We need emulators, roms and backups more then ever before.
With the beef between pirate software vS stop killing games ramping up now more than ever we need game preservation.

Every gamer needs 15TB of space for every iso and rom ever made.

Fuck Thor

https://youtu.be/1bu4imMurjw

>>713742896 (OP)
3/4 of games are not worth salvaging, especially when it comes to the modern AAA shit from the past 15 or so years.

But yes, I've been saying this for many years now:
if you see, read, hear, watch or play something cool, moving, or important, be it online or not, instantly save it to your own private storage, the best you can. Chances are, tomorrow it will be gone, and its memory will quickly fade.

>>713743497
what the fuck did this guy even do in blizzard? wasn't he just some WoW moderator?

>>713743748
facts dont matter once youve built a parasocial army

>>713743748
Quality Assurance
basically video game janitor

>>713742896 (OP)
stop posting this ugly tranny damn

>>713744234
>pirate software was a literal B*izzard janny
Hilarious

I am legitimately interested in hoarding roms and isos but haven't done my homework on making it a reality. What's a cost effective way to get the sort of storage space needed? Are there cost effective/well regarded Synology alternatives for making the files accessible on a home network?

>>713745101
>ugly tranny is a janny
EVERY SINGLE TIME LOL

>>713745806
Go ask /g/ man this is /v/

>>713745806
A regular hard drive is all you really need as the older games up until seventh gen and eighth gen don't really need ssd

there's nothing wrong with nepotism

>>713746405
there's everything wrong with being a nepobaby and pretending otherwise

>>713742896 (OP)
His transition isn't going very well at all

>>713745806
depends what you are hoarding. my collection of roms from the gameboy era up to the ps2/xbox era is only around 1TB. admittedly i am not obsessively hoarding absolutely everything, i am not archiving for the sake of communal preservation, i am just hoarding things i may like to revisit in the future. so really you do not need much space at all for the retro systems unless you plan on hoarding every single slop game that has ever been released.

cost effective storage? to hoard retro games you could easily just throw an extra hdd in your pc for collecting roms as you find them and buy an external drive you keep as cold storage to periodically back up your collection to. simple and cheap. you can also share the drive in your PC as a network location if needed. but do you even need to share your rom collection on your home network? if you're setting up a retroarch or batocera machine i am pretty sure you need to load the roms onto that machine's local storage for it to work anyway so setting up a network share is a bit pointless unless you really feel the need to monitor your rom archive on your phone while you're taking a shit.

if you do decide to shop for a NAS check what kind of RAID options they offer. some of them will allow you to add new drives as you go but some of them will require you to buy all your HDDs up front and install them all at the start which might cost you hundreds or even thousands up front if you have to buy 4-6 high capacity drives, you may prefer to add them periodically over a couple of years to spread the cost out.

>>713746294
>A regular hard drive is all you really need as the older games up until seventh gen and eighth gen don't really need ssd
I'm pretty sure I'd quickly blow through a couple TB before getting very far into Gen 7. I ran out of space on what I have before I even reached the end of the PS1 library. North American releases and translated Japanese-only PS1 games require about a full 1TB, and I expect that I'd require a couple more TB each for PS2 and GameCube. It'd only balloon from there. I think the PS3 isos I have are 10GB+ each.

>Fuck Thor
His furfag ass would probably want that

>>713749073
What I have now are primarily games I was interested in trying or previously enjoyed, but I feel like preservation and availability is being slowly eroded so I want to start archiving more. I'd hate to learn about a neat game I want familiar with and not have access to it.

The network storage idea wasn't thought out especially thoroughly, but there were a couple of things I thought it might resolve. First, space efficiency. I expect that archiving would require several HDDs. Rather than getting a larger tower for my main PC (I was considering going SFF for my next build), I'd be able to fit a small NAS into my makeshift network closet. The option to slot in new drives as needed would be nice, especially if I'm getting redundant drives for a raid setup. Presumably that's be more power efficient to leave on, so it'd be an easy on demand means of accessing those files from whichever system I wanted to play on (main PC, Deck, etc.).
If external drive(s) are big enough these days, I could probably network share that through my router though. Like I said, I hadn't done any homework. This thread just reminded me of that. Those are much bigger and cost effective than the last time I checked.

>>713742896 (OP)
Nah, all we have to do Is to send money to IgG games and invest in rutracker

At the end of the day 1st world pirates Will be Sent to prison

>>713742896 (OP)
Gimme the QRD on this "voice changer" claim? Sounds like such a zoomer/tranny kind of insult. Don't they know your voice sounds different on different mics, situations, presets, etc?

