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RE: Why day 1 updates and patches will ruin video game collecting
I think it might be more likely, at least for emulation purposes, that people will figure out how to rip patched versions of the games and create images of those. Once the images exist, they could be written back to a physical disk, game system hard drive or whatever media. As downloadable games become the norm, I think this will have to ultimately be the solution if these games are to be preserved.
I think what you spelled out will be pretty much what we'll have to do, though its going to make physical game discs and carts practically worthless if the 'fixed' versions of these games are floating around the Internet. What value is there in the game disc if there's no way to play the patched/fixed version on real hardware?
Thanks for the input.