Anyone still using RIP's ?

No, they suck!

[acidack]

havent got a rip game for sometime, i used to love rips, esp bcoz it was very nice installing em, and luking at all the fancy installers these rip groups released. and of course, how u culd many games onto one cd. but rips r well alive, just that, u cant download them through p2p proggies,.. but u shuldnt b using that in the first place.. warez http sites used to host rips.. dunno about now..

but, isoz are the way,.. but if u have bandwith limitations, then rips are gud..

dvdripz,.. mmmmm nice..

i still download rips for games that i only half fancy, just to try it out, if its good then i will get full Cd version. When the game is crap at least i havent wasted hours downloading.

Cherzo

I totally agree, sorta like a full demo

Well ya if you are on 56k then ya dl rips but if you have acess to broadband then y not get the best i don't like rips but if that is all i can get i'll suffer with it.But i'll stick with dling the iso's.
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[Muerl]

wow this forum is deader and deader every year

doesn't matter, rips are growing every day.
and, Myth just made a proper for Kelly Slater rip by Class.
Class wrote about uharc tactic (2001), does somebody know something about it ?

[ToxicMussels]

rips were mainly here because of slow ass dialup connection which makes it really hard to download 650MB for just one game, the reason is gone..

This not totally true.
Rips were here due to the fact that many years ago cd burners were not around, you could download a rip which was comprised of floppy size parts and save it. We didn't even have virtual drives in those days to mount an image with.
Yes, it's true that dial-up had something to do with it.

Back On Topic: I love rips! Especially being back on 56k. Reminds me of the good ole' days 11 years ago.

In general, I prefer to see the whole game; movies and all before I make a determination as to whether it is a keeper or not...hence, I may actually buy it if I like it! So, no RIPS for me....unless it is the only release there is.

You guys better get used to RIP-games!
Within 10 years most of us will track the
RIP scene instead of the ISO scene since
all of them will be released on DVD or on
god knows what...

Don't have high hopes on providers disabling
bandwith limitation since practically everyone
will have Inet access by then and I cannot
imagine any network having enough 'power'
to handle millions of subscribers leeching
avg 1,000,000 of gigs per hour

Btw, what's the latest on 'Internet via electricity
cables' ?

I still use rips. i think rips are still useful because not everywhere in the world has broadband access. I am still on a 56K dialup, and rips are good for me.

Yes, rips are No1. I say fuck the rule with 63F/2.88MB!!
That was useful in the 80's...

Anyone still using RIP's ?

Such a shame, people start to give up while some games take only 150 MB.

Hey, you can burn 4 of them on 1 CD !

[X31]

It's unlikely that the scene will shift focus to rips.  While developers could use the full storage potential of a DVD, they are unlikely to do so, simply because content has to be created quickly (too quickly to fill up a DVD with content) to grab the consumers $50 per title and move on to the next project.

Yes, rips are No1. I say fuck the rule with 63F/2.88MB!!
That was useful in the 80's...



 

well, in the 80s, 63F of 2.88 each was way enough  By the way, any soft that was so big at that time?
More seriouly, those rules have to be updated, and I'm ready to bet they'll be updated.  Since it becomes more and more difficult to rip games (there are often games of 2cd +). That's why that scene is dying slowing.

In general, I prefer to see the whole game; movies and all before I make a determination as to whether it is a keeper or not...hence, I may actually buy it if I like it! So, no RIPS for me....unless it is the only release there is.

Yep, same here.

I can see rips coming back in style, as games get bigger. But then again, bandwidth may increase at the same speed, if not faster...