Thread 717702003

You ARE saving ROMs on multiple drives before the internet's iron curtain hangs down, RIGHT?

Piracy is theft kill yourself

>HDD suddenly started getting really loud 2 days ago
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I should.
Does scumvm count? Legend of Kyrandia. But when I finished the maze, I got so made at the stupid potion puzzle that I raged quit. I hate adventure games that waste your time. I'm not even talking about having stupid puzzles, I mean having tedious stuff like mazes or fetching ingredients for potions.
>>717702105
Sorry for your loss.

Pirates are WHY we're losing a free internet. If they simply followed the law and bought old games on ebay, then there'd be no need to track for criminal activity.

>>717702003 (OP)
You can't run disc games from hdd, must use ssd. Microsturreering on ps2 and up.

>>717702105
If it's not making literal clicking sounds, you've still got time. I'd still place an order for a replacement right fucking now, though.

>>717702223
Not everybody has dogshit HDD from 1996 anon.

>>717702003 (OP)
lads should I use an external ssd for long term storage or just stick to hdds?

>>717702185
>dude just pay scalpers on ebay for a game that may or may not work
Nahh fuck that, practices like that are why ppl would rather just download shit for free

>>717702570
60 dollars is what you'd have paid when the game was out on release. Nobody owes you cheap games. Vidya is an expensive hobby. If you can't afford to buy games, you don't deserve to play them.

>>717702223
Isn't like the floor for hard drive speeds even going back to the 2000s 10x most dvd and cd standards?
Like to the point years of development was spent emulating a DVD's read speeds because PS1/2 games would constantly break on ide hard drives since they were loading faster than expected?

>>717702505
>for long term storage
Magnetic tape drives.

>>717702683
His system obviously is totally fucked and he's just blaming it on hdds.

>>717702570
Poorfag brownoid cope

>>717702643
Ironically if we're pretending IP rights apply in the way you are, the literal entire gray market is completely illegal.

>be me
>a while ago
>have free mcboot ps2, the network adapter, and a clunky old hdd
>go to blockbuster (RIP) and rent games, rip them directly to the hdd
>go to gamestop and buy used games
>rip them to the hdd, return to the store cus it "wasn't working :("
>kept doing this until I had filled up 3 hdds

>>717703119
based

>>717702003 (OP)
nothing, i refuse to download rompacks with a million cloned games, until someone makes a torrent of curated rompacks i wont download anything

Be honest with me bros. Should I opt for a HDD or a SSD? I've heard that SSD's can lose data when unplugged for long periods of time and that HDD does not have to worry about any of that. Which should I buy if my main concern is just storing games for the long run?

>>717703274
Just uncheck the clones when starting the torrent if you're so autistic about it.

>>717702003 (OP)
in 30 years harddrives will be illegal, every file will be in the cloud, all data must exist on audited servers, to protect children ofcourse
already normies today don't know what's local or not with onedrive

>>717703325
if your main worry really is storing data long term you wont get around buying multiple hdds setting them up in the RAID that copies the same shit to several hdds at a time

First time playthrough of pokèmon Black version. I have a few other pokèmon games on the phone as well then playing Breath of fire 3 to finish up the first time playthrough of it that.

>>717703325
dont know but im kind of interested myself(mainly saving old games for years to come)

>>717703325
how long until the actually do rot away when not plugged in?
i heard that it's several years but could be incorrect

>>717703325
I vaguely remember seeing a report from some data center suggesting that SDDs actually live longer than HDDs, at least in their use case.
>SSD's can lose data when unplugged for long periods of time
I mean sure if you're planning on leaving it without power for years then go for HDD I guess, otherwise I wouldn't bother with spinning rust.

>>717703694
i think it depends on if you write new data on it a lot. if you save files on it once and dont delete and save new files all the times, sdds are probably better but you should take what i say with a grain of salt. i am not 100% sure. i read a lot about that stuff but if you dont use the knowledge you forget it after a while. the most important thing i think is to have several sdd or hdd in some kind of nas and run them in RAID 1. this way you are mirroring them and if one of them dies, you still have the others and can replace the dead storage

>>717702345
Mine has been making loud clicks everyday for over 6 years and somehow still going.

Original hardware or bust. Emulation will never, ever, EVER be perfect enough for me. I will not settle.

>>717705171
and so fucking what? how does this have anything to do with what op says?

>>717705318
>>717705171
lmao sorry dude. i didnt read the title. im drunk

>>717702003 (OP)
Currently playing Pokémon Arceus, a bit laggy but fun.

>>717702185
If it weren't for pirates taking the heat it'd be illegal to buy used games by now

>>717702003 (OP)
Unironically yes

>>717702003 (OP)
>before the internet's iron curtain hangs down
Do we have an actual estimate of when this is gonna happen?

>>717705926
judging by the current fuckery going on i dont even give it more than 5 years

Luckily, I've been curating and downloading roms since the early 00s. Many of the roms I have for the GBA were from back then.

>>717702003 (OP)
I have 800gb of ROMs all lined up and saved

>>717707328
>nightfire
based

>>717703325
HDDs will get you more bang for your buck, and are more reliable as far as simple storage goes.

