/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7326664]

What's the most based game collection you've ever seen?

[Anonymous No.7326669]

>>7326664

Complete ROM collections, pick one and it's guaranteed to be fucking impressive.

[Anonymous No.7326675]

[Anonymous No.7326692]

I used to have the entire ps1/ps2, snes, nes and megadrive PAL libraries, I had to sell them due to covid closing my company, I actually don't regret it and sold them at new low prices, whoever bought Ducktales 2 for nes from me got the best deal it has ever been at.
I made sure everything I owned was dumped.

[Anonymous No.7326694]

[Anonymous No.7326706]

>>7326664
>RTS on a console
Why?

>>7326692
>I had to sell them due to covid closing my company
Sorry to hear about your company bro

[Anonymous No.7326726]

>>7326692
>make space and get paid
based and ascended

[Anonymous No.7326745]

Lot of emulatorfags out today

[Anonymous No.7326748]

>>7326692
>entire ps2 library
That's one collection that never made sense to me to get.
I don't know how the USA library is but the euro library has shit like a hundred titles from Phoenix Games all of which are and some of which are super expensive. Also at least two dozen duplicates that are basically re-releases under different companies which would be hell to hunt down as well.
Not the dumbest thing of course, that'd be variant collecting with shit like regular and Platinum/Greatest hits, different language releases, misprint cases with typos and the stupidest way to collect PS2 games which is a complete collection of silver bottom CD variants.

[Anonymous No.7326752]

>>7326706
Red Alert on anything is worth it just for the Hell March track.

[Anonymous No.7326753]

>>7326664
That's got to be it OP. Those 2 minutes and 7 dollars you spent in that thrift store have made you a legend.

>>7326692
>i used to larp on the fourth channel
>i had to keep doing it because i literally have no life

[Anonymous No.7326762]

>>7326753
I'm genuinely not larping, I even had carts that were not listed in bootgod's db of carts, I made sure those got dumped first too.

[Anonymous No.7326765]

>>7326664
I haven't seen a physical collection thread on this board in a really long time.

[Anonymous No.7326771]

>>7326762
Even now it's not listed.
http://bootgod.dyndns.org:7777/search.php?browse=M

[Anonymous No.7326801]

>>7326762
For those wondering, this is the PAL version of Micromachines for NES, it's not the NTSC version or the Aladdin variants that are in bootgods db, which is considered to be the fullest database of all NES carts, which collectors use as their tick off list.

[Anonymous No.7327004]

>>7326748
I still have one of the DVD press miss-stamps from my ps2 collection, it's the only one I kept, It's a copy of one of those Buzz! games made for children which actually has the Italian langaue version of the movie Apocalypto pressed onto it.
I kept it as a curiosity and that listing it would be a nightmare.

[Anonymous No.7327027]

>>7326669
>>7326675
>>7326692
>emubabies

[Anonymous No.7327045]

>>7327027
I can tell you're the same retard from the other thread.

[Anonymous No.7327053]

>>7327045
Fox and the grapes, schizoid

[Anonymous No.7327057]

>>7327053
All I have to do is wait.

[Anonymous No.7327083]

>>7327057
>your car is eventually gonna break down and be useless
>your house is eventually going to become too weathered to live in it
>your heart is going to inevitably stop beating
>BUT BRO YOUR GAMES ARE LITERALLY ROTTING AWAAAAAY SELL EM TO MEEEEE

[Anonymous No.7327090]

>>7327083
I don't want to buy them friend, I already sold my entire collections, after dumping them.

[Anonymous No.7327092]

>>7327083
>the scientists are just lying to me to get me to sell my games
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/legacy/sp/NISTspecialpublication500-252.pdf

[Anonymous No.7327101]

>>7327090
>>7327092
>SELL ME YOUR GAMES
>THEY'RE DYING
>THE MAN ON THE INTERNET SAID SOOOOO
Holy shit why are zoomers so dumb? Is it corporate conditioning for the pod lifestyle?

[Anonymous No.7327110]

>>7327101
tick tock goes the clock

[Anonymous No.7327116]

>>7327101
hahahahahaha he thinks wikipedia, museums and world governments just made up the concept of entropy to make him sell his games, you can't make this shit up

[Anonymous No.7327128]

>>7327116
>>7327110
Might as well sell your house dude. Its going to crumble one day. Actually just kill yourself, it's inevitable

[Anonymous No.7327134]

>>7327128
houses last longer than media storage mediums

[Anonymous No.7327143]

>>7326664
That anon who always posts images of his collection with a note written in market on a faux-marble table, specifically, his collection of erotic mahjong games

[Anonymous No.7327147]

>>7327134
And you're going to die. And everything you own is going to die too. Might as well get rid of all of it to go live in the jungle since that will for certain outlive you.

