Original non working floppies, back in the day - Page 2

AEV · 29 September 2021, 07:06

I had to return Shadow of the Beast II - wouldn't boot from Disk 1. Bought it via mail order so was a bit of a wait for the replacement disks.

sittingduck · 29 September 2021, 08:45

In the early 90's I worked in a small games store after school. One of the things I did was make sure people had working copies when they complained about a game not working. If they were simple read errors we'd fix it ourselves by copying the faulty tracks from a good copy. But there were several times we experienced faulty games that required us getting new batches from our suppliers. I've mostly forgotten which games they were, but Ishar 2 (might have been caused by a requirement for the game to be un-writeproteted IIRC) and A320 Airbus stand out. Also at one time our main supplier asked if they could "borrow" me to have a look at a huge batch of Monkey Island 2 games that had been returned to them as faulty. I simply fired up X-Copy and did a checkdisk and found that there was a bad track on one of the later disks. We fixed it by just copying this track from a good set. Yes, those were the days of easy fixes :-) Best part about the job was that I could bring home all the games I wanted, if only I returned them in good condition.

sparhawk · 29 September 2021, 11:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by sittingduck

Best part about the job was that I could bring home all the games I wanted, if only I returned them in good condition.

Yeah! I also worked in a shop at this time, and this was definitely a nice benefit.

And I had to play them, as I had to know what to talk to a customer when he is asking.

kremiso · 15 October 2021, 19:39

Being a passionate player and also a vgames shop owner...
that's a dream for me
true confict of interest

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29 September 2021, 07:06	#21
AEV Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 57	I had to return Shadow of the Beast II - wouldn't boot from Disk 1. Bought it via mail order so was a bit of a wait for the replacement disks.

29 September 2021, 08:45	#22
sittingduck Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Aarhus, Denmark Age: 46 Posts: 91	In the early 90's I worked in a small games store after school. One of the things I did was make sure people had working copies when they complained about a game not working. If they were simple read errors we'd fix it ourselves by copying the faulty tracks from a good copy. But there were several times we experienced faulty games that required us getting new batches from our suppliers. I've mostly forgotten which games they were, but Ishar 2 (might have been caused by a requirement for the game to be un-writeproteted IIRC) and A320 Airbus stand out. Also at one time our main supplier asked if they could "borrow" me to have a look at a huge batch of Monkey Island 2 games that had been returned to them as faulty. I simply fired up X-Copy and did a checkdisk and found that there was a bad track on one of the later disks. We fixed it by just copying this track from a good set. Yes, those were the days of easy fixes :-) Best part about the job was that I could bring home all the games I wanted, if only I returned them in good condition.

15 October 2021, 19:39	#24
kremiso Registered User Join Date: Dec 2020 Location: Italy Posts: 1,897	Being a passionate player and also a vgames shop owner... that's a dream for me true confict of interest

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