With GOG, you can buy any game, and you’ll have files to keep. Once you have the installer, you can keep that forever.
Even if your GOG account is hacked, banned, and GOG goes out of business, you can forever install your game onto any compatible machine, even offline, and play the game.
That’s what GOG does differently.
It’s like buying a physical game, except there’s no disc. They can’t revoke your access or deactivate your ability to play the game.
We’ve got some good examples of emulators, so I’ll share some examples where the originals are better.
DC, DS, 3DS, and WiiU (especially) because of the inability to give the dual-screen experience that these consoles offer.
Yes, the DS and 3DS can emulate the touch screen with your mouse, or maybe even a touchscreen monitor. But your controls are still going to be on a separate device the majority of the time.
The DC has its VMUs, which were often doing something related to the game you were playing. In Sonic Shuffle (Mario Party but Sonic and cards instead of dice), it actually showed your hand. It was an interesting mechanic, because players could choose cards from ANY player’s hand…and the VMUs were the only way to see which card was what.
The WiiU would probably need to be able to emulate onto a tablet for a lot of the games that utilized it well to work as originally intended.
Is changing the one chip enough to count it as separate hardware to test?
Not to mention that different cooling capabilities could result in different performance, too.
For anyone looking to play Super Mario Sunshine and wants to consider 100%, there’s “Blue Coin Tracker”.
Not only can you check off what you’ve found, but it’s got screenshots, descriptions, and strategies to help you find it. Even links to YouTube clips if you’re still stuck!
It’s invaluable. The blue coins are pretty evil in that game.
That is generally why people pay for things
I pay for YouTube premium because I like the idea of content creators getting paid when I watch their videos. I don’t want to manually send each of them money or sign up for their channel memberships or anything. But if they make videos that I watch and they get a kickback? I’m fine with that.
I also have a YouTube channel that bring in a bit of beer money, so I use that to justify the cost.
I could see it helping.
“I have to inform you that this game is rated M for Mature, and isn’t suitable for minors.”
“What? It’s just football, isn’t it?”
“It says this game has gambling that uses real world money.”
I don’t know how many sales it’d stop, but at least parents would know.
Driving offenses punishable by life in prison.
Doing some asshole or idiot move on the road angers other drivers. Other drivers experience road rage and road aggression. This results in collisions or fights that can lead to death.
Murder.
My god… they’ve reached PS1-era JRPG level in terms of video game storytelling…
I’m curious to know what happens if you ask ChatGPT to make you a text adventure based on that prompt.
Not curious enough to try it and play it myself, though.
If the emulator can’t run games from archive files, then I store what I play unarchived, and what I don’t play stays as archived as it was.
Unless they’re small files, then I’d probably back then up extracted. But I haven’t had a case where the files were small enough for me to store extracted but the emulator couldn’t run from archives.
I go for full libraries. This would never work for me! Haha
Thank you for the correction! I thought it was like the PS3 where there was different hardware inside the different models. Well, some of them.
…but wait, if all the internals are the same size, why wasn’t the regular one the size of the Slim? Is it just space from having the disc drive removed?
They’re probably testing on it though
Yes, that was my point, haha
They have what, 3 variants of the console? Regular, Slim, Pro?
Meanwhile on PC…
I believe the comment I replied to changed what it said. I recall something about making it a law that DRM should be removed after a reasonable time period of 1 to 2 years.
I agree that DRM sucks. I didn’t agree that it should be law to remove DRM a year or two after release.
I’ve never heard of any of these. Are any worth picking up?
I don’t think many people had “a thing” for mermaids though. It was just another human creature with boobs. I don’t think most people thought about it any deeper than that
That’s just semantics.
When you buy a CD, you don’t own the songs.
But you do have some item that belongs to you.
With Steam, you have a ticket that will let you into Steam to download the game for as long as your account is in good standing and as long as Steam exists.
With GOG, you have a file you can use to install the game on any machine INDEFINITELY. GOG can’t revoke your access for any reason, and if GOG shuts down, you can still install the games.