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Wasn't sure if a "poll" was possible on here, I glanced around and searched for lightscribe and came up with nothing. Soooo...
To the GoG Admins or whomever, and anyone with an opinion..
Would it be possible to have LightScribe Disc Labels(images) provided for purchased games? (originals or GoG style made)
Do you think they should be available?
I do, just as a helpful item for users who burn games to CDs and DVDs for storage. That and the fact that I have horrible handwriting.
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Aren't lightscribe prints/burns monochrome? Also aren't the discs rather expensive?
It'd be cool to see I agree but at least for me I'd probably not use them, aside from the expense of the discs, I'd be more than likely to have more than one GOG per disc so on a personal level any label I had on it would probably have to reflect the true contents rather than my favourite thing on there
Well, the community here made their own DVD case designs, lightscribe or similar disc labels are one of the next things to do.
Make a few mockups, and see if others join in.
What I would do is find pictures of the original disc art and see if they work in black and white. If they do, I'd add a little GOG.COM label on the bottom.
I have a LightScribe drive on my family's HP, and yes, the discs are expensive. However, this idea is actually pretty cool, and I'd use the labels if they looked decent enough.
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what? are you kidding me?
throw this guy under a bus for me, ok?
Not a bad idea.
Not a bad idea.
Though I have a Canon Pixma, and it does disc printing in colour, so maybe some coloured images AND monochrome ones?
Stupidest idea ever from an archiving standpoint....
Digital media need some special handling to let them "live" for the longest possible time, and surely writing on the label face with a laser isn't the best thing to do in that regard....
Post edited August 02, 2009 by KingofGnG
Ha, seems to be pretty mixed opinions on this. Although my answer still stands as yes. As making copies on CDs and DVDs has saved me more than once. Flash Drives and Hard Drives DO go bad, and have for me before (not that discs don't). I'm not sure how many of you have had this happen. My only time of having a disc go bad has been during extended use (namely back in the Diablo days). However, there is no actual needed use of a CD with GoG games so once the copy is is made, it's a "store it till you need it" thing. I've made my own labels for several games of which I've made copies of, such as Baldur's Gate's play disc, where the CD is needed. This way my original is still in mint condition. For the smaller games that do not completely fill a disc, it just comes down to your choice of course. Again, it is just an idea, maybe not the best, but surely not a bad one. Once that external drive goes down and you lose a TB (TB is just an example, I know that would take tons of discs) of storage or you plug in that USB flash drive and it says it MUST be formatted before use, you'll see what I mean. Lightscribe labels would just add a little higher quality appeal to the disc way of storage, and save (me anyway) trouble of trying to write where it can be read in the future.
And for the colored and monochrome images, I do agree with that fully, as mine are mono. A very detailed image doesn't look good on monochrome. So I try to keep mine simple.
Keep the comments coming though =)
I don't know where this expense issue comes from, here in blighty I find that a decent quality Lightscribe disc costs about the same as a decent quality standard one. It is a nice idea though, www.cdcovers.cc would be a good place to start the search.
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Weclock: what? are you kidding me?
throw this guy under a bus for me, ok?
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KingofGnG: Stupidest idea ever from an archiving standpoint....

I've always loved how some guys here (always the sames in fact) disagree in a very very "classy" way... very constructive.
I also have the habit to burn everything on CDs/DVDs for storage, archiving. Some years ago I had also the habit to print nice covers and labels, but I stopped that. Because it was taking too much time, and mostly because it was taking too much space. Now it's simple CDs/DVDs, with titles written handly, and stored in empty blank CDs/DVDs column boxes.
And, like Aliasalpha, I generally wait to have a lot of content of the same subject/collection to burn them on a DVD using the maximum of available space.
Not a bad idea.
MobyGames also has lots of box/disc scans.
All of this is a curiosity anyway so we may as well have a good time. Who would of thought we would be buying classic games again except for being on Ebay? I have a feeling that eventually our kids will be selling our stuff thinking it's the real thing, simulacra at work. So I would just roll with it because it was going to come up eventually. There's tons of fans here who want to express love for classic games they've played or never played and show their compassion for people they don't even know.
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DarthKaal: I've always loved how some guys here (always the sames in fact) disagree in a very very "classy" way... very constructive.
maybe I should elaborate - the disc images are typically available on GOOGLE so hosting them on GOG is really needless. :/
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Weclock: maybe I should elaborate - the disc images are typically available on GOOGLE so hosting them on GOG is really needless. :/

The same could be said for an awful lot of the additional content provided by GOG, it's still nice to have it accessible from this site.