If you think anyone interested in a game are gonna shell out for a remake of the game, boy are bridges cheap this season.
you think if, starting today, nintendo offered every single game on every past system, 1st or 3rd party, for extremely reasonable prices, piracy would go away?
Just want you to know I'm resisting to posting the gif again
This is BS.
People are obsessed with worth. I have a comic book collection. When people learn of this, the most common question I'm asked is a variation of "Do you have anything worth anything?"
So what you're saying is that you're OK with pirating games, then, under the flimsy justification that it gets you what you want without having to pay for it.
Again you are not entitled to something that the owner is not willing to sell.
Congrats, you earned it, have the gif again.
That level justifies the game's existence by itself.Congrats, you earned it, have the gif again.
Once a legal copy of a game belongs to you, you're free to eBay it or sell it at a flea market or whatever else for the price you choose. That's kind of how secondary markets work.
If I have a copy of Path of Radiance I bought at launch, I'm free to sell it at the price I want. Whether people are willing to bite is another matter.
If the issue was just out of print old games there would be no issue and these sites would probably still be operating without any issue for anyone.
I got Black and white 1 and 2 all of them off Gamespot.
don't worry no offense was taken.
I think this behavior is common and in this case from FOSS zealots. In fact Kaze Emanuar a Super Mario 64 Modder, was given shit to what extent I don't know about not releasing the source code to if I'm remembering correctly his Modding Tools.
Now that's an interesting story thanks for sharing! I can definitely also understand why he'd have a zero tolerance policy even to this day, trauma is awful. It is scary, you threatening someone is already crossing the line but to do it over fucking video games and software licensing models. Now if that doesn't scream perfectly sane and not capable of acting on your threats I don't know what does!
I've seen this sentiment a lot in this thread. While I get the subscription model might be more ballsy, it's not like any of these sites are likely running some kind of non profit, and I'm sure their ad revenue is more than sustainable. So what really makes this site different than any of the others?
Anecdotal of course, but it can also be harmful in ways. Going beyond the easy example of early roms being hacked to run on crappier older emulators being more common than proper versions (the other big rom site Nintendo went after recently was especially bad about this), there's a depressing issue where a lack of care in maintaining proper metadata and having different versions available has meant that the original IBM pc port of Wizardry (a historically important release!) is just unavailable online. Even if you specifically try to find the original release, its going to just be the same few rips of the tweaked rerelease from the Wizardry Archives compilation released on CD in the late 90s because that was the easier one to upload back in the day and every abandonware site just copied from the same few sources.
Since La Joconde (or as it's more recognizably known, the Mona Lisa) is a work in the public domain, anyone is free to make reproductions and derivatives of it. You can pick up prints of it starting at less than $20 on Amazon. If you want to make a point about needing to suck it up and deal with art being inaccessible, this was probably not a good piece for that point.
Eh, as stated multiple times in this thread the majority of those subscriptions were probably bought by other rom sites.
Pay $25 bucks a year and get every new Switch game.
It's known that services, accessibility, and convenience all help curb piracy. This is how Steam, GoG, have made a difference with regards to PC piracy. While there will always be people who want things for free, particularly those in poorer countries, there's no doubt that making things available for purchase in a fast and convenient way makes a huge difference. Additionally:
All of these companies, including Nintendo, have been caught re-using ROMs downloaded from the internet.
I don't know about other companies, but the claims about Nintendo being caught downloading ROMs are overstated, based solely on their Wii VC release of Super Mario Bros using the same headered ROM format that the unauthorized emulator scene developed. A simple 16 byte header that gives the size of the PRG and CHR data and has flags about things like what mapper hardware is used in the cart. They used the format because it was practical and they had experience using it with their own emulation already. There's a lot of details in Krvavi Abadas' posts in this thread: https://www.resetera.com/threads/to...rom-headers-into-vc-updated-dec-1-2018.64755/