>>717705391
I (>>717705171) am not you.
>>717705318
I dunno, some fag talking about emulation being acceptable? That's the gist I got from OP.

How much time do I have?

>>717702003 (OP)
Got a bunch of roms in an old laptop, the site i used to get roms from doesn't exist anymore.

>>717710393
6

>>717710393
Who knows? That's why you need to get to it.

I'm saving loli hentai.

>>717711308
Better get as much as you can before the anti-porn part of Project 2025 takes effect. Think the block on Pornhub was bad? Wait 'til it huts nhentai, pixiv, and sadpanda

>>717704114
that usually means the read head is hitting the disc. it's insane how tight the tolerances are for hard discs so usually that fails after a bit.

>>717711501
I'll torrent every copy of Comic LO if they take down nhentai

>>717703325
why is it a choice between two things? get one of both, they can serve different purposes and both are nice to have

Can you give me lists of like top 50 essential games for ps2, n64, gba, ds, etc

>>717702003 (OP)
>iron curtain hangs dow
luckily i am not an amerifat, so i will always be able to get whatever i want from the net

>>717703325
Just get SLC drive, 15-20 years ago it was best choice.

>>717711648
That's the spirit, my nig.

>>717703325
You get an SSD for your OS that's around 4TB so you can slap a bunch of games on it, the OS, and anything extra you might want that's not important and you're more than fine. Everything else should be on multiple HDDs. 8TBs are very reasonably priced nowadays and fairly reliable on top of it.

>>717712602
Already did that. I have a 2 TB SSD for my OS and its software and a 1TB internal SSD that im considering replacing for a larger drive. I also have a 4 TB HDD for any games I want to emulate

Over Horizon for the nes. I'm at the last level and I would like to beat it today, but I don't want to keep at it to the point it loses all the fun. So I might switch games soon.

>>717712047
>he still believes countries are still a thing in the west and we aren't ruled by a cabal of bankers and megacorporations

YOU, I want YOU to tell us what games are worth pirating. 95% percent of games are slop and only 5% are worth emulating. Which games should we pirate?

>>717702003 (OP)
Which Switch emulator you guys are using?

>>717714107
Whole Ace Combat series up to 6 (7 is modern and on PC) except X2
Assault Horizon is NOT an Ace Combat game, do not acknowledge its existence

>>717714107
>95% percent of games are slop and only 5% are worth emulating.
You don't preserve just the good, it goes against the spirit of preserving. People need to see the mistakes. Sometimes the bad has redeemable qualities worth being archived.

So /g/ has been telling me to buy one of these things to make sure stuff we save/download/etc actually is backed up. Is there any other way of having a dependable HDD/replacement/anything rather than doing it this way?

>>717702003 (OP)
What adapter do you guys use to make internal into external hdd bros

>>717715432
any hardware can fail. the "dependable" is to have multiple copies. but who the fuck has time for all that

>>717702003 (OP)
Remember not to fall for meme brands like Seagate and stick with the old reliable.

>>717703325
SSDs are for speed, HDDs are for storage

>>717702003 (OP)
Hacked my Wii U to play Pokemon Emerald.
It’s “fun”

>>717702185
>objectively less piracy than 10 years ago
>but NOW all of a sudden it is a problem
if you believe that you are retarded

>>717702505
>SSD
>for long term
if you are excessively rich AND retarded go ahead. HDDs are objectively better for long term storage and this is before talking about price per TB

>>717715508
kek

>>717702003 (OP)
>before the internet's iron curtain hangs down
There will always be repositories for data sharing, the same way there was booze smuggling during prohibition. Online ID won't do shit from being able to use TOR and accessing the part of the internet they don't want you to access. Really, what we have to worry about is the affordability of hardware as materials prices continue to go up in a world with rampant inflation and wealth sucking

>>717716735
>meme brands like Seagate
I've had a single Seagate 500gb HDD for like, 20 years and it's still chugging along by what I can only assume is the grace of the Omnissiah.
That said, WD is still probably better.

What is more reliable and longer lasting than HDDs? Have you guys heard of tape storage? All the tech dorks are now investing in that kek

>>717718736
>Have you guys heard of tape storage
everyone has. But redundancy is king and the read/write speed of tape is fucking comically bad. Last I checked tape was MORE expensive than HDDs so it just simply doesn't make sense to not do RAID setups

>>717718862
which raid level is logical without trying to break the bank? I want to try out Raid 1.

>>717702003 (OP)
Played some split screen pcsx2 with my sister recently
Tony hawk, burnout 3, motorstorm etc
Nice bit of fun

>>717718736
>he doesnt store his data biblically

>>717718978
I haven't brushed up on raid standards in years but RAID 1 should be fine. There is almost always a thread on /g/ you can ask specifics if they don't have a general

>>717702101
No more pirating music, books, software, movies, and especially video games

>>717718736
>Have you guys heard of tape storage?
Nigga i used to load games from tapes, load error, rewind, play, loading error again, press select and start, run self test, play tape again, 30 minutes later i may or may not be playing the shittiest game in the tape because the good ones didnt load no matter what, darkest period in history

>>717702185
The way the world is getting so much worse, I am legitimately more inclined to pirate by the day.

