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bevinator: After getting halfway through Full Throttle, I realized my disk was damaged and one of the area files couldn't be read. After finding some replacement files (which is all ScummVM needs) I just threw the thing out. It pained me, but the thing was broken. No point in keeping non-functioning disks.

I do keep the disks for other games I own digitally, though, but that's more because I'm a pack rat for everything than anything to do with games in particular.
I've scanned all my discs with DVDisaster and i store both the image and the checksum on my disc for that very reason.

When I replace a game with a DRM free version I usually give away the older copy, but in general I only do that if the new copy is deeply discounted or the previous one was hard to run on the new computer.
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anamorphic: I still have several boxes of games on 3.5" floppy disks and no computer that can even read them anymore. I really should try selling them, but cannot even be sure they work. We recently moved house and threw out a ton of junk, but kept these useless games.

I do sell games that I have doubled up on though, and games I've finished with no desire to ever replay (which is about 75% of my list, there are just too many games to spend time replaying).
IIRC, you can still buy USB-enabled floppy drives for 3.5 disks. Getting a drive for the big 5.25 disks, well, that's a whole different beast :D
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anamorphic: I still have several boxes of games on 3.5" floppy disks and no computer that can even read them anymore. I really should try selling them, but cannot even be sure they work. We recently moved house and threw out a ton of junk, but kept these useless games.

I do sell games that I have doubled up on though, and games I've finished with no desire to ever replay (which is about 75% of my list, there are just too many games to spend time replaying).
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JudasIscariot: IIRC, you can still buy USB-enabled floppy drives for 3.5 disks. Getting a drive for the big 5.25 disks, well, that's a whole different beast :D
I own a 3.5" USB drive and it works fine. I've seen set ups for 5.25" disks as well. The problem though is that floppies were never particularly reliable and any game old enough to be sold on floppy disk has probably already degraded enough to require specialist knowledge and several copies to properly dump to HDD.
I've cleaned them, put in envelopes, stored everything in box wrapped in foil placed in wardrobe...There they will be safely stored along with my 2 joysticks, Space Hulk board game and Death Angel card game waiting for 'proper' time :-P

I cannot see a point in selling them. Possible I will show those discs to my grandkids and will amaze them...
http://woloszyn.com.pl/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/beer-mats.jpg

Something like this.
I prefer to have some more room, so I gladly sell games I can get digital copy. I only keep those games that I loved, and I still love them (Infinity Engine games, Civilization, KOTOR, some more rpg), or those that I can't get digital copy yet.
Post edited October 30, 2012 by SLP2000
BLASPHEMY. Seriously, i always keep my original discs. I never ever sell or throw them away. I wouldn't even consider such a thing, unless i'm starving and need money badly. My games are the physical things i love the most. I even keep original boxes and manuals.

When i buy games i tend to buy only those that are complete (box+manual and everything) because i love collecting this stuff. Due to the lack of time, i'm actually more a collector than a gamer nowadays.

I used to sell games and consoles when i was younger, but now i keep everything, even those games that i know i will never ever play anymore.
Post edited October 30, 2012 by Neobr10
I keep my CDs even though I have digital copy. Sentimental value + great surprise from time to time: Quite recently I've found my Tzar CD and I thought I had lost it long time ago. It's working fine with Windows 7 so be careful Borgh, here I come!
I'll generally only buy a game digitally that I already have on disc if I have a real advantage from it, like being able to play it in English, compatibility fixes, 32-bit installer, etc.

I always burn my GOG games onto CD or DVD, unless it's too big for either, for which I'm still working on a solution. While I print out the DVD inlays for games I don't already have, games that I do simply go into a paper disc cover and get placed as an 'extra' in the original game box.

Unless you are really hurting for space, there's little reason to sell your originals.

(I'm still struggling to understand why some people are having serious problems with running NOLF under Win7 x64).
Post edited October 30, 2012 by jamyskis
All sitting on my shelf! Especially my big cardboard boxed original version of Deus Ex... great times. :)
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StingingVelvet: I sold all my boxed games to an ebay dude last year. Got about $1500 for them, which was nice at the time and funded a lot of my year off from work volunteering in Georgia.

Sometimes I remember ones I owned in a box and not digitally and I curse at myself, but overall it's not a big deal. I can get them again in sales or when I really want to play them, and digital is 10 million times more convenient.

I wish there was a good way to buy movies digitally. The quality of iTunes and Amazon is terrible, plus they have DRM.
I wish GOG would open a service for that, similar to GOG for other media

Good Old Movies
Good Old Animation
Good Old Music
Good Old etc XYZ....
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Roman5: Good Old Movies
Good Old Animation
Good Old Music
Good luck with that ;-) monolihic media giants that haven't moved to 20th century yet are several orders of magnitude more difficult to deal with that EA or Ubisoft. And that's probably understatement of the century right there. :-p
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Roman5: I wish GOG would open a service for that, similar to GOG for other media

Good Old Movies
Amazon pushed for DRM free music but they seem to have been unsuccessful with movies and shows. It's a real shame since everything is DRM free on the pirate bay anyway. I never pirated movies or shows until I started volunteering in Georgia. No copyright law + no salary = piracy. The funny thing is, it's a ten times better EXPERIENCE than buying movies.

It's a real shame.
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Roman5: Good Old Movies
Good Old Animation
Good Old Music
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Petrell: Good luck with that ;-) monolihic media giants that haven't moved to 20th century yet are several orders of magnitude more difficult to deal with that EA or Ubisoft. And that's probably understatement of the century right there. :-p
Still, launching with a remastered version of Metropolis as a freebie would be supremely awesome.
I don't throw them away, I'll just pack them away.

Sometimes the originals do become handy, especially as GOG versions of some DOS games apparently don't have the original sound card setup executables and shit. If you e.g. try to figure out how you should edit the sound card conf file; it always helps if you can check the right values from the original game. I may need that quite often when I try to change the settings of GOG games to support Roland MT-32.

And how about the GOG games that use ScummVM? I presume they are missing quite many of the original files, just in case you might want to play the game e.g. in DOSBox instead?

Not to mention the Steam versions of some LucasArts adventure games, which apparently have some mangled data files so that they would be unusable with ScummVM, IIRC?
Post edited October 30, 2012 by timppu