Since the gaming industry is crashing hard who else is stocking up on games? I'm going to go out thrifting and hit up some pawn shops to pick up some classics from last gen and prior. I hardly have a sizable backlog but hopefully I can find more stuff to hoard in the event of a complete stream-only future that'll last me till I die. Also going to save up for flashcarts and such and probably buy some used consoles to replace ones that will, inevitably, break in the future. Things like the Saturn or PS1, most definitely picking up multiple PS3s and 360s and putting them on ice until my current ones burn out.
Who here /paranoid/?
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Luke Nguyen
I already have 2 hard drives filled with every possible ROM and ISO from when emuparadise crashed thanks to niggertendo. So I'm good on vidya untill the world explodes.
Charles Cruz
based. What's your organizational scheme like? Mine for ROMs is a little fucked, but I'm going through them with the Good Set verify-er to get them all uniform. All my games for PC are just in a folder with no regards to naming conventions whatsoever.
Mason Hall
Why haven't you taken the speedrunpill yet bros?
>get to play your favorite game(s) and nothing else, can always try out new games if you really care to
>learn all the ins and outs of your game, constantly gaining interesting knowledge you wouldn't have imagined possible before
>knowledge and skills culminate to the point where your gameplay seems almost wizard-like to over 99% of the past and present playerbase
>have an actual time that you need to beat, therefore an actual reason and effective motivator to play besides simple entertainment
>if you ever get good enough you can start streaming to make money and meet other enthusiasts, many successful speedrunners have even been able to avoid using a facecam and mic since the audience is primarily there for your sick gameplay
>save money and arguably time if you can just keep to a reasonable schedule for practice
Literally why would you force yourself into a cycle of new games, expensive hardware, and ultimately disappointment?
Kayden Ramirez
I should get into that somewhat. SMB seems like a good game to get gud at
Kayden Martin
I started going with console>genre>year but I soon realized that there were just so many fucking games that I reverted to just console>genre. I think I'll upload it somewhere if another big ROM site goes to the shadow realm.
Angel Ward
tfw no iku wife
Caleb Phillips
Hello future trannies
Christopher Bailey
That's cool. I'd like to organize by genre but there's so many to go through. It'd be cool if there was a DB I could somehow link it to that'd let me sort through them with a bunch of parameters.
Owen Lee
>Who here /paranoid/?
You're being stupid, not paranoid. Were you even alive for the first "video game crash"? Are you even American?
Carson Scott
Hey if that's a worry of yours, by all means try something else. There are fighting games, other forms of high score or measurable challenges, you name it. I just think that people past the age of 18 should be able to pick out what exactly it is that they like in their hobbies and try to stick to that for a while, really get your money's worth and come out a little happier than stumbling through it all blind. I don't really understand the tranny thing or why it's prevalent among hardcore game enthusiasts, but I've found that they are still just a vocal minority and something you can avoid for the most part.
Benjamin Cooper
Streaming is going to take over, and there will be more aggressive push for removing pirated games online. I feel like there's something brewing.
Tyler Sullivan
There's enough books, games, and movies already in physical print to satisfy the most voracious consumer until the end of human existence. The only cap is your own attention span. Stop looking forward to new media and look back to all the things you've missed. That's where happiness can be found.
Owen Brooks
cocks
Jacob Evans
How did you find this picture of me
Nolan Thomas
Don't forget your tinfoil hat and picket sign before heading to the Google headquarters parking lot.
Angel Turner
Even if it crash, torrent will always be around. Well, except if you live in a shithole who jail person for (((piracy))).
Nicholas Cooper
Hopefully he'll St. Nasim you instead, Google employee
Joseph Turner
>when you see it
holy shit
Thomas Anderson
Don't play pretend with me, autismo.
Ethan Ward
based schizo poster
Grayson Perez
>google unveils thing
>literally everyone shit talking latency
>every platform doing great
>THIS IS IT GUYS VIDYA IS DOOMED
thats retarded
William Richardson
Sorry dude I don't have autism.
Cameron Cox
You wont be laughing when your games are gone forever. What's wrong with having a personal archive?
I don't trust anything that isn't on my machine to permanently be there when I want it.
I am looking back. I missed a lot of games growing up, and plan to work through them as I get older. I won't have anything new to turn to if all the new stuff is stuff I can't own.
I know I am.