>>717705926
It was fun while it lasted.

>>717702003 (OP)
currently playing Fire Emblem Three Houses in Yuzu and taking a screencap of every single pantyshot.

>mfw people kept calling me a retard for saving porn like 10 years ago telling me its not worth the space when it'll be up forever.
>mfw I still have my stash of shit I started mass downloading after the Waffles.FM, Pornhub and Emuparadise exodus.

>>717719734
Oh thank god someone playing Three Houses
Why did you choose Yuzu in particular instead of other options like Ryujinx?
Cause I'm interested in playing 3 Houses too but I couldn't make much sense of that emulator wiki and what would be ideal.

>>717705926
End of 2026 at the latest. Age verification laws are being passed everywhere with no complaint from the normies.
Looking from the outside, it's a failure cascade of the free internet.
Sign up for your porn, give your id to fuck knows who. Too many kids using Geralt as a facial scan for verification? No one gets to use the internet without slotting in their national ID card to their personal device.
Ironically the gubmint wont give a fuck about the coomers jerking it to loli shit, initially. They'll be focused on thought leaders and whatever nudes of college girls the AI feeds them,.

>>717718736
>click whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr for long-term storage
>snaps
>tape it together and pray it doesn't go near open flame.

>>717720106
I have porn videos saved from 2005 onwards.

>>717702003 (OP)
I downloaded everything I would ever want to play for the rest of my life in 2024. I saw exactly where things were heading a year ago.

Right now I'm emulating a bunch of psx kino
>Silent hill 1
>Klonoa
>Shin Megami Tensei
>Breath of Fire 3
>Xenogears
Life is good, and megacorpo can't take that away from me.

>>717720350
just the first emulator I tried and it worked fine enough, I guess. Maybe it's better in Ryujinx, Bayonetta 2 definitely is.

>>717720846
Oh so it's depending on the game? Alright then that makes me understand more why Switch got such variety to its emulators.

>>717720627
You can fix tape with nail shine but you will lose whatever data was in the part that you glue it over.

>>717718736
They're awesome but the hardware is pricey, but its still probably worth it in the long run knowing how hard drives will eventually fail from acts of god or of old age otherwise.

>>717702003 (OP)
https://youtu.be/Ok3yyYUJOcs
I'd rather pay for my games rather than stealing games that are still being sold to the public

You can say whatever you want, but the fucking internet is slowly being censored. I'd recommend downloading TarTube and downloading whatever videos you want. Vidya games, comics, lewd shit, whatever. The data is precious and still out there and each day that passes is another day that passes. Hell, I might actually fucking invest in the tape storage system. Shit is expensive, but imagine losing your data that you spent so long hoarding

>>717720727
Oldfag

>>717703460
*inhales*
RAID IS NOT USED FOR COLD STORAGE!!!!

>>717711924
look up developers you like and download all of their games

>>717710393
One year until full shut-it-down mode is achieved

>>717723682
Then what is?

>>717718359
I've personally had four or five Seagate drives die on me within a year to two years of ownership including a brand new one as I was transferring my old pictures and data to it. Lost basically my entire 2006-2008 or so 4chan folder along with a bunch of family photos and I'm still miffed about that. The only one that ever survived past that was the 40GB one that came with my PS3.

>>717724360
Just buy two HDDs

>>717720727
>2005
i wasn't even born back then lol

>like 3 people mentioned games they were playing
GRIM

>>717725740
Anime games on PPSSPP.

>>717720975
Switch emulators are entirely based on which looks like it runs the game better, that's basically it. Some things work better on Yuzu, some better on Ryujinx, it's entirely random. There's also some features like being able to trade with unhacked Switches in SWSH which can only be done on Ryujinx I think it was?

>>717707328
fags who call any digitized game "roms" piss me off, it's iso when it's disc based like the majority of what you have here

Bought several external drives, disk drives and CDRW. Got pretty much the entire ps1/2/3 library backed up, same with sega and super nintendo. Going to buy faraday bags and a climate control cabinet on ebay next week for storage. From what I understand external hard drives only last 4-5 years, 10 years under good conditions. So I'm going to have to get on a regular schedule for back ups. But if the internet goes to shit in the next year I should be good. Just gotta stay consistent.

>>717726268
Thanks very much.

>>717702003 (OP)
Yes, I am about to once i hook up my other ssds to this new build and back up things to the hdd as well as an offsite location.

>>717702003 (OP)
>>717726778
The only nintendo hardware I own are my old gamecube and n64 from childhood. Everything is pirated/cracked/etc.

>>717726778
Nice man, just make sure you're also putting stuff on disks. Need to have backups for your backups.

>>717713190
>>717726742
>replying to tripfags
I shiggy diggy.

>>717710393
I'd say about 6-12 months before shit really hits the fan. Start collecting now. If you have to buy new storage you still have some time. But get what you can while the getting is good. Also would be a good idea to go get stuff from used media resellers. Be it books, music, porn, games, consoles, whatever.

