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[ERYFKRAD]

Do any of you have problems downloading games using Galaxy? For me, it's a nightmare. Installations often fail randomly, sometimes it takes two or three attempts to download a game. My internet is crap, but I don't have this problem with any other launchers. For example, when a download stops on Steam for some reason, it keeps attempting to download until it works. On GOG, it just fails and that's it. And cloud saves often fail to upload, as well.

Usually happens while the devs are pushing a new build when you're downloading, I find. Much more reliable to download the offline installers and use them.

 

[racofer]

Do any of you have problems downloading games using Galaxy? For me, it's a nightmare. Installations often fail randomly, sometimes it takes two or three attempts to download a game. My internet is crap, but I don't have this problem with any other launchers. For example, when a download stops on Steam for some reason, it keeps attempting to download until it works. On GOG, it just fails and that's it. And cloud saves often fail to upload, as well.

Offline installers + lgogdownloader is the answer:
https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader

 

[Baron Dupek]

Looks like Potato is going through rought times (even worse than usual) so time to counterweight it with good stuff.
New sales and another, long awaited local classic.
One of the few games that can be considered old and good from that period of post soviet wild west capitalism

https://af.gog.com/game/galador_the_prince_and_the_coward?as=1649904300

 

[Fronzel Neekburm]

Freebie: Outcast

 

[ferratilis]

Guys, another question. I would like to download all the installers for classic games on GOG (of which I have quite a few) because you never know when these dipshits might go full retard and disable them. Their Hitman shenanigans dont make me optimistic about the future of non-DRM stores. How reliable would an external hard drive be for storing those installers and bonus content? Are they prone to corruption if you use them between several PCs, like some USB flash drives are?

 

[Anthedon]

Depending on file size I'd go with DVD or Blu-ray as the long term storage solution. Until they stop building optical drives, that is.

 

[catfood]

In my experience external HDDs have been quite stable. I have yet to have one to crash. One of them had a problem where sometimes the PC wasn't able to read it, but it turned out that the drive was ok, it was the cable that was causing problems. So keep that in mind.

Personally I keep installers on external HDDs. I keep some on DVD's as well. Thankfully with these old games you can put multiple ones on a disc. Ultimately there is no sure fire way of storing data. The best policy of course is to not keep all your eggs in one basket.

 

[racofer]

The best approach is to have redundancy. Don't place all your backups in just one location.

Ideally, you want an offsite location to keep your backups, like cloud storage. Use encryption so that nothing gets wrongly flagged, as every cloud storage provider will snoop around your files.

 

[ferratilis]

Since I don't have a burner right now, external HDD seems like a good choice. Although you have a point, a lot of those games have smaller size (all the Ultimas, M&Ms, Quest for Glory 1-5 and so on) so they might easily go to the cloud. Thanks bros.

 

[Bad Sector]

I have way too many files for cloud or DVDs or anything like that (and DVDs are fickle really, i have a bunch of older DVDs that... peeled off - M-DISC DVDs are supposed to be made to last for a long time but never tried those and TBF the 4GB limit is too... limiting and AFAIK M-DISC Blu-Rays are just marketing). My GOG download folder alone is 3TB so i'd need around ~653 DVDs just for that :-P not to mention all the other stuff i have on my external HDD.

From what i've read the two most practical long term storage approaches is to use external HDDs and data tapes. External HDDs should be replaced every few years - just copy the existing data to a new larger disk and store the current disk in a safe place (so it also acts as a backup, at least for your older data, though note that statistically HDDs are very unreliable when left powered off for long periods of time). The data tape approach can be better for long term storage as tapes can last a long time under good conditions - sadly this does not include hot environments, etc. Prices can also be good long term as the tapes themselves are very cheap (e.g. ~75 euros for a 12TB tape) though the drives are far from cheap (~3-4k euros) and aren't even that backwards compatible. Still IMO it'd be the best solution if it wasn't for the temperature and humidity requirements due to how much data you can store.

Personally i'll be looking into this soon as i am already past my external HDD limit (i've started temporarily deleting the Mac OS X versions of some larger GOG games to release some storage when i need it - this is with the goal of downloading them again later once i have a larger disk, but i wont need these files any time soon as i rarely game on my Mac nowadays). I'll probably buy a 18TB disk drive to replace my current 8TB one which i bought ~3.5 years ago - though i am waiting for the prices to fall for a bit. Another option i am considering is building a NAS with multiple smaller HDDs on a software RAID setup (perhaps FreeNAS or something like that which uses ZFS that protects against bitrot) which should protect against hardware failure (if the single external HDD breaks then all is lost but with a -e.g.- RAIDz1 setup which uses a single HDD for parity together with some additional data HDDs, i should be both notified for such a HDD failure and be able to replace the failed disk and restore any data, at the cost of that parity HDD's space of course).

 

[Viata]

You bought the game. If you ever lost it forever, just download the gog version from some torrent site. There will be 0 differences.

 

[negator2vc]

my advice is to also create hash files (for ex. I use sha256) to go along with the installers (especially for the ones with multiple parts) for easy verification of file corruption.
Personally I use Total Commander (win) /Double Commander (linux) to make those.
And of course have backups of those external hdd ;-)

 

[racofer]

my advice is to also create hash files (for ex. I use sha256) to go along with the installers (especially for the ones with multiple parts) for easy verification of file corruption.

That's something lgogdownloader does automatically.

You can also do a full check of your entire GOG library and have it automatically redownload anything that might have gotten corrupted.

