mesa to [email protected]English • 6 months agoSEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics & Dreamcast Classics get delisted in Decemberwww.gamingonlinux.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up114cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up114external-linkSEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics & Dreamcast Classics get delisted in Decemberwww.gamingonlinux.commesa to [email protected]English • 6 months agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•6 months agoWhy not? There’s still people born who’ve never played those games and come across them. And besides preserving legacy media is actually a worthwhile cause.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•6 months agoIt’s a nice, cheap, easy and legal way of obtaining the ROMs to play on flash carts, emulators and FPGA systems.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•6 months agoIt’s a solid business model: People pirate roms, begause they can’t buy them. If Nintendo would sell their old ass games as roms, we wouldn’t have the problem of them suing emulators into oblivion.
People are buying them?
. . why?
Why not? There’s still people born who’ve never played those games and come across them. And besides preserving legacy media is actually a worthwhile cause.
It’s a nice, cheap, easy and legal way of obtaining the ROMs to play on flash carts, emulators and FPGA systems.
It’s a solid business model: People pirate roms, begause they can’t buy them.
If Nintendo would sell their old ass games as roms, we wouldn’t have the problem of them suing emulators into oblivion.