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VBrulez wrote:
Like L__E__T wrote, the you arn't buying a ROM. Your paying for the craftsmenship used to build the cart.
These games are carts for systems that haven't been sold in stores for almost twenty years. It's not like it's new games. If it was new stuff, it would be wrong and illegal on both ends, and the people making the games would be arrested.
I saw this Youtube video of a news segment, where people who made and sold pirated PS1 games when they were new, got tracked down and arrested, because the games were still in stores. Eventhough PS1 games arn't in stores anymore, I think that copys/reproductions of anything PS1 and newer is illegal.
It seems that if these reproduction sites of old games haven't been busted and shut down like those pirated PS1 sites on that Youtube video, it doesn't seem like they ever will. Because if reproductions of old games was really piracy and so bad, wouldn't they have been arrested, like those PS1 people?
It's a old system you can't buy anymore, not a new one you can walk into Walmart and get.
You seem to be directing your argument to me personally, unless I'm mistaken. I myself don't care about vintage pirated games and am enthusiastic about the VB dev scene.
As a matter of fact, I find vintage bootlegs to be one of the coolest affordable classic gaming items to collect. While the Big N to my knowledge hasn't cracked down on the Flashboy or the Bound High repros, Nintendo certainly has cracked down on Virtual Boy roms. Repro carts are just roms put onto a donor cart or flash cart. While reproductions of unloved and dismissed games is certainly meant for the benefit of gamers, I simply meant in the word of law it is still illegal. In the eyes of the law, there is no argument. In the eyes of sanity and reasoning, of course there is little reason these big conglomerates should care about these old and abandoned ignored games.
It's harder to DL Galactic Pinball today than it was last year, and it's easier to DL Bound High than it was...ever!
Whether to stroke their egos or to actually re-release a great game, Big companies exercise their rights to snuff out intellectual property rights more than we would dare have a nightmare about. I played Space invaders and Virtual lab before I bought it. These days, you just have to buy it to try it out.
While a fan making you an illegal Earthound Zero cart from a ROM at no monetary gain is pleasant, to gauge actual law on realistic personal desires vs NOA's Vengeance on the collector's community is a completely different monster.
Every month that passes that VB games don't show up on the 3DS virtual console is just another month that makes me dislike Nintendo more for their unexcused 20-30 year old piracy crackdown on vintage titles that they have no intention of re-releasing.
Edited by VirtualJockey on 2011/11/25 6:19