>>717705926
In America? Never. It's just a big Chicken Little style song and dance routine about how the sky is falling and the internet is DOOMED only for everything to chug along as usual.

>>717702185
>>717702101
I prefer the term "archivist"

>>717707328
>I have 800gb of ROMs all lined up and saved
Rookie numbers but anything is better than nothing

>>717702003 (OP)
>what games are you emulating ?
>dreamcast : crazy taxi
>switch : zelda botw, smash ultimate
running on linux. It just works

>>717710393
Once the "Block BEARD" law goes into effect which will outright just ban shit like any piracy sites that the corpos don't want you to see.

>>717727250
I hope you're right, but I doubt you are.

>>717727767
>google "blockbeard"
>isps ban foreign sites
just proxy or vpn to the site? like yeah it'll filter normies but it does fuck all against that and torrents?

>3DS
>DS
>Gameboy
>GBA
>Gamecube
>NES
>N64
>PS
>PS2
>SNES
>Wii
>WiiU
>Xbox
>360
I've got what I want for all these systems and I'm really not sure I care enough to bother with any of the others besides than the Switch which is already on my to-do list. I do need to hoard PC games but I'm going to need to buy some more storage before I do that. I went through my porn stash and managed to prune 10TB of slop but that's nothing for a PC game archive. It's tough out here.

>>717702101
>>717702185
>first post

Every time. What the fuck happened to this site.

I played Ridge racer type 4 after seeing a ps2 infographic in a thread the other day
Anyone got it?

>>717728010
I just started on my porn stash. Thousands of magazine scans and I'm still not even at 50gb. Glory to the gods.

>>717728124
First posts are the prime real estate for baits and you fell for it.

>>717728124
4chan famous for not being contrarian retards solely to be inflammatory

After all this time, I still have no fucking clue how MAME shit is supposed to work

They're gonna make data drives a controlled/restricted/tracked item because why would an honest citizen need them when you can just store everything in the cloud?

>>717702105
I have no fucking clue how mine has been alive for so long

>>717702003 (OP)
Symphony of the Night

>>717728243
Whe it comes to arcade games I just fuck around with RetroArch and hope for the best.

>gb/gbc/gba/nes/snes are small as fuck
>psp/ps1 is like 1tb
>ps2 is 2tb
>wii+gc is 2tb
>mame is 1tb
Brehs...

>>717711924
I can give you some ps2. Fuck those other consoles they have no games

Ibara
Dodonpachi daioujou
Metal slug
Outrun 2
Raiden iii
Sega ages 2500
Gradius v
1945
Crazy taxi
Gungrave
Sakura wars
Armored core 3
Nights
Mana khemia
Persona 4
Monster hunter
Xenosaga
Tenchu
Mgs
Skygunner
Global defense force
Ace combat
Armored core
Zone of the enders
Soukou kihei votoms
God hand
Dmc3
Viewtiful joe

>>717728243
You just do it from the cli. But the best way is to use it from pegasuslauncher or emulationstation so you can choose the game easily by gui
If you have the right zip file or whatever it should just werk. Only did two games in there tho, mushi and gn'g

>>717728462
You could just cherry pick, I doubt youll ever play Barbie Horse Adventure 2 on PS2 or any other licensed slop.

>>717728462
Where did you get the mame games? One by one or all in a torrent?

>>717728285
Yeah, get what you can now. Hopefully you die before life begins to really REALLY sucks. Soft people create hard times. All we can do is attempt to survive them. I recommend getting a dry cabinate, temperature controlled. Cheap ones are as low as $150.

>>717727767
>block foreign piracy sites
What if they aren't foreign?

It's tricky sometimes to remember everything you want. Like you probably have all the big name games but then you think "what about that one weird game I rented/played at a friend's house 30 years ago" and can't remember them. Or just games that were on your "I'd like to try this one day" list.

>>717728849
Then you really don't need to be in this thread.

>>717728010
>>717728189
I'm conflicted about hoarding porn since porn addiction is bad and a big undiscussed issue but at the same time I'm worried about everything getting deleted across the net. Better to have and not need I guess

Guys, what are the chances they start coming after Plex servers? Asking for a friend who has 20TB of korean dolphin porn on it

>>717728243
You're supposed to curse the gods for daring to make such a giant diarrhea typhoon of dogshit software that it manages to make RetroArch look appealing.

>>717729032
Just switch to Jellyfin.

>>717729032
Like that one anon said, if they start getting pissy about any data not stored on the cloud then who knows. Not something you should be worrying about currently. If we get to a point where folks are getting raided for their storage then we're probably at a point where there is open warfare in the streets.

>>717727958
>just proxy or vpn to the site?
You wouldn't even need to do that, just don't use default DNS.

>>717716735
Western Digital's quality control has been slipping for the past couple of years. They haven't dipped to Seagate levels of terrible, but it is pretty worrying.

>>717729032
>Plex
Probably next on the chopping block when ID laws are enacted and torrent sites are all taken down or blocked.

