https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHfwgw15oLkThese dudes who have amassed great collections spending on average 15-20K in aging hardware, what kind of dread is waiting upon facing the reality that this past world they lived in no longer exists?At least with books or vinyls they prevail time in better defiance, but aging chips, ancient CRT expertise down the toilet ( boomers taught nothing! ) and the fact that none of this soulful content will resurface in production until the End of ages.Me being One of such people, it haunts me.Because you cant counter bitrot with "happy thoughts" Alone.Why did God made this place so fucking gay?Because i know for a fact that this is as "Best" as it gets, and it sure aint getting better.
>>544330289this collection will outlive the digital era and internet
>>544330330In theory yeah, but in practice that's a different matter.Unfortunately.I care for DDR3 systems with Windows XP, i love making exotic setups.Playing stuff like Carmageddon 2 on it, CRT monitor and everything.I also mod these ancient games, because its a lot of fun!New games suck in comparison.
Get a real hobby video game fag
>>544330527Get off this anime website you boomer queer.Suck drumpf cock!
>>544330289The old world is already 95% gone. Also, death comes soon. The months and years flash past ever quicker. The end is close. Won't be long now. We have already spent the majority of our subjective life span. It said that at 18 years you have already lived half your subjective life, and it only gets worse from there.
>>544330527Btw carfags face the same issues as millenial video game hoarders.
On the one hand if it makes him happy good for him, on the other hand just buy a fucking xbone and play cod
>>544330590Well Im not Dead yet frenI'll be 30 Next year.Never got the vax so it should endure!The same cannot be said for this stuff though.
>>544330657Get a damn PS2 and a copy of Gran Turismo 4.Cod is for losers who love killing their own.
>>544330289The libraries of Alexandria were burned by abrahamists, and yet we still celebrate “christmas” with trees and mistletoe. we still go on easter egg hunts. Mario will survive the techpocalypse; he’ll just be a gay, canadian carpenter, instead of a plumber. you can sleep well knowing that you are a steward of the old ways, anon.
>>544330330No it won't, cartridges degrade
>>544330790This. The roms are good enough. Waste of space.
>>544330730For all its worth, thank you for this!I think the troubling anxieties are the first thing to kill me.I get super paranoid even with my own data because i dont trust hard drives.
>>544330790>>544330848and the hard drive?
>>544330289kids play games and adults that are into kids
>>544330848Nothing beats that CRT though.I have one with 32".The PC cannot replicate those colors.>>544330790That depends.Humidity is a killer.So that will be the heads up!
>>544330289You can just play all thr shit on Switch Online. No need to horde shit like a weirdo
>>544330916Boomers still watch old Disney cartoons in their 60s.What does that say?
easy, i'll just kms
>>544330966>onlineSuck a Dick!Fuck your broccoli too cloud Nigger.
>>544330904So far for the record a 2007 Samsung HDD with 250GB lasted 19 years in my ownership.But so many have failed throughout the timeline, now they fill the plates insides with Helium! Yeah dude, you need a gas tank at home to refill these. ( Starting with 6TB HDD )
>>544330849preserving history is a noble cause. and your personal appreciation for this aspect of history is important, even if only a small section of the world sees its value. whether it’s old books, video games, language, mythology or traditions, the stewardship is what’s important…and only someone who truly cares can be a caretaker. You are essentially preserving a snapshot in time; the cultural zeitgeist of man, at that moment. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
I'm with you OP. In this world, everything is temporary.
>>544331159And even helium is a finite, constantly depleting resource
>>544331196I preserve even stuff that is obsolete.YouTube videos, 2000's drivers galore, complete .ISO files from pirated media, movies and 90's/2000's anime shows, custom content that took years of my existence, only the monks have nothing to lose but i do share their pact of celibacy since the world gets uglier by the day.The future is getting into soldering electronics, Im sure of it.
>>544330790Idk ive heard that about cassettes but every tape in my collection works fine and I have OLD cassettes.
