering it's reflectivity, making it function the same as a physical pit/land
it's called burning because you're heating a dye to change it's colour, it's also irreversable in the case of cd-r's, just like burning a material (not sure if you're actually burning it, but there are similarities nonetheless)

>>6543064
Based.

>>6543436
Data degradation is easily defeated by redundancy.

>>6544332
Back up regularly, make multiple backups.

>>6542646
Why does the PS Double live rent-free in this place's collective head? Are you all just salty it decimated the Dreamcast?

>>6543436
Oh fuck off with this meme

>>6543415
Sitting on daddys lap and mashing an unpluged keyboard pretending your typing isn't using a computer. It's larping. Just like you're doing now.

>>6543495
Why didn't you wait until 2000 to upload those 1982 dumps?

>you're young and I'm older than you
>no, YOU'RE young and I'M older than you
Why is /vr/ like a fucking schoolyard at recess?

>>6543745
zfs? Zoomer Fulla Shit? If you're talking about the file system you need to spend less time looking things up and more time understanding things.

>>6543846
Imagine being okay that you have nothing physical to show for your gaming addiction other than a lack of muscle and a file of ROMs next to your porn folder

>>6544130
>Imagine spending your hard earned money in superfluous plastic shells for software that anyone can get for free

>>6544825
My post had nothing to do with the PS2 itself, even though bringing up that specific console here did make him sound more like a zoomer than referring to isos as roms already did. I think it's a fine console and I used to own one. I played PS1/2 games and emulators on it. Doesn't need to be discussed here unless you want advice for PS1 games, emulators, or using it on a CRT.

PS what Sony did to Sega did really piss me off at the time. Whining about it on the internet 20 years later won't bring them back to manufacturing consoles though. Sony is a soulless corporation and the vast majority of good games on their consoles were made by third party publishers. They had a few good first party titles but they rarely managed to turn them into long running franchises, unlike Nintendo and Sega. Their rise directly coincides with the downfall of the major Japanese publishers. They're happy to let their consoles be a vehicle for unimaginative western publishers that are more interested in making their games look more visually impressive and modeled more after movies. This pattern dates all the way back to the PS1 and Bernie fucking Stolar's hate boner for 2D games. They've consistently been a cancer and a force for evil in this industry. Doesn't stop me from owning their obsolete products but I see them for what they are. Fuck Sony.

>>6542623
I have an Art of Noise CD from the 80's. It works fine. You're an idiot. Look after your fucking discs, moron.

>>6545214
How does it make him a zoomer when it was the direct competition to the Dreamcast? I hope you realize this makes Dreamcast fans zoomers as well.

>>6545327
Hell yeah put on Close (to the Edit)

>>6545330
Nice reach.

>>6545569
>liking Trevor Horn
Hack tier

>>6545570
I dunno anon, he assembled one hell of a team that time around. I mean they made fucking Duck Rock.

>>6545576
Hey, Malcolm mclaren is based. Trevor horn isnt.

>>6543687
>iso9600

>>6543758
>>6543719

Sony's MDs? are they that good?

>>6545569
>Nice reach.
How so? The launch of the PS2 was closer to that of the Dreamcast than the SNES's was to that of the Genesis. The Dreamcast and PS2 came out during the same era and the same generation, so why the fuck is one considered retro and the other zoomer shit? IT WAS A ONE YEAR DIFFERENCE FOR FUCK'S SAKE

>>6545584
Because one died and barely made a blip on the 2000s with a library littered with cross platform titles from the last generation and the other went on to become a massive success that had it's last game released in 2014.

>>6545591
Oh so this board IS for losers then

>>6544841
YouTube lied to you again, kiddo.

>>6545592
Not sure what you mean by that. We discuss massively successful consoles too. Just not the ones that lasted through the 2000s.

>>6545598
well because you said a successful console doesn’t belong here, but a loser console does. It follows a pattern of logic and observation in regards to the board itself.

>>6545602
We discuss the NES, SNES, Genesis, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, all successful consoles. But we're not here to talk about Kingdom Hearts or GTA. I get it. You feel no nostalgia for anything released in the 1990s. That's okay. That means this board isn't for you and you aren't welcome at all. Try /r/gamenostalgia/ instead, I think reddit is a little more your speed.

