▲ 109 ▼ PS3 emulator devs warn of fake Blu-ray drives on Newegg and AliExpress — ‘Beware of fake Blu-ray drives’ devs warn retrogamers. (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 1 month ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 21 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] esc@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (4 children) Do people really use disks when playing emulated games? permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago Some do, because RPCS3 lets you play games directly from an internal bluray drive and also to create ROM dumps (actually BluRay disc images). permalink fedilink source parent [–] alessandro@lemmy.ca [S] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child) Is probably the most "legitimate feeling" giving experience. You can be a legitimate owner of a copy of a game and use a random iso dump of the very same game, but just plug the actual thing gives different strokes. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] esc@piefed.social 1 point 1 month ago Never thought about it in these terms, thanks. permalink fedilink source parent [–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 month ago* I wondered the same but after a bit of thought, it'd actually be really cool to build a tiny PC that ran an emulator Linux distro setup to automatically boot inserted disks. Like RetroPi with pre-loaded ISOs is cool and all but having a physical library of disks you can just pop in is really fun sounding permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago Some do, because RPCS3 lets you play games directly from an internal bluray drive and also to create ROM dumps (actually BluRay disc images). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca [S] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child) Is probably the most "legitimate feeling" giving experience. You can be a legitimate owner of a copy of a game and use a random iso dump of the very same game, but just plug the actual thing gives different strokes. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] esc@piefed.social 1 point 1 month ago Never thought about it in these terms, thanks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] esc@piefed.social 1 point 1 month ago Never thought about it in these terms, thanks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 month ago* I wondered the same but after a bit of thought, it'd actually be really cool to build a tiny PC that ran an emulator Linux distro setup to automatically boot inserted disks. Like RetroPi with pre-loaded ISOs is cool and all but having a physical library of disks you can just pop in is really fun sounding permalink fedilink source parent