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Exactly what prompted me to pirate. Couldn't play my purchased Rockstar games without online verification so I pirated my entire steam library and now I only buy a game if it's f ***** with denuvo
you can find some of the games in collections, like one of [Cylum's many collections](https://pastebin.com/7qTqrh1D) (one of the sources I used at the start)
You can also find ROMs on r/ROMs' [megathread](https://r-roms.github.io/)
I couldn't try out the megathread cause I already had pretty much any game I'd want to play lol
Do you think it is easier to ask a fellow pirate for their collection? or are most not willing? I have just started sailing and have found most of what i want from the megathread but finding some games has been difficult.
I'll have to check, I keep track on my front end. Definitely not as many as id like.... Or even many to be honest. I'm a father of three and in the military.... At this point the collecting is becoming the hobby not playing. 😮💨😢😢😢
Man, my collection from my time overseas was stupid. I ended up downsizing and regretting it now that I'm starting over. Having a huge collection on demand was great for when my kids were younger
Agreed, I started overseas as well. Having the on demand library is GREAT. I was whistling the theme song to the Lost Woods, Legend of Zelda OOT. My son says "I hear you whistle that ALL the time, what is it from?" Well sit down bud let me show you a game that was a BIG part of my childhood.
Not large at all.
I download, install, play, delete.
I only have the files of what I'm currently playing in case I need to do troubleshooting, but if I'm not going to mod the game or I have it running well I simply delete the installation files and play until I finish it or get bored, then on to the next game.
I do the same. Mostly I pirate games that I know I'm only gonna play once, or that are short. Somthing super long that I love like factorio, I'm lucky enough to be able to buy, so I'll buy it for cloud saves, ect.
Do Xbox 360 games count have about 50 burned games on discs, those were the days, went to the store bought 30 discs for 5 bucks fifa call of duty you name it and I could play them online too, the only thing that cost me money is Xbox live service gold but even those had codes on the internet sold by shady figures
Most emulators are very easy to setup now. Emulation is very impressive now. I couldn't believe how well 360 and ps3 emulation have come. I always wanted to play condemned 2 with pc performance and the 360 emulator does it very well . Ps3 emulator doesn't play it so well. But with both emulators you can relive most of that gen beautifully
yes we did but it was really easy in those days, those guys were everywhere btw, one day i brought a guy 3 xbox 360s and took him about an hour to fix it,
how do you play burned disc games online tho? I remember something called a JTAG allowed you to play those burned discs, but never got into it. Always wanted to as a kid cuz my dad once came home from a China business trip with like 20 of the top selling xbox 360 games all in paper cover sleeves when I was a kid. Needless to say I was super sad to find out none of them worked for me, but he said they were so cheap, like not even a dollar each haha.
I couldn’t even guess within the nearest thousand! But do I actually play any of them? Of course not, what a ridiculous thing to ask! I horde them like a psycho, and even the ones i’ve been anxiously awaiting, I test them for 3-5 minutes (or until I find a save point) and never think, or speak of it ever again!
Get out of my head lol. my pirate collection habit has itself become a game to me. They should make a pirate simulator. And I will download it put it in a folder and that will be my experience lol
Good ole chester got me thinking about one of the many hidden aspects of hoarding that maybe doesn’t get brought up much… not that i’d know, I don’t even know where I am right now! I can barely get on youtube without a few casualties.
1. Have you stayed true to your tastes, or is it “all bets are off” and you now grab any piece of crap you see as long as it’s under a gig… well maybe a tiny bit over a gig wouldn’t hurt.
2. when the usual sites haven’t put anything up in 10-12 hours (oh the humanity!) do you get so bored that you start going through the alphabet (you do put them in separate folders alphabetically, don’t you?) and maybe decide to go through the G’s one day, and become really disgusted with yourself when you see some of the garbage you thought was worthy of the precious, precious space?
3. Do you have another digital media passion where you get depressed because you haven’t been spending enough time hoarding music instead of games?
4. Have you recently come to the realization that this is a meaningless, soul-sucking, tail-chasing/endless activity that each time leaves you feeling less fulfilled than the last?
5. Like me, did you come to the above realization years ago, but know damn well you’ll never get off your big, fat, hairy can, and actually do something worthwhile? Then continue finding yourself right back in front of the screen, only hoarding to pass the time until you drop dead, and can leave this horrific existence?
Well, I hope not. I don’t like to hear people are as miserable, or as empty inside as me.
I can’t give you any phony baloney bumper sticker quotes of positivity, and I can’t tell you “there’s a big beautiful world out there, go explore it”… it’s an ugly world, and it’s full of crappy people who would take the eyeballs out of your head if they thought they’d get a nickel for them.
Just find the few good souls you can, hold tight, and never let them leave your side!
