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Anonymous 02/22/2023 (Wed) 07:00:51 No.840

There was a lot of discussion about how physical media will all one day be historical artifacts that will 100% be absolutely useless. While some anons saying "disc rot will eventually make all disc-based media useless", other anons defending cartridges as people knocked down those too saying the actual code within those games will eventually scramble themselves into being unplayable. So that begs the question, will eventually every piece of hardware, from the CRTs to all the original hardware, be 100% useless garbage fodder, or is there a way to utilize the original casings of the games/consoles/etc to have fresh parts within making them work? What will the hobby of retro video games look like 100 years from now, will all of these things we enjoy from the 80s and 90s be cast into the void of obscurity and loss?

Anonymous 10/21/2023 (Sat) 08:43:38 No.6516

Anonymous 10/21/2023 (Sat) 09:16:04 No.6517

>>6495 Yes. It's easier and quicker to buy them digitally and the golems don't think their ((("benevolent" overlords))) would take away access to something they paid for.

Anonymous 10/21/2023 (Sat) 10:04:58 No.6519

>>6517 the fact that they can just change anything they want and you won't even know is more terrifying

Anonymous 10/21/2023 (Sat) 12:27:52 No.6521

>>6519 >can just change anything >can just change >can just >can

Anonymous 10/21/2023 (Sat) 12:37:45 No.6522

>>6516 >not keeping multiple, redundant copies on different media, + stored on your own servers in different datacenters around the world shiggy.

Anonymous 10/21/2023 (Sat) 12:46:48 No.6523

>>6521

Anonymous 10/21/2023 (Sat) 13:03:27 No.6524

>>6522 That cute, but the end result will still be the same.

Anonymous 10/21/2023 (Sat) 13:09:11 No.6525

>>6523 No you (((can't))) >>6524 TKD? Agreed tbh.

Anonymous 10/21/2023 (Sat) 16:12:42 No.6528

>>6522 based

Anonymous 10/21/2023 (Sat) 21:25:51 No.6537

>>6522 Wait so I'm not paranoid for having multiple drives with the same backups? Thank gawd.

Anonymous 10/21/2023 (Sat) 22:45:49 No.6541

>>6537 EMP will fry 'em all, anon.

Anonymous 10/21/2023 (Sat) 23:10:01 No.6543

>>6541 Only the electronics for any reasonably-likely EMP attack scenario (ie, Ionosphere nuclear burst). Removable media should come through just fine if that's all they face. Ofc the entire world will descend into an unprecedented shitfest at that point, so vidya will be only a secondary concern for a long while afterwards.

Anonymous 10/22/2023 (Sun) 07:57:01 No.6550

>>6543 >Ofc the entire world will descend into an unprecedented shitfest at that point, so vidya will be only a secondary concern for a long while afterwards Good, we will finally get rid of all the normalfags.

Anonymous 10/22/2023 (Sun) 08:45:51 No.6551

>>6550 Imagine a world where people actually care about the things that matter, I am doing my best so that I will be able to survive and make a stronger race of humans, one that doesn't fall to subversion and actually plays video games that are good, and doesn't go into jewtube comments like a subhuman dog and say: <really needs a remaster even tho I could just play it but I am a retarded subhuman brainwashed by a corporation into thinking I need a beautiful game to be remade but with niggers and ugly woman

Anonymous 10/22/2023 (Sun) 09:38:26 No.6553

>>6551 That's how it pretty much used to be before the social media cancer. People just played video games and discussed them on forums/imageboards. We really just need to nuke all the shitter, jewtube, faceberg etc. offices.

Anonymous 11/04/2023 (Sat) 09:12:49 No.6970

Anonymous 11/04/2023 (Sat) 10:47:27 No.6971

>>6970 Good thing there is an alternative method to trying a game for free. And just playing through it for free if you decide it's worth your time.

Anonymous 11/04/2023 (Sat) 11:33:32 No.6974

>>6971 Good thing there's an alternative method of playing every game for free.

Anonymous 11/11/2023 (Sat) 09:00:28 No.7175

SOVL

Anonymous 01/27/2024 (Sat) 19:05:37 No.8654

Anonymous 01/31/2024 (Wed) 19:44:19 No.8742

YOU DON'T OWN NOTHING GOYIM! https://www.thegamer.com/ubisoft-plus-subscription-exec-gamers-need-to-get-comfortable-with-not-owning-your-games/

Anonymous 01/31/2024 (Wed) 19:56:38 No.8743

>>8742 They need to get comfortable with me never buying or playing their ~~propaganda~~ gaymes.