 

[Bad Sector]

You bought the game. If you ever lost it forever, just download the gog version from some torrent site. There will be 0 differences.

That'd be something i might consider if my own data is lost, but the entire point of me wanting DRM-free games is to be able to keep my own copies.

 

[Viata]

Which is why I said "if you ever lost it forever".

 

[Baron Dupek]

Surprise release
https://af.gog.com/game/eye_divine_cybermancy?as=1649904300
Single Player Edition

The version of the game sold on GOG is a single-player only edition – it means online and LAN modes are not accessible.

 

[rohand]

Surprise release
https://af.gog.com/game/eye_divine_cybermancy?as=1649904300
Single Player Edition

The version of the game sold on GOG is a single-player only edition – it means online and LAN modes are not accessible.

I wonder if GOG simply removed multiplayer DRM or they fixed the dreaded save issue in Win10

 

[Abu Antar]

Currently free on the main page:
https://af.gog.com/game/steamworld_dig_2?as=1649904300

 

[Semiurge]

Are they prone to corruption if you use them between several PCs, like some USB flash drives are?

What is this?

Use encryption so that nothing gets wrongly flagged, as every cloud storage provider will snoop around your files.

This is sneaky as fuck. Officially they look for contraband like child porn or perhaps even hate material, but unofficially they also do surveys on people's preferences which is useful for marketing research. They may claim otherwise, but why would they bother to have some AI look for contraband alone? There would be no profit in it for them, and AFAIK they're not forced to go through people's files. They actually want to.

 

[Narushima]

I just noticed a number tacked on to the end of the GOG forum URL. Is that new? And what does it mean?
I've censored it, just in case.

 

[Bad Sector]

Judging from the code where it is referenced it looks like some hash, most likely about the forum URL itself as it is the same (1636854360) regardless of browser, OS, login status (ie. it appears even when you are logged out) or your IP. My guess is that it is used to redirect to whatever URL you were looking at after going through a login and instead of storing the full URL in all the hidden form entries to bring you back they store some hash that represents whatever you were looking at.

Also there is a weeb explosion with 11 IDEA FACTORY games, in case you are one of us into that:

https://af.gog.com/news/11_titles_from_idea_factory_arrive_at_our_store?as=1649904300

• DATE A LIVE: Rio Reincarnation (-65%)
• Death end re;Quest (-70%)
• Death end re;Quest 2 (-60%)
• Dragon Star Varnir (-70%)
• Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force (-60%)
• Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds (-35%)
• Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms (-35%)
• Moero Chronicles (-50%)
• Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed (-55%)
• Neptunia Virtual Stars (-60%)• Super Neptunia RPG (-70%)

(i've only played the first Neptunia -not from the list above, the first that GOG has- for a bit though i never finished it)

EDIT: also that thing where GOG has a sale, i check it out and add a bunch of games to my wishlist only for GOG later to send me an email that some of my wishlisted games are on sale :-P

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Lol. Yep gog does that.

• DATE A LIVE: Rio Reincarnation (-65%) (3VN BUNDLE according to review)
  
• Death end re;Quest (-70%) (TB-action+VN)
  
• Death end re;Quest 2 (-60%) (TB-action+VN)
  
• Dragon Star Varnir (-70%) RPG? (TB-action+VN)
• Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force (-60%)B (RPG? TB-action+VN)
• Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds (-35%) (VN)
• Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms (-35%) (VN)
• Moero Chronicles (-50%) (blobber, dating sim, VN, rub em)
• Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed (-55%) (3D action game)
• Neptunia Virtual Stars (-60%)
• Super Neptunia RPG (-70%) (platform, TB RPG+VN)

Old ones?

• Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 (RPG? TB-action+VN)
  
• Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth2: Sisters Generation (RPG? TB-action+VN)
• Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3 V Generation (RPG? TB-action+VN)
• Megadimension Neptunia VIIR (4th game RPG? TB-action+VN)
• Amnesia Memories (visual novel)
• Agarest Generations of War (tactical)
• Agarest Generations of War Zero (tactical)
  
• Agarest Generations of War 2 (tactical)
  
• Mary Skelter: Nightmares (blobber of sorts 1 of 3 in a series)

That's my guess on these games. Primarily, they are VN.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Coming soon:
Mechajammer
https://af.gog.com/game/mechajammer?as=1649904300

 

[Endemic]

Focus Interactive sale: https://af.gog.com/promo/2021_focus_home_interactive_sale?as=1649904300

 

[SpellSword]

Surprise release
https://af.gog.com/game/eye_divine_cybermancy?as=1649904300
Single Player Edition

The version of the game sold on GOG is a single-player only edition – it means online and LAN modes are not accessible.

This may be of interest, it appears someone named MadGrenadier on the GOG forum has managed to patched LAN back into the GOG release of E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy - Single-Player Edition.

(MadGrenadier wrote: ) https://www.gog.com/forum/eye_divine_cybermancy/not_even_lan/post21

I took some time to edit the resource files to turn the hidden menu options back on.
The entries all still existed in the files, they just either got commented out, or had their visibility changed to hidden.

Here is a github link to get the files, It updates the Secondary Missions button to be create server, with the option to set the gametype to campaign or map selection.

https://github.com/jsuhoversnik/EYE-GoG-Lan-Fixes

To join a server you still need to use the console with 'connect <ip>' but this at least makes creating the lobby much nicer.
Games created with the UI have the maxplayers set to 32, so it also means you don't need to mess with that command.

If anyone gets a chance to try it out let me know if it works fine or if you run into any issues. I'll try to remember to keep checking in for updates.