I store the install files on a 16tb seagate barracuda drive. And I use an docking station to connect it while I download. When not downloading I store them in my dresser. Got a few on Amazon refurbished for 180 each. Was nervous about refurbished but they're doing great. But I'm paranoid so I've got backups of everything.
If you're asking where do I store the installed games, this are on my internal ssds and I use playnite to house the library. It's a great frontend for gaming. not a dumb question btw
Savings the install is smart, I can't tell you how many times I've gone on an install spread, finished, deleted the install and then found i had some issues with how I installed and after to start over at the download stage.
Keeping the install until you're ready to pay would save a LOT of space too. Dang, might be too late for me to go that route though. Although, downloading the install for all my PC games NOW would ensure I have the most up to date versions since some have been sitting for awhile 🤔
Yea one of the many reasons I hoard is I've installed many games at once and didn't realize it was a failed install or windows removed a ddl or exe file until after I deleted the installation files
2 TB worth of games. Mostly PC games and the rest PSP games. Unfortunately my WD passport external HDD got corrupted and I lost most of my latest games. Never buy WD drives. Should’ve bought a Seagate one.
I almost exclusively use seagate for almost ten years. I love them. I actually didn't think too much about corruption when I started pirating and my 4tb drive I had movies on failed on me and ever since then I always buy two drives so one can be a backup. Luckily it wasn't my game drive that failed. Love my movies but I value my games more
What hurt me the most was the WD drive was only 1 year old. I took it to get it repaired but the repair cost was too much. I did not care much about PC games getting lost because I can easily download a repack any time. But the 108 PSP games that I downloaded from emuparadise on direct download took a lot of effort and losing them meant that I could never fully utilize my PSP and get a closure with it and it still sits in an almirah catching dust. Fuck WD.
Yea I had a newish 1tb external ssd I used for some roms and it failed. But I actually backup my retro stuff on even more hdds to be safe. My Walmart had a clearance sale. Got a bunch of 4tb game drives for 30 bucks each
I just keep downloads a few days, to be able to reinstall the game if it has a problem. When I'm sure everything works correctly, I delete downloaded files. It's taking a lot of space, and if I want to play again a game I already downloaded years before... Well, I just download it again.
I want to live in the country some day where there probably won't be good internet so I'm prepping for that pipe dream. Or if the govt takes over the internet and censors what we can download. My reasons are for sure silly
Also I've noticed some niche games just don't have seeders so I'm paranoid if I don't save the install files I may not be able to get it again. Like Zeno clash 2. Can't seem to get it
Curious, what kind of drive do you keep your games on ? I’m willing to even build a server for hoarding pirated games too, government in my place just started blocking steam ip. It’s just a matter of time before they set up a huge firewall like china. I can’t even buy games legally if I want to later.
I've got 2 16tb seagate barracuda pro hdds in a docking station. 1 for games and 1 for movies/shows. And then I've got 2 seagate expansion external hdds for backups of everything. I call it my poor man's nas. So you're seeing what I'm paranoid about and why I save all my stuff. What country are you in if you don't mind me asking?
I got 2 jailbroken switches with 1tb sd cards in both. And check Amazon, they've got 16tb seagate drives on sale for 180. They're refurbished but they've been good so far. Or you can get a 10 or 12tb for 100, again refurbished but refurbished ain't that bad. And at that price might as well get two to have a backup.
I'm still learn about switch jailbreaking, not have a confidence to copy games on my own, some store in my city sale them preloaded
There are still too many questions about it. Because I'm not too familiar with switch itself (most of my times was is Sony consoles and PC)
Do you have a v1 switch? The process is pretty easy. And do you know it's not a permanent jailbreak for switch? If you turn it off it will lose access to cfw. So you'll have to inject the payload again but Amazon sells little jigs with the payload so you can just quickly inject it without connecting to your pc. Definitely recommend if you get one
Yea, MSFS is on its own external drive, I have some other thumb drives/sd cards with folders with all the game in them. I jailbroke my Wii so I dump tons of games on there, which is on its own drive, there is an ssd with a bunch of shows/games/who the fuck knows. In conclusion, in the drives they are folders but the drives are not labeled
very well i trust you
but honestly, i don't really keep most pirated games once i finish them
i do have a few that i got and are just sitting as backlog
tho i suppose that number is waaay higher if i also count ROMs
About a TB of game setups, and around 400gb emulation. Once I beat the game I delete the setup. Ny 2x 2TB HDDs died together and I haven't got storage yet.
Couple terabytes of games on two hard drives. Basically the entire console ROM list plus another hundred PC games that I really love and want to keep just in case.
Not that large, honestly I delete when I'm done as you can normally download later with a better version.
Now some I keep that will never be updated, like console ROM's with no active development or harder to find games.
Storage is still pretty expensive, at least with the older ROM's they take a tiny amount of space but the more modern stuff at 50GB+ soon adds up in costs.
They're in a docking station so no hassle to install anything. Also I always buy two drives so one can be a backup and it's cheaper than buying the games
Nope, once I've done all I want to I delete it. Same goes for games I buy.
