I don’t want to buy games digitally anymore until I can actually own the game rather than the license. But then some freak on eBay is asking for $500 for a copy of Klonoa on the PS1. Then there are even more freaks who are willing to bid higher than that! Then the smaller retro games stores around me base their prices on these prices. There needs to be a price cap on this stuff. We can’t let all of the richest nerds control the economy.

  • SubjectivelyGood@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    For burning to a disc from GOG, is there a way to do that with the old consoles? I have all of the PlayStations, because I have never liked playing on my PC. I wasn’t allowed to play many of the games that came out on PS1 or PS2 growing up, and now that I have some sort of disposable income, I want to check out the stuff I missed out on. The issue is that those are the games that scalpers love. If there was a way to bypass them on the games like Silent Hill or Diablo I would love that.

    • Benaaasaaas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      What’s the difference between playing on PC vs PS if it’s the same game? Locking yourself out of either emulation or playing the PC version is going to make it harder/more expensive on you to replay old games.

      • SubjectivelyGood@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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        1 day ago

        A lot of people have mentioned this, so I’ve been looking into it. How easy would it be to do these mods myself?

        • I Cast FistEnglish
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          9 hours ago

          Modding a PS1 requires some soldering skill, but it’s relatively easy. Depending where you’re from and where/when you got your PS1, it’s likely already modded, so if you have a blank CD to burn a game, you can test it straight away.

          For PS2, FreeMCBoot will let you run games from a USB pendrive, installed HDD or from ethernet cable and requires zero actual hardware modding, you just need to boot the console with the proper memory card inserted. You’ll either need to buy a FreeMCboot card, which should be easy and cheap to find (aliexpress has plenty), or get an adapter to connect to a PC and do it yourself.

        • bigb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 hours ago

          You bet, I’m a FreeMCBoot fan myself. I bought a network adapter and a SATA adapter for an internal hard drive to load games off of.