>>6545604
Lot of misplaced anger in the post, seems like you intended it for someone else, for a completely different conversation. Care to explain yourself?

>>6545608
Discussing PS2 is against the rules. Don't like it? Leave. Bye zoomie.

>>6545609
Who’s discussing the ps2, do you think I’m the same anon from this post or something?
>>6545584

>>6545612
Whatever you say, zoomer.

>>6545613
You’re getting a little confused old man, how many more years do you have?

>>6545615
Keep reaching, you might eventually grasp onto something. Zoom. Zoom.

>>6545617
You never grasped onto anything in life anon, why so optimistic a stranger would be able to?

>>6545208

>Being this comfortable breaking the law.

>>6545620
>being this much of a square

>>6545619
Despite enjoying 6th gen games I understand that this is not the place to discuss them, unless they are Dreamcast games. That's what I use /v/ and /vg/ for. It's a very simple concept for me to grasp. I know that you are merely pretending to be retarded as a misguided attempt to troll. You're only wasting your time though. The rules here will not be changed to accommodate your desires. This board isn't for you.

>>6545625
Go figure it’s anti-6th gen spammer having another autism fit.

>>6545627
I'm not anti 6th gen. But I follow the rules of this board. If you break this rule you will be banished and nobody is going to miss you. If you have a problem with this take it up with the mods.

>>6545630
>I’m not anti 6th gen
Yes you are anon, and it’s bizarre you’d even adopt that nomenclature like you apparently have. Have some self respect, why don’t you?

>>6545635
Keep reaching. Reach for the stars anon! Sperg, sperg little boy, sperg to your heart's content!

>>6545591
PS2 had exclusively shovelware, cross-gen and PSP ports released after the PS3 arrived. Not to mention it only kept getting games for so long because it basically had a second life in hueland.
Dreamcast got its last official release in 2007. And besides, cross-gen games are normal when a new console generation arrives. All those games that came out on both PS1/64 and Dreamcast are no different from how Wario's Woods came out on both NES and SNES, or how GTA5, Mortal Kombat X, P5, etc. came out on both PS3 and PS4.
Also PS2 didn't get a lot of those cross-gen titles because the backwards compatibility would make that redundant. Also PS2 and Dreamcast had several shared multiplats while both were on the market, like MvC2 and DoA2.
I could go on and on but they were both literally part of the same era so either both are zoomer shit or, and here's the truth, neither of them are.
And one more thing. The Dreamcast being retro because it didn't last as long is faulty logic, because by that same logic the 3DO belongs to a different era than the PS1.

>>6545636
this is one of the most autistic posts I’ve ever read on /vr/

>>6545637
Nobody cares that the DC got some late low effort arcade ports in Japan. Trying to false flag with 10 DC threads in a row to try to change our minds about the console isn't going to work either. We don't want your GTA III threads here. Fuck off.

>>6545639
>We
It’s always just this one anon spamming these threads. He’s very dedicated and very lonely.

>>6545630
If we're taking the rule you screencapped literally then the Dreamcast is also not retro

>>6545641
Uh huh. Okay. Whatever you say zoomer.

>>6545642
Nice try zoomie. See pic related.

>>6545625
/v/ is for Smash rosterfaggotry, waifu threads and bitching about trannies and the latest FOTM interactive movie for PS4. /vg/ is purely waifuposting and threads about weird anime games. I just want a place where I can have actual discussion about Twisted Metal Black for fuck's sake

>>6545643
>zoomer
Tick tock old man, you’re running out of communities on the internet pretty fast.

>>6545604
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1qvAXbBZac
Peep the year in that title. You see that? 1999. This came out in 1999. We can talk about it here.
WHIIIIIIIRRRRRR---

>>6545649
Whatever you say. Now get back to playing your Fortnight and leave us to discuss our old shit. Or you can argue with me in this thread. It's completely pointless to do the latter and it changes absolutely nothing but at least it keeps you from shitting up the rest of this board. I'll happily keep you busy if that's the trade off.

>>6545650
Nice try. Not retro.

>>6545639
>NOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T BRING UP SHIT THAT PROVES ME WRONG! THOSE DON'T COUNT!!
you earned it

>>6545651
This isn’t your board anymore, old man, you have to get off the swing set, you have to give the new generation a turn.

>>6545654
Announcing something isn't the same thing as releasing it.