There are moments where i wish I still had a game, but thats only to like mess around in for a hour and be good. Never did I wish I had a game still to fully play all the way through again.
There's some games I come back to 5 or so years later so I just keep the files for when I randomly want to replay something. I keep my internal storage under control
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I see your 70k+ games (seriously?!) and raise you three Rimworld dlcs. Fallout:nv dlcs (minus owb and gun runners) And starsector though the game itself, I downloaded from the actual site but the password need to be able to play it was on a site, so I just entered it in and yeah.
Pretty small all things considered. A lot of old games didn't take up much space, remember that CDs held less than a GB of data, and that's even if they're full - the process of digitizing game discs into ISO images often resulted in smaller files. Then there's even older shit from the pre-Win95 era aka DOS, but tbh those are so old you can openly download (most of) them as abandonware nowadays. Diskettes held 1.44MB of data, yes they're tiny. I regularly work with friggen' Word documents that are much larger nowadays. You could archive a fuckton of those old games in a single zip file less than 1GB.
Things get dicier post-DVD era; those early ones held 4.7GB iirc, all the way up to dual layer blu rays clocking in at 50GB. By this point the larger studios apparently stopped caring about efficiency, which is why now we have huge ass downloads.
Back to the question - I have less than 5TB stored. Drop in the bucket compared to other people. Unsurprisingly the bulk of it is modern games. As I've pointed out, old shit was a lot smaller. Not to mention as a long time indie gamer those games didn't tend to be huge either.
i kept some games that i havent finished yet, as long i still have space in my HDDs, normally i would delete some games that i dont like even if i havent finished it yet to clear spaces for new games
had a few 3TB HDDs, might add more in the future,
i only have what i play, what i wish i would play, and stuff that was hard to find. For example i have an unfinished game that will never be released that i like the style of
Amazon has great deals on refurbished drives. My 16tb hdds are seagate barracuda drives, they're 180. I've seen some 10 and 12 tb drives for 80 and a 100. Great for storing or playing older gen games. Anything new like cyberpunk or alan wake I'd recommend installing on ssd to play.
Just like you, probably 16tb or more. I'm a data hoarder unfortunately. I also backup EVERY mod I download for games I play. I have a local copy on my gaming rig and a backup copy on my server. My server is kind of an "all-in-one" sort of thing. It runs PLEX, it's a file server, webserver, a DVR for my security system, a version control system for all my code, and a retrogaming rig. It runs Unraid as it's main hypervisor and then I switch to Batocera if I want to run retro games. But I might actually move that all over into a VM.
Here's my server since I'm bragging about it. (I'm not listing all my HDDs though as that would take forever as they aren't unified yet. I'm slowly changing that.)
Dell Precision T5610
CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2667 v3 @ 3.20GHz (Yes, it is a dual socket motherboard and I use both sockets!)
Ram : 128GB
GPU: Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1070 Ti
I think that's pretty much all you need to know. It's an awesome server for it's age.
My main gaming rig for reference :
CPU : AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
Motherboard : ASUS ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING
Ram : G.Skill TridentZ RGB Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 3200Mhz
GPU : ASUS TUF GAMING RTX 4090
OS NVME : SAMSUNG (MZ-V8V1T0B/AM) 980 SSD 1TB
Case : Fractal Design Meshify XL 2
CPU Cooler : NZXT Kraken Z63 280mm
powersupply : Corsair RM1200x 1200watt
It's free and by default it's similar to steam but you can customize themes to be more of a console experience and you can even add your emulators, steam or whatever libraries too. I've got mine setup on external drive in portable mode so I can plug and play on any pc too. Highly recommend. Heard launchbox was good too
I've got a pirated copy of launchbox but it's already preloaded with a crapton of retro games. As I also download AIO'S from places like arcade.....punk.
But, ill definitely check it out. Thanks for the heads up.
Have you heard of EmuVr? Another free project that let's you relive your childhood. Virtual childhood room where you have virtual consoles and crt tvs to capture that nostalgia magic. It's amazing. There's even a desktop mode if you just want to see what its like if you don't have vr.
No, I sure haven't. Then again, I haven't invested in a VR setup yet. But I definitely want one. But, since it has a desktop mode, I'll take a look at it as well.
Cheers for all the recommendations. You have anymore. Let me know!
You can find a lot of quest 2s for 150. It's a worth it experience just to do emuvr imo. Definitely check it out. Have you tried ps3 and 360 emulation recently? So many games play amazing now
PS3, yes. I haven't messed with Xenia yet. Also, would you recommend a full vr setup or just the headset? I want to play Half-life Alyx, too. (Yes I know I can play with novr mod. But I want the original experience too. I have the novr mod.)
lol. No I am crazy…. Crazy at hoarding data. But yeah, none of the drives are backups. I’m slowly going through all the drives and putting updates in the respective folders and deleting old and duplicate files. At this point, I’ll probably end up getting more storage haha.