>>717729025
People should save their favourites for sure but I think it's far less important than saving books/movies/music/tv shows/games.

>>717702003 (OP)
What is going to happen that's going to prevent piracy?

theoretically whats the best way to preserve old vidya?

>get a seperate NVME for each system
>put NVME inside a air tight storage container full of moisture absorbing packets
>put them in the coldest part of a basement

Already saved what I wanted.

Is there a torrent up anywhere that has everything on hshop or myrient?
>>717702185
nah retards who advertise this shit are why it's dying.

>>717729747
It's just internet piracy, back in the 90's I'd go to my local skatepark to buy bootleg movies, games, porn and music. My assumption is that since we can't share on the internet anymore things will just return to that. Bootlegs at the flea market.

>>717729761
>floods

I want to play spawn in the demon's hand, recommend good dc emulators

>>717729761
Look about climate storage cabinates, people use them to store sensative electronics and devices. But you should also be backing up your data to multiple drives, thumb drives, disks, etc. You'll have to make backups regularly. Don't just let your data sit.

>>717729761
>forgetting to build a faraday cage

I’ve been exploring early jpgs, and I’m currently playing the Ys books 1&2 remake for the turbografx cd and God fucking damn the music is so fucking good. And the voice acting is unreal. I would have never believed that Japanese games had good English dubs before the ps2 era but holy shit here is a game from the early 90s with actual good voice acting. For a jpg. What the fuck.

>>717729747
We're halfway to Agenda 2030 and the elites are ramping up ID verification laws to keep the cattle on the tracks. They won't be able to completely scrub the internet clean but they can make it harder to find and source reliable backups of archives

>>717729585
>I think it's far less important than saving books/movies/music/tv shows/games
any piece of digital media that you enjoy should be saved locally whenever possible. storage is cheaper than ever so there is no need to be making compromises on the matter. vidyas, kinos, pornos, save them all while you still can. the digital dark age is looming ever closer

Do you think any of this is actually gonna happen, are are we just doomsdaying?

>>717730039
You don't need to build one. Amazon sells faraday bags, you can get them for under $20. High quality bags on boxes exist, but if you're on a budget then you have options.

>>717730039
Also build automaton warriors to guard it for 1000s of years.

>>717730135
Yeah, it's happening. Currently.

>>717730135
Let me put it to you this way, fifteen years ago no one would've believed you when you said you were going to need a VPN to bypass ID laws saying you needed to verify yourself to some rabbi admins to jackoff

>>717730135
Little bit of columns A & B at this point, but I mean now that our neighbors across the pond are pretty much not rioting in the street about their debacle it shows they (The Government) can have some semblance of a chance for full control over the interwebs, its still up in the air but knowing corpos theyll throw enough money at it to get it going.

>>717702003 (OP)
I'm playing PMD Red Rescue Team. It's pretty barebones compared to Sky, but it still gets enough things right.

>>717702939
Paypig greenoid arrest

>>717729994
flycast core on retroarch

>>717730079
What's going to prevent sharing on the internet?

>>717730580
Why not flycast standalone? Then you don't have to deal with the Retroarch interface.

>>717730135
It's just doomfags wanting to feel opressed.

>>717705171
>hotline miami jp edition.
what a waste of space

are toshiba hdd's any good? i've been using a couple of them for a few years now

>>717730723
Nothing, but it will make it way harder unless you already have a private tracker or media server going. Pretty much every library of alexandria sized repository on the clear net right now is on a timer

>>717702101
If you shoot yourself in the head you'll go to Hyrule

>>717730135
I don't think it's going to be sudden, it's going to be a series of little changes and selective enforcements until we're stuck in the wage cage. Either way, we've grown complacent in recent years. Downloading stuff you want and keeping it on your own HDDs is how we did things 15-20 years ago, so this is just a return to good practices we gave up. After all, cloud storage isn't a cloud, it's just someone else's computer.

>>717731038
>doesn't know about usenet
>thinks public trackers will go away
>thinks any of this ID stuff applies to general internet use in the first world

I wish there was an easy way to tell the difference between ports/regional versions. I don't need to 12 versions of a game saved but I'd like to be able to know/decide which one is the best to save.

>>717731374
http://redump.org/
The general rule 99.99999999% of the time is:
US>JAP>PAL
There are weird exceptions where one region might have more content, but that's how they do it. There's even 1G1R (one game, one rom) packs that already have it pared down, but watch out for weird retarded ones that go PAL>JAP>USA or shit like that.

>>717730135
Probably a lot of column B but it's better to be safe than sorry.

>>717731038
IRC & dcc are still a thing, if things get really bad.

>>717731290
>>doesn't know about usenet
Lost tech that only 0.00001% of internet users will be willing to use
>thinks public trackers will go away
They won't all get taken down, but enough will and there'll be enough friction to keep people from bothering to bypass restrictions
>thinks any of this ID stuff applies to general internet use in the first world
Even before the ID stuff the internet has generally become unusable. The biggest mistake was letting the third world gain access and subsequently have corpos ruin the ease of use of it. I guess you could also blame zoomers as well for the decline but the point is, the internet isn't as easy to use as it once was before things got real bad.