>>544330289I think that's why people have kids of their own
>>544331323Right, ephemeral as they say.>>544331362It can even bypass metal itself.Such Big brained morons couldnt think of anything else when making past 4tbs capacity.Without that Helium say byebye to that disc.Oh and the prices in current day are just fantastic!
Nostalgiafagging and acting like you're "old" in your 20's and 30's have really destroyed society.
>>544331500Yeah I kind of re-lived my childhood through them in a way. I don't know who enjoyed the games and Legos, etc more.
>>544331500And presenting them a shittier world?I think not.Being born in the 1970's - 1990's was fine.At least there was some worth being Alive.
>>544331533Stay in your Buttrat pajeet!
>>544330289>At least with books or vinyls they prevail time Anon... You seem alright but are stupid as fuck...
>>544331582You just have to find out how to make it better. The kingdom of God is within.
>>544331573I have close family who brought children to this present world and are miserable Beyond comprehension.Oh and it doesn't stop here!
>>544330289I just sell off the extra shit and keep the stuff I find cool before I eventually sell that too.
>>544331665Yeah but you aren't everyone.
>>544331652I understand man.But its tough watching the shit you love getting rust. Things of great worth and passion made by the Best of humanity.We dont have that anymore!
>>544331739Their mistakes, not mine.Understandable, but it feels selfish.
If these Hylics would spend their energy pirating everything and making public archives instead of collecting garbage and being good subscription buyfags, there would be nothing to worry about.Gladly all the mainstream stuff has been preserved, but so much has gone 404 because of the nu-Internet cucks who believe in copyright.My hope is that technology will have a quantum leap, allowing anyone to backup all media that ever existed in their pockets.
>>544331693Yeah at least there is enough flow in the ethernet seller marketplace.Its a great thing!
>>544331500Lets be real here kids toys nowadays suck they are either too educational, not physically interactive, poor quality or obviously grooming tools. at least in the 80s-early 00s toy companies understood the assignment and were creative for the sake of being creative
>>544331745Yeah that's true in a lot of ways, but the resources are there for those who have those interests. Maybe even more so than before. Ever hear of the Dewey decimal system? Google was quite the improvement.
>>544330487I always wonder about why we don’t get “perfect and massive” versions of older games. Off the top of my head super Mario maker is like this, tho I never played it. But take an old game, that came out over 20 years ago, with like 3 weeks to the deadline, have 2 guys spend time nodding it, upgrading it, filling it out, adding a creative mode, and release that. Now with updates you don’t even need to do all the work at once. Hell even modern games, why do companies not just pay a guy for his mod word and add all the good and cool shit from a few mods into a game, I guess the money, but they blow their money so much on bullshit, this is at least a product they can sell. At least there’s No Man’s Sky, one day I’ll sit down and play that and the years of work out into it will all be enjoyed at once, bless the devs. Gay world indeed, this is why Gamer Futurist TechnoDroidFascism is necessary and the end goal and only path for humanity. Robots do all the work, and the higher your gamerscore, the more robots are denoted to you, and you gain the profit of their labor, tho there will be no money, the robots will do everything for free, but your gamerscore will denote the quality and amount of items you’re allowed to buy.
>>544331799Archive.org is decent, but very funky!Because sometimes its online, other times totally out of reach.I have uploaded some stuff there aswell.Fuck kikes.
>>544331387history is static, as it should be. I honor your work. hail to the old gods, or whichever ones you believe in. you are insulating our future from the corruption of the jews. thank you.
>>544331582>>544331665>>544331745>>544331786Maybe you need to grow the fuck up. Life is much more than video games and being a 40 year old man who waits for the next title like a little kid.
>>544331873Peak toys were YugiOh and Beyblade.Lego and marbles already existed, so i just threw those two.
>>544331159>19 yearswow! a whole ass 19 years!we'll see what this shitty tech does in a 100 years (it's gonna brake down)
>>544331924Kikes won't let anything beautiful resurface again.
>>544332008Why are you getting so upset memeflaggot?Just.. stay in your shithole.
>>544331996Salute!
>>544332092It had a Windows XP SP2 Home Edition.Indeed, that unit was made to last.Some different philosophy at work, same as the screen tube.