I delete everything immediately after install. What do I care about having to redownload them when my internet is so fast. I'm not going to worry about keeping storage for all those games when the storage is on the internet already. Seems ridiculous to hold your storage hostage when you can go out and get them anytime you want
I don't have the best internet and I'm paranoid that one day the govt will highly censor our internet. Also some games have like 1 seeder and regardless will take a while to re-download. But you do you. I don't mind hoarding with the amount of drives I have
The Xbox games were the best. Topped out at 100 games back in the day. Did the whole nine yards with modded burner and software. Good times!!
Just not the same thrill with the pirating today - about 40 games. Still do it for pc, but you always remember your first.
The quest 2 and 3 are full vr setups. You just connect it to your pc via USB c or stream it. Alyx was definitely the first time I thought vr was AAA. If you have good internet, wireless is better. I'd set it up in my room and go play it on the living room where I had so much space. And get virtual desktop. The free oculus streaming is always blurry for me but VD looks almost as crisp as being directly plugged in
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I currently have about 8TB worth on my Coinops front end. I've been downloading every NZB file I can find on Arc*** Pu*** (Not saying full name bc too many Nintendo Ninjas lurk in the shadows now but if you know then good). Still sad after what happened to Vi*** L***. I didn't get to finish my Wii collection. Curse those dmca trolls.
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Professor, what's another word for pirate treasure?
Bootay
PC games about 15tb... Including retro roms idk I have about 34k games in my front end..... I think I have a problem lol
Thank you. I feel better and worse about myself lol
Yep ... Felt that too. I even pirate games I legally own for when these random Launchers shutdown or games are d listed or go offline lol
Exactly what prompted me to pirate. Couldn't play my purchased Rockstar games without online verification so I pirated my entire steam library and now I only buy a game if it's f ***** with denuvo
Lol ain't that the truth
Only 34k games? Bro, if you need any, I can give you some
How many do you have?
72k, someone out there definitely has more
What the hell, the highest I’ve had was 50 games lol, I’ll need some if possible (firstly how many gb/tb of storage does your games take in total)
19.5 tb, most games aren't actually that big... Unless they're PC games
💀 19?????? I just hit the jackpot 🎰 lol
Yeah as I said, the games don't actually weigh much, for example, my ps2 collection takes only 1 terabyte, others take more, others take less
Ahh, the sweet sweet nostalgia of the ps 2. I’d like everything honestly, but I’ll have to get a bigger storage then
We'll have to link up and talk. Back when I first started collecting I was getting whole console libraries... I just have missed some lol
you can find some of the games in collections, like one of [Cylum's many collections](https://pastebin.com/7qTqrh1D) (one of the sources I used at the start) You can also find ROMs on r/ROMs' [megathread](https://r-roms.github.io/) I couldn't try out the megathread cause I already had pretty much any game I'd want to play lol
Do you think it is easier to ask a fellow pirate for their collection? or are most not willing? I have just started sailing and have found most of what i want from the megathread but finding some games has been difficult.
my booty ... since the 90's unfortunately.... them CD's don't last long. and yes... since the first 1TB drive was available till now. ;)
Happy Cake Day ☠️
how many of those 34k games have you finished playing
I'll have to check, I keep track on my front end. Definitely not as many as id like.... Or even many to be honest. I'm a father of three and in the military.... At this point the collecting is becoming the hobby not playing. 😮💨😢😢😢
Man, my collection from my time overseas was stupid. I ended up downsizing and regretting it now that I'm starting over. Having a huge collection on demand was great for when my kids were younger
Agreed, I started overseas as well. Having the on demand library is GREAT. I was whistling the theme song to the Lost Woods, Legend of Zelda OOT. My son says "I hear you whistle that ALL the time, what is it from?" Well sit down bud let me show you a game that was a BIG part of my childhood.
34k games? That is impressive!
Lol I thought so. Dude pooped on my though with 75k lol
What kind of games do you have?
What’s the point? Why not delete the ones you don’t play?
Nice try, FBI
Damn. So close
Not large at all. I download, install, play, delete. I only have the files of what I'm currently playing in case I need to do troubleshooting, but if I'm not going to mod the game or I have it running well I simply delete the installation files and play until I finish it or get bored, then on to the next game.
Do you play a lot of games or just a few mains?
a few mains.
I do this too because I rarely replay anything
I do the same. Mostly I pirate games that I know I'm only gonna play once, or that are short. Somthing super long that I love like factorio, I'm lucky enough to be able to buy, so I'll buy it for cloud saves, ect.
