Retro Gaming & Data Hoarding

[Anonymous No.7419269]

What are your preferred methods for storing and backing up your digital games? Are you the type to have everything on computer or no? Do you have multiple backups? What devices or services do you use to organize and maintain your collection?

[Anonymous No.7419351]

>>7419269
On my main PC as well as an external drive. I suppose technically my PSP has a lot of them too.

[Anonymous No.7419382]

>>7419269
I download everything one rom at a time and curate everything on an SD and then cry when it dies and I can figure out how to use emuparadise any more.

[Anonymous No.7419392]

>>7419269
Lots of hard drives

[Anonymous No.7419579]

>>7419269
I have my games both on my PC and on an external hard drive. A lot of them are also backed up on an SD card in my hacked Nintendo Wii. I'm thinking I should have an off-site backup as well, just in case, though I'm not really sure which would be the best for that.

[Anonymous No.7419590]

I've a home server, bunch of single drives with no redundancy.
For digitally downloaded stuff, I put a copy there when I buy em. If there's updates like with GOG games then I keep the old installer.
I've been considering digitizing my collection of optical media but that'd cost me like a thousand bucks in just hard drives so I've been putting it off.

[Anonymous No.7419597]

>>7419590
That's like five 8 terabyte hard drives. Just how much fucking Optical media do you have?

[Anonymous No.7420125]

>>7419597
I have an entire larp full

[Anonymous No.7420216]

>>7419269
I follow the 3-2-1 rule. 3 backups, 2 accessible from your home, 1 in a different location, all different formats. My computer SDD (living room), external/portable HDD in my portable fire box/safe (storage room), and Google Drive for my off-site location.

[Anonymous No.7421282]

>>7420125
>an entire larp full
What the hell are you talking about?

[Anonymous No.7421316]

>>7420216
I wonder if there's a better long-term option than Google Drive. It works, but given that I have around 250GB and growing for games at the moment, I'd need their highest paid subscription to keep it up there, and I'd rather not spend $100 a year just to sate my paranoia.

[Anonymous No.7421379]

>>7419382
My mom deleted my roms off her ipad because they were taking up too much space. I tried the emuparadise work-around but they have taken most Nintendo games off the site! Can anyone help, I really want to play Super Mario Bros 1 again.

[Anonymous No.7421670]

>>7421282
A larper larping

[Anonymous No.7421775]

>>7421316
I guess that would depend what you are storing. I have the 2TB plan and it's $10 a month or $100 a year. I focus on 3rd and 4th Gen with a sprinkling of 5th, along with important documents, photos, podcasts, etc. I'm sitting at 175 GB, only 7% of the storage (so far).

[Anonymous No.7421783]

>>7419382
based

[Anonymous No.7421785]

>>7421670
do you think 8tb is big or something? my raid array is 15tb, imagine being so poor you think somebody haveing just 8tb of hdd space is a larp, I feel sad for you

[Anonymous No.7421924]

>>7421785
>do you think i'm larping and projecting
I know you are. Keep digging that hole little faggot. There can't possibly be someone on zoomerchan who can read posts and do math. To top it off, you think larping about having 15tb or raid is going to impress anyone. Wew lad.

[Anonymous No.7421935]

>>7421924
>if i yell larp nobody can have more than 2 harddrives
you're a fucking joke, imagine having so little that you think everybody has to be a loser like you

[Anonymous No.7423556]

>>7421935
>if i keep coping nobody will notice my larping
That boat sailed long ago kiddo

[Anonymous No.7423572]

>>7423556
do you add anything to any thread ever, or do you just scroll around yapping "larp" to feel better about your shit life, after all, if everybody is secretly lying, they must really be a loser like you, what a sad self comforting method

[Anonymous No.7425284]

>>7423572
Outing larpers is a public service

[Anonymous No.7425289]

>>7425284
but he outed nobody, all he does is run around saying it and get proven wrong, fuck there was a 300 reply thread just filled with rare shit seen nowhere else that dropped on a larp-shouting spastic just last week

[Anonymous No.7425402]

>>7420125
>>7421924
>>7423556
>>7425284

OP here to say that I'm really glad you shitted up my thread to complain about a supposed LARPer. It really added to the conversation.

[Anonymous No.7426448]

>>7425289
He outed a larper. No amount of cope will change that

>>7425402
Larper here to say I'm, really butt blasted that i had to larp as a different larper because I already larped the larp of of this larp
larp
larper larper larp larper larp larp

[Anonymous No.7426456]

>>7419269
Google drive and mediafire

[Anonymous No.7426475]

>>7419269
I have a 2TB harddrive I keep my games on. I don't buy any new games so it doesn't fill up. I also have a ton of other misc game stuff on there like a bunch of custom maps from obscure games, mods, templeos, source code for stuff like the Dark Mod, etc.