[Anonymous No.7327160]

>>7327147
I can't dump myself and put myself online to live forever, but I can with my games. Is this concept too hard for you to grasp?

[Anonymous No.7327164]

>>7327160
I can download roms like every other zoombie on the planet too. But I don't need to do that, because I already have them.

[Anonymous No.7327174]

>>7327164
You wont have them forever, your collection is dying. Dump whatever you have that isn't dumped, even if you don't share it. I want you to be able to play them for as long as you live.

[Anonymous No.7327184]

>>7327174
I will emulate when I have no other option in 3p years. Until then, ill be playing my childhood copy of Mario cart under the comfy glow of a crt.

[Anonymous No.7327190]

>>7327174
I will emulate when I have no other option in 30 years. Until then, ill be playing my childhood copy of Mario cart under the comfy glow of a crt.

[Anonymous No.7327193]

>>7327184
I will be happy for you, but people are not meming on you to get you to sell your games to them, they want them to live for as long as possible, the only method of this we have is redundant storage of backups.
Nobody is trying to play you for a fool over this.

[Anonymous No.7327223]

>>7327190
Extremely based post.

[Anonymous No.7327239]

>>7327092
>https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/legacy/sp/NISTspecialpublication500-252.pdf
Those studies are talking about CD-Rs. Factory pressed discs are different and aren't prone to disc rot unless there was a manufacturing defect. Which if after 25+ years your discs aren't showing signs of rot, they're not going to magically start rotting. If there was a defect to cause the rot, the rot would have started 25 years ago when the disc was pressed and you would be seeing it by now.

And no, pinholes are not disc rot. Pin holes are top layer damage and are just a sign that some idiot mishandled the disc at some point and damaged the top layer. CDs only have a thin lacquer layer to protect the top data layer. It's very easy to damage it if you're retarded.

[Anonymous No.7327260]

>>7327239
What do you do when the library of congress is telling you in the simplest possible language that all these mediums actually have a short lifespan?
https://www.digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/documents/media_durability.pdf

[Anonymous No.7327264]

>>7327260
>https://www.digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/documents/media_durability.pdf

That's referring to backing up data onto CDs. So again, CD-Rs, not factory pressed CDs.

[Anonymous No.7327268]

>>7327264
I'm, just hoping you have nothing undumped, It shouldn't be lost to arrogance and hope in glues and lacquers. We'll be here for you when you need us, we'll share our dumps with you to replace you data.

[Anonymous No.7327310]

>>7327268
I don't have anything undumped because I don't collect useless things like 30 year old CD-Rs of prototypes. Those are degrading because they're CD-Rs. The dye breaks down.

Factory pressed CDs don't have this problem because they don't rely on burning into a dye layer, the data is instead physically pressed into the plastic with a reflective metal layer that is pressed into the plastic and then sealed with a layer of lacquer. If the disc doesn't have manufacturing defects and you take care of it, there's no reason it shouldn't last for a good long while. Even with Pinholes, the data is still there, the reflective layer has just been removed in some spots. In theory you could repair that damage by filling in the holes with new reflective material.

Finally, CD-ROMs have a pretty advanced form of error correction. So even a disc that's full of pinholes can still be read just fine. In fact I have a copy of Megaman 8 that has pinholes in it. It was a cheap copy I got for $20 on ebay back in 2007. It still plays just fine in my Saturn. I've ripped it a few times over the years and compared the data track's checksum to the checksum of the redump rip, and they match. In short, you've bought into a panic that's no where near as big of an issue as you've been lead to believe.

[Anonymous No.7327347]

>>7327268
>I'm, just hoping
*coping

[Anonymous No.7327676]

>>7326664
When Arino interviewed that guy who owned every single famicom game.

[Anonymous No.7327694]

>>7326675
Theres a complete soulless that comes from just having roms.

While its easy to make fun of collectorfags for gathering shelves of complete garbage, having real hardware brings the nostalgia and our history back to its roots.

[Anonymous No.7327706]

>>7327694
Nah, it doesn’t. Learn English and come back soon, Anon.