>>717702185
Yep, it's got nothing to do with all the druggies trading via the net, or governments spying on each other all the time through it, or the fucking pedos/sex trade/people traffickers using the internet to seal deals, and definitely nothing to do with ransomware gangs locking out hospital systems.

It's allllll the pirates fault. Yessir.

>>717730759
>Autism
everytime somebody says the no-no word lol

>>717703325
People are saying m.2/Nvme/SSD lasts x amount of time or "longer then HDD" but it really isn't tested because no ssd has lasted as long as hard drives have. My sata ssd has lasted me 10 years so far but I've only got my nvme a year ago so I can't say. Hard drives on the other hand seem to be indefinite I have a 20 year old one that works fine AND even if it does stop working the data is easily recovered unlike both types of ssd's that lose data forever when they break. My advice is your dumb to not have one but get a sdd for everything else

Also on the topic of ssd's did you know there's actually 2 types of m.2's? Dram ssd's and dramless ssds. Dram sdds are better but can get hotter, they write and read fast where as dramless ssds only read fast

>>717727210
>doomtranny posting

>>717728347
>how mine has been alive for so long
let me guess
you don't seed your torrents 24/7
the brand is either WD or Seagate

>site packed with kino
>has the shittiest and lamest name ever

>>717732229
It's a bad interface, and it's really only good for cores that have no good standalone (like mupen64).
My biggest complaint is how you have to reload the core when you make video changes, which is REALLY annoying for correcting overscan.
>ok, so I'm running this N64 game at 4k
>how many pixels is the overscan, when it's like 40 on my monitor?
>pick a number
>restart core
>it's under
>pick another number
>restart core
>FUCK! it's over
It's bad.

>>717732287
The lifespans are based on the manufacturer's specs for the flash modules. The "Gen5 m.2 nvme" spec might be a lot newer than SATA, but it's not like a modern SATA drive is using 10 year old flash designs. Any drive that's manufactured today is using whatever modules meet the specs they dictate and whether it's a "10 years and still going" or a "6 months and already dead" is largely unrelated to the technology that connects it to the PC.
And funnily enough when HDDs got really reliable it was actually the fancy controller modules in front of the mechanical parts that died. And we do that with SSD too because it's only if you're apple that you put the flash controller into your CPU.

>>717702105
Feel your PC case when it happens. If you can literally feel it when it's reading, try securing it better. It might be coming loose.

>>717732464
we know you're a dumbass, you didn't need to double down

>>717732626
>state facts
>RetroArch shill (likely the GoW guy) is angry

>>717730135
They are going to try but you need to remember that besides high level glowies the government, and corporations, are extremely incompetent.
>bongs do it first in the most mask off way possible and its already a resounding failure that woke up even the most flouridated normalfag to the issue of privacy and censorship
>data hoarders and privacy schizos completely vindicated and now every non-normalfag is becoming one and will be prepared before the EU and US catches up
>casus belli is "we got to protect da children/my brand image", not even an orchatrated terror attack and if they were to do one now after the fact it would be obvious
Honestly I don't even know why they bothered doing this when they are already on track to complete control over everyone's data without the average person noticing. It seems like they are just desperate.

>>717703325
I use external HDDs but internal SSDs

>>717702101
Copyright is theft and the most ardent advocates protecting "their" IP are usually the ones with most derivative content, whereas those who are more lax produce more original content.
Nintendo jumps down everyone's throats about copyright, but Mario is just Popeye optimized for the restrictions on palette and sprite resolution of the original Donkey Kong.

>>717703325
Hoarding data that's easy to find like ROMs (especially when a week from now, some system will have the previous best ROM set fixed somehow) is silly. I hoard porn because I like weird stuff that involves shemales and horses, and I don't know if I can find it again.
Doomers gonna doom.

>>717711924
you can download fullsets for everything up to ps1 and later handhelda without issues

>>717718978
The big problem with plain old RAID 1 is that it doesn't properly protect you against corruption. If something gets silently corrupted due to a bug in something or some random glitch the RAID system has no way of knowing which copy is the correct one.
ZFS mirroring has checksums as part of its metadata so it DOES know.
RAID5 or RAID6 can detect and repair corruption but you're talking 3/4 drive minimums respectively.

An extremely important thing to know is that RAID is for UPTIME, *not* backup. RAID != backup is a meme, yes, but the thing to understand is that if no one is going to care that your data is unavailable for a time while you dig out the backups then RAID is a waste of money, electricity and heat.

>>717727250
Porn sites are already getting blocked in America if you live in a red state.

>>717732915
Most of them grandfather in old accounts. I buy obscure scenes from AEBN, and I reinstalled Windows after the shift. They were talking about wanting ID, but when I logged in, they didn't ask again.

You are converting your iso files to CHD files right anon? You save a lot of space with zero downsides.

https://onionui.github.io/docs/advanced/chdman

>>717732990
Most sets come in CHD these days.

