Question.

Did GKC ban of copied cards get solved?
I heard the used game marked is kinda dangerous. You really need to trust the seller.

Can't believe people are genuinely worried about what video games they may or may not be able to play 20 years down the line. It's crazy, obsessive even. I'm sorry, but if you are legitimately concerned that a game you own right now won't be playable in 20 years, you are obsessed and need help.

I don't know where the hell I'll be in 20 years or what I'll be doing, but what GAMES I'll have available to me really isn't all that high on my list of concerns.

What about music? Movies? Books? Dont give a shit about any of that for the future either?

As someone who does care a great deal about books, films, and music: the thing is technological revolutions have actually helped all these libraries. The printing press, book publishers, and now Ebooks provide almost everything. Not just almost everything, but you can find like 170 different editions of a classic book at your finger tips, often for free if they're in the public domain.

I'm old enough to recall when films and music were very difficult to get; like I'd be hunting down certain collections through half my damn teen years, getting them in completely different countries. But when iTunes came out, it was a trivial thing to get anything and everything I wanted, and I'd never have to worry about losing an album, having it damaged or degraded because it's now on every storefront.

Same deal with film. If it's a film that is backed up in a copyright dispute like Dogma or Dawn of the Dead, you can get several different versions on YouTube... and Harvey Weinstein and the Romero Estate have their reasons for not wanting to (or being able to) take these down... and I mean the real Dawn of the Dead film, with the political commentary, human condition exploration, and satire... not the Sarah Polly action remake....

......I mean, the Sara Polly film is good in its own right. I enjoyed it for what it was,  but this remake strips out everything important and interesting about the original one and replaces it with an action adventure... I'll stop here before I get on a rant. I'll just end by saying, Sarah Polly remake is a good action zombie film, but the original Dawn of the Dead by Romero is one of my all-time favourite horror films.

I did not buy a gkc game yet but in case that I am not able to play a game I own digitally, I am fine to just play it on an emulator. Especially for third party stuff there will be deep discounts on steam to do a quick double dip and play it then

Couldn't disagree with you more. There's nothing wrong with the stance that you don't worry about this type of thing but why is it hard for you to understand that people want to know the products they bought with their hard earned cash will still be available in the future? I think even if I had your stance I would still understand collectors and why they want to keep using the stuff they bought.

Heck, 20 years is nothing. I own PS1 games produced 30 years ago that still work perfectly. 

As for GKC, I don't own any and there's nothing that could convince me to get one. I either get a full cartridge or I purchase the game elsewhere.

I haven't even pulled my launch day switch 2 out of the box.

It has made me hate gaming that much.

I can understand the concern with the GCKs in some ways, but if we are for real, we have no guarantee that our Discs and Cartridges from the 90s will still work in 10 years either. Both those mediums have an expiration date usually, Discrot is a thing and Cartridges can go bad as well.

You can still download your purchases on the Wii and DSi nowadays, even if those stores have been down for years. Plus, should Nintendo in the future decide to shut the store and the servers down, they will do so only after an announciation, which will give you time to make sure your GCKs are downloaded to your Switch 2 or SD Express card. You will be able to play those for forever technically, since the GKCs don't require an internet connection, as long as the data is downloaded.

Sorry to burst your unrealistic bubble, but your little Game Gear? It's likely not working anymore - with a failure rate closing in to 100% due to degraded capacitors. You will have to pay dear money, or know how to solder new ones yourself. Same thing applies for quite a number of other Sega consoles. Your (unlikely to be) beloved Jaguar CD? It is no longer working either. Some systems are more resilient, like your Game Boy, but many others are already facing real disc rot. Even then, for some of your old Nintendo games with a soldered battery, you will need to learn basic soldering to remove it and install a new one - and forget about your save file from when you were a kid. The data has long been gone. Your first few 3D0 and possibly Sega Saturn games? Might not be working anymore. The drive on your first gen Playstation? You might need to recalibrate the potentiometer if you are lucky.

My point is that the narrative that the old libraries we have still 'just work' is also false. There is a reason why retro gaming enthusiasts are increasingly having to learn general principles of upkeep and game preservation - or they move into emulation altogether as the best way to 'preserve' these games. I have a vast collection of oldies, amassed from when I was a kid in the 80s. I am under no illusion, that most of the games I have actually do not 'just work' anymore.