[Anonymous No.7426485]

>>7426475
I also should mention I have a server that I back my computers up to incase one dies or something. I looked at cloud storage but it all appears to be a scam.

[Anonymous No.7426496]

>>7419590
Who the fuck sets up their own home server with no redundancy or backup of any kind? Fucking subhuman.

[Anonymous No.7426501]

>>7421785
What kind of RAID do you use?

[Anonymous No.7426509]

>>7426496
What if the home server IS the redundancy for all your computers?

[Anonymous No.7426637]

>>7426496
A dumb larper. Notice how his larp has evolved from that to having a whopping "15tb" which I guess is "RAID"0

>>7426509
Then you'd still be a poorfag larper that everyone laughs at

[Anonymous No.7427305]

>>7426637
This post reads like a larper who lurked /g/ for 3 years and thinks his opinions is worth anything despite not being able to even manage a fucking command line.

[Anonymous No.7427330]

>hurr durr I have 40 TB of optical media
>not a larp

You're all retards. Not even the entire PS1, PS2, Saturn, Xbox, Dreamcast, etc. library combined would hit that amount.

[Anonymous No.7427412]

I'm pretty sure PS1 alone is almost a terabyte and the size of games grew considerably after dvds came around. It would at least be damn near close to that.

[Anonymous No.7427416]

>>7427412
>>7427330

[Anonymous No.7427426]

why are people acting like a few terabytes is big?

[Anonymous No.7427431]

>>7427412
But then again having the entire libraries of multiple different systems on optical media sounds pretty far fetched and stupid.
>>7427426
who is

[Anonymous No.7427434]

lmao at the bitches thinking just having 15tb is a larp, hey faggots, catch my tracker stats

Traffic:130.493 PB

[Anonymous No.7427667]

>>7427431
I could see hitting 40TB if you had EVERYTHING for consoles up until 6th generation, but I don't see much point in keeping all of the shovelware and redundant titles on the PS1 and the 6th gen consoles. That's the point where you curate your stuff.

That said, with HDs getting cheaper, its not unreasonable or anything to think someone has 40TB of storage on hand. The whole LARP thing is just one of many annoying memes that are clogging up this place.

[Anonymous No.7427816]

I have everything archived up to PS2.

[Anonymous No.7427843]

>>7427667
you are an idiot and should not be allowed to post, just console shit breaches 50tb, adding PC stuff triples that

Dreamcast: 0.614 TB (564 dumps, avg. 1.11 GB per disc)
GameCube: 2.318 TB (1746 dumps, avg. 1.36 GB per disc)
PC: 7.370 TB (8200 dumps, avg. 0.92 GB per disc)
PS1: 3.605 TB (8204 dumps, avg. 0.45 GB per disc)
PS2: 16.046 TB (6844 dumps, avg. 2.40 GB per disc)
PS3: 14.889 TB (1618 dumps, avg. 9.42 GB per disc)
PSP: 1.325 TB (1586 dumps, avg. 0.86 GB per disc)
Saturn: 0.642 TB (1554 dumps, avg. 0.42 GB per disc)
Wii: 4.460 TB (1031 dumps, avg. 4.43 GB per disc)
Xbox: 11.274 TB (1585 dumps, avg. 7.28 GB per disc)
Xbox 360: 4.685 TB (658 dumps, avg. 7.29 GB per disc)

[Anonymous No.7427875]

>>7427843
where can I download all of those?

[Anonymous No.7427878]

>>7427667
>deleting individual PS1 games
Why bother, the entire USA redump set is under 600GB. The jap region set is almost 1TB but you could "curate" the entire thing if you know you'd never figure out what japanese region games to play.
>40 TB
Downloading every fullset for every /vr/ console would be more like 10TB, if you got every region. Downloading less than a complete set for any console 4th gen and under is retarded. For gen 5+6 just download USA sets and skip the moonspeak games and euroshitter 50hz demakes if you don't need absolutely everything.

[Anonymous No.7427894]

>>7427875
if you don't know how to pirate, what the fuck are you doing on the chans

[Anonymous No.7428043]

>>7427875
redump sets on archive.org and Total Dos Collection
the-eye.eu has exodos and a Win 3x collection
I have no idea where to find the redump ibm PC compatible set

[Anonymous No.7428046]

>>7428043
it's been a secret every since hddx was shut down, nearly everything on the redump list is out there, but we do have a few cases of where dumps were lost, these are known as missing in action instead of the typical undumped status

[Anonymous No.7430775]

>>7419269
Carefully

[Anonymous No.7430786]

>>7428043
archive.org is nice but I need to figure out a better way to pull shit down from it
A lot of the torrents don't get reindexed so that's not an option either

[Anonymous No.7431754]

>>7430786
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