I have not. They still found a way to screw that up, by only packing one controller with the console and making it very hard to buy a second official controller. I’d rather spend the money on a boxed cart of Super C, which would cost about the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMatthews
Wow!! EP goes waaay back. I downloaded the Sonic Adventure soundtrack from them a decade and a half+ ago.
Yes, that is pretty stupid. They packed two controllers with the SNES Classic, I don't see why they wouldn't pony up for a two-controller NES package.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
But I'm pretty sure the SNES controllers work on the NES Classic. Haven't bothered to test it.
Retro game repository EmuParadise says it’s finished distributing ROMs
https://venturebeat.com/2018/08/08/r...ributing-roms/
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“We will continue to be passionate retro gamers and will keep doing cool stuff around retro games, but you won’t be able to get your games from here for now,” reads an EmuParadise blog post. “Where we go with this is up to us and up to you.”
If you search EmuParadise’s library for games now, you’ll find that the site has already scrubbed away most of them for every system. WarioWare for the Game Boy Advance is gone, but so is Blackthorne for the 32X.
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As someone who has used EmuParadise and purchased retro games directly from Nintendo, I’m sad about this development. It was nice to know that if I ever wanted to try a game out for research or just because I felt like it, EmuParadise provided a way to do so. It was reliable and safe, and now I’m left wondering how I’ll track down some of the lesser known games.
No doubt Nintendo want to stop people hacking their Snes Mini and want to pave the way for the N64 Mini.
There's just a market for retrogaming now where in the past there was just a bunch of nerds downloading their childhood roms. Just face it.
But its not just childhood roms. Its for Arcade games that were never ported to the home or not perfectly. This is a BIG loss and Nintendo are pure Evil and don't care about the core gamer or the good of the industry.Quote:
Originally Posted by chilled
so you are "mature" enough to buy clothing made by children in bangladesh? what kind of flawed logic is that?Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMatthews
You missed the point of what he said and are taking it out of context and off topic.Quote:
Originally Posted by bultje112
I'll add in DOS games or anything running from the LucasArts SCUMM engine. But yeah, losing arcade games is a huge blow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Team Andromeda
Agreed add in games that were really rare and would be hard to buy even on eBay. This is a horrible move and all so Nintendo can carry on milking their sheep. Nintendo makes me sick.Quote:
Originally Posted by sull56ivan2010
I haven't seen anyone explain what they would do if they were in charge. I've already pointed out in another thread that there are obvious legal ramifications (with regard to maintaining ownership of any IP) of letting people pirate games. But even if we forget about that for a moment, if someone wanted to let rom sites continue without any consequences, how would anyone justify that to the board members and shareholders at Nintendo? Before someone makes some smartass reply, bear in mind that some of the rom sites operate at a profit, so you would have to sell the shareholders the idea that Nintendo's products should be given away for free to people who are profiting from them.
Decisions like those Nintendo have made recently aren't as simple as one individual just taking action on a whim. Companies are at the mercy of internal politics, shareholders and the law. People probably had a long discussion before they came to the conclusion that legal action was necessary. You may even find some people within the company who have no issue with old games being illegally distributed, they just have their hands tied due to copyright laws and a few key individuals breathing down their neck.
I don't understand why people get so emotional about the whole thing, its not like Nintendo are attacking you personally. But if Nintendo's actions really bother anyone, perhaps the best course of action, before you boycott Nintendo, is for you to join Nintendo's staff and work your way up the corporate ladder so that you can try to change the policies yourself.
Yeah, that’s the same... :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by bultje112
To someone who likes Nintendo consoles and their franchises, why should they not spend money on it just because of stuff that Nintendo does behind the scenes to piss people off? That’s the flawed logic, right there. You might as well ask “Why do people love Lethal Weapon so much? Don’t they know that Mel Gibson is a huge racist???”
This stuff that Nintendo does irritates me as much as anyone else... but it doesn’t make me enjoy the games any less.
You and Team Andromeda are just Hate Boys. It’s douchey and ignorant, but just embrace that instead of hiding behind this narrative that Nintendo is some a much more evil and money-grubbing entity than the companies you do like.
Well I did not expect something like this to happen. I thought the world was past caring about websites distributing ROM's of games which have long stopped being for sale, decades ago.
I can understand where Nintendo is coming from if they want to SELL those games, in some form. But that still leaves most games for most retro consoles which will NOT be sold by Nintendo in modern times.
Plus the retro collector's market of physical games is thriving and Nintendo sure doesn't get a profit when someone buys an old SNES or NES cart from the 90's or 80's.
No doubt the decision to go after websites amounts to a culture war launched by Nintendo. They're warring against the idea that free ROM's belong floating around the internet, even for very outdated games, because they should be able to make $ from their back catalogue.
And no doubt it came down to a bunch of board meetings in which the Nintendo executives worked themselves up into a frenzy over all the theoretical MILLIONS of $$ they are theoretically using, whenever people download free ROM's. Nevermind that most of those downloads would not be something that people would want to actually spend $$ on, even if it was the only choice.
Thankfully I trust that the ROM's will still be out there on other sites, I want to have faith in the free sharing of info and content on the web. And I think most people want that too.
There will always be torrent sites, and for games and roms there are like dedicated torrent sites.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ecco
As long as you stay away from sites like the piratebay, nothing but nintendo kiddies there with their 12 favorite retro romz torrents.
If anything this shit is just going to drive people to take rom distribution underground where it came from originally. I'm not losing any sleep after this since Nintendo is gonna Nintendo. I respect they want to protect their IPs which is 100% within their rights. Just doing this is going to make a lot of people want to fuck with them more.