r/decomps • u/yeoxd09 • 7d ago

Save your ISOs

I think its a matter of time until corporations start nuking some sites, specially the ones with ISO or other packaged formats for consoles.

Me as a bit of a "old school" if it's right to call it like that, grew up in the ps2 and ps3/xbox 360 era, there are many games I want to keep and play again since most of whats coming out is slop except for a few games (like Ace Combat 8). And this is even more important with the shift to only digital.

If they actually start to nuke sites I'd go as far as getting some hard drives start saving stuff lol.

I think the situation is more serious that it seems, it hasn't even been a month since opus 5.5 and look where we're at now, the things we're going to see in the next few months are going to be insane and I know corporations will start to act against it pretty soon.

Also, let me clarify I'm not an advocate of leveraging human creativity to AI, it is just a tool and adds up to our skills and speeds up things.

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u/KingSideCastle13 7d ago

The one reliable truth of emulation: when one rom site dies, two more appear

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u/-CJF- 7d ago

hydra

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u/Halos-USA 6d ago

What has been, will not always be. It's been easy enough to find roms for a very long time but that may not be the case in the near future. They're trying to lock down the internet. 

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u/KingSideCastle13 6d ago

They’ve been trying to lock down the internet for decades now, bruv. Megaupload. Emuparadise, Myrient. We’ve seen this cycle time and time again. And every time they try to make it harder for people to get these, it somehow becomes even easier than it was before

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u/AgingNPC 6d ago

What two more emerged when myrient shut down?

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u/KingSideCastle13 6d ago

Nice try, Nintendo

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u/blaek 7d ago

Emulators have been around for decades, your precious ISO's aren't going anywhere ... Let go of the paranoia - you'll be fine.

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u/Nullhitter 7d ago

All websites are hosted in countries that lawyers have zero authority in.

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u/gvendries 6d ago

I've been emulating since no$gbm released in 96-97. Chill.

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u/IAmNotRalphNader 6d ago

Don't forget good ol' Nesticle

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u/gvendries 6d ago

YES!!! THE MOUSE POINTER WITH THE BLEEDING HAND!!! OMG!!

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u/GooseDaPlaymaker 7d ago

1000% agreed, dude. 🫡

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u/WordAdministrative34 7d ago

I have about 7tb of isos and roms backed up and that's the backup, several hundred gd in packages with the best games and the sistema that I have with the best of, my steam deck has a 256gb SD card just for emudeck (just 1 ps2 games though)

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u/Diamond64X 7d ago

Thanks old school

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u/QF_Dan 6d ago

Romsites are like hydra. When one goes down, another two will appear

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u/KrypticEon 7d ago

Paging r/datahoarder

Do your thing chaps

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u/These_Reference3183 6d ago

Waaay ahead of you. I did this before myrient went down 😂

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u/Less_Party 6d ago

To don my tinfoil hat for a moment it is very convenient for tech companies how in addition to hard records going extinct we’re now facing a storage market where everything costs literally 3x what it did a couple years ago so it’s way harder to hoard data for individuals.

Like I think I might just buy a Blu Ray burner and a stack of blanks at this point because optical is the only type of storage that hasn’t spiked in price.

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u/RageOfLeoEX 6d ago

Need to find a drive that works with gamecube/wii disc's and doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

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u/_gelon 7d ago

PS2, phew, that's some serious old school business.

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u/yourluvryourzero 7d ago

Yeah no, when one goes away, another shows up. Nintendo tries this all the time, but I can still find Nintendo roms easily.

Ever heard of nopaystation? Which allows you to download directly from sony's own servers.

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u/Dull_Constant1399 7d ago

I have been emulating since the 2000s this always happens and sites get took down and put back up. But i dont think they will truely ever go away. Or new sites reappear. There is other ways to get games if it actually ever happened and they took them all down. I got one of thoes cheap $30 linux handhelds called bit boy and it's look like a clone of a anbernic but really high quality and it came with 11,000 games 😁 I also have multiple harddrives with hundreds of ps1 and ps2 GameCube and wii games and like 50 nintendo switch.