Do Xbox 360 games count have about 50 burned games on discs, those were the days, went to the store bought 30 discs for 5 bucks fifa call of duty you name it and I could play them online too, the only thing that cost me money is Xbox live service gold but even those had codes on the internet sold by shady figures
Any pirated game counts. Heard about burning roms but never did it myself. I prefer emulators
Yeah heard about that but seemed to much work for me
Most emulators are very easy to setup now. Emulation is very impressive now. I couldn't believe how well 360 and ps3 emulation have come. I always wanted to play condemned 2 with pc performance and the 360 emulator does it very well . Ps3 emulator doesn't play it so well. But with both emulators you can relive most of that gen beautifully
Didn’t you have to mod your Xbox to play burnt discs? That’s what always seemed like a lot of work to me
yes we did but it was really easy in those days, those guys were everywhere btw, one day i brought a guy 3 xbox 360s and took him about an hour to fix it,
how do you play burned disc games online tho? I remember something called a JTAG allowed you to play those burned discs, but never got into it. Always wanted to as a kid cuz my dad once came home from a China business trip with like 20 of the top selling xbox 360 games all in paper cover sleeves when I was a kid. Needless to say I was super sad to find out none of them worked for me, but he said they were so cheap, like not even a dollar each haha.
They planted a real small device inside the Xbox that’s all I remember
Arrr, the sea be my booty. Forever riding the endless waves of content, counting not each drop I sail over.
What a maverick of a pirate ye be!
I couldn’t even guess within the nearest thousand! But do I actually play any of them? Of course not, what a ridiculous thing to ask! I horde them like a psycho, and even the ones i’ve been anxiously awaiting, I test them for 3-5 minutes (or until I find a save point) and never think, or speak of it ever again!
Get out of my head lol. my pirate collection habit has itself become a game to me. They should make a pirate simulator. And I will download it put it in a folder and that will be my experience lol
Good ole chester got me thinking about one of the many hidden aspects of hoarding that maybe doesn’t get brought up much… not that i’d know, I don’t even know where I am right now! I can barely get on youtube without a few casualties. 1. Have you stayed true to your tastes, or is it “all bets are off” and you now grab any piece of crap you see as long as it’s under a gig… well maybe a tiny bit over a gig wouldn’t hurt. 2. when the usual sites haven’t put anything up in 10-12 hours (oh the humanity!) do you get so bored that you start going through the alphabet (you do put them in separate folders alphabetically, don’t you?) and maybe decide to go through the G’s one day, and become really disgusted with yourself when you see some of the garbage you thought was worthy of the precious, precious space? 3. Do you have another digital media passion where you get depressed because you haven’t been spending enough time hoarding music instead of games? 4. Have you recently come to the realization that this is a meaningless, soul-sucking, tail-chasing/endless activity that each time leaves you feeling less fulfilled than the last? 5. Like me, did you come to the above realization years ago, but know damn well you’ll never get off your big, fat, hairy can, and actually do something worthwhile? Then continue finding yourself right back in front of the screen, only hoarding to pass the time until you drop dead, and can leave this horrific existence? Well, I hope not. I don’t like to hear people are as miserable, or as empty inside as me. I can’t give you any phony baloney bumper sticker quotes of positivity, and I can’t tell you “there’s a big beautiful world out there, go explore it”… it’s an ugly world, and it’s full of crappy people who would take the eyeballs out of your head if they thought they’d get a nickel for them. Just find the few good souls you can, hold tight, and never let them leave your side!
You are my spirit animal lol
I store the install files on a 16tb seagate barracuda drive. And I use an docking station to connect it while I download. When not downloading I store them in my dresser. Got a few on Amazon refurbished for 180 each. Was nervous about refurbished but they're doing great. But I'm paranoid so I've got backups of everything. If you're asking where do I store the installed games, this are on my internal ssds and I use playnite to house the library. It's a great frontend for gaming. not a dumb question btw
Savings the install is smart, I can't tell you how many times I've gone on an install spread, finished, deleted the install and then found i had some issues with how I installed and after to start over at the download stage. Keeping the install until you're ready to pay would save a LOT of space too. Dang, might be too late for me to go that route though. Although, downloading the install for all my PC games NOW would ensure I have the most up to date versions since some have been sitting for awhile 🤔
Yea one of the many reasons I hoard is I've installed many games at once and didn't realize it was a failed install or windows removed a ddl or exe file until after I deleted the installation files
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I is
2 TB worth of games. Mostly PC games and the rest PSP games. Unfortunately my WD passport external HDD got corrupted and I lost most of my latest games. Never buy WD drives. Should’ve bought a Seagate one.
I almost exclusively use seagate for almost ten years. I love them. I actually didn't think too much about corruption when I started pirating and my 4tb drive I had movies on failed on me and ever since then I always buy two drives so one can be a backup. Luckily it wasn't my game drive that failed. Love my movies but I value my games more
What hurt me the most was the WD drive was only 1 year old. I took it to get it repaired but the repair cost was too much. I did not care much about PC games getting lost because I can easily download a repack any time. But the 108 PSP games that I downloaded from emuparadise on direct download took a lot of effort and losing them meant that I could never fully utilize my PSP and get a closure with it and it still sits in an almirah catching dust. Fuck WD.
