Selling Back-ups, your thoughts...

[bt]

Bt, have you seen Super HuCard? It is a single data track disc that loads on real Super CDROM/DUO consoles. I'm not sure I understand what exactly the problem is with glass mastering software, but I'd guess it has to do with the strange audio data audio track layout. And sometimes audio data audio data. But I could be wrong. However if it is the strange A,D,A layout, Super HuCard seems to have figured out a way to get loaded with the first track as a data track. And I'd think you could do a regular mixed mode disc (I think thats the term) Data followed by Audio disc.

Trust me, I have already been down this road... both of the MindRec releases had to follow that D,A... format since trying to get an A,D,A... format CD pressed was even more problematic (read: impossible) than what I settled for.

Now granted, I could have moved back to the A,D,A... layout for MB since they were ultimately being burned, but I chose not to, since I did not want to go through and make a new "Audio Warning" track for the CD.

And yes, I am familiar with the Super HuCard ISO.. I will not go into details (for obvious reasons), but I did have a small hand in helping to get that out.

-bt

[MottZilla]

Alright, I just thought I'd ask incase that made any difference.

[shubibiman]

Haven't read all the messages but let me tell you one thing : selling back ups sucks, even if you only charge for the cd-r. It's sooo cheap I just give it away (and burning a CD takes soooo much of my time).

[SchattenJager0]

Ive never sold a CDR of ANYTHING (music,games, whatever) to anyone.  Me and my friends are all gamers so we all respect each other and never think twice about "payment" for games with each other.  

Besides, CDRs are so cheap anyway... me and my friends usually just have a few spindles of 'community' blank CDrs we use.

In terms of being paid for the time involved:
The TIME put into finding ISOs and burning them always seemed like part of the fun to me.   I always liked wading thru things and trying to make things work correctly.   Even if im just taking the time to make a CDr to give my friends, I'm usually excited to share games with them, because I know they appreciate it, and would do the same for me.

to me, its always been about the games, not money.

[MottZilla]

As far as the cost of CD-Rs, they really do add up unless you totally cheap out. And with each burn that does wear on your burner. So eventually it is going to cost you.

But ofcourse, I don't agree with charging people for property you don't own, though having them pay for the medium it is contained on doesn't bother me. CD-Rs and DVD-Rs cost under 50 cents per disc, depending on the brand and where you buy them. So you probably spend more money on the jewel case for whatever you burnt!

I did actually buy some PSX games on CD-Rs waaaaaay back many many years. Back when PSX was actually alive.