I bought that Saturday morning at full price. No regerts. In 5 days, I dumped about 30 hours into it.

Sure, but it’s a start. It’s certainly better than trying to keep them on my laptop. And I do hope to add more forms of data backup/storage as time goes on. It’s taken several hours ripping all those games and I’d hate to lose them all.
I also have an external 4 TB SSD that I keep most of the games on (excluding the PS4 games because they simply take up too much space).

That’s what I’ve been doing. Been collecting various PS1-4 games on top of GameCube, Wii, and Switch games over the past year to rip and save digital copies for myself. Then I play them on emulators.
I have roughly a few hundred so far and plan to expand it further.
I have a NAS with two 8 TB drives in RAID to back them up and it’s already over 50% full. I want to start collecting OG Xbox and 360 games in the near future, but I need to get jailbroken consoles for them.

I’ve been repeatedly disappointed with most modern games, so I’ve taken to emulating my old games and playing them on my laptop. It’s honestly a pretty good time, would recommend.
I’m getting to play games I loved that I haven’t touched in over a decade (MotorStorm, all the Ratchet and Clank games, the good Need for Speeds, etc). Plus if there were any games I wanted as a kid but didn’t have the money, I can buy most of them off eBay for cheap.

This is exactly why I bought a low firmware PS4 to jailbreak. So I can start ripping my PS4 games for this emulator. I am excite.

I need to get me a jailbreakable PS4 so I can start ripping my collection.

I loved the first two back in high school and college. I’m glad they’re both playable on RPCS3 so I can still get my fix from them.
Really wish we could get some kind of spiritual successor to them; if anyone knows of a modern replacement, I’m all ears.

Should’ve been called Twomba

Something to keep in mind: Official support for the PS2 was only 12 years. The PS4 is now at 11 years.
It will most likely have a longer officially supported life than the PS2.

It would be cool to see a sequel to Control. I want to learn more about this universe. And to work more with Ahti.

I have that and also MC:LA for the PS3. I recently learned that Rockstar never officially ported MC:LA to the PC so the only official ways to play it are on the PS3 and 360. And sadly RPCS3 still needs more optimization before it’s playable. I get about 15-30 fps whenever I try it.

I concur. I usually avoid early access games unless I know the devs’ reputation(s), or have already heard good things about it (Project Zomboid, Factorio, Deep Rock Galactic, Subnautica, BattleBit, Lethal Company, and Palworld just to name a few).
But I’ve also heard horror stories of devs taking the EA money and dumping the game before it’s finished. Though I haven’t heard anything like that in a while.

That I’m not sure. I personally haven’t noticed any difference between the emulated one and a “real” BIOS, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t one. In theory they should all work the same regardless of their version, but I don’t know that.

While everything you said is valid (and I may or may not have done that), I legitimately enjoy the ripping process.

I actually did manage to rip it, but I was taking a big risk doing that. I’m not using that disc anymore after that.

I’m a little late to the game, but I started playing Breath of the Wild on Ryujinx (I learned in December that my secondhand Switch is jailbreakable). And now I see why so many people loved it.
It also gave me strong Elden Ring vibes when gliding through the world, so I see where ER got its inspiration.

It has me excite to play TotK right after.

I think Tim Sweeney is actually anti-linux for the consumer. Since the Deck runs on Linux, he has basically negative incentive for any of their games to run on it.

I’m enjoying my playthrough of it so far. The story has me intrigued and the puzzles have been… Puzzling.
It basically takes everything from the first and expands upon it in some way, whether that be the story, the puzzles, the locations, the conversations, etc. Would recommend if you enjoyed the first one.

I played through the first one on OpenGOAL a few weeks ago and it was great. It even supports 1440p ultrawide. Would recommend.

Patrick Stewart was in Oblivion. And Sean Bean, too.