Dudes with long hair and no beard give off a weird vibe

>>713742896 (OP)
This dumb fuck is out here buying subs. I caught him doing this earlier today, and then manged to catch it in a recording. It'll happen again I bet

>>713751619
>SFF for my next build
>fit a small NAS into my makeshift network closet
>Presumably that's be more power efficient to leave on
that's all true but once you're done paying the SFF tax and buying a NAS box, any perceived energy cost savings will be completely eroded by those upfront costs vs. just buying a tower case with enough HDD slots in it. do what works for you but even if you're a europoor or australian getting assraped by power bills it would probably take many years for those energy cost savings to break even. and i don't know about you buy my main PC is on most of the time anyway just for convenience.

>RAID
yes, that is the real selling point of the NAS boxes. they run an OS that makes setting up a RAID array very simple for people who don't know how to do it manually. they have nice setup wizards and anyone can do it, you're just paying for convenience if you go this route.

storage is cheaper than ever before however if you're going to be archiving modern AAA titles the sheer size of those files kind of negates how cheap storage is these days lol. but for retro shit i bet you could have more storage than you could ever need by getting 2 10TB drives and running them in RAID for redundancy and having an external cold backup.

/g/ has some good threads you might find useful, /hsg/ will give you some ideas about DIY options, even if you don't want to DIY there's probably some good info in there for you about storage and backups in general

>>713746405
It's only okay when it benefits ME actually.

>>713742896 (OP)
He looks like a member of an early 90s thrash metal band... but hes really just a faggy streamer on youtube who talks about video games.

>>713742896 (OP)
Im on piracy since last games are full shit for troonies and horrible developed.

>>713752865
Oh what the fuck, that's blatant as fuck.

>>713742896 (OP)
>pirate software
>is one of the biggest corporate bootlickers you'll ever see
that explains why rivals 2 is so ass at least

Why did all of these big Youtubers wait until the end to make their videos, useless cunts the lot of them.

Except Louis Rossmann, good guy.

>>713753845
Because dramaslop sells. It's unfortunate but that's the modern internet.
Also based Louis Rossman. Right to Repair is also a based movement to get behind.

>>713753315
really don't get why they decided to go 3D when the workshop in the first one is like 80% of the appeal of this game and that doesn't work in 3D

>>713753957
Yeah but the initial drama with the roach was ten months ago, as far as I can remember none of them said anything back then.

>>713754159
If I had to guess it's because Ross didn't fire back so there wasn't a "drama". Now that he has, the vultures came to play.

>>713753845
Assume its because Ross actually reacted to the videos directly which most brainrotted retards need in order to consume content.

>>713754036
they fell for the esports meme, yet another game that tries to be the next smash

>EU petition deadline hits
>Thor comes clean saying he was being deliberately retarded to create drama so that the initiative would hit the finish line
This man has no shame, i wholeheartedly believe he might resort to this.

>>713742896 (OP)
Does that tranny call himself thor

>>713743748
He worked on the program security team, meaning he worked on one or more games anti-cheat systems.

>>713742896 (OP)
>adding client config to swap to a different host server and releasing documentation for said server (not even the code, autists will reverse engineer it inside of a month) is so foreign to him that he assumes this means the end of online games.
There is no fucking way this fraud has anywhere near the game dev experience he claims he does.

>>713752997
The power cost thing is a non issue, that's mostly a convenience factor. Good to know there's a dedicated thread, I'll lurk and get an idea of what options are out there.

piratesoftware in everyway is a fraud down to the fake voice changer. Does he really think that working at blizzard is an impressive accolade especially how shit they are?

Thor won

>>713757841
once you have network storage setup you can also run your own media server very easily too which is nice.

i don't know who this girly man is

>>713742896 (OP)
Luckly I was the one who got the pokemon rentry down and pushed for publishers to permanently take the remnants of their defunct online game files off the web so they couldn't be poached by... game preservationist, disgusting.
No one will bring back Dynasty Warriors Online, mark my words.

Has anyone mentioned the DMCA sent to some indie game dev who added a roach with a witch hat to his game? lol

>>713742896 (OP)
I never knew this buy before the SKG thing, but he seems like a cunt and a dumb ass.
>The text is too vague, because absolutely nowhere does it state that it's specifically about this thing I just made up out of nowhere!
Like holy shit what a fucking idiot. And I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt by assuming he might just be an idiot, because if he's only pretending then that's even worse.

>>713742896 (OP)
Why does he hate the letter "m" ?

Reminder this guy was crying that his favorite game is shutting with no way to keep playing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCtVOrd_iHA

>>713759426
>m is the new n word
WASSUP MY MANA GEM

>>713759542

>>713759426
melon

>>713752865
thats some spicy evidence. You should post this around to get some attention put on it.
It only highlights how much of a fucking fraud this dude is.

