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Huh, what are they doing different than me? I used to burn cheap CD-Rs, they worked, and play them on my 3DO all the time. I'm not sure I ever actually bought
by tombert 3y ago
Huh, what are they doing different than me? I used to burn cheap CD-Rs, they worked, and play them on my 3DO all the time. I'm not sure I ever actually bought any games for it (I got it in 2007). I never had any issue playing the games I burned. I don't have a 3DO anymore or I'd try it now.
I still think it's low-effort crap, and burned CDs and DVDs don't last forever. My dad used to burn lots of DVDs of home movies and there's been a lot of disc rot that's ruined some of them [1]. If I had paid $60 for Plumbers Don't Wear Ties and it turns to a coaster in six years, I'd be pretty pissed. At that point, I could pretty easily just torrent an ISO and burn it myself for like twenty cents.
[1] Fortunately my dad was sort of nuts about burning like five copies of every DVD he made, so we haven't lost much and most of the stuff has been backed up on more durable sources now.
- rvnx 3y agoA solution to take advantage of that could have been to say: "Each disk has been individually burned and manually numbered by our staff", turning a lower quality item into a collectible (which seemed the main goal rather than physical preservation)
- xwolfi 3y agoI was also surprised when I noticed all my dreamcast backups were completely rotten - I thought discs were meant to last forever... Instead now I have an active 50TB NAS with disk swapping once in a while... but it's not at all "durable" the way I thought things should be when I was younger... it's actively monitored instead.
- tombert 3y agoI believe the issue is that the dye that is used to burn the disc starts to degrade, especially on cheaper discs. I think pressed CDs can last a lot longer because of this fact, since that's actual physical pits and grooves. I am pretty convinced that there simply doesn't really exist consumer-writable data that you don't have to babysit.
- theshrike79 3y agoThere are (or at least used to be) "archive grade" CD-Rs, which were more expensive and used some kind of different chemistry for the surface.