Joshua Gray
>Since the gaming industry is crashing hard
Since when?
Isaiah Perry
Google is the vessel through which Satan enters the world. The nearer it gets to anything that you like the more worried you should be.
Jonathan Miller
This morning.
This.
Camden Lopez
I am glad there is someone hoarding physicals
Angel Scott
Why? What the fuck did you do, user?
Xavier Watson
You can't hide it from me user
Parker Cook
Look up Stadia. Or don't. Don't give it the time of day.
I don't have a large collection but I'm looking to pick up a ton of physical stuff for the PS3 / 360 stuff. That stuff seems like it's the least likely to be archived in my opinion.
Luke Cook
Not autistic enough to want to play the same game over and over again in quick succession. When I got a game over in a game when I was a kid I did one of two things, put in a different game or do something else.
Bentley Watson
this annoying bitch ruined catgirls for me
Oliver Cooper
>You wont be laughing when your games are gone forever
>he said as he saved digital copies of games to his hard drive and his physical copies get disc rot or have internal batteries die and wipe saves
Connor Gonzalez
godspeed then
I'm hoarding everything digitally for possible future emulation but I haven't checked if any PS3 or 360 collections exist
Parker Thomas
>That stuff seems like it's the least likely to be archived in my opinion
Nigga, you can pirate/emulate both.
>mfw I can play Scott Pilgrim any time while stupid moralfags cry about it being gone
Christian Powell
I speedrun. All I fucking do is play Megaman all day. All fucking day. I swear I'm retarded. It's not worth it. There's nothing to gain. Don't fucking do it.
Jace Price
Head to /g/ if data hoarding is your thing. Use tape or some sort of millenium disk to make sure it last for a long time. I trust the Internet more than myself at hoarding data though.
Jacob Bennett
>who else is stocking up on XYZ?
People have been paranoid about shit for years, whether it be games, music, movies, anime, whatever. None of it has vanished, you'd have to be crazy to think that it will over night.
Xavier Long
Fucking hell now I get what all the doom and gloom is about. Google feels like some kind of evil Katamari sometimes. My first thought was that this obviously won't work for all the reasons it hasn't worked before, but this is google after all. If anybody could make it work it's probably them. I really don't want game streaming to become any sort of standard.
Carter Jackson
see what
Angel Rogers
I don't live a swamp and saves can be backed up. I can just keep making backups and store shit on tape drives if I need to.
They're almost too big for any average person to have a backup of. I mean, shit, the average PS3 game is like 20 gigs, and a fullset is around 1100 games. Around 24200 GiB worth of data for that alone. Christ.
I know you can, I personally have a hard time finding reliable uploads of a lot of stuff.
It won't go overnight but little by little. You don't sink a boat by nuking it from orbit.
/g/ is full of retards from Yea Forums who just want to know what the best GPU is for the $2000 budget. Asking stupid questions like
>is the 1080ti gud????
Ryder Lopez
Roughly how big is the entire console library up to and including the ps2? Are there easy downloads that just include everything so I don't have to manually download every game? About to order 8tb more storage.
Adam Peterson
Just stop then
Jason Hill
see what?
Josiah Perry
Anyone have a link to all the roms and isos cached from emuparadise?
Charles Torres
/g/ like any other boards, will call retard to anyone. Just lurk. They usually have data hoarding general concealed as home server general.
Nicholas Sanchez
You are right, it's not. If it were then a lot of things would already be fucked. There's nothing wrong with starting to hoard games that are in no way guaranteed to stick around on their own, whatever the reason for doing so. It's a time consuming process and the more people who do it, the better.
Jace Green
Everything up to PS1, is roughly 500GiB, not including the Saturn, nor any other disc based systems.
Here's a no-intro set to get you started. Try googling "emuparadise script" if you're dead set on that.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f36012c79151b2a3b759c6dd66a340e56ebefaf8&dn=NoIntro2018&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt2.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&ws=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdownload%2F&ws=http%3A%2F%2Fia601501.us.archive.org%2F18%2Fitems%2F&ws=http%3A%2F%2Fia801501.us.archive.org%2F18%2Fitems%2F
Here's PS1 as well
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6c5088295fae49b5f2d92ef70b31f0377c05d824&dn=%5BReDump%5D%20Sony%20PlayStation%20%28NTSC-U%29%20%2820150524%29
AND WiiShop stuff, not including DLC
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3c9aaade428f69f09b722bbe4025063cd0f3cb58&dn=WiiWare%20VC
Torrents are a godsend.