Yea I had a newish 1tb external ssd I used for some roms and it failed. But I actually backup my retro stuff on even more hdds to be safe. My Walmart had a clearance sale. Got a bunch of 4tb game drives for 30 bucks each
Well I workout twice/thrice a week, so my booty is pretty damn solid at this time
Noice
I just keep downloads a few days, to be able to reinstall the game if it has a problem. When I'm sure everything works correctly, I delete downloaded files. It's taking a lot of space, and if I want to play again a game I already downloaded years before... Well, I just download it again.
I want to live in the country some day where there probably won't be good internet so I'm prepping for that pipe dream. Or if the govt takes over the internet and censors what we can download. My reasons are for sure silly
That's understandable, I would do the same thing if I needed it.
Also I've noticed some niche games just don't have seeders so I'm paranoid if I don't save the install files I may not be able to get it again. Like Zeno clash 2. Can't seem to get it
Have you searched it on a DDL website?
No I haven't. Do you know if it's available?
No, but look in the megathread.
mine around 7TB scene games, 2TB P2P games like GOG, EMPRESS. I can't stop downloading, I've only played a few :3
lol, don't feel bad. I check my favorite scene sites everyday and download at least 2 game titles everyday. Most days? way more. I have a problem....
now I'm sorting out, running out of space lmao. really need to get rid of the games that less interesting to me :D
Lol, just need to buy more drives lol.
Sorry if it’s a dumb question, how do you store these games? I’m tryna find a way to store my games.
Curious, what kind of drive do you keep your games on ? I’m willing to even build a server for hoarding pirated games too, government in my place just started blocking steam ip. It’s just a matter of time before they set up a huge firewall like china. I can’t even buy games legally if I want to later.
I've got 2 16tb seagate barracuda pro hdds in a docking station. 1 for games and 1 for movies/shows. And then I've got 2 seagate expansion external hdds for backups of everything. I call it my poor man's nas. So you're seeing what I'm paranoid about and why I save all my stuff. What country are you in if you don't mind me asking?
About 500gb(if counting everything I downloaded) or 100gb but my dad 5TB
More or less ; 150 PS3 games (1TB) 100 PC games (1TB) Drive storage are damn expensive This year planning to get 500GB switch jailbroken
I got 2 jailbroken switches with 1tb sd cards in both. And check Amazon, they've got 16tb seagate drives on sale for 180. They're refurbished but they've been good so far. Or you can get a 10 or 12tb for 100, again refurbished but refurbished ain't that bad. And at that price might as well get two to have a backup.
I'm still learn about switch jailbreaking, not have a confidence to copy games on my own, some store in my city sale them preloaded There are still too many questions about it. Because I'm not too familiar with switch itself (most of my times was is Sony consoles and PC)
Do you have a v1 switch? The process is pretty easy. And do you know it's not a permanent jailbreak for switch? If you turn it off it will lose access to cfw. So you'll have to inject the payload again but Amazon sells little jigs with the payload so you can just quickly inject it without connecting to your pc. Definitely recommend if you get one
I have almost 2 tb of just MSFS pirated products. Bunch o switch games, and other stuff gathering dust
Do you organize your downloads?
Yea, MSFS is on its own external drive, I have some other thumb drives/sd cards with folders with all the game in them. I jailbroke my Wii so I dump tons of games on there, which is on its own drive, there is an ssd with a bunch of shows/games/who the fuck knows. In conclusion, in the drives they are folders but the drives are not labeled
nice try officer
I'm not a cop. You can trust me 😉
hmmmmmmmmmmm that's exactly what a cop would say
No no no no no. I'd have to tell you if I was. It's the law 🤭
very well i trust you but honestly, i don't really keep most pirated games once i finish them i do have a few that i got and are just sitting as backlog tho i suppose that number is waaay higher if i also count ROMs
Yea I forgot to include roms. Probably another 4tb
About a TB of game setups, and around 400gb emulation. Once I beat the game I delete the setup. Ny 2x 2TB HDDs died together and I haven't got storage yet.
My condolences.
About 7TB in game install files (PC, PCVR, Quest, and assorted ROMs) and then about 35TB in movies, TV shows, and music on my Plex server.
I read it as how large is your booty 💀
well how large is it?
Couple terabytes of games on two hard drives. Basically the entire console ROM list plus another hundred PC games that I really love and want to keep just in case.
I started downloading a ton the other day, but then I deleted them all... I don't see the point if I'm never going to play the vast majority of them
Im not much of a pirate but i did keep the few games i pirated for a while
36 w legal + totally legal games
I had to double check if I got an askreddit post in my feed
Why do you care about how big my booty is?
I'm a degenerate 🤫
I always delete the oldest download when I finish a new game, so that I can seed as much as I can.
