my sentiments exactly, i have full sets of all the cartridge systems but Iso files take up soo much space its just not viable to store them all. i have a complete ps1 set, takes up almost 400 gigs.
Who gives a shit about full sets?
Because not only do you need to take up shelf space for games you'll never play, but you also need to take up memory for games you'll never play.
To be fair, the entire NES/SNES/Genesis/PCE sets can fit on a $5 4GB flash drive. In a few years, the amount of space a full PS2 ISO set takes up will be trivial as well. I'm not saying anyone needs all of the shovelware garbage on those systems but digital hoarding isn't nearly the same as shelf queens obsessing over spine cards and losing whole rooms of their house to plastic garbage they'll never play.
Looks like Prices of rom sets will go up on ebay now LOL. there are hard drives for sale on Ebay for Hard drives for Hyperspin and stuff. fully loaded.
Setiously though who the hell buys roms off ebay??
probably stupid low income families
its interesting because, okay, when i was like a preteen i was downloading ROMs and ISOs. The standard affair was, you can google pretty much any Nintendo or Sega or otherwise mainstream title on a 80s and 90s console and find pages upon pages of mirrored ROMs in alphabetical order. Just like all over the place. ISOs were generally available but less of them were WIDELY available from what I remember. Like you could download shit like FFVII but I remember specifically probably in like 2005 or 2006 I was having a really hard time finding a few ISOs. Tactics Ogre Let Us Cling Together was really hard to find, and I finally found it on like IfritROMs or some shit. I also had trouble finding a working link for Tomba! 2 and Twisted Metal 2. I think there were a few unseeded or broken torrents
Then there was the period until recently where you could just go to a handful of sites like idk ROMNation or emuParadise and reliably get most/all ROMs and ISOs.
Now I'm having trouble finding shit again
Does anyone remember those ads they used to have talking about how some kid went to jail for downloading ROMs or something
When Nerds get together and start a Revolt it never ends well. Look at Star Wars (Solo) and Electronic Arts (Battlefield).
Star Wars fans are some of the worst kinds of people to walk the earth - Nothing is good enough, any change is "destroying their childhood," and they have an anyurism when women do literally ANYTHING in those movies.
If anything I've been finding ways to reduce how much data I actually need.