the clock is ticking.soon enough, even the properly stored, high quality pressed discs will start degrading, because everything does.how will i cope?
I have my physical collection, and I have usb sticks and harddrives full of roms and iso's, I got a modded ps2. I'm good bro
>>12261283Did you purposely ignore the part that says "100 years" just to be upset about something?
some of my cd/dvds are over 300 years old and still function perfectly
>>12261302that's UP TO.a theoretical best case scenario
Is it always the same faggot making the disc rot threads?
Manufacture new disks and burn them?
By the time all these discs and consoles have degrades, neither you nor anyone else will give a fuck about any of this shit. Widespread disc rot literally doesn't matter.
rope yourself it's over
>>12261283Okay. Crash Bandicoot is 30 and the disc still works. How do you account for that.
>>12261283Anything that needs a disc can either be hacked or there are optical emulation drives. Even for retro pc drives. It's a solved problem
>>12261283Well you just coped about you not being able to afford any so I guess you'll be fine in 100 years when it maybe starts to be a problem and you'd be 112 if you hadn't died from tidepods decades earlier.
We have to press them to vinyl record obviously
>all my disc based games will be unplayable by the time I'm 130 years oldit's fucking over
>>12261730don't worry you'll probably be dead long before that unless you practice ancient chinese martial arts
>>12261749You fool. You dare?! You're courting death. Here I stand, follower of the dao of retro gaming. Yet you see not the peaks of mount tai upon which I stand. My wisdom and knowledge is wasted on you like pearls before swine. Your elders are no doubt coughing up blood as, within the span of a single incense stick burned, you have proven your low cultivation and equally low worth.But yeah it really does suck that all our official collections are going to rot and decay before long. I've already had games and consoles die out on me. Controllers waste away. Memories of my childhood fade. It's tough to not just sell everything off and replace it with cheaper emulation alternatives knowing the truth.
>lifelet copeUnlike you faggots, I am unironically literally going to live forever, so yah I'm going to have to deal with most of my retail discs failing.
>anon died later that day
>>12261283It literally says that pressed dvds can last up to 100 years, I ain't living another 70 years.
>>12261376Anecdotally I will say that I've seen a lot of sega cd games get disc rot, and that's not a recent thing I've been seeing it for about a decade.
>>12261819>anon lives in a swamp
That's cool. I'm still going to keep buying games, though.
>>12261812this. we aint living forever ppl. this is also why making backups and dumping your cd games is so important for preservation.
>>12261283I have DVDs from 1997 and CDs from 1987 which still work flawlessly. About the only problem I have with degradation is Laserdisc.
>>12261283By not being a coomlector retard
Video games aren't movies. If even a single bit rots, the entire game can be rendered unplayable. I'd say you got like 6 more months before your collection is worthless.
>>12261898AAAAAAAH TIME TO SELL!
Why does a certain minority of this board act like they're in physical pain over the fact that some people aren't emulation purists?
>>12261941>emulation puristswhat?
>>12261898>what is error correction
>>12261283disc rot is a meme and doesn't happen.
>>12262063this is an overcorrection from someone who thinks calling things "a meme" is meaningful criticism. it's real but greatly exaggerated in occurrence and often due to mishandling rather than defective manufacturing
>>12262086ok buddy
>>12262128oll klear is right
>>12261819But of course you have, sweaty. Living in the sewer with your three brothers.
>>12261283I don't care about having the original disks or systems anymore. Data is data. I find the concept that I HAVE to have physical copies of older games to be quite retarded . Is burning them to another disc considered heresy or something?
You better be helping Redump.org get the remaining PC discs, then.
>>12262347>i have never been and never will be able to affored the original disks or systems
>>12262347careful anon, you're gonna get some thirdie calling you poor because you enjoy playing games instead of hoarding them
BRO I SAW A PICTURE OF A MOLDY DISC SOMEONE LEFT IN A FLOODED BASEMENT, YOUR DISCS ARE DONEZO