>>713759692
>minions in overlay chat
This is a Minions thread now

>Sign my fucking petition

>>713745806
i have a big collection too but i just deal with it and try to buy big hard drives. compression formats especially for like ps1 you can convert it to chd or pbp for multi disk that sort of thing i find helps a lot and most emulators can run them straight like that and if you gota you can unconvert them you can too. im pretty sure you can convert dreamcast to chd too if anyone else knows please let me know thank you

>>713752865
You should post this on reddit, not even joking, those fuckers will post this everywhere, ist the only thing they are useful for

>>713743748
In the wow credits he's labeled as an additional tester. Aka the friends/family giving some early access for some feedback and not the bug test crew.

>>713752865
I knew something was already off when he got quickly "famous" out-of-nowhere. But now he's not even hiding it anymore... Just look at the Twitch Tracker and see how odd the average viewer count is from his past broadcasts (from the beginning).

>>713752865
that's normal for night media members

>>713743359
>if you see, read, hear, watch or play something cool, moving, or important, be it online or not, instantly save it to your own private storage, the best you can. Chances are, tomorrow it will be gone, and its memory will quickly fade.
This.

I learnt my lesson when one my harddrive with 10+ years of historic FFXI catgirl doujins died and now almost all of them are impossible to find on the internet now.
I save every meme, song, movie, anime, youtube clip and video game that I like on multiple hard drives now.

In general its nice when the town's internet just shits the bed for a day or two and i'm able to still play music, while normies look at me saying "BRO how the fuck are you still playing spotify?"

>>713742896 (OP)
I don't know who this guy is still.

>>713752865
no wonder his crappy videos and youtube shorts have flooded the youtube homepage and search results. he probably used his daddy's cash to buy the viewbots and likes so he could get famous lol

>>713752865
I do wonder if YT adds batches of subs to the count like they do with views.
But if he's actually buying subs it'd be absolutely hilarious.

The hate campaign towards Pirate is living proof that the World of Warcraft community is a cancer that should be excised from the internet.

>>713761063
Basically a tech grifter.
He also uses walkthroughs for games and then pretends he figured it all out.

>>713761414
Considering you can see the sub count tick down in real time I don't think so.

>>713745806
For consoles like the nes or snes you can get cartridges that are built with memory card slots and the the games are so small you can keep basically the entire libraries on there if you want to and instantly load up any old game on og hardware.

>>713759769
top kek

>>713761480
>hate campaign
He did all of this to himself.

>>713743748
he removed skeletons from the map so that chinese players could play it. No I'm not fucking kidding.

>>713742896 (OP)
Kill games, furfag won. Cope, seethe & dilate.

I just like bullying people on the internet desu

Eceleb threads are against the rules

>>713743748
Fetched coffee and talked down to others.

>>713762237
It's not OUR fault they want to self-insert into every online issue that we would like to talk about on this board. Maybe the mods should go blow up their computers.

>>713762161
I use 4chan since I'm into that and everyone always plays into it to a tee.

>>713742896 (OP)
>beef between pirate software vS stop killing games
Very quick qrd? How is the one person prominent against the stop killing games movement?

>>713762309
Sorry but this board is supposed to be about video games, not eceleb discord shill campaigns. A mod will be here soon to delete the thread.

>>713742896 (OP)
narcissistic Industry plant nepo baby

oh look at me i am an amazing dev who has zero knowledge of the gaming industry and think i know what i'm talking about.

my game? oh it's coming out eventually even though i haven't touched it in 8 years

>>713762434

>Eceleb thread posted
>someone says "hey can I get a quick QRD"
>gets 5 identical replies
wow this has happened in every thread made about SKG for the last 2 days, it's almost like it's a coordinated shill campaign

>>713762434
it's videogames related retard just because its not about a game doesn't mean its not suppose to be on here.

>>713762556
>dumb retard posting a complaint like a retard about gaming drama that they think shouldn't belong here

>>713762434
fuck off faggot there are dozens of other threads, you don't need to be here BITCH

>>713762556
Your post is the only one ITT which contains "QRD" and has any replies. The others have zero.
Moreover the only posts after OP that have 5 or more replies are >>713743748 (off-topic but all the replies are completely different) >>713745806 asking about data hoarding (on-topic and all the replies are completely different), and >>713752865 (not asking for a QRD on anything).

>>713762434
Waaah i don't like this one thread out of thousands becuase it doesn't match my views waah

>>713762556
where were you useless niggers when Billy threads were being spammed 24/7? At least these thread are for a good reason.

>>713763019
for fucking real, lmao. Where do they come from?

>>713742896 (OP)
https://voca.ro/1aglKB2asVFk

>>713751619
>>713752997
I live in a poor country and with inflation plus the exchange rate, archiving isn't achievable for me thus my only option is for games to be stored on servers and whenever I want to play them I would download them from those piracy sites. I understand that there's a real risk of those games disappearing but I don't have options. An example about the economical situation in my country is, a Honda Civic is considered an entry-level car in the USA, here it's a status for the upper-middle class. So imagine purchasing HDDs.