[Anonymous No.7327707]

>>7327694
you're the soulless one, consoomer

[Anonymous No.7327714]

>>7327707
You're both consoomers, just through different mediums

[Anonymous No.7327740]

That Aussie prick who owns every game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox7En_cYAa8

[Anonymous No.7327752]

>>7327740
I was pretty much the british version of that, but like I said much earlier in the thread, I had to sell up because of covid, no regrets, I even had carts the collectors lists have missing, even the pirate lists didnt have them, an example is already in this thread

[Anonymous No.7327760]

>>7327752
I still have a few tubs of shit left, mostly ps2 that didnt sell so good

[Anonymous No.7327761]

I like those really weird collections, people that collect for obscure consoles and have entire collections for it, which seems almost impossible.

[Anonymous No.7327762]

>>7327310
Amusingly, I do have nearly 30 year old CD-Rs that are just fine. Decent quality CD-Rs can and do last for quite some time, if stored properly. Those recently dumped Sonic CD prototypes were on 25+ year old CD-Rs, and they nevertheless all dumped without error.

[Anonymous No.7327765]

>>7326669
fpbp.

My collection is literally every game for every system for free. Coomlectors are fags.

[Anonymous No.7327776]

>>7327761
you would have enjoyed my complete apple pippin, playdia and casio loopy collections, they are all sold now, I did dump pippin and playdia though, not that anybody can emulate them
http://redump.org/discs/dumper/incog/
you're not missing out, they are all crap

[Anonymous No.7327783]

>>7327190
>ill be playing my childhood copy of Mario cart under the comfy glow of a crt.
Some people actually like videogames, I played games back then because i like games and i play games now for the same reason i did back then but for retro hipsters like you playing games is just some nostalgiafagging themed park ride for your emotional childhood issues. thats why you choose the worse possible option that looks and runs the shittest. Only for people like you a shitty CRT and plastic is comfy and the actual game is an afterthought,

You probably listen your music on cassette too and pretend everyday that the world didn't advance past 1995. Sad larp really

If you told 10 yr old me in 1995 that i could have every game i wanted and i didn't needed a shitty ass crt that looks awful and i didn't needed consoles to play them i would have been static, a dream come true.

[Anonymous No.7327834]

lol emufags pretending their couple sticky hard drives will outlive a giant collection of thousands of disks

[Anonymous No.7327839]

>>7327834
haha, imagine that.
http://redump.org/discs/

[Anonymous No.7327853]

>>7327839
A disc being in the redump database means nothing if the image files aren't actually available online

[Anonymous No.7327856]

>>7327853
they all are. its a prerequesite to being added.

[Anonymous No.7327862]

>>7327839
lol so your "I have something superior to a collection" is already now "I depend on comcast to allow me access"

keep trying

[Anonymous No.7327874]

>>7327862
it is saved, preserved, online, not rotting in a bedroom as you pretend its not decaying into an unreadable state

[Anonymous No.7327907]

>>7327874
yep internet will never ever go out and sites are never banned or deplatformed for copyright

also, if your plan is to just redownload x game and set up the emulator 10 years from now, its much less convenient than having the disk on the shelf. so you lose that too

lol

cope n hope bro good luck with that

I'll be playing games

[Anonymous No.7327916]

>>7327907
you are aware that the nintendo eshop is full of roms from the scene, complete with the iNES headers, as they had lost their own archives of them, right?
you seem to think that if the internet goes out, hard drives wipe, you seem to think the scene is based out of a few sites that don't have mass redundant storage networks, usenet, ftps and bit torrent
you're brutally tech illiterate

[Anonymous No.7327918]

>>7327916
the same format and headers because they hired the guy who initially invented the format

[Anonymous No.7327919]

>>7327918
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Anonymous No.7327942]

>>7327760

Do you have any photos of your collection at its peak?

[Anonymous No.7327969]

>>7327942
No, I sold my digital cameras too, this phone was just for work. I do have some partial ones that are very old, you can only see a stack of ps2 games and a few spare consoles

[Anonymous No.7327990]

>>7327969
the full ps2 library was a lot of stacks like that, ps1 full library also took up 2 walls, i flattened the boxes for the snes/nes/md so they only took up 1 wall with cards

I'm glad I have the space back to be honest

[Anonymous No.7327994]

>>7327783
That's a very long winded way to say you're a braindead emubaby.

[Anonymous No.7328003]

>>7326664

[Anonymous No.7328013]

>>7327994
>you're a braindead emubaby.
>cooomlect more plastic!!!

[Anonymous No.7328053]

>>7328013
>Its comfy and soul!

[Anonymous No.7328061]

>>7327856
They certainly were. There's no guarantee that they still are today, let alone years into the future.