>>6545656
The rules state otherwise. You can't make a 6th gen thread without catching a ban. You can talk all the shit you want but any actual attempt to do what you want rather than a thinly veiled one designed to troll will be like writing your name in the sand.

>>6545658
>the rules state otherwise
You can’t outrun time.

>>6545659
Tell it to the mods.

>>6545661
Why? Are you scared of the year 2000, old man?

>>6545652
By this board's rules we can talk about the tech demos that came out in 1999, so I shall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIyu4Aozwbw
Damn, Reiko Nagase was cute as fuck.

>>6545662
Obviously not since I own a PS2 which is released in 2000. But I don't discuss it here unless I'm talking about playing PS1 games or emulating older consoles on it.

>>6545662
Yes. I don't know what it is but something about those three zeroes in a row is kind of...ominous. Foreboding. Creepy.

>>6545667
You don’t like dealing with the future, do you anon?

>>6545671
The future is shit but at least with every passing year we get new ways to play retro games.

>>6545669
This. I don't know why but every time I see 2000 in a game it sends chills down my spine. Makes me feel like a scary face is about to pop out at me.

>>6545672
You’re going to take it really hard when gen 6 takes over the board, I figure

>>6545676
If ever 6th gen is allowed to be discussed it will be slightly annoying because I care about it less. But I'd still end up joining in for games I care about. I owned every 6th gen console. Until then have fun fantasizing about it but that day is not today.

>>6545679
Who are you kidding anon?

>>6545681
I don't care if you believe anything I say or not. Just keep giving me (You)s and shitting up this worthless thread.

>>6545683
I know you’re lonely anon, but eventually I’ll move on from this thread and enforce the rules elsewhere. Then what’ll you do?

>>6545686
Didn't read. Didn't care. 6th gen isn't allowed. Deal with it zoomah.

>>6545687
>didn’t read
Who are you kidding anon?

>>6545689
It doesn't matter.

>>6545690
Right, so why bother all the time, you maniac?

>>6545691
>at least it keeps you from shitting up the rest of this board. I'll happily keep you busy if that's the trade off.

>>6545692
So you’re some kind of martyr then old man?

>>6545694
Nah I'm just bored. Also I think this thread is shit. In a normal thread I'd eventually just shut up. But there's nothing of value here. So it doesn't matter if all the subsequent posts are worthless

>>6542623

Without people with dumb physical games, your roms and isos wouldn't exist, so collectors have a reason to be.

If the people who once bought physical games, we wouldn't be able to enjoy emulators today.

>>6545695
>I’m just bored
I guess you’re just bored when you police gen 6 day in and day out on this board, right?

>>6542623
if you're a dirty person who gets mushrooms on your cd because of moisture or lack of cleaning, the Dreamcast GD-ROM is not to blame for being a bad owner.

>>6545697
I don't police shit. That's for the mods to do. I don't disagree with the rule. If you do complaining about it here isn't going to accomplish anything.

>>6545703
Who are you trying to fool anon?

>>6545704
If I was a mod I would've banned you 10 posts ago. That's why they'll never let me join the Hot Pockets squad. I'd make the reign of WT Snacks look like it was nothing.

>>6545706
Banned me for what, you psycho?

>>6545707
Being a fag

>>6545708
You really fall apart when these discussions go on for too long, lol

>digital archiving
It's almost like you've never heard of rotational velocidensity.

>>6543367
We monster rancher now

>>6545620
Yeah. Nintendo isn't going to sell me True Lies anymore, so I'll get it myself. If they want to profit of it, they should actually try to sell it to me.

>>6544964
>zoomer full of shit
got a genuine laugh outta me

Digital is the future. Physical media won't last forever.

>>6546305
so we should replace all our physical media with digital media?

>>6546326
No, you’re not going to live to an old enough age for it to matter.

>>6546326
Eventually. I wouldn't mind if videogames become a completely digital medium in the future.

>>6546336
i was making a joke, my statement is nonsense, in response to your statement which is also nonsense
physical and digital media aren't mutually exclusive, a medium can be both physical and digital (and it can't be just digital)
a GD-ROM like in OP's picture is a digital format, digital storage has it's advantages, but nothing can protect you from physical destruction

>>6546348
That wasn’t in response to my statement, I’m a different anon. But my answer still stands.

