Will cdrs wear out a pc engine cd system?

[Firebomber7]

that's your call, and i don't blame you. sometimes people are so lazy it blows my mind away that they ask a question that is answered in the thread right above them. but not all of them are that way, and some need genuine help. we have to distinguish between the two, or we will drive away good people while keeping the bad. either way, whatever you do is your business, i have no place to judge. not everyoen is born with the same level of understanding, and some need more help. my two cents.

Yeah, I know that stuff. Sometimes I'm good about it.

[HercTNT]

yes you are, are some people are trying really hard to be stupid lately. I can't blame you.

[spenoza]

I will be the first to stand up and say that I hate most forum search tools. They typically suck balls and are nitpicky. Beyond that, most forum discussions are littered with typos and misspellings. Still, this particular topic is one that probably WOULD have come out of a simple search without much futzing around, especially given how frequently this topic comes up. Posters are rightfully expected to attempt a search or two before asking. On the other hand, posters are all too often taken to task for being unsuccessful with an insufficient search tool.

tldr: I have no problem with someone asking a repeat question as long as they first made at least an effort to use the forum's search tools to find it. I won't blame someone for not finding what they need in the results unless the result should have been pretty obvious. The effort is what counts in most cases.

[GohanX]

I'm not going to get into the debate again, but with your skills Drakon, I don't think you need to worry about it since I think a lens replacement would probably be a piece of cake for you.

[Drakon]

My personal favourite was on sega16 when I first started posting my mods and my opinions of other peoples mods I'd get nothing but trash talk.  People would get so angry at me because I'd tell them the video encoder they were using was "crap" and a "waste of time" but I wouldn't explain why right away.  After getting pages of anger thrown my way and me explaining WHY I said what I said one forum member was like "you should explain your reasons first".  Then he continued by listing a bunch of other modding users and says "they've proven themselves so they don't have to explain themselves".  Of course now I've proven them mostly wrong, in fact one of these other "proven" modders comes to me for advice now.  People tend to blindly discredit outsiders I find, so this really isn't nearly as much stupidity as I've seen on other forums.  The other thing I got was people bashing my work because it was done differently than how these "proven" modders build things.  I use a lot of hot glue to keep things from breaking, they bashed that, then I watched all of their modded electronics fail because they weren't secured well enough.

[Necromancer]

I did get lazy and never bothered searching for the answers first.

Obviously, but please, please, please make the effort in the future.  It gets old having weekly threads for CDR use, price guides, or 'what's your favorite game'.

[geise]

CDr's might not wear on the system itself, but it will wear on the patients of older forum members that have tried to answer this topic more than 100 times.

[_joshuaTurbo]

CDr's might not wear on the system itself, but it will wear on the patients of older forum members that have tried to answer this topic more than 100 times.

+1

Best way to play CDr copies of Turbob games is on an Xbox (MednafenX) or Magic Engine on a PC. 

[Bernie]

CDr's might not wear on the system itself, but it will wear on the patients of older forum members that have tried to answer this topic more than 100 times.

+1

Best way to play CDr copies of Turbob games is on an Xbox (MednafenX) or Magic Engine on a PC.  

If ya gonna play it in ME on a PC, may as well just mount the image in daemon tools and save a disc.  

Or ootake....or TurboEngine...      hmmm...

[Black Tiger]

The search function doesn't work as good as it could, but most of the time these threads are duplicates of threads that are found on the first or second page of the appropriate section. A few times this year, they have been the same as active threads third of fourth from the top of the first page.

[geise]

Very true BT, but typing in cdr, or cd-r, or cdr's, or cdrs brings up many topics when I search.  I make sure I'm in the HOME section and then do a search.  It will search all topics of the forums.  I do think that we need some kind of sticky though.  Maybe do some advertisement for it.

[jperryss]

Here is a tip for searching ANY message board, not just this one. Use Google, and add "site:pcenginefx.com" (or whatever board you want to search). It will return only matches found on the site you specify, and it usually finds stuff that is 'close' to what you key in.

Example.

[spenoza]

Google is great that way, but I don't know that I would expect every member to jump through that hoop. Google-based searching can be incorporated in the forum itself, frankly, and if it is acknowledged that the forum search tool is tripe steps should be taken to remedy it.