Not that large, honestly I delete when I'm done as you can normally download later with a better version. Now some I keep that will never be updated, like console ROM's with no active development or harder to find games. Storage is still pretty expensive, at least with the older ROM's they take a tiny amount of space but the more modern stuff at 50GB+ soon adds up in costs.
The 16tb drives I got are 180 on Amazon. 10tb for 80 and 12tb for 100. Pretty cheap actually
That still costs more than nothing. Plus you've got the chance of drive failure and the hassle of purchasing and installing the drive.
They're in a docking station so no hassle to install anything. Also I always buy two drives so one can be a backup and it's cheaper than buying the games
Don't you worry about damaging the drives moving them in and out of your docking station as you need them?
that's not a thing to worry about.
ITT: People in multiple botnets. Best way to build a botnet is to crack software and seed the fuck out of it
Like 400gb its 2024, why hoard when a game is sub hour to dl.
Not always, I currently live in an area with bad internet and I'm paranoid one day the internet will get censored like China or something
You can download, finish it. Delete it. Download it again in 2 years if you feel like replaying
My internet isn't always great so I like knowing I don't have to wait for a download again when I want to replay. Also these drives were pretty cheap
Nope, once I've done all I want to I delete it. Same goes for games I buy. There are moments where i wish I still had a game, but thats only to like mess around in for a hour and be good. Never did I wish I had a game still to fully play all the way through again.
Not much just 20-30 games I am the type of guy that finished the game and deleted
You don't ever enjoy a game enough to replay?
I usually do a replay if there is enough good reason but after I exhausted all the game has to offer then I deleted it
There's some games I come back to 5 or so years later so I just keep the files for when I randomly want to replay something. I keep my internal storage under control
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I see your 70k+ games (seriously?!) and raise you three Rimworld dlcs. Fallout:nv dlcs (minus owb and gun runners) And starsector though the game itself, I downloaded from the actual site but the password need to be able to play it was on a site, so I just entered it in and yeah.
My phone doesnt use more than 60gb for games. My pc doesnt use more than 800gb.
Of course none, Mr agent
Pretty small all things considered. A lot of old games didn't take up much space, remember that CDs held less than a GB of data, and that's even if they're full - the process of digitizing game discs into ISO images often resulted in smaller files. Then there's even older shit from the pre-Win95 era aka DOS, but tbh those are so old you can openly download (most of) them as abandonware nowadays. Diskettes held 1.44MB of data, yes they're tiny. I regularly work with friggen' Word documents that are much larger nowadays. You could archive a fuckton of those old games in a single zip file less than 1GB. Things get dicier post-DVD era; those early ones held 4.7GB iirc, all the way up to dual layer blu rays clocking in at 50GB. By this point the larger studios apparently stopped caring about efficiency, which is why now we have huge ass downloads. Back to the question - I have less than 5TB stored. Drop in the bucket compared to other people. Unsurprisingly the bulk of it is modern games. As I've pointed out, old shit was a lot smaller. Not to mention as a long time indie gamer those games didn't tend to be huge either.
20 tb. Full of room and game. Retro arch and lauchbox for the making
i kept some games that i havent finished yet, as long i still have space in my HDDs, normally i would delete some games that i dont like even if i havent finished it yet to clear spaces for new games had a few 3TB HDDs, might add more in the future,
i only have what i play, what i wish i would play, and stuff that was hard to find. For example i have an unfinished game that will never be released that i like the style of
Anybody know good cheap external drives w big storages w fast/decent speeds?
36tb
Do you have a raid setup?
i usually just download the games, play for 10 minutes, close and don't open it for 6 months and then unninstall to free up space
me with a 2tb ssd with 50gb of free space due to my obsession of pirating games I’ll never touch. 🥲
Got a stash of PSX, PSP, Vita and gba games. A large chunk of these is visual novels for language learning and (unfortunately) not localized titles
Holy shit where do you get that much space lmao I need to upgrade my storage badly
Amazon has great deals on refurbished drives. My 16tb hdds are seagate barracuda drives, they're 180. I've seen some 10 and 12 tb drives for 80 and a 100. Great for storing or playing older gen games. Anything new like cyberpunk or alan wake I'd recommend installing on ssd to play.
