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Baker535:
That's because Nintendo wants you to buy it for $10 a download when the Revolution comes out...  ;D

No wonder all these years they have been poor sports about their Roms...

Although downloading some of the N64 games to run on the console does sound appealing... especially if the Revolution renders them a bit clearer like the PS2 did for the PS1 games! Yum.

-baker

I love Nintendo a lot, but man they run a REALLY tight ship.

RayB:
Yes it is true. Emulation has reached full maturity. The next Nintendo console will feature a free online service that will include downloadable content consisting (among other stuff) of huge library of NES, SNES and N64 games. (Note: I said the online service will be free, not the downloads).

So, because of this, Nintendo is very intolerant of any distribution of their property. As well, thanks to great sales of retro game collections and retro TV game devices, many other games too are now considered just as valuable as they used to be.

I expect the trend to be that more and more companies will clamp down as they find they now have new avenues to sell their old games.

Zero_Hour:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on May 20, 2005, 01:09:08 pm ---Nintendo causes big stinks, they actually think that the game they gave away free with the Nes (and that today sells for an average price of 8 cents) has some value left in it. It doesn't. Neither does Donkey Kong, they are dinosaurs and refuse to believe it.

Also, you really aren't looking hard enough. It took me  all of 3 seconds to put the filename into a search engine to get multiple working download locations.

--- End quote ---

Well, if people are still looking for these games, for whatever reason, I'd have to agree with the folks at big N, that there is indeed some value left in them.

And if the revolution will have the nintendo back catalog available for play, I would expect them to cause even more big stinks in the very near future.

Avery:

--- Quote from: Zero_Hour on May 20, 2005, 04:25:18 pm ---Well, if people are still looking for these games, for whatever reason, I'd have to agree with the folks at big N, that there is indeed some value left in them.

--- End quote ---

I'd like to see them at least try to capitalize on that value with their marketing department rather than their legal department.

Or if that wouldn't be profitable enough, tell me I can download and use them if I make a donation to a charity of their choice, then do whatever tax voodoo that allows them to do to their bottom line.

Something....

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