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| oldgamerz:
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on September 11, 2022, 11:51:24 am ---I honestly don't have a preference, however I guess I'll say cartridges since they are more damage resistant and have consistently withstood he test of time better than CDs. Especially early CD based games which are now falling victim of disc rot on a pretty widespread basis. I pray this doesn't happen to games released more around the mid to late 90s which is when most of my disc based games were made. --- End quote --- yes that is why I prefer Cartridges rather than CD's because of Disc Rot, technically a video game on an SD card would almost never rot anytime soon unlike a CD DVD or Bluray disc What about SEGA CD and SEGA Saturn games? what if someone made then on an SD card and re-released them today, because as far as I know it's almost impossible to explore those old games due to price and rarity. the market is pretty much out of SEGA Dreamcast exclusives and SEGA Dreamcast consoles as far as I know to and SEGA Saturn Exclusives. And what about Philips CDI games? And even though there is a ton more out their? what about PS1 PS2 and Xbox Original games and GameCube Exclusives? And if we are talking modern video games they do have 64GB and higher SD cards on the market that probably cost the same to make as a 4-5GB SD card The problem might be that video game companies would need to actually finish the game before releasing in which may require a larger group of testing staff, but that had no effect on video game companies in the old days other then maybe needing to pay more money on production costs due to having more people work on the game during development. SD cards are like little tiny harddrives only they have to cost less to make in the factory it's just logical |
| bikingjahuty:
--- Quote from: oldgamerz on September 11, 2022, 04:14:00 pm --- --- Quote from: bikingjahuty on September 11, 2022, 11:51:24 am ---I honestly don't have a preference, however I guess I'll say cartridges since they are more damage resistant and have consistently withstood he test of time better than CDs. Especially early CD based games which are now falling victim of disc rot on a pretty widespread basis. I pray this doesn't happen to games released more around the mid to late 90s which is when most of my disc based games were made. --- End quote --- yes that is why I prefer Cartridges rather than CD's because of Disc Rot, technically a video game on an SD card would almost never rot anytime soon unlike a CD DVD or Bluray disc What about SEGA CD and SEGA Saturn games? what if someone made then on an SD card and re-released them today, because as far as I know it's almost impossible to explore those old games due to price and rarity. the market is pretty much out of SEGA Dreamcast exclusives and SEGA Dreamcast consoles as far as I know to and SEGA Saturn Exclusives. And what about Philips CDI games? And even though there is a ton more out their? what about PS1 PS2 and Xbox Original games and GameCube Exclusives? And if we are talking modern video games they do have 64GB and higher SD cards on the market that probably cost the same to make as a 4-5GB SD card The problem might be that video game companies would need to actually finish the game before releasing in which may require a larger group of testing staff, but that had no effect on video game companies in the old days other then maybe needing to pay more money on production costs due to having more people work on the game during development. SD cards are like little tiny harddrives only they have to cost less to make in the factory it's just logical --- End quote --- To my understanding Sega CD, 3DO, CDi, Amiga 32CD, and several other early 90s CD consoles are the most prone to disc rot due to the manufacturing process that was used to make them. And they do have a way of playiing some of these consoles off an SD card via flash carts and Optical Disk Emulators (ODE). Outside the hardcore collecting crowd, flash carts and ODEs are the way these older CD consoles are going to be preserved best. |
| Warmsignal:
I theorize that people just mistake how delicate some discs can be, and how damaged discs can continue to deteriorate. Perhaps some of the early ones are more prone to damage, rather than total self-destruction. Some games pressed to bluray disc, such as PS3/PS4 are fairly easy to ruin, if you scratch the label side and it chips away a bit of the reflective layer. But hey, what are "backups" for anyway? You own the game? Burn a copy just in case. |
| telekill:
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on September 11, 2022, 07:36:10 pm --- --- Quote from: oldgamerz on September 11, 2022, 04:14:00 pm --- --- Quote from: bikingjahuty on September 11, 2022, 11:51:24 am ---I honestly don't have a preference, however I guess I'll say cartridges since they are more damage resistant and have consistently withstood he test of time better than CDs. Especially early CD based games which are now falling victim of disc rot on a pretty widespread basis. I pray this doesn't happen to games released more around the mid to late 90s which is when most of my disc based games were made. --- End quote --- yes that is why I prefer Cartridges rather than CD's because of Disc Rot, technically a video game on an SD card would almost never rot anytime soon unlike a CD DVD or Bluray disc What about SEGA CD and SEGA Saturn games? what if someone made then on an SD card and re-released them today, because as far as I know it's almost impossible to explore those old games due to price and rarity. the market is pretty much out of SEGA Dreamcast exclusives and SEGA Dreamcast consoles as far as I know to and SEGA Saturn Exclusives. And what about Philips CDI games? And even though there is a ton more out their? what about PS1 PS2 and Xbox Original games and GameCube Exclusives? And if we are talking modern video games they do have 64GB and higher SD cards on the market that probably cost the same to make as a 4-5GB SD card The problem might be that video game companies would need to actually finish the game before releasing in which may require a larger group of testing staff, but that had no effect on video game companies in the old days other then maybe needing to pay more money on production costs due to having more people work on the game during development. SD cards are like little tiny harddrives only they have to cost less to make in the factory it's just logical --- End quote --- To my understanding Sega CD, 3DO, CDi, Amiga 32CD, and several other early 90s CD consoles are the most prone to disc rot due to the manufacturing process that was used to make them. And they do have a way of playiing some of these consoles off an SD card via flash carts and Optical Disk Emulators (ODE). Outside the hardcore collecting crowd, flash carts and ODEs are the way these older CD consoles are going to be preserved best. --- End quote --- There is. I have a Retro Pi console that has Sega CD and PS1 games on it that play very well. All the games are stored on a micro SD card. So it's more than possible. |
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