>cartridge mechanics wear out with time>system lasers burn out>disc rot ruins your entire collection>cardboard discs wear out into nothingIt's interesting how everything we're collecting here has a truly finite timeline. This is the one collection that literally nothing we have is going to last.
>>12497189at some point you just have something you can put on a shelf and feel good about looking at which i don't see being a real issue. and you can always make a new custom cart if you really want to drop the money and play on hardware
>hard drive fails>the cloud shuts down>USB/SD card gets old and stops working>backups get lost in system wipesIt's interesting how digital cucks are so obsessed with people who like collecting physical media (btw discs last 200 years and will outlive you) while they're relying on a single storefront to sell them games and their hard drives and precious cloud will soon shut down or break all together.
How screwed is OP and his obsession with lame threads?
>>12497189Barely coherent ESL retards need to get the fuck out
>>12497189>cartridge mechanics wear out with timeEverything has an infinite lifespan, but cartridges will literally outlive everyone on this board. Yes, even the zoomer and gen alpha posters. You might have to replace a save battery or a capacitor at some point, but everything else is fine if properly taken care of.>system lasers burn outCan be repaired>disc rot ruins your entire collectionThis is a meme and will not affect you if you properly take care of your stuff unless there was a manufacturing error. 99.99999% of disc rot cases are manufacturing error, the rest are from retards who don't know how to take care of their stuff. I have a massive collection of CDs and games, with a lot of CDs from the 80s, and I've never found a single case of rot in my massive collection of 1000+ discs.>cardboard discs wear out into nothingWhat are you even talking about?
>>12497226>>cardboard discs wear out into nothing>What are you even talking about?His shitposting generator malfunctioned and started to hallucinate. Crazy stuff.
>>12497189Books can last for hundreds of years so the only part of any video game collection that will withstand the test of time oddly enough is the game boxes and manuals. ROM chips will last a few hundred years though because the data is physically manufactured into the chip, not flashed, so as long as the chip is physically sound then the data will be as well. Cartridge board capacitors may fail but the data will still be there.
>>12497189>Books can last for hundreds of years so the only part of any video game collection that will withstand the test of time oddly enough is the game boxes and manuals.One thing that would be cool is people discovering game manuals then trying to make a game entirely from the description in the manual, with no original of the game available for reference.
>>12497253>Cartridge board capacitors may failYou can replace those though. Just like batteries.
>>12497189There's a difference between collecting a few things you enjoy, and being a hoarder. You don't need every game ever made for a console, God forbid multiple. At that point you're just a numale corporate whore. If you want to play old games but don't need to have it on your shelf as some embarrassing performative art, emulation has been good enough for a long time.
>>12497189All technology has a finite timeline. This isn't a problem though because technology can be fixed when it breaks.
>>12497189Is kinda funny because are time bombs in the end, for example chipped ps2 started to sell at high prices specially working ones until solar flare fucked dvd lens.I prefer just wait a bit more or keep certain hardware after WW3 starts in a few months a economy goes down the drain.The only good thing is that nvidia cards specially old ones are getting realky high prices specially original ones, even if they were bad back then.>matrox gpu : 15 dollars top (not bad).>nvidia vanta LT : 9256 dollars.>nvidia geforce 5200 fx 256 mb : 9450 dollars.Is it rarity plus scarcity or just someone trying to create a bubble? Don't know but suddenly i got 18 thousand dollars on 2 cards i got for free and working.
I'll just enjoy it while I have it, and if it breaks I'll fix it, and if I can't fix it I'll buy a new one.
>>12497289Only valid for certain tech specially older one, post 2000 became the issue because even if can be fixed parts won't be cheap, then you have the issue on certain tech from PC that was made using gold so everyone started just melting and grabbing those parts because of gold so scarcity increased.>sdram : scarce because gold connectors.>most gpu : scarce.>pre 2004 gpu : scarce.Making the parts with gold connectors was a good idea at the time but planned obsolence made people realize how much value they have and won't sell it for pennies (0.3 grams of gold on sdram, with 3 you have almost 1 gram costing around 300 dollars).
