Physical Discs for Tables I bought

[Cavemaaan]

Hello

I recently purchased my first new game console since Colecovision back in 1984. I bought an Xbox 360 Slim and was very pleased to find the PinballFX2 demo on the system. After trying the demos, I decided to buy all of the tables available along with the PinballFX & PinballFX2 base games. Altogether I bought all 21 tables available.

I'm asking my question as a 25yr pinball addict who has three real pinball machines at home and who still enjoys the sims too. I bought all of the old pc sims when they were out in the 90's and Timeshock was definitely one of my favorites. I can still to this day pop in the install cd for Timeshock and play away.

My question is, I want to have a hardcopy disc of all in my hand should anything bad happen to the system down the road. I've paid for all of the tables and for the main programs, how do I get a backup copy?

Thanks,
DG

[Boulderdash]

No worries. You won't be charged for re-downloading. It is linked to your XBOX ID.

[Cavemaaan]

I do worry about it because looking at the history of technology, stuff goes out of fashion after a handful of years and support is dropped time and time again. I really am enjoying the heck out of these tables.

One of the younger guys at work was tellin me I can possibly copy the files onto a usb flash drive for backup. Question is now, can I copy those to my XP computer and archive them to a CDR/DVDR? if the files are linked internally on the Xbox360S, do I need to back up an ID file or anything that tells the game files that they're legit?

I know I sound like I'm not listening to the obvious answer of online re-download, but as expensive as cable internet is, I may see a day in the future when I have to drop my internet access to afford more important bills at home. Therefore I'd like a failsafe in the case that microsoft moves onto to newer consoles and discontinues support and in case I no longer have web access (right now comcrass internet alone is $75/month and they never get cheaper with their local monopoly).

I also look at it this way, my first "console" system was a coloecovision which I still have an I really loved some of the games on there as cheesy as that sounds to kids who could be my children at my age. I can still pull out that colecovision and play it to this day as I have a "hardcopy" of the games I paid for back then

Just like the other games I've bought recently like Red Dead Redemption, Dragon Age II, and Portal 2 for Windows - 15 years from now I can pull out those discs and play the games again

That's what I'm askin for here with PinballFX2 game/tables - a disc or way to create a restore disc for the game licenses I paid near $50 for.

DG

[MAT]

Quality of the consoles these days is so bad that they are not going to last 15+ years. Nothing to run the physical media on except emulators (that are hopefully good enough at that time..).

You can copy and archive the game files and and even the title updates (patches), or the Internet does that for you. But legality is of course another matter.

I think the consoles' flash memory and the key vault specifically that holds the licenses is the real Achilles heel. Without the license the game cannot be run because Xbox Live for 360 doesn't exist anymore. Also the licenses cannot be transferred or duplicated to another console for the same reason. Unless the console is completely cracked at some point.

The gamers are usually against piracy, but piracy may be the only method that saves this generation of gaming for future generations. The companies will hold their intellectual property rights for the maximum time the law allows, and that's ridiculously long. A lot of stuff may go to the digital black hole

[Boulderdash]

If.. there are still new consoles in 15 years. It would'nt surprise me if the games will stream from a cloud service.

[Singleton28]

I do worry about it because looking at the history of technology, stuff goes out of fashion after a handful of years and support is dropped time and time again. I really am enjoying the heck out of these tables.

One of the younger guys at work was tellin me I can possibly copy the files onto a usb flash drive for backup. Question is now, can I copy those to my XP computer and archive them to a CDR/DVDR? if the files are linked internally on the Xbox360S, do I need to back up an ID file or anything that tells the game files that they're legit?

I know I sound like I'm not listening to the obvious answer of online re-download, but as expensive as cable internet is, I may see a day in the future when I have to drop my internet access to afford more important bills at home. Therefore I'd like a failsafe in the case that microsoft moves onto to newer consoles and discontinues support and in case I no longer have web access (right now comcrass internet alone is $75/month and they never get cheaper with their local monopoly).

I also look at it this way, my first "console" system was a coloecovision which I still have an I really loved some of the games on there as cheesy as that sounds to kids who could be my children at my age. I can still pull out that colecovision and play it to this day as I have a "hardcopy" of the games I paid for back then

Just like the other games I've bought recently like Red Dead Redemption, Dragon Age II, and Portal 2 for Windows - 15 years from now I can pull out those discs and play the games again

That's what I'm askin for here with PinballFX2 game/tables - a disc or way to create a restore disc for the game licenses I paid near $50 for.

DG

I can agree with the idea here, i was reluctant to purchase any games this way because of that. I am an older gamer and still have a room full of hard copies and boxes of stuff. I figure i'll just enjoy it while it lasts... hopefully I will be able to play theses tables until I tire of them. But the old guy in me would pay a little bit more to get a disc...Just my opinion.