>>6546351
well then assume i responded to >>6546339
>I wouldn't mind if videogames become a completely digital medium in the future.
as opposed to what?
are you one of those people who unironically uses the term "the cloud"?

>>6546362
Yeah, what else do you call those white puffy things knocking about in the sky?

>>6546362
No, I mean downloading digital games to a console or PC. Cloud gaming sucks.

>>6546370
downloading from where?
some service which might not be around in 10 years time? who stores the data on physical media?
all you've done is outsourced the storage of physical media, and often paying them to do it

>>6546378
You didn’t answer my question here anon:
>>6546368

>>6546389
i've never heard of someone calling clouds or a cloud "the cloud"

>>6542654
>1991
Get the fuck outta here

>>6545225
Sony is cancer.

>>6542662
Damn... that's deep...

>>6546378
Funny how you whine about some service that won't be around in ten years when your fucking physical media won't either due to disk rot or electronic failure for carts. I can keep backing up my electronic media to everything I always have, kid. Where's your backup of your media?

>>6543412
>Distribution started on other shit long before that.
He clearly meant HIS distribution, you illiterate subhuman.

>>6544303
Not for that amount. It would have to be way more than that to catch jannies' attentions.

>>6545596

>>6545592
>>6545602
Trying entirely too hard to be edgy.

go back to /v/ if you don't want to discuss this kind of content. This board has enough misdirected autism.

>>6546963
>edgy
>just following that anons train of logic
Why do you say words you don’t understand?

>>6546627
Why would you do that? I never saw the point of backups. L i dunno.
Disks and carts last forever and emulation is still shitty.l anyway. I have discs of pc games that i still use. Its just more fun

>>6545662
Hey leave him alone.stop bullying people.
Im 19. My first console was a wii. 6th gen should not be here. The dreamcast should be removed. I just dont see why you are trying to kill this retro discussion. I want to talk about games made with creativity and passion. Not modern nightmare hellish games that are made by teams that hate themselves their audience and the medium. There use to be a real magic here and it was stripped out. 6th gen would ruin discussion of earlier generations. /v/ talks 6th gen all the time so i dont understand why 6th yen lovers take the victim stance while also berating everyone here for what they like.
I just dont understamd2 why everything has to be so cruel now...

>>6547141
You are not a zoomer, and you are baiting. 6th gen was EXTREMELY soulful.

>>6545658
>You can't make a 6th gen thread without catching a ban.
Says who? I've made several in the past and they got pruned at the absolute most.

>>6547202
but i am a zoomer

>>6542623
>buying games from the 2011 flood in saitama
you got those games for a good deal for a reason

>>6546853
>irony:the post

>>6542661
Fuck yeah bro same here running a 24TB one that basically functions as a PS1/2 library

>>6546627
>you can't back up physical media
is this nigger being serious right now?
ever heard of recordable cd's and flash carts?

>>6547141
wii is a 7th gen console
i don't think you know what the 6th gen was, it's absolutely not like the 7th gen

>>6542623
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEPt68Gu_Fo

:(

>>6547607
Imagine being this butthurt because you made a fool of yourself on an oriental comic board

>>6547631
When did i imply it was

>>6542661
I lost my childhod collection to a flood when i was in high school
I went to college for computer science but the best job i could get is minimum wage.
Not sure why you think making fun of poor people could ever put you in a good light or something

>>6542623
> LOOK PIC.
> IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU.
> PFFT CAN'T HAPPEN TO ME.
This whole thread in a nutshell.

>>6547765
What youtuber did you get that opinion from?

>>6547773
Not making fun of poor people. I'm taking shit about people who get butthurt over people with physical games.

>>6547872
that doesn't just happen for no reason
i had a box of old (like nearly 40 years old) music cds in a van with a broken window for 5 years, and they're still fine (don't really care about them since they were ripped ages ago)

>>6543548
>disc binder
lmao non of my cds of any kind in binders have rotted I'm pretty sure the absolute 100% guaranteed reason they rot is due to poor manufacturing if it rots then you just got a crappy disc simple as

>>6547920
Look how mad this zoomie is

>>6548153
>irony:the post

>>6548247
>zoom: the post
Get a life zoomie

>living in an humid environment

hahahahahah get fucked first world cucks, I live in a literal ranch in a third world country but I have a S+ weather and my +20 yo disk games look as good as brand new

>>6548426
I live in a third world country with a tin roof over my head. All my game consoles are yellowed and I don't worry about disc rot because everything I play is pirated. It rules.

