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You technically don’t own games. You own a license to play them. This has always been the case going back at least to the 80s if not before (first time I noticed this was Dr. Mario on the NES when reading the manual as I’d just learned how to read). If your disc is ruined you can contact them for a replacement disc since your license was not destroyed or forfeited. This is also why you are legally permitted to make one backup copy. Saves them from having to do the replacement themselves.
This pops into my head everytime Mutahar goes on one of his “preservation rants.” My guy I do not care if the game gets deleted, it will be backed up digitally if it’s worth backing up.
When you pirate an entire console’s library at once but then are like “Oh no it’s okay if I say it’s preservation first”
Me when I acquire an entire romset for the Turbografix-16
Disc rot is so overblown I’m genuinely convinced companies are influencing discussion around it to scare people away from optical media.
In the, probably near 1000, discs I own
I have one with rot, and that’s a CD manufactured in a specific plant, within a specific timeframe known (for decades now) to have had issues.
So it’s not as if it’s a random occurrence which has caused that disc to fail, but posts like this always seem to push the idea that “your disc could just die at any time bro” and it’s simply not true.
Codex are doing the real game preservation nowadays
rookie mistake :3
Back in the day Blizzard replaced my Warcraft II disc. Too bad they’re shit now.
Greentext is reductive, but at the same time DVDs and optical media in general are a paradox. In theory, they will last forever, but at the same time there are so many ways to fuck up with them that they’re basically only good as like a plan Z storage for really important files that you wrap in cardboard and leave in the closet.
I have never seen a factory pressed CD/DVD fail. Optical media is the most reliable.
Oddly enough there is a specific album, live’s secret samadhi, that I’ve never found a rippable copy of. I’ve found like five copies over the past half decade at used record stores, all in seemingly perfect condition in terms of lack of scratches, but they won’t play correctly all the way through or rip correctly. Could be anecdotal bad luck, but I think the cd pressing of that album has bit rot in general for some reason. I’ve not seen that on any other factory discs I’ve ripped.
If it is the same album always, all of the copies were probably manufactured cheaply or deficiently.
I bought a CD boxset of all the MAD Magazine issues from launch until the late 90s (when I bought it). About 8 years later I still had it and attempted to back it up into ISOs It was like 6 discs and of course disc 5 was unreadable so the entire thing was useless :-/
Hmm, there might be some procedures to help you to get them backed up to ISOs, even if they seem unreadable. What program did you try to use to make the ISOs?
I have no idea, this was like 15 years ago haha It was probably Nero or Roxio. At this point I’m sure I could download the whole collection from somewhere.
I recommend using Alcohol 120% since it has an option to ignore reading errors. Other programs just stop when encountering an error.
Although, yeah, it is probably already archived somewhere on the internet, but you never know.
Probably in a nicer format, better quality and better compatibility. Would not be surprised if the box set required its own software to be installed to read the magazine
Yeah it had an installer and program to read everything, it wasn’t just a simple collection of scanned pages. I got it at a computer show back when I was like 10 or 12, and when “computer shows” were actually a thing in the late 90s hahaha
I’ve dd copied all my playstation 2 disks to a NAS, because they were getting old. Running those games on the ps2 off an external disk is a lot more effort than just putting the disc in though, so they are still my main goto
On the bright side, that would make it accessible by emulators, allowing you and whoever you give access to it, to play it from anywhere. Even with an android
The future is now
aye same thing happened to my car i supposedly would be able to own forever. I left it out in the yard for ten years and now it looks like something bonnie and clyde got shot to death in.
Just download a new one
I would never download a car or shoot a policeman.