Benjamin Gomez
>There's nothing wrong with starting to hoard games
Good luck, then. But honestly the chances are that you'll get bored of the games long before they vanish anyway.
Jace Wright
My backlog will keep me busy for a few more years and that's if I go fast.
Christian Robinson
Weren't around for OnLive?
Lucas Phillips
>/g/ is full of retards from Yea Forums
>said the /x/-tier retard
Camden Stewart
I was. That spooked me too. Better safe than sorry is what I say.
Aaron Evans
>That spooked me too
so how dumb did you feel afterwards
Josiah Morris
Why does she need condoms?
Carson Anderson
Not at all. Like I said, better safe than sorry. I do feel dumb for not starting to backup stuff then.
Luke Walker
Where?
Levi Nelson
Bottom right. Also some pantsu
Liam Clark
Way ahead of you, OP. I've been doing the same thing for a couple of years now, and my backlog has grown to outrageous proportions. There are some games that I haven't even taken out of their damn box.
I'm slowly making my way through it, but it's hard to not keep coming back to THAT game, you know? The one that you can just boot up and have a blast with it, the roguelike to be more specific.
In any case, I am pretty much covered for the years to come.
I'm a bit concerned about my cartridges though. From what I understand, they all have an expiration date, right?
Carson Hill
idiots
Benjamin Flores
You are a fucking retard if you didn't hoard porn, anime , movies, music, games and mods since the 90's.
A lot of stuff is gone from the accessible to mortals web forever already and it will only get worse from here.
Ryan Powell
you seem pretty based. wWhat games do you run?
Nathaniel Green
I'm not sure about cartridge's and their expiration date, though I've heard varying claims stating they'll die within the next 5 years or in like a thousand. Just keep backups and you'll be fine, I say.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best is right now.
Better late than never.
Austin Kelly
I think you're being to optimistic about a crash happening soon, people are buying more and more games, also emulation makes stockpiling old games pointless
Ryder Rogers
Doesn't help that some stuff is stuck on private trackers or downright never shared. Is anything substantial missing besides maybe some old anime?
Kevin Williams
I'm also planing on scanning any manuals I come across. Not just games. I find a lot of old manuals to be of absolute shit quality so if I can store them so they can be rescanned at a later date then that'd be great.
Also where do you think those dumps of games to be used for emulation are being sourced? I will, for sure, pirate what I can, but I'll be sure to do my fair share back and find some way to contribute to it.
There's thousands of japanese / non NA region games that are just rotting places never being dumped.
Bentley Hill
>Better late than never
Actually, no. You've already missed too much.
Jose James
Then share your stuff, user. I'll be sure to dump my own shit if it's not able to be found.
Samuel Turner
Data he can't have is worthless to him. It may as well have never existed, and there's plenty more content to fill whatever imaginary void you try to impose on others with your exclusive hoard.
Ryan James
Also you need to understand why the first crash even happen, the market was oversaturated with shitty games and consoles and no one was buying, with only 3 consoles on the market and reviews being easily accessible plus social media, another video game crash is really unlikely to happen
Bentley Miller
Why should I share with someone who has less than me?
Christopher White
youtube.com
>Google stadia controller
>Button in the middle of the controller for sharing to youtube
>Another button, also in the middle, for starting google assistant
Ok, I take it back. There is no way this thing will succeed, even if it's google. They have obviously not thought this through enough.
John Scott
>I'm also planing on scanning any manuals I come across
user if all you have is PS3/360 stuff you really aren't contributing.
Xavier Rogers
>roleplaying
yikes
Oliver Morgan
she's a girl, even if she's a disgusting slob she could still find some mongrel that'd fuck her
Daniel Walker
While I admire what you're trying to do, you're jumping on the archival bandwagon a little late like others have said. But at least you'll be good for seeding.
Ethan Wright
NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND
THAT TWO YEAR EVENT IN BURGERLAND DECADES BEFORE I WAS BORN
IT COULD HAPPEN!!!!
Grayson Rivera
I'm not really sure how I'll contribute them. I'll find something I guess.
James Flores
Why would I want to play my games less?
Jackson Thompson
Maybe crash is the wrong word. Maybe "Demise of the Way We Know Games" is more apt.