Comment on PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks

• greybeard@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can make a backup of your Steam games too. A good portion of them can be copied out of the Steam folder and run completely independently. If you want to retain your steam games permanently, you are a free to hack them up as physical media.

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  • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A good portion, yes. The rest you’ll have to crack.

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So just like the DRM on physical media, only with fewer steps.

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• Pohl@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What good would a backup do for a game that requires specialty hardware to run. I still have my ps2 games. I just can’t play them.

  I still have my cod1 pc disks, they just don’t do anything.

  What is the backup for?

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  • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can play them on an emulator. You can even connect a Dualshock 3 controller to your PC, and it’ll be just like playing on the “specialty hardware” it was made for.

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    • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is PS2 emulation that accurate now?

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      • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, same with Gamecube (via Dolphin).

        PS3 emulation has a way to go yet.

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      • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It is for me. Has it not been accurate enough for your use?

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes.

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• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  making digital backups

  So you’re in favour of digital ownership then?

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  • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, I am.

    You need to understand that an online library on Steam et al is not ownership.

    Having the files on your own harddrive, without any dependencies to external services, that is digital ownership.

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