>>544331839I know nothing about crypto, but I feel bad hoarding old toys and vidya.
>>544330674>30That’s when your body goes to hell.
>>544330527https://streamable.com/7j06kf
>>544332420That only happens to lazy faggots
emulation will never stop working. i just like hoarding old media because they look cool on my shelf. that's it.
I can just emulate that shit. No fucks given.
>>544332152My shithole is better than yours you dirty moor
>>544330289>waahhhhh people spend their money on thing I don't like!Holy shit kill yourself faggot
>>544330790Mask roms don't degrade. Old cartridges didn't use flash memory. They used mask roms. They are among the most stable chips out there. Stuff that degrades is usually older, for example chips made with the old NMOS process that need several different voltages and run hot. By the early to mid-1980s they were almost all being made with the CMOS process and this was a solved issue.The things that are likely to fail are the ULAs, RAM chips, display processors, audio chips, etc.
>>544332965Some of those carts will probably need coin cells and caps replaced, but like you say proper ROMs are stable as hell. It's like expecting a 555 to fail.
>>544332917I have no idea where this seething is coming from VPNjeet.
>>544330289>Why did God made this place so fucking gay?God is not the one who redecorated.
>>544332420Ah shit.I just hope it won't be as bad as it sounds.
>>544330289Nothing you said really has much substance to it, you're kind of just depressed man.
>>544332937Dude Im the same as Pete. At least up to 10K easy spent on relics.
>>544333574It has substance because things are bound to rot.The worry is no delusion.If things in the universe could be remade by a stored blueprint that could be done at any point in time, that's different.But not this world of discarded objects, man could have done a better job at preserving and respecting good craft.Who the Hell will have a CRT factory available for that One enthusiast huh? Right, nobody!Majority rules!Fuck i wish a vacuum would consume this Shit.
>>544332420i'm 50 and run 30 miles a week
>>544333237Sure, the coin cell issue is the tough one. IMHO a holder should always be installed if you're going to bother tinkering with a cartridge. That way you only have to unsolder / solder stuff once. Tantalum caps should be used too, they won't degrade like electrolytics.
>>544334022Gen Z thinks that you get old and wrinkly at 25. These faggots have lost touch with reality. They're 30 year old now and still obsessing over kid shows
>>544330289The retro scene being insanely expensive now is just jews spitting in the face of autistic purists who respect copyright and can't embrace modern technologies. Every single game from the first 7 console generation has been backed up millions of times and can be emulated for free. But autists don't want to use CRT filters, so whatever
>>544334757I have an SNES USB controller to play emulated SNES games on PC and its nowhere near as good as the real thing.The motion of pixel and zero inputlag stands undefeated, and even the audio chip from the console is unique.Some things you cant do on PC.
>>544334427You hate soulful like a jewish rat.
>>544330289I mean cant you create a neutrino once?
I see no point in collecting things
>>544336196There is no point in collecting anything if you are stuck living in India, except well... the Trash everywhere.>>544336019I started off as an enjoyer, but there are possibilities.
>>544330289Who cares. You are going to die one day and your body will turn to dust. You cry about "preservation of games" when you don't even care about the preservation of your very soul, which only God can preserve, while you insult God in your very post.
The world will continue to get shittier as it gets browner. Thankfully the boomers that allowed and welcomed this will be neglected to death in their assisted living facilities but the damage is already done.Thanks for selling out the country for a few pennies on the dollar faggots.I pray that Lord Satan has a prime spot in hell reserved just for boomer scum.
>>544336196I collect teenage-early 20s girls in my small town that I fuck.
there is literally no reason to have a 1990-2010 generation physical console collection when you can get any of those games for free on emulation websites and play them on cheap devices like any phone, tablet or laptopI have a ps1 emulator on my tablet and can play every game I want
>>544336613Take a good look at the world he supposedly made, it is a hard call not to call the Demiurge a sadistic asshole!God of gay and Decay!>>544336622Boomers Will get MAID by the indians they so eagerly imported. Meanwhile playing to kike on a stick, just like the snake oil salesman wanted!
