Good point, though that didn’t stop them before. If you wanted Super Mario Bros. on your Wii, Wii U and 3DS, you had to buy it three times. The most they did was let you get the Wii U version at a discount if you transferred your Wii purchases, which was a one-way transfer that left your Wii empty.
Sony did that practice as well with PS2 titles on the PS3 and PS4. Let's use a R* game for instance, San Andreas. If you bought the PS2 Classic version on the PS3 but wanted it on PS4, you had to buy it again. Even though they were both running on an emulator, only difference was that PS2 titles for PS4 had trophy support.
Nintendo has obviously its flaws, but I can tolerate them on the principle the main company is apolitical and doesn't involve itself directly with japanese 3rd-party development, like California SIE did. Piracy is forever but screwing with creative content publishing, out of political-correctness, is far more than a mere inconvenience by comparison. For creators and consumers alike.
I believe that if a company shuts down a digital store, the contents within that store should be public domain for preservation reasons.
What he says: "preservation"
As a non-retard I don't watch Family Guy, sorry.
First, piracy is sharing. I mentioned the web browser exploit of the old desktop PSN store because that's how I shared all the content from my japanese PSN account to NoPayStation in 2019-2020 (which also required fake authentication keys generated by a plugin in my Vita). You exactly sound like the leechers who believe piracy make things magically appear out of thin air, since certain things (like Nintendo stuff) are much easier to find than others.
Pirate if you will but its you who should stop grandstanding. Just take the stuff, don't come up with an after the fact excuse about "discontinued storefronts should be public domain because of preservation." The only thing you are actually trying to preserve is your access to the games, since the games themselves are absolutely safe and sound.
100% just talking about from the release of the PS3 slim onward. I'm not going to elaborate on why because I don't feel like it. PS2 Era was solid.
Nintendo is for children.
If the mere mention of piracy makes you lose any rational thinking and literacy skill, that's your problem. I don't see your attitude as anything different from a 'pirate' getting triggered by people buying stuff.
Define “safe and sound”. Going back to the prototype argument, you can’t say something is preserved if only one guy has access to it and he refuses to dump the rom. Likewise, a company keeping a copy of their inaccessible game means nothing if it’s… well, inaccessible. Maybe they’ll release it for the public someday, but until then, it’s not “preserved”.
It's preserved if it's thrown in a box in the attic for 90 years. Just because you can't access it doesn't mea--
How does it mean nothing? It can be released whenever the rights holder feels like it. Preservation is important so that things that society as a whole might view as important don't get destroyed and can be released in the future if demand should ever arise. Any one individual having access to purchase something doesn't mean shit. For that, piracy exists, but not as preservation- call it something else.
That's a pretty epic fail, dear libtard
Marble Madness II. In the early 90s, Atari was going to release a sequel to Marble Madness, subtitled Marble Man, due to one of the powerups being that you could transform into a muscular version of your marble. Also the marbles talked, for some reason. It was practically finished, and test cabinets were shipped out, but Atari cancelled at the last minute due to said tests not going very well. Even though ROMs of the game were out there, the various asshole collectors who had them wouldn't dump them because of what @Two Dollars said. It wasn't until an absolute Chad by the name of dank2079 dumped it almost a year ago, and another Chad MAME developer, David Haywood, converted it into MAME that people at large could finally play it. Also, don't know when else I'll be able to say it, so here it is: no matter your thoughts on the gameplay, the soundtrack for Marble Madness II actually slaps, and for that reason alone, I'm glad it was finally found. Here are my favorites:
It wasn't. The launch sucked, it was hard to come by a console, the games at launch included crap like The Bouncer and Summoner. From 2003 onwards it caught a stride and by late 2004 there was a glut of incredible games, but it was never smooth sailing throughout.