>>717732396
i'm about to kill the torrent client on my server to preserve the life of my drives. i've got enough ratio to get by for a long time

>>717728243
just download roms and load them
i found a good site which has all the latest mame dumps along with bios out of sheer chance so I am set for the present

>>717733067
Seeding shouldn't hurt your drives much, considering it's just reading.

>>717728124
Male loneliness sufferer pretending to be retarded for attention

>>717733134
yeah but it's "just reading" 24/7 because i'm sneeding thousands of torrents. are you really trying to pretend that is not shortening the life of your drives?

>>717733294
Not on the level that writes do. You're likely to replace the drives for larger ones before they fail. My firewall runs off a 40MB Seagate that I've had since the 90s.

>>717733134
>considering it's just reading.
Not only that, but it helps the drive keep the data refreshed. We're storing digital data in a fundamentally analog medium so the drive knows if any data it's reading is marginal in some way and will automatically rewrite or reallocate it without you even knowing. If the drive is idle it'll do this automatically in its own time, but if you're actively reading your important files periodically it speeds up the process while doing something useful.

in particular, I am concerned about the state of both PCSX2 and RPCS3 on Linux vs. Win

>>717702003 (OP)
I'll leave old ROMs to you fags. On my part, I'll be hoarding installers/ISOs of old porn games.

>>717732435
it had a good name before but some autistic chuds started reporting it because one of the uploaders was a tranny

>>717702185
No Nigga, Pirates are a RESPONSE to the censorship of the Internet. Whose fault is that I can't watch an old anime or play a retro videogame without resorting to piracy? If everything was easy and accesible I would gladly play, but you fatasses sit on it like squatters so you leave me no choice, hard gay.

There world isn't black & white, chud.

>>717727250
America would be the first country to go under.
Land of the free my ass.

>>717733485
what was it?

Where do I get full rom sets ?
I know one for psx but cbf looking for others

>>717702101
emulation has nothing to do with piracy you retard, dumping your games and emulating them is totally fair

>>717702003 (OP)
I downloaded like bajillion roms and haven't played even a single one. I think I need to readjust my backup approach and only keep games I already enjoy on my cold storage, there's enough of them to keep me entertained for the rest of my life.

>>717737876
Internet archive.

>>717732828
>I hoard porn because I like weird stuff that involves shemales and horses, and I don't know if I can find it again.

are you me?

>>717738362
Isn't it all offline now like you can't download shit?

>>717733417
What's that archiving program?

>>717739138
Playnite

How is Steam Deck for emulation. Planning to buy cheap dock and play PS2 games on TV sometimes.

>>717702003 (OP)
>what games are you emulating?
mgs1 to 3, im just waiting to find a cable for my ps3 controller because I lost the one i had

>>717739709
>no galarians

>>717739794
I accept recommendations, also never heard of that game

>>717702003 (OP)
I'm unironically saving music and ambient mixes from Youtube.
Dont give a shit about roms.
Will still be able to pirate all the movies/anime/games I want, but Youtube being so accessible for music and losing that is going to suck.
Spotify is just so fucking awful and I'm sick of people pretending like its not.

>>717739894
It's another PSX survival horror. Would have expected to sit it there considering the other games you've got there.

This wave of internet censorship is worrying.

>>717727250
My copium is that I'm secretly hoping you're right. But I know deep down inside of me that this isnt the case this time.
Whats more a more concerning thing that no-one's talking about is how 5 years from now the internet is going to be 90% AI. AI websites, AI assistants in everything, no actual content itll be AI generated on-the-fly to cater to whatever marketing tactic the AI has determined is working most optimally today for the best ads.

Shit's only going to get worse.
And worse part is legally, you cant "not" use the internet in this day and age. You basically HAVE to use it.

Just like someone who uses cash everyone assumes is a drug dealer or lowlife, people look at you funny for saying you dont use the internet or social media.
Whats that? You DONT have an Instagram account and post 5 photos a day telling us what you did? How could you?

This is just society now, and its all our fault for letting normies onto the internet.

>>717730135
I think its better to prepare as if its going to happen, and then have it not happen.
Otherwise we'll all sit by and do nothing and it'll be all gone and it'll be too late to do anything.

>>717702105
Been using one for back up that's been loud for more than a decade. It's still fine.

Nice paperweight:
-Bit rot will destroy your data slowly since you have so much shit on it to notice when the strot stars happening.
-Windows,Mac and linux will scan every single thing you run or own on your pc in the future so you won't be able to use anything you stored.
-Modern hardware will be made impossible to work with older version of linux/windows

Hoarding is a mental disease,stop it and buy your games like a normal person.

>>717731102
>Downloading stuff you want and keeping it on your own HDDs is how we did things 15-20 years ago, so this is just a return to good practices we gave up.
its been coming back in a big way too.
I work in a hotel and everyone (guests, staff, locals) pirates shit now and shares it on external drives and USBs.
And these are extreme normies too, like they wouldnt know where you can even pirate shit on the internet and only just bought their first external drive level of normies.