>>544336794That depends on the games.Hell this goes the same way to computers games.But overall it is Best to have the real experience.VM will never mimmick or make something work flawlessly as it were on the real thing.As for consoles of that old generation, they Kick ass on that dedicated hardware and CRT to display true Greatness!You cant emulate that magick.Its like putting wizard robes on a student.
>>54433028920k is nothing, stop being poor
VM with Windows XP has audio issues, let alone playing 3D games on that stuttering mess.This is where most broccoli munchers take their opinion on older OS without ever having experienced a standard gaming desktop of the time.
>>544337177The bigger the number, the more grief!
>>544330289>What will happen when every piece of your Childhood is finally Gone?We shall turn you into gas and pour you into the stratosphere.
>>544337417Fuck i should remember to never follow the light!If its the last thing i do.Because fuck this Place!
>>544330289 Every single NES, SNES, and N64 game combines is less than 8GB.It's 7.52GB to be exact.>>544330966>relying on online servicesI shiggy diggy.
It died in 2000 and no amount of comsoooomerism can capture it again
>>544338677I got ROM lots stored away in and archive, but its not the same experience.>>544338754You damn right soul was attacked!But I'd say up till 2009 games were interesting. Zero microtransactions, complete on disc ready-out-of-the-box products, and of course cool game manuais with printed art.Did i mention that game magazines were of the same nature?I feel bad for nugamers.They never knew what gaming was.
>>544338754>>544339277Gaming died when the studios and publishers refused to release anything new. So around 2020 gaming died. Gaming was fantastic ironically all the way up until 2020. As for older games like on SEGA or NES they suck. What made gaming good " ironically" was the modding community around it and also esports. Then you had twitch streamers, tourneys, MOBAS(ironically) and re hashes of old franchise like StarCraft 2 and new spinoffs like Hearthstone and HOTS. I played some ultra heavily modded games in 2020 during covid ironically and it was pretty fun. To me the hayday of gaming was HL1 to Bethesda games into 2020 heavily modded. Pre HL1 with SEGA, Playsation, xbox, N64 was okay but it holds nothing to online gaming from 2000 to 2020. Increased internet speeds, graphics, online community, esports, modding it was all just fantastic.
>>544330904hard drives are made all the timethose cartridges aren't being made anymore
>>544339997>eSportsI stopped reading, sorry.This must come from a Fortnitefag.Your broccoli is showing.You cant speak for something you never truly had as a kid, that's a fact.
>>544339277>its not the same experience.But it is.Modded systems take sd cards and modern controllers.
>>544340254Its not.You can convince yourself otherwise because you are a cheap Indian.
>>544340181Nope i gamed from 2000 to 2020. And fortnight post dates esports for almost 2 decades. You had quake, counterstrike, broodwar. I don't count those because it was sorta before my time and it's mostly a genx thing. But i say with the increased speeds of the internet and graphics year 2000+ it was very good for esports. Because you have to understand before streaming technology became a thing watching esports was sorta impossible. It was a very nerdy and elite thing that had to be watched via studio.
>>544339997>Gaming was fantastic ironically all the way up until 2020. As for older games like on SEGA or NES they suck.
>>544340392>Speed Busters>NFS III Hot Pursuit>NFS IV High Stakes>Quake>Unreal>Doom>Carmageddon>GTA III>GTA Vice City>Dr3ver>Powerslide>Age Of Empires>American Conquest>CossacksAre you sure you can call yourself a real gamer?Bethesda games are overrated slop except for Morrowind.
>>544340324I own old consoles but I don't like putting wear and tear on them. Connectors and controllers are already worn out. Some day my SNES won't turn on and I will be sad. So, I prefer playing emulators.
>>544340571Yeah what a fagThis board is ruined.
>>544330289>collecting video games instead of using your time to put pressure on the white nationalist terrorists who have infiltrated the governmentPeople who ignored politics will be punished along with the terrorists.
