Just because it’s not sold doesn’t mean they’re “critically endangered”. You can get most if not all ROMs on the internet.
this is referring to them being officially available for purchase
*legally available, if those megacorps won’t spend/earn a penny on running antiques or legacy services. The players can do it. And they need support from the law to do it, which in this case, Nintendo of America.
Yeah but what can you do if a lot of the companies who made the original games aren’t around anymore and didn’t sell the rights to anyone else? Even some of the people who claim piracy is immoral understand that “pirating” abandonware is perfectly fine.
I would rather not call that piracy but latent preservation.
I do love latent preservating games I never owned
I am cool with that. Just pass the file forward once it is searched for as lost media.
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That’s one thought process.
And then there’s mine: I will help anyone download old game roms, if I know them personally I’ll do it for them and send it. Fuck them companies.
It’s all good guys, I got a NAS full of roms, and a few cartridges. If world goes to shit I’ll be here to save everyone!!
Definitely going to be showing my kids superman 64 after complete societal collapse to show them things aren’t that bad.
Then show them ghostbusters on the NES and make them lose all hope again
I have a couple really old games you can’t even pirate because they’re just not around anymore. They’re PC games and still run well on my version of Windows so I’ll hang on to them as long as that’s the case. Even so there’s always going to be a consideration for supporting hardware and software. It can get tricky as things forge ahead and old games fall into obsolescence.
I’ll seed that torrent or reshare on slsk, I fucking live for obscure files, idgaf what the games even are (at the size of how small they must be.)
Not around these parts!
Shit though that reminds me I need to go bookmark the r/roms megathread.