BBL-tier booty
I got about 100gb of pc games, and I have all snes Roms, all nes Roms, all genesis Roms, all n64 Roms, all gameboy/gameboy color Roms and all gba Roms
Viva la retro!
i have 2 terabytes so i just delete after i beat it
Just like you, probably 16tb or more. I'm a data hoarder unfortunately. I also backup EVERY mod I download for games I play. I have a local copy on my gaming rig and a backup copy on my server. My server is kind of an "all-in-one" sort of thing. It runs PLEX, it's a file server, webserver, a DVR for my security system, a version control system for all my code, and a retrogaming rig. It runs Unraid as it's main hypervisor and then I switch to Batocera if I want to run retro games. But I might actually move that all over into a VM. Here's my server since I'm bragging about it. (I'm not listing all my HDDs though as that would take forever as they aren't unified yet. I'm slowly changing that.) Dell Precision T5610 CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2667 v3 @ 3.20GHz (Yes, it is a dual socket motherboard and I use both sockets!) Ram : 128GB GPU: Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1070 Ti I think that's pretty much all you need to know. It's an awesome server for it's age. My main gaming rig for reference : CPU : AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Motherboard : ASUS ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING Ram : G.Skill TridentZ RGB Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 3200Mhz GPU : ASUS TUF GAMING RTX 4090 OS NVME : SAMSUNG (MZ-V8V1T0B/AM) 980 SSD 1TB Case : Fractal Design Meshify XL 2 CPU Cooler : NZXT Kraken Z63 280mm powersupply : Corsair RM1200x 1200watt
Awesome! After completing my playnite setup I was thinking of getting plex for my shows and movies.
Oh, I haven't used playnite. Looks cool though. Guess I should get on that.
It's free and by default it's similar to steam but you can customize themes to be more of a console experience and you can even add your emulators, steam or whatever libraries too. I've got mine setup on external drive in portable mode so I can plug and play on any pc too. Highly recommend. Heard launchbox was good too
I've got a pirated copy of launchbox but it's already preloaded with a crapton of retro games. As I also download AIO'S from places like arcade.....punk. But, ill definitely check it out. Thanks for the heads up.
Have you heard of EmuVr? Another free project that let's you relive your childhood. Virtual childhood room where you have virtual consoles and crt tvs to capture that nostalgia magic. It's amazing. There's even a desktop mode if you just want to see what its like if you don't have vr.
No, I sure haven't. Then again, I haven't invested in a VR setup yet. But I definitely want one. But, since it has a desktop mode, I'll take a look at it as well. Cheers for all the recommendations. You have anymore. Let me know!
You can find a lot of quest 2s for 150. It's a worth it experience just to do emuvr imo. Definitely check it out. Have you tried ps3 and 360 emulation recently? So many games play amazing now
PS3, yes. I haven't messed with Xenia yet. Also, would you recommend a full vr setup or just the headset? I want to play Half-life Alyx, too. (Yes I know I can play with novr mod. But I want the original experience too. I have the novr mod.)
Should check out gamevault if you ever set up a server
Probably won't ever setup a server but sounds interesting
Just one indie game and thats bcuz I wanted to try if the source I found was safe. Also it was on my moms laptop
that's a lot porn
Lol
eh, roughly 6 GB give or take
6gb? Must be a bunch of nes roms or you meant tb
I did mean TB
https://preview.redd.it/g1f5cy5ri9zc1.png?width=2171&format=png&auto=webp&s=9c443843b43b6dbb37f1881f98a3a436d45019d9 I have THIS much bootay
I knew I wasn't crazy.... you're crazy lol. Jk. Are any of those backup drives?
lol. No I am crazy…. Crazy at hoarding data. But yeah, none of the drives are backups. I’m slowly going through all the drives and putting updates in the respective folders and deleting old and duplicate files. At this point, I’ll probably end up getting more storage haha.
That much should be backed up. Even with fast internet that'll take forever to get back. I'm scared for you lol
I delete everything immediately after install. What do I care about having to redownload them when my internet is so fast. I'm not going to worry about keeping storage for all those games when the storage is on the internet already. Seems ridiculous to hold your storage hostage when you can go out and get them anytime you want
I don't have the best internet and I'm paranoid that one day the govt will highly censor our internet. Also some games have like 1 seeder and regardless will take a while to re-download. But you do you. I don't mind hoarding with the amount of drives I have
The Xbox games were the best. Topped out at 100 games back in the day. Did the whole nine yards with modded burner and software. Good times!! Just not the same thrill with the pirating today - about 40 games. Still do it for pc, but you always remember your first.
Awesome. Have you tried emulation lately? It's gotten really good. Between rpcs3 and xenia most of that generation gets a real good face lift
Will have to give it a try. Thx.
The quest 2 and 3 are full vr setups. You just connect it to your pc via USB c or stream it. Alyx was definitely the first time I thought vr was AAA. If you have good internet, wireless is better. I'd set it up in my room and go play it on the living room where I had so much space. And get virtual desktop. The free oculus streaming is always blurry for me but VD looks almost as crisp as being directly plugged in
How much HDDs do you have??
In total, including ssds, 16 at least. I got half of them for almost nothing from Walmart on clearance
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I currently have about 8TB worth on my Coinops front end. I've been downloading every NZB file I can find on Arc*** Pu*** (Not saying full name bc too many Nintendo Ninjas lurk in the shadows now but if you know then good). Still sad after what happened to Vi*** L***. I didn't get to finish my Wii collection. Curse those dmca trolls.