Could /v/ tell me how do they mass produce a game when it's

>>387519858
"Gold Disks" are usually send off to CD factorys where they just copy the code of the original CD and burn it unto the final disks that land in the store. The gold disk gets destroyed afterwards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_manufacturing

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>>387519858

>>387520009
But how can they burn millions of disks in a short period of time?

>>387519858
usually they make a huge cylinder then slice it up on one of those Deli cutters, then they send it to india where children scoop out the core and turn it into DLC.

>>387520009

>The gold disk gets destroyed afterwards.

why? because the gold disk contains the source code?

>>387520181
Its like you don't have the internet at your fingertips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XfBpVC-Sm4

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>>387520181
They have gigantic factories, anon...

>>387520181
Its called a factory, anon. Machines designed specifically to produce a lot of an item quickly.

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>>387520227

>>387520181
Specialised burners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tICGTtQVWdg

Throughput of a couple hundred cds every hour, but they can run 24/7

>>387520250
Exactly. Copyright protection and obfuscating gets added during the copying process

>>387520290
and thats shit from the 90s or whatever so things are obviously getting more advanced

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might as well ask here, how did they make games back in the nes/master system era? computers werent even a thing until the 90s so what the hell did they make the games on ?

>>387520491
Not really.
Optical manufacturing hasn't changed much since the 90s, the same concepts for CD manufacturing are true for DVDs and Bue-Rays.

>>387519858
Spotted the faggot who doesn't know how game development work. In the modern era of game development the disc is gold a lot sooner and when the game goes gold what this means for you retards out there is that if you buy a game day one and play offline there is a chance sometimes higher than others depending on what the game is and for this one again that has went gold and then got delayed and then went gold again no shit Sherlock that the version of the game on that disc is not going to be the same as when the game comes out especially on Steam as a whole fresh download where everything just downloads anyway.

>>387520537
bait.jpg.exe

>>387519858
Stay in school, kids.

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>>387520537
>computers weren't even a thing until the 90s
Hi underage

>>387520181
How do they make millions of frozen waffles?

>>387520537
>computers werent even a thing until the 90s

Home computers yes, but computers have existed a long time before that

>>387520290
So the word i had to search for was "replicate" thanks senpai

I don't get it, why do people get off by pretending to be stupid? Like what could that possibly achieve

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>>387520791
Pancake batter gets pumped into big round molds and the blanks get shipped to india where little kids chisel out the holes inbetween

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>>387520227

>>387520537

they physically manipulated the electrons with the delicate flaps of butterfly wings

>>387520250
No, the source code exists only on the dev machines, the gold disk is the compiled program. Reason it's destroyed is so the factory company doesn't end up with a bunch of copy-ready media that may end up being sold to a chink company or something if the factory goes bankrupt. >>387520420 is partially right in that the factory adds all the cd-specific DRM, which if it's the only protection the software has, can make the gold copy especially valuable.

>>387520879
>>387520781
>>387520745
maybe he meant 1890's

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>>387520537

You know those big machines that you sometime see in retro futuristic games like Fallout and stuff?

They take paper that has holes in it to represent 1's and 0's. They basically popped holes into paper, and put those into a machine. They do this thousands of times and the computer stores this.

When they're done doing this, the computer prints out the board that are used inside NES/SMS games. Once this happens, they can just copy the board using a 3D printer.

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>>387521269
Come on. Mechanical computation was a thing in the 1800s

>>387521238
That was also the reason why people recently chimped out about the starcraft gold disk.

Imagine what would've happened if the unprotected source code got into the public.

This thread is just bizarre. Not even insulting like most of the shit around here, just bizarre. I honestly am not sure what is going on here.

>>387521063
they also poo in the holes.

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>>387521501
I wonder how they precompiled and play tested their shit on analog mechanical computers

>>387521713
Only the ones with chocolate frosting

>>387521754
rip mac man

>>387521754
With pen and paper.

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>>387521853

>>387522098
>Earliest playtests
>Devs had to change massive parts of their games because playtesters were to dumb for math

>>387522089
>rip
why though?

>>387520181
chinese sweatshops were thousands of chinks burn the discs while their kids draw the covers

>>387520420
YOUUU YOU CAN DO ANYTHING YOU WANT TO YOUUUUU CAN DO ANYTHINGGGG

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>>387522406

once when i was 9 i went to my grandmas house and had these realy fucking good waffles with froot loops in them

>>387522490
>Mixing cereals with waffles

May she rot in hell

>>387522490
>>387520791
>>387521063
>>387521713
>>387521853
>>387522265
>>387522490
waffles are shit anyways, pancakes are god tier breakfast food.

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>>387522546
nah senpai they were really fucking good

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>>387522593

>>387521754
those old wax cylinder players, they were truly analog, you just wind it up and put in a cylinder and music played, i wonder why nobody has tried making a truly non-electric music player again, something that actually plays songs, not just like a novelty music box, but actual music

>>387522918
Fast decay is what I am guessing. Gramophones and phonographes put huge wear and tear onto the medium they are playing. Vinyls on gramophones are quickly scratched by the sharp playback head and phonogrpah cylinders just decay naturally like cassette tape but faster because they are so sensitive

>>387523509
with 3D printers so readily available, i don't see how a suitable material can't be found, nor a decent solution for the needle.

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>>387520181
>>387520290
>>387520420
they don't burn them, they use a kind of master disc mold made of metal with inverted grooves called a "stamper" and put it in a molding machine, where molten polycarbonate is injected to make an exact duplicate but with normal grooves. It's not as fast as a printing press but it does make like one disc every few seconds

at that point it's just a clear disc of plastic that still needs protective coatings and labels and shit, but the stamper has all the data from the original disc and thus so do all the duplicates that were injection-molded from it.

Making the stamper itself is a long process that requires use of a big glass "master" disc

>>387520021
nice meme xD

>>387522918
i guess you've never heard of player pianos?

>>387523828
I guess its not worth the effort. Outdated tech.

>>387523903
Impressive that we can make accurate injection molds with micrometers of details

>>387523828
Because there is no demand or need driving someone to invent a direct successor to the vinyl record player, or a new analog medium at all. You will never be able to top the convenience of digital files and the hipsters who buy vinyl will never adopt a new technology.

>>387519858
man, old MP3s were weird.

https://youtu.be/JTnGI6Knw5Q

>>387524223
Ahh the good old days back when music piracy was literally just punching duplicate holes into 400 feet of paper

How they created the first computer without a computer to do so?

Like they started messing things until something appeared on screen?

I've always had this question

>>387524414
>implying there was a screen

>>387524152
i only heard one once, when i was a child it made the noteblocks play, it didn't play a recorded song, i haven't kept up with player pianos, are they different now?

>>387524156
>>387524214
i can't be the only one that thought about this just now, the need and convenience would be that you don't need electricity, and just wind it up

>>387524763
player pianos aren't any different nowadays than they've always been but they are definitely machines capable of playing recorded music without electricity. Mine can operate on just its foot pedals and it works by blowing air through holes in a long scrolling roll of paper to read which keys to press down

>>387524223
>man, old MP3s were weird.
paper MIDI

>>387524414
this is some sub 90 iq shit m8.