>>544340571Be nice to zoomers. It's not their fault they have been playing the same games on the same devices for as far back as they can remember.
>>544340626I understand. But for me that's not enough. That's why i'll have to get into soldering components. Because buying another SNES in truth wont solve the problem, if it can be fixed. ( so long as the chips still hold! )
>>544340667This world is Over.And AI will get the job Done.
>>544330289Constant demoralization threads. That stuff is for children anon. Grow up, leave the comfort of the womb and embrace suffering.
>>544340571I played sega and nes as a kid. They suck. You are just a casual console gamer. PC gaming from 2000 to 20020 was the best. >>544340615Yeah i played some of those but my argument is the modding community and esports community overtook those classic type games. Because of rise of internet speeds, graphics, community, prize money and streaming services. I couldn't play those old games today because they don't have any modern context or immersion. I consider gaming to be dead today. And morrowind was good and i played it a bunch.
>>544340730They are the reason gaming sucks, they buy unfinished halfway backed garbage with lgbtq shit on it.
>>544330289I repair my own carts and I have been making new retro games for the past 10 years. ROM chips can last several hundred years. Ones that fry due to poor care can be replaced with SST Flash DIP chips using an EEPROM programmer or with a breadboard, jumpers, power supply and any microcontroller you can program. Other components like caps and resistors fail faster but are easy to replace. ASICs are hard to replace, but FPGAs or TTL can be used, but the board may need to be modified or a module may need to be added depending on the case.I've learned that if you can make new products, it's easy to repair old ones.
>>544340834>NES sucks>Sega sucksGet a load of this loser.Without those companies, you'd still be stuck playing marbles in the dirt kid.Ungrateful runt.You deserve this hellhole in 2026, believe it.We are nothing alike.
>>544330289I threw my PS1 into the trash when I was around 20 because I thought it's time to grow up and stop playing games.Now I regret it.
>>544340922Respect fren!I hope in the future i can appreciate the learning curve on my own.
>>544340922So far i know caps are always in production, so no Big worry there.Mauser is an excellent website to order these parts.
>>544340947Damn what a rash stupid move that was.The Shame must be umbearable.It could be worse.Some sold their NES collections for pennies in the early Y2K.
>>544332038Yugioh and beyblades still exist. There are good toys and crappers in each generation. Do you not remember all the shitty garbage gross out toys of the 90's?
>>544340942They suck today in context. To me PlayStation, Nintendo, and Genesis were just stepping stones like Atari. Nobody gives a shit about Atari today. It's the same concept. To me the pinnacle of gaming was hardcore korean style MMORPGS. Like RO1 i would say was the best game ever invented. It combines the best from the old art style with modern online technology. As for modern day fun i had a lot of it playing xbox and then like i said ironically enjoying the community and evolution of gaming until around 2020. Today for me again gaming is dead. You can't go back and play the classics like when you were a kid and enjoy them the same because back then that was the top notch technology and we didn't know anything else. I played the shit out of Mario and Sonic as a kid before the internet but those times are long gone.
>>544341071Digikey and Mouser are what I use. They are great resources. As tech gets cheaper, the carts get easier to maintain.
I found a PS4 Pro for $25 load that bad boy up with vintage good times and that’s all you need
>>544341159Dude i have classic Bburago diecast collections of sports cars sitting on a shelf that i bought ages ago.There is far more junk today on AliExpress than ever before, ewaste if you will.It pales in comparison with the boomer plastic.
>>544341253It can play PS3 games, but that's about it.Lol calling PS3 games vintage... Its over!We are truly in the End..
>>544341192Atari 2600 is fun when you have a friend to play with. It's like a board game.Proper video games start with the NES. Megaman 2, Batman, Castlevania 1 and 3, Shatterhand, Contra, and Dr. Mario are some of my favorite games.
>>544341218I hope the assholes in charge never stop making commercially available parts.
>>544341192Who cares about context or zoomer irony.You play a game, that's it.If you are thinking of nonsense, then clearly you are not into it.Who cares if it is 40 years old.
