r/gog

It's been my go to for the last 16 years or so. These are the first rows of the library I've built up as time has gone by. An example of what a disposable income and poor impulse control for almost 2 decades can lead to. No regrets.

Grog is a new desktop app (Windows, macOS, Linux) that backs up the DRM-free games you own on GOG, both the installers and the extras, and can back up your GOG cloud saves too. Use it as a regular app or from the command line. It handles scheduled backups, multiple drives or a NAS, and picks up where it left off after a pause or an interrupted download.

I hope you find it useful!

Github: Grog v0.1.1

Well I'm extremely disappointed. I was really hoping to finally try this game out and after almost wrapping up the tutorial, I saved, but didn't actually save. I'm shocked that this game breaking bug is not discussed more. I verified the game files, I ran the game as administrator, I turned off cloud sync, I even tried adding the launcher through steam. My patience is kind of at the end of it's rope with this game and that sucks really hard because I was really liking it.

EDIT: I thought I got it working. I reinstalled the game to a directory not within the program files x86 ( I have no idea if the directory location is crucial but it ain't broke now) then I opened properties on the game launcher. There I checked the box to always run as administrator, as well as enabling compatibility mode with windows 8. This let me save but about another hour in I tried making a second save and this is where I hit a brick wall all over again.

Huge thanks to the work u/el-jimador for the hard work he put into the packager project as well as the cover templates. I modified his original blu-ray template to fit regular DVD cases.

With the game case boom that went viral on our community, I've wanted to give it a try too, taking a plastic case, printing a cover-art and placing it on my shelf; but one of the problems is that I have is that I don't own a disk reader to write/read optical media. Therefore the hero for my problem could it be the little USB Stick.

It presents a lot of benefits over optical media:

• These are easily rewritable.
• Less prone to damage while being handled.
• You don't need a optical disk reader. This a bigger concern since recent PCs (pre-builts and laptops) are less likely to them preinstalled, so you may need an external one. At the same time. Many of the times you may even need a second reader for Blurays.
• Faster reading/writing speed than the average optical media.
• Can hold a lot of more data on the same physical space.
• Cheaper than optical media on average for relatively bigger games (bigger than 32GB, it can vary with Bluray disks)

And at the same time it presents many downsides:

• One of my main concerns: There are not standard Case sizes for USB sticks. This makes difficult to find community made covers for games that would be compatible for them.
  • I have found some Bluray-sized cases around the internet, but many of the fan covers are DVD-sized (Different aspect ratio: both share same width and depth, but different height)
  • Kinda related: there are not standard form and size factors for the USB sticks themselves.
• Harder to personalize than optical media with printed art, so the average USB-Stick ends up being a lot less charming than the printed disks (yet I prefer them a lot more over the disks with no art)
• These are not as cheap than optical media for smaller games (games smaller than a CD or single-layer DVD. This does not apply to Bluray disks)

I am personally not very interested in archiving my entire collection, I just want to try it with my favorite games. Still any opinions and personal experiences would be truly appreciated 😊.

My first owned game (wolfenstein the new collosus)

Edit : sry for bad english 🫠