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rogerskg1979 posted...

DPsx7 posted...

Bah, you're a looney. Disc rot is a fairy tale used to scare people into buying inferior digital goods. I have carts that are 30 years old and disc games nearing 20. Plenty of CD's too. None of them are going bad. While I agree nothing lasts forever, these items with minimal care are going to last for decades.

Disc rot is not a fairy tale at all. Just because it has not happened to you doesn't mean it can't or won't happen. That's like saying cancer is a fairy tale because you have never had cancer.

How often do you actually check all your discs? I do mean ALL of them. Most people with really old discs don't check them all that often and don't check them all either. If you have 1,000+ discs, it's fairly safe to bet that at least a few of them will have rotted and you may not even know if since you haven't checked them in years.

Two totally different topics...

It is a fairy tale. A properly pressed disc (meaning you didn't pirate a bunch of games on cheap CDR's) will last way longer than you'll have a need for it.

Now what could be said is how you care for them or that they're being used in the machines they were designed for. Throwing a disc for PS1 speeds into a 50x PC drive isn't exactly the disc's fault.

I rotate through my CD's since that's all I use in the car. The games are mostly packed away because I'm busy with current gen stuff but when I had everything out for pics or to reorganize, they were fine. They don't just go bad all of a sudden, and certainly not this soon.