>>717702105
>bought a WD blue less than an year ago
>works perfectly fine no noise ever
>starts making noise out of nowhere two weeks ago
God fucking damn it I just bought a new monitor I can't afford a replacement for my HDD right now, not here in Brazil

I still think that ssd's are a much better cold storage solution than hdd's.
With ssd's you easily start seeing failure past the first 8 tb.Plus, they degrade slowly. Hdd's are completely random and crap out on you in any given moment.
Also the heat is a huge problem for anything below 15tb.

>>717740732
you're better off saving money to escape that godforsaken hellhole

>>717702101
Converting games you bought to a more robust archive isn't piracy.

>>717720106
>when it'll be up forever.
a vast majority of my old pornhub bookmarked videos are gone now. even videos I bookmarked within the last month are getting nuked. I dont know what the fuck is going on with amateur content (professional porn is garbage, I never watch that) at pornhub but its not reliable for the long term anymore

>>717702101
You don't own games anymore, so it was never a theft from the start.

>>717728124
People forgot to learn how to not fall for bait

What's a good HDD with a capacity of over 10GB and a low failure rate? Budget isn't a problem

>>717702185
Piracy is just a service problem, make a better store or product

>>717702185
Piracy isn't the problem. The problem is retards who brag about playing the latest Zelda game two weeks before its release

>>717742803
WD Ultrastar HC550

>>717705171
I didn't know Thomas was Alone and Overwatch had a CD release. Did you like those two that much? I'm especially confused about Overwatch: now you got a useless CD. I understanding wanting Bloodborne or JSRF as CDs, those are single player games. But what's the point in getting the CD for a game that is multiplayer focused, if it's not the 90s where CDs where the vehicle to play games from?
Which of the xbox games you liked the most? I've a Playstation/Nintendo/PC kid, so I never venture into the Xbox world. I'm curious on your thoughts on the console. I only played JSRF.

>>717742901
Thanks, appreciate it

>>717742803
>What's a good HDD with a capacity of over 10GB and a low failure rate? Budget isn't a problem
None, always buy a backup and hope the primary and the backup don't die.
Brand wise, seagate is selling you garbage and wd is selling you overpriced garbage.

>>717726541
There's a difference? I figure the very act of emulating data on a file makes it a rom.

>>717742832
>Piracy is just a service problem
that's not true in my case, i just don't want to pay. even if you offer me an excellent storefront with perfect customer service and DRM free media sold for a fair and reasonable price i would still pirate it.

>>717702003 (OP)
Robopon 2
Burning Rangers
Pokémon TCG 2
GTA III (dreamcast port)
Baroque
Telefang
Princess Crown
Silhouette Mirage
Solatoro
Magical Knight Rayearth (saturn)
Soul Eater: Monotone Princess
Black Rock Shooter: The Game
Daytona USA
Fate EXTRA + CCC
Tenkai Makyou: Far East of Eden
Cannon Spike
Love & Destroy
Ikaruga
Mamorukun's Curse
Virtual On: Cyber Troopers
Wangan 2000
Burning Casino
Snatcher
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
Medarot Navi
Shaman King - Master of Spirits
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky
Private Eye Doll
Rance
Die Hard Arcade
Armored Core: Formula Front
Parasite Eve
Jet Set Radio
Tekken 3
Megaman Battle Network 5
Cho Aniki
Cleopatra's Fortune
Melty Blood: Act Cadenza
Worms Armaggleddon
Medarot R
Digimon Re:Digitize
Dofonpachi Black Label
Raystorm

>>717742832
I stopped pirating because I realized steam was just easier and more convenient
I still pirate games every now and then, but not nearly as much as I used to

>>717742231
Didn't pornhub go to war on amateur content when visa and mc started doing their thing?

>>717702003 (OP)
>Seagate
same as throwing your roms in the bin.

Where do i get a torrent for old games? I heard there was a pack of vidya that was not even a TB and had all old roms up to ps1 stuff

>>717743000
so just by multiple of the cheapest for redundancy

>>717705171
>playing The Red Star at native
Gross.

>>717743653
>wd shill
knowers will read backblaze reports.

>>717742832
T B H, my standards are so fucking high, that I'll probably be pirating for the rest of my life.

>>717702003 (OP)
>no mentions of Redump and No-Intro in a society collapse thread
Fuck this gay earth.

>>717703274
>>717711924
>>717714107
>YOU, /V/, THE GUYS I CALL NIGGERFAGGOTS FOR THEIR SHITTY OPINIONS ON BIDAILY BASIS, SPOONFEED ME THE GOOD GAMES TO PIRATE BEFORE THE INTERNET GETS LOCKED DOWN FOR ETERNITY

>>717715432
Connect multiple drives to your PC and setup RAID. Don't need some gay ass box.

>>717742803
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2025/
Some are better than others, but all will fail eventually. You'll need multiple drives for redundancy.

>>717744873
Thanks

post links you double niggers

>>717744415
Which lists seagate as the biggest failure, lol.

>>717702101
If buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing.

>>717745873
Had 3tb HDD external that died on me, cracked it open just to see generic Seagate HDD crap inside...

>>717702003 (OP)
Have them all on my R36S.

>>717702101
It has been made official that buying isn't owning, so pirating ain't stealing either.