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wizkid32:
Ok, so I have ranted about my feelings in another post and will try to keep a lid on it here. In a nutshell, Nintendo claims emulation is illegal because it is a tool for piracy1 (in spite of court precedent), and that taking steps to offer legal ROMs would be "like taking steps to legalize piracy". Worse, even, they offer NO WAY TO PLAY THEIR CLASSIC GAMES with the exception of the "shop channel" for owners of Internet-connected Wii's. I am hereby starting a boycott on Nintendo brand products until such time as they change their stance on retro gaming. Until they either relax their opinions on emulation and take steps to legalize it, or offer some other type of authentic retro game package for cab. owners, I will not purchase a Nintendo product. I urge you to abstain from their products as well. Also, please spread the word!
The website even has an email where you can report, "Potential Infringements". What a joke! If They actually listened to their fans, there would be far fewer "infringements" occurring!
1This is highly debatable, especially if you own the original games
My evidence:
http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp
Howard_Casto:
PBJ is right. I think you are a bit confused. That is Nintendo's "Official, Legal Stance" you will find that virtually every other major game company has a very similar one.
What you go by is what they actually do. The worst I've ever seen nintendo do is politely ask that a few ROMZ sites take some first party nintendo console titles down... titles, I might add, that are released on the shop channel.
In terms of arcade roms, if that's what you are getting at... to nintendo they don't exist. The company as a whole has abandoned their arcade roots and pretty much considers the whole lot abandoned ware. They allowed D2K to be released didn't they?
Their way of thinking is that the NES ports of their arcade classics are virtually identical to the originals and they are formatted to a 4:3 screen instead of a vertical one, so why bother releasing the originals? I don't agree with that, but I can see their point.
DaveMMR:
I don't get it wizkid. Are they supposed to say "hey, we offer all those old NES, SNES, N64, etc. games on the Virtual Console, but it's okay if you get it for free?" I hardly think Nintendo is the only company that is protective of their property.
Expecting a video game company to "support" outside emulation and ROM downloading is like expecting a fireman to endorse arson. And Nintendo is hardly unique in this stance. Heck, Sony practically shut down businesses for going against their policies for intellectual property (Lik-Sang and the emulator, Bleemcast!).
Also, every video game company has this policy. Nintendo's was just the only one you read. If you're going to stop playing games because they're opposed to people getting their games for free, you might as well just get a deck of cads and take up solitaire.
My advice: stop reading the legalese. You'll lose sleep over it. Do what you think is right. And if you feel bad about having a few Nintendo ROMs on your computer, then spend a couple of bucks in the WiiShop or buy some games if it helps your conscious.
Howard_Casto:
You know actually you WILL be able to get many of the games for free in the future. Starting in Janurary you can use your club nintendo coins to purchase select virtual console titles. Some will even be exclusive imports and custom games!
Also if you bought a 3ds last year, you get 20 free virtual console titles.
You keep ragging on nintendo for not giving away games but as far as I know they are the ONLY big company to give away games.
I mean sure once every 5 years you might get a low budget title from m$ or sony, but that's because their online service went down or their servers got hacked and they don't want you to sue or cancel your subscription. ;)
I've never lost sleep over my console roms because my physical games collection is massive. I might not legally have the right to a smb3 rom, but I've got the cart sitting right next to me, so I hardly feel guilty for downloading the rom to play on my pc.
Malenko:
--- Quote from: wizkid32 on December 21, 2011, 10:50:46 pm ---NO WAY TO PLAY THEIR CLASSIC GAMES with the exception of the "shop channel" for owners of Internet-connected Wii's.
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So I cant just turn on my NES and play anymore? mannnn FS: NES and like 100 games
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