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[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Incoming advices of external CD-ROM drives in 3, 2, 1...

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (9 children)

You can just buy an internal DVD-ROM drive and install it in your pc. If you lack an IDE port on your motherboard you can use PCIe expansion cards. Power can be supplied by Molex.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (2 children)

... Sata DVD-ROM drives are a thing

Hell I've still got one just in case

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They are, but now some modern cases don't have bays so personally I'm still restricted to external if I want one.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I even have a blu ray drive

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bruh I'm comfortable building my own PCs and that still sounds way more effort than just buying an external optical drive with USB interface.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

It is that's the joke

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you lack an IDE port on your motherboard

Bro, IDE has been dead for YEARS now, I'd be shocked if there was an IDE connector on any consumer computer made in the last 10 years (Industrial stuff can get weird)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I figured disk drives were kinda obsolete so they'd use obsolete connectors.

In any event, my example was to explicitly not suggest an external disk drive on USB.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

I've only ever used SATA for disc drives the past 15 years

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

i thought you were using outdated connectors as a joke 😂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My pdu doesn't have molex connectors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I've since been informed you can get them with SATA connectors.

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[–] realbadat 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I mean... I have a usb external 3.5" drive...

As well as DVD of course.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You couldn't play it anyway. It has SecuROM as a copy protection and that is basically a rootkit that is not allowed to run on Windows Vista and above.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Run it in a VM, then get the NoCD from gamecopyworld?

(Not sure if that's an option for securom)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Securom has been cracked long ago yeah. I believe it was SafeDisc or StarForce that made things hella weird in a cracked game, but that was bypassed by mounting the CD back then and now I think the cracks work too

[–] cheddar 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Then you get a drive, but the game you loved is no longer playable since the server it is using to confirm its license has been offline for years.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's when you go find the 2002 keygen/crack.

[–] cheddar 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but then it's easier to download the whole game rather than buying a CD/DVD drive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Yeah but you didn't know that before buying the drive!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have an external DVD-RW on a shelf just in case. Every once in a while I need to bring it out and I wonder if a giant boulder is going to start rolling at me when I grab it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I actually have a SATA cable and power plug discreetly tucked in a spot in my PC case and have just taken the side off and plugged in a drive on occasion. It's normal purpose is troubleshooting other hard drives, but it works for that too

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Drives are cheap

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pro tip: if you have a physical copy of a game and it's also available on Steam, try registering the CD key. (Obviously doesn't work if the game doesn't have a CD key. Or if the publisher is a dick. looking at you, EA)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I never did it on steam but years back I contacted origin support and they let me register all my old ea games keys and still have them on the ea app. Not great but I thought it was cool.

They let me do all of them except battlefield Vietnam. They said they didn't have that one available to download at the time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (6 children)

USB Blu-ray is how I got my media library… totally…

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If you out the CD in the microwave for 15 seconds you can shrink it down to the size of a SD card, the SD card slot will read it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You know that this answer will be mashed into an "AI" training set somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I remember back in the day when people were literally baking their nvidia GPUs in the oven to fix some solder issues, and cutting the PCI-E connectors to fit in an AGP slot. Can't wait for AI to bring that shit back.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

External cd drive is so cheap it's almost free.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

A USB DVD Reader/Writer costs 15 bucks. (I'm too used feel like that meme, and then at some point I needed to find a way to get a Mini-PC to read CDs, and as it turns out it's quite simple - I reckon it was more a case of "can't be arsed to do it" than a case of "can't do it").

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

USB external optical drive with read and write capacity costs like 20€ where I am.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Black and White

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I keep the C&C Tiberian sun and the original Far Cry box for nostalgia.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What is this meme from? It looks so familiar

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Iron man.

I think the third one?

That's Tony's dad, in a message he recorded for Tony.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's some slight benefit to having games that are just a sticker with a license number in the box. Probably, the only one benefit though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Until they remove it from the store.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Despite only having a few disc drive dependent games, this and the amount of USB ports is why I got the budget desktop I got around a couple years ago. Having a disk drive has been great, especially when I got a few CDs and don't feel like using the old Sony Discman I got because it sometimes just stops after certain songs.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have an internal DVD-RW drive, but I disconnected the cable to use it for a new HDD I bought a few weeks ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You unplugged a DVD drive to plug in a hard drive?

What does it feel like still living in 2010?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I still use a blu ray drive just to burn my M-Discs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I've got DVD-ROM drives in my desktop PC and my old laptop that I use for playing videos while I exercise and a USB Blu-Ray drive that I can use in anything else. You'll get my disc caddies when you pry them from my cold dead hands.

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