>>6548383
>irony:the post

>>6548426
no one likes argies

>>6543345
not every game has a redump though

>>6542623
You have a physical defect.

>>6542623
genuinely finding it difficult to find xbox ISOs with theisozone gone. 3ds and ps3 is difficult also, but hopefully will become easier when a valid emulator exists.

>>6548426
i just run digital on everything. i refuse to buy a PS1 until there's a better option than the shitty PSIO.

My dad has cds from the 80s that work just fine

>>6542623
i have a MASSIVE collection. but the second I see one of my disc games rot or fail to function due to minimal rot, then I sell it all

>>6550707
https://archive.org/details/@og_xbox

>>6550707
https://romtohome.com/ is legit for everything but they use shitty file hosts that want money. I used to have a paid real-debrid account that gets around that and I downloaded tons of games from there. Wouldn't recommend unless your plan is to grab heaps of stuff for these consoles and archive it, as I already did back then.

>>6550746
On 3DS games you can probably get away with downloading them using turbobit if you're patient. PS3 will be brutal.

>>6550729
thanks. i'm surprised they can get away with that though.

>>6550752
6th gen is basically abandonware at this point. Only thing really stopping us from swapping them like they were SNES roms in 2002 are the file sizes. If you're on the right private torrent tracker you can get the full USA xbox set if you have a little under 2TB to spare for it.

>>6544332
Parity and Backups.
A torrent tracker is essentially one big distributed backup.

>>6550756
that's my entire NAS so not really. i've kept everything i've downloaded though.

>>6550768
Paying to pirate sucks ass but if you want the newer consoles I think it's your best bet. It's either that or getting on gazelle games and trying to build a ratio. Either way you will want to invest in some more storage.

>>6542623
Funny how you never hear about this happening to ps1 discs.
But it happens to segacd, saturn and dreamcast discs?

I don't think the problem is with the discs.

>>6542662
Why do people keep these, if a loved one passed away and i had their urn I'd weep every night while holding "them"

>>6542623

Well lets take for example the current trend and prices of games being sold, from sega cd to nes, to whatever, people dont buy it for the CD or cartridge, they want the box and manual. Physical media doesn't matter unless its some rare game, its the box that counts and if you compare it to other collectibles, its always been the box. Just saying.

>>6542662
> grandma.zip

>>6545583
> Sony MD

Based retard.

>>6542623
I'M MELLLLLLLLLLLLLLTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>6543064
Based QNAP chad

>>6547872
There's legit qualifiers though;
>long time exposure to direct sunlight
>long time exposure to humidity
>poor manufacturing quality
>poor physical handling
You can account for all of these, and if needed, there's machines which can buff off damaged layers (scratches) on discs to make them properly readable.

It isn't hard to treat a disc well, so you can easily make one last your lifetime.

>>6542629
>When you look into digital archival it's just as faulty and expensive
What? Are you retarded? There's full ROM sets of every system up to the 7th gen. The files don't rot until my hard drive does, and then I can just redownload them. Is this a cope?

>>6555325
Its not perfect though

>>6555330
It's being constantly updated to be as close to perfect as it can be. If you aren't helping with that there's no use in complaining.

>>6555332
How am i supposed to help
Why am i obligated to help
Why is there no use in complaining
Why cant i use something else

>>6555348
>WAAAAHHHHH IT'S NOT PERFECT I NEED IT TO BE PERFECT
>DON'T ASK ME TO DO IT THOUGH!
You get what you deserve. Nothing more, nothing less.

>>6555330
There are rom sets for every system barring 7th/8th gen and MAME that are absolutely perfect 1:1 dumps
The emulation is imperfect, but still, digital games are perfectly archived.

>>6550768
What harddrive would you recommend I get? I had ones that failed.

>>6555358
>to do it
To do what?

>>6555494
honestly i don't think i'm qualified to answer that.
i've had 2 seagates die on me, but i've never had a WD drive, so couldn't say if they're any better. Toshiba drives have always lasted well for me.

if its for a NAS then i'd get drives designed for that (though i didn't with my latest drives, and they've lasted me 5 years).