>>544330289Write the game's code in books, print then, and start a new collection.But yeah. Best thing to do is design something massive and cool and build it out of concrete. Im talking something 500 feet tall and an acre wide. Then engrave messages and codes and crazy stuff all over it.
>>544341698Egyptians used to carve in rock.They knew what they were doing!Otherwise there would be nothing remaining today.
>>544341369Yeah but you are very niche in your opinion about this. I would say the last great console was xbox 1 in terms of graphics and mechanics. Anything following is just fluff, consumerist trash. Because there's a limit on graphics to gameplay. Modern games developed in engines suck because they don't have real art to them, just graphics design.>>544341475Not a zoomer, how many times? I am Millennial who grew up playing NES, Genesis, PlayStation. Older games have limitations on graphics and mechanics. They just suck compared to modern technology. There's no immersion or context to playing them today. I had my fun playing them as a kid and it peaked my imagination back then but today all i have is the nostalgia. And that's what sells these days. For me personally nostalgia is not enough to warrant these games an honorable title. I think the whole mario worship is just cringe for example. Move on with your lives people.
>>544341795Cool larp.Yes (you) can move on to your favorite Gaynite sitcom.
>>544330289That isn't a childhood collection. That's a nostalgic manchild's collection. No kid could afford that many games. Those were all bought well after the fact.
No school like true old school.
>>544341906Why would i larp? I got to play these games as a kid and enjoy them. I got to play PS2, Xbox and enjoy them. I got to play online mmorpgs and enjoy them. I got to play modern sandbox type games heavily modded and enjoy them. The key is people need to move on which they refuse to do. It's embarrassing to worship mario in current year. It's nostalgia farming and consumerist nonsense. Like the whole pokemon craze too. How about people invent new better games, technologies and ideas instead of larping themselves about caring about the past nostalgia? The 90s aren't coming back no matter how hard people try to relive it.
>>544342171Wow 4chan still rotates photos? It's so rare to see OC these days.
>>544330559You TDS retards just can't help yourselves lmao. So utterly fucked in the brain by the lugenpresse you've become obsessed.
>>544342062Its a lifetime appreciation.>>544342267You can go get buttfucked by drones zoomer, that is your call of duty training destiny afterall.I'll play my retro games in peace and quiet, without risking draft.
>>544342345Another kike joins the Fray!Im all up for it.Hell i even welcome it.
>>544342171It's not even so much me as it's Roenick. He's good.
>>544342507So that's what it is. Well i have 2 xbox 360s and i have been squirrelling away a ton of games. I just don't want to personally play the games i played already as a kid. A lot of xbox titles i never even played and if the internet ever goes out im ready. If all computers with a Microsoft operating system get bricked, im ready. That's why i said xbox is the last true gaming system. I guess you could count Ps1 but i like xbox and i don't have a Ps1 anymore.
>>544330289all these games were shit and only zoylennials care about childtendo generation of arrested development faggots who sold the west to shitskins for reddit updoot tumblr approval or insta tiktok social climbing. The sooner the millenial rots in his woke better than thou me me me generation fag world the sooner we dont have to hear the cringe nokia jokes or uwu or xd rofl or other cringe unc manchild faggotry, childless retards who can only blame boomers and zoomers for any problem in their lives with their best days already behind them rough
>>544343161Raising a kid costs money, a lot of money. And how do you get money without wage slaving thus perpetuating the system? You can blame us but it wasn't us who created the problems in the first place. The problem is the wrong side won WW2 and this is the world we were born into....The issue is with boomers is they were supposed to understand this and plan accordingly. Which they did not. They willingly acquiesced and then berated us for trying to fight back against tyranny and our own self enslavement. Video games are the ultimate escapism and so is posting here and relying on the online community too. You are blaming us for being slaves which makes no sense.
>>544343161>>544342994>UncLike i said, you deserve this timeline of shit.Savor the Misery you poor schumcks!Im done talking to VPNjeets for the day.Night night.
>>544340947You can just download every single game on rom for free now, cheer up faggot
>>544343487Enjoy your shitty games made by Japanese cucks enslaved to zog.