Anonymous 01/31/2024 (Wed) 20:40:27 No.8745

>>8742 I'm very comfortable with never playing any of the modern slop, thank you very much.

Anonymous 02/10/2024 (Sat) 21:31:38 No.9002

Is emulation killing preservation? When you can play everything on a PC, then what happens to the physical consoles and games?

Anonymous 02/23/2024 (Fri) 07:13:45 No.9226

Anonymous 02/26/2024 (Mon) 18:38:00 No.9285

Physical mediabros, we're so back!

Anonymous 02/26/2024 (Mon) 21:52:31 No.9292

>>9285 Toddbros, we can have our 12 million polygon sandwiches now!

Anonymous 02/27/2024 (Tue) 05:51:34 No.9293

>>9285 nice, fuck digital, fuck jews

Anonymous 03/03/2024 (Sun) 22:10:13 No.9466

>>850 Also remember to disable any automatic updates whenever possible and always revert to a backup copy of whatever you are using. Because they will brick your game so the physical media does not work anymore for no reason.

Anonymous 03/03/2024 (Sun) 22:24:15 No.9467

>>9466 this applies even to browsers

Anonymous 03/04/2024 (Mon) 06:34:16 No.9471

>>9226 I hate when this happens

Anonymous 03/04/2024 (Mon) 06:47:13 No.9473

>>842 if only there was a easily available internet archive of all media physical and digital from the past... oh well time to off myself because of some schizo imaginary problem

Anonymous 03/04/2024 (Mon) 06:53:40 No.9475

>>9473 >if only there was a easily erasable internet archive of all media physical and digital from the past... Yeah man, never happened before, sites never went down with everything they had

Anonymous 03/04/2024 (Mon) 06:55:24 No.9476

>>9475 yeah bro i'm gonna nuke a internet server becuz izreal told me so kirby is a evil terrorist doncha know

Anonymous 03/04/2024 (Mon) 07:00:15 No.9478

>>9476 >y-yeah, such a thing never happened before! <not counting all those times when it did

Anonymous 03/04/2024 (Mon) 07:02:15 No.9479

>>9478 name 10 that didn't target nintendo shit and weren't rehosted by 5 different new sites the next day

Anonymous 03/04/2024 (Mon) 07:06:56 No.9480

>>9479 >name 10, name 20, name 50! >b-but also not these specific goalposts that I moved! Nigger they literally removed 8chan and kiwifarms from the internet entirely.

Anonymous 03/04/2024 (Mon) 07:09:54 No.9481

>>9480 >deflects from answer >but muh cansa tumors cowardly nigger

Anonymous 03/04/2024 (Mon) 07:15:15 No.9482

>>9481 >b-but those don't count as well! I accept your concession.

Anonymous 03/04/2024 (Mon) 07:16:16 No.9483

>>9482 >but it's based when troons lose their site

Anonymous 03/06/2024 (Wed) 06:10:40 No.9543

>>9483 One concession was enough.

Anonymous 03/06/2024 (Wed) 09:11:37 No.9547

>>9543 the only concession needed was you are a retard who posts nothing but nigger pills all day and is too much of a nigger to even steal right

Anonymous 03/06/2024 (Wed) 09:57:52 No.9548

>>9547 >One concession was enough

Anonymous 03/11/2024 (Mon) 10:44:02 No.9686

You will own NOTHING

Anonymous 03/11/2024 (Mon) 17:43:51 No.9689

>>9686 NO REFUNDS GOYS!

Anonymous 10/31/2024 (Thu) 22:21:30 No.9979

>>6970 MMMMMM SPYWARE FOR YOUR JACK PLEASURE

Anonymous 10/31/2024 (Thu) 22:22:43 No.9980

>>4316

Anonymous 10/31/2024 (Thu) 22:56:20 No.9982

>>9979 Valve was good, 20 years ago.

Anonymous 11/01/2024 (Fri) 21:33:12 No.9985

Ultimately the only solution is for anons to get educations in electrical engineering and to recreate/preserve the blueprints that create these forms of physical media. Some of the best NES emulators have boards derived from the remains of NES's.

Anonymous 11/20/2024 (Wed) 03:34:02 No.10001

>>9982 In what year Steam became a full on spyware platform?

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