>>12497189scarcity just makes collecting more fun
>>12497206you are one big fat idiot
>>12497189>be OP>lose sleep over people owning things he can't afford>shits up /vr/ as a means to soothe himselfmany such cases
>>12497189Not screwed at all? Everything degrades and dies over time, including the collectors. People will be long dead before their plastic discs.
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>>12497189>cartridge mechanics wear out with timeLearn to solder.>>system lasers burn outLearn to change capacitors/replace lasers.>>disc rot ruins your entire collectionMeme that only effects certain laser discs/dvds and possibly an extremely minor run of certain games discs(unconfirmed), or if you are a retard that stores their games in a humid, damp shit hole.>>cardboard discs wear out into nothing????See you next week for another bitching thread about missing the boat to buy cheap toys.
>>12497305That's a good way of thinking about it. The whole universe is going to go to heat death at some point, no use stressing about it. Just enjoy the time you have.
>>12497189Collections are 99.9% aesthetics and pictures, 0.1% playability. Very few people are genuinely so autistic that they need to play every game via an original cartridge. Emulators and everdrives exist for a reason.
Kill OP brutally
>>12497350ENTROPY DUDE, NOTHING MATTERS
>>12497189Is this the weekly "I regret not buying games back when physical media was cheap" cope thread?
>keep games in offline storage and backup>if offline storage fails, just copy the data from backup into new storageEZ just like bacteria
>>12497341>Learn to solderI already know how>Learn to change capacitors/replace lasersI already do that>Meme that only effects certain laser discs/dvds and possibly an extremely minor run of certain games discs(unconfirmed), or if you are a retard that stores their games in a humid, damp shit hole.It's never happened to me>????Same>See you next weekAlright man. Good chat, I'll see you around. Have a good weekend.
>>12497189>cartridge mechanics wear out with timeFlashcarts.>system lasers burn outEasily replaced and maintained. Too much for the average """collector""" making youtube videos and showing off on social media, granted, but not my problem.>disc rot ruins your entire collectionDisc rot is a boogeyman. If you don't live in a third world desert or jungle and actually clean your shit instead of spilling mountain dew on it and maintain a normal temperature your discs will be fine.>cardboard discs wear out into nothingI don't even know what this is referring to.
>>12497189This board is full of South American 3rd worlders that have never experienced most of the games they play on hardware and emulation was their first experience.None of them (like OP) will ever understand the satisfaction of pulling a game off your shelf and popping it into the hardware for the authentic experience.
>>12497376I don't know why people do it. I get if you don't make much money and can't buy into the overpriced hobby now, but there are so many affordable alternatives.I'm sad I didn't take care of my shit as a kid but I can afford to make up for it now and feel fine about it. If I ever get priced out I'll just get a mister or something. It's dumb to panic about a hobby with so many options to enjoy.
>>12497189>How screwed are retro collectors?If we have to read angsty poorchild shitposts like yours I reckon we'd be screwed out it several seconds a day.But is it really screwing us out of anything when we get such a chuckle out of the antics of a foolish seething child like you?
Coomlectors don't play games, it's just a piece of plastic they display on the shelves. Kinda like those fags who buy expensive art pieces, no matter how ugly they look.
>>12497296It's retro toobers driving those prices anon, you know this. Whereas you can pick up an OG gtx titan for around 100 bones, which conveniently one of the last cards to have xp drivers
>>12497296>solar flareWhat the hell are you even talking about?
>>12497189rotting plastic and electronics. collecting that grab will NOT bring back your childhood.
>>12497914I have 900 games in my collection. I've 100%'d about 300 of them. I intend to finish the remaining games or sell the ones I end up not liking. I also have another 900 or so games I'd like to add to my collection
>>12497189>cartridge mechanics wear out with timeEasy to prevent and fix.>system lasers burn outReplacable.>disc rot ruins your entire collectionlmao no>cardboard discs wear out into nothingWhat the fuck is a cardboard disc?
>>12497296What is this barely held together schizobabble? Kill yourself.
>>12497379How would you know that it failed if you don't plan to bring it online?
