Hey people! I'm curious, how many of you stick official labels on your disc backups? Do any of you draw on your backups or do many of you either a) just write down the game name or b ) only use USB backups?
Hey people! I'm curious, how many of you stick official labels on your disc backups? Do any of you draw on your backups or do many of you either a) just write down the game name or b ) only use USB backups?
Do people still burn backups of disks?
My latest experience with "burning" backups was with the Dreamcast - I sign those discs with a CD pen and write down the name of the game, its region if it's not a PAL game and the write speed it was burned with (for bugfixing purposes - the Dreamcast was picky about games burned at fast speeds)
For the Wii, I stick them on a USB HDD and make sure that I have the all labels downloaded for them.
For the PS2, I'm sort of "forced" to name the ISO's in a certain way to load them in OPL - REGIONCODE_Release.Number.Name.iso is the only way to go, so they're pretty well-labeled as it is.
For the Gamecube I merely use DiscEX to name them for me and download the labels.
For the PC, I haven't burned a single game in years - nowadays I just use DaemonTools and mount ISO images.
Mind you, I probably wouldn't download labels if it wasn't a built-in feature of the loader - that'd be just more busy work. Burning discs is busy work in my opinion - the necessary evil when the console doesn't accept other loading methods or if it does, but does it poorly.
Of course I do. You do know that it's buggy as hell, it has low compatibility and framerate issues due to the transfer speed of the serial port and requires an SD-to-Serial Port dongle, right?You know, there's a SD loader for the Dreamcast now, right?
Of course I do. You do know that it's buggy as hell, it has low compatibility and framerate issues due to the transfer speed of the serial port and requires an SD-to-Serial Port dongle, right?You know, there's a SD loader for the Dreamcast now, right?
As I said - burning is the method of preference when other methods perform poorly.
Just a few snippets from the compatibility list, games that don't work or have issues are for example Shenmue 2, MDK 2, Crazy Taxi 2, Sonic Adventure 2, The Nomad Soul and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 - meaning a lot of the very best Dreamcast games (and for some reason a lot of them are sequels).Agreed. I never personally tried the SD loader. I was not aware of how buggy it was.
Just a few snippets from the compatibility list, games that don't work or have issues are for example Shenmue 2, MDK 2, Crazy Taxi 2, Sonic Adventure 2, The Nomad Soul and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 - meaning a lot of the very best Dreamcast games (and for some reason a lot of them are sequels).Agreed. I never personally tried the SD loader. I was not aware of how buggy it was.
Additional Question
For those of you who collect disc backups, do you try to "special edition" them by adding things like the game soundtrack or corresponding DVD movie with the game disc?
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Y'know, you could load your PS2 games via SMB - it's highly-compatible, high-speed and it doesn't grind your laser... you should try OPL sometime - you just might love it.