The only time I hear anyone talk about disc rot like it's a big serious problem is when someone is trying to make a case for digital distribution being superior.
I can't really remember who wrote it (Might've been Forbes or Polygon?), but I once read an article that opened with a paragraph claiming that disc rot was an inevitability that will happen to every CD, DVD, or Blu-ray printed game. Followed by a list of bullet points praising digital distribution.
I feel old when talking to anyone my age yet too inexperienced to effectively talk to anyone older. Life is grand that way.
MrEco wrote:The only time I hear anyone talk about disc rot like it's a big serious problem is when someone is trying to make a case for digital distribution being superior.
I can't really remember who wrote it (Might've been Forbes or Polygon?), but I once read an article that opened with a paragraph claiming that disc rot was an inevitability that will happen to every CD, DVD, or Blu-ray printed game.
According to thermodynamics, this is technically true. In the same sense that you and I will inevitably die someday. Entropy will eventually set into everything in the universe given enough time. It's just not productive to waste time worrying about it. There's a good chance those game discs may outlive you and I after all.
MrEco wrote:I once read an article that opened with a paragraph claiming that disc rot was an inevitability that will happen to every CD, DVD, or Blu-ray printed game.
Is a thousand years long enough to make you feel comfortable? If so we could all switch to M-Disc:
MrEco wrote:I once read an article that opened with a paragraph claiming that disc rot was an inevitability that will happen to every CD, DVD, or Blu-ray printed game.
Is a thousand years long enough to make you feel comfortable? If so we could all switch to M-Disc:
I'd be too hesitant to ever burn an M-DISC. I'd double-check that every file name on the disc was perfect and each file was in the proper folder because the archivist in my brain is screaming to me that a future archaeologist will dig up this M-DISC someday and find my typos.
MrEco wrote:The only time I hear anyone talk about disc rot like it's a big serious problem is when someone is trying to make a case for digital distribution being superior.
I can't really remember who wrote it (Might've been Forbes or Polygon?), but I once read an article that opened with a paragraph claiming that disc rot was an inevitability that will happen to every CD, DVD, or Blu-ray printed game. Followed by a list of bullet points praising digital distribution.
Was it written by the same guys who claimed we must abandon our godly cargo shorts for skin-tight testicle-destroyers?
MrEco wrote:The only time I hear anyone talk about disc rot like it's a big serious problem is when someone is trying to make a case for digital distribution being superior.
I can't really remember who wrote it (Might've been Forbes or Polygon?), but I once read an article that opened with a paragraph claiming that disc rot was an inevitability that will happen to every CD, DVD, or Blu-ray printed game. Followed by a list of bullet points praising digital distribution.
Was it written by the same guys who claimed we must abandon our godly cargo shorts for skin-tight testicle-destroyers?
Once you work in education, you realize that destroying testicles and reducing the fertility of some guys isn't necessarily a bad thing...
Shows how old I am- thought this thread was about floppy disks! I did get a very inexspensive cd re-laquering machine from Maplin, an electronics store here in the UK. Works ok on scratched CDs but haven't tried games yet. My knowledge of CDs is that they should last 80 years at least if looked after.
Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.
Kaneda wrote:Shows how old I am- thought this thread was about floppy disks! I did get a very inexspensive cd re-laquering machine from Maplin, an electronics store here in the UK. Works ok on scratched CDs but haven't tried games yet. My knowledge of CDs is that they should last 80 years at least if looked after.
Longer if you regularly sacrifice vestal virgins to Cthulhu in exchange for his protection.
J T wrote:It's not a bad idea to keep an ISO backup of your favorite PS1 games.
Actually, it is!
You don't want to use the ISO image format to backup PS1 games. As a general rule, if it's a DVD make an ISO and if it's a CD make a BIN image. For the PS1 specifically though, you want to use the CCD image format (SlySoft's Clone CD software) because of the copy protection that some PS1 games have.
I know what you mean though. I've been slowly backing up all of my PS1 games (not that I own that many) starting with the more expensive and favorites. Most of my PS1 games I bought brand new, and I took care of them, but I'm taking the "better safe than sorry" route. With the prices some of these games go for these days, I'd rather just burn my own backup rather than having to purchase a replacement!