We need to rescue those poor ferrets. from the ferret fucker

>>713763019
Billy is a video game champion and legend. These threads are about some grimy shut in American spamming links to an EU petition begging for government regulation. The latter is not vidya.

>>713762556
wannabe jantran

>>713762556
Can you fucking answer my question then?

>>713763019
You mean the troons that infest this site that Hiroshimoot lets run around freely because he doesn't give two fucking shits about this place actively interfere and try to ruin discussion about pro-consumer topics.

Say it ain't sooooooo....

>>713763352
yeah 713762556 answer their fucking question

>>713762237
>>713762556
>WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

>Even fenceshitter Charlie is shitting on him
It's unironically over for the ferret man

>>713765019
>>Even fenceshitter Charlie
The guy who says that kids should cut their dicks off and that Billy Mitchell is an evil man is a fencesitter? Seems like a loser that gets constantly mogged to me.

>>713763019
Billy is based and don't ever bad mouth the King of Kong ever again.

>>713742896 (OP)
/v/ does a great job of making losers even more well known
I wouldn't have ever heard of this faggot or the other 10 literal who internet celebrities you all claim to hate if you didn't post them here constantly

>>713752865
kek what a fucking little bitch
please get this to spread to the point that no one will ever care for this douche ever again

>>713765549
Great news, no one knows who you are and you're forgotten forever when you hit the grave.

>>713765407
Milly Bitchel is petty as fuck and has a track record of screwing people over to boot. Karl Jobst being a giant faggot doesn't change that.
Also he never disproved him being a cheater.

Why are you acting like he is some holy cow?

>>713753315
What does he have to do with Rivals?

>>713765929
He's a "holy cow" because of Karl. You can thank Karl for ascending Billy to a a demi status.

>>713765929
You should go back to trannyfarms to your daddy clopper moon. Karl and Josh are both niggers because they're just trying to not pay up what they owe. Tell broke dick janny jewsh to pay $5k to Ralph.

Thor won

>>713765407
Charlie is one of the most milquetoast streamers out there. He's not a drama ragebait channel, he only starts shit with people that are demonstrably being dicks to the point where it's unambiguous. For Charlie to have that ferret fag as a topic of TWO of his videos means that even for normalfags, the ferretfucker slipping into the role of a lolcow. There's no coming back from that, no matter how many of your own subs you buy.

>>713752865
as much as I dislike maldavius fagtree, this could easily be a false flag

>>713766269
Ok Ralphamale

>>713766606
Okay gay pedophile.

>>713742896 (OP)
Worth it.
I also told him that his games belong on a flash games website, and that his games were less memorable and fun than classic flash games.

>>713765418
You're brow lmao.

>>713742896 (OP)
Reminder to download everything. Eventually, Nintendo will come for your (You)r favorite ROM site

>>713746405
theres a problem with being a narcissist who cant admit when they are wrong.

>>713765407
oh yea that guy that has a few opinions that /v/trannies Don't approve? yea he's so much more worse than the sue happy retard that literally has nothing better going on his life besides some shitty fake record 2 decades ago!

>>713766739
All of Nintendo's catalogue is already backed up on thousands of chinese knockoff "5000 in 1" game consoles. You can get one off amazon for like $100.

>>713766656
>Suuuuueeeeyyy

who's a good pill popping piggy?

>>713766837
>kids should cut their dick off
:)
>sues an aussie faggot that accuses him of murder
:(

hmm now why would he be against the handing over of live service games to fans once the game is End od Service could it be becuase he is a led developer of offbrand games who make live service games.

>>713766683
based

>>713763112
That doesn't sound like him, and it talks too slowly

>>713767023
Who's a lolicon chomo living on a couch in his anime dungeon?

>>713766683
kek

>>713742896 (OP)
>for every iso and rom ever made
99% slop i don't care about.

>>713766683
lol thats funny

>>713743359
>its memory will quickly fade
This doesn't happen though. If something was truly moving and cool, you'll remember it forever. If you forget about it, it wasn't memorable in the first place.

>>713766683
lmao I would try to appeal that to see if Steam Support would actually unban you

>Look up anyone talking about Stop Killing Games
>They are watching Cr1tikal's video rather than Ross' original
Eh fuck it, views are views but that rubs me the wrong way.

>>713767601
Ross unfortunately has no charisma. If he wanted public support he should have recognized his limits and reached out to e-celebs sooner.

>>713767535
you know what anon i'll join in on the fun lets go for a ban speedrun i'm going to guess its gonna take me 10 minutes.

>>713767154
is this jim's gooncave?