Have you had fun playing backups of games you legally own on physical media lately? Dumped any BIOS files from the old consoles you own?

I'm sure you have- after all, we're all about doing things legally and being above board here, aren't we? :wink:

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In all honesty, I get why the official forums, subreddits, discords and what have you for different emulator projects have the anti-piracy stances they do- they don't want years of work being cease and desisted by Sony or Nintendo because of people linking to roms. I still think the pretense is funny

  • DickFuckarelli [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It's pretty sad that it's fairly common knowledge within the gaming world that anything older than 15 years old is worthless and/or abandoned. Yet we all have to pretend that we need to protect the IP holders and only those who own the holy grails of "physical copies" are allowed to make backups of their anointed artifacts for personal consumption.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      One neat trick to stop a game from becoming public domain is to keep reselling it in digital format on stupid e-stores or mini consoles which are expensive raspberry pi's

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The trick is to just get a raspberry pi and shove a terabyte of retroarch shit in there

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Get with the times, grandpa! These days it's all about subscription services and cloud gaming (that can be turned off at a whim)! It's sooooo convenient :so-true:

        🤮

    • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      anything older than 15 years old is worthless and/or abandoned

      unless it's a pokemon game, then you can still pay $29.99 for the used GBA cartridge