Bitter sweet because I’m pretty this means we lost real one. RIP

It’s church thrift store run by elderly people and they get overwhelmed and will just toss anything on a whim. They practically give away the stuff away.

  • Godort@lemmy.caEnglish
    63·
    3 hours ago

    Jesus, someone wasn’t paying attention. That Paper Mario OST goes for around $450 USD

    Also, RIP(most likely)

    • Tikiporch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      14 minutes ago

      It’s a church thrift store, so your first sentence is like you’re telling on the staff to the boss.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 minutes ago

        Took me a second reading to understand your tone. For a second I thought you were just being an asshole. Then I read it again, and went OOOOOOHHHHH.

        So for anyone who just skims things, Tikiporch isn’t being an asshole. They actually made a funny joke. Like Splinter did in the first TMNT movie. Except TikiPorch forgot to end with “HA HA HA!!! I MADE A FUNNY!!!”

        Also, I want pizza now. No reason.

  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 hours ago

    CD keys will be a problem for some of those. Were they on the paper sleeve, inside the jewel case, on a sticker in the manual? Who knows? Every publisher seems to have picked a spot at random and losing them makes old PC game collections a minefield of unplayable* discs.

    * Without cracks or No-CD patches. Obligatory reminder that piracy = games preservation.

    • __hetz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      Games shared on the Archive frequently have a working CD key in their descriptions. If you’ve got a disc with no key, it’s a perfect place to check first.

    • JoeBigelow@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I feel like if it was popular enough, a cracker exists. Complete with awesome 8 but tracker tune

      • Not a newt@piefed.caEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Some of the older ones wouldn’t even need a crack, just a keygen or even a single printed key.

  • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 hours ago

    I had that chassis on a dell xps 420 way back when. Interesting internal design.

    some banger games there too

      • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 hour ago

        It had a tool-less door but a reversed internal layout, you open the right side panel (when looking from the front of the system)

        there were tool-less releases for the HDD bays and disk drives, and it featured full-length brackets for add-in cards, with a sort of locking mechanism clamping over.

        It also had this weird display on the top. you could play solitaire on it if you wanted.

        bizarre little thing.

        • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          24 minutes ago

          It had a tool-less door but a reversed internal layout

          same as a few dimensions we still have sitting around here… they’re “BTX”, the failed successor to ATX form factor… it had some neat ideas, but would need a little tweaking if it were to support a ‘modern’ pc platform today.

        • rmtworks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          32 minutes ago

          It was called Windows SideShow I think. I’ve been eyeing an XPS 420 because I’ve never had a system with one before.

    • hendu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      Guild Wars: Factions can still be played, if the cd key hasn’t been added to another account.

      The Star Wars Galaxies cds can be used to get started with SWGEmu, too.

    • __hetz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      The Half Life GOTYE can probably be installed and played no problem. The CD key is probably already bound to a Steam account, otherwise that’d be another way to play it and easily have all the updates.

      Starcraft/Brood War and Warcraft are all still playable as far as I’m aware. ActiBlizz hadn’t killed off old school Battlenet last I’d checked. Private servers are also still a thing for classic blizzard games. Same goes for C&C. Private servers a’plenty. PVPGN was still the thing for Blizz games (up to a certain patch because they changed some server side stuff) and Westwood Online games. There’s also a separate project specifically for Red Alert games whose name escapes me. Also the OpenRA project.

      The last flight sim I played was Red Baron II/3D, back in the Sierra Online and MPlayer days (pre GameSpy Arcade), but I’m familiar with IL2. Been a few years since I checked in on it but it had a fairly active player base and modding community. VFWs (Virtual Fighter Wings) were a thing in that and in Microprose’s Falcon 4.0 where some players took it very seriously and were quite skilled at formation flying and such. I still have my copy of Falcon 4.0, 3 ring binder manual, map and all. Wasn’t good at it but I was always amazed at how technical it was.

      Baldur’s Gate 2 should still run. Same for the original and Icewind Dale, if they’re hiding in the box somewhere. I installed those from CD a while back and they worked fine.

      I should probably try in my Deck next. Dollars to donuts I bet they’d work - I’ve installed other games on it from CD just for shiggles. Truth be told, Linux is probably preferable for a lot of older games since a lot of work has gone into wine/proton explicitly for compatibility. A lot of really old Windows games, that are unplayable on Windows today, run amazing on Linux.

    • bthest@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      38 minutes ago

      Thrift stores won’t even set them out anymore. They go straight to ebay.

      Look for the ones that are run by a church or charity. They’re less greedy and profit motivated. They get tons of retro professional music equipment from churches updating their media stuff.