/v/ - Video Games

Can't be playing 15+ year old games goy, gotta sign up for online Switch to be able to get those games as a perk.

You can't even buy these games from any real retailers. Why would Nintendo care?

>>15194418

It looks like they're trying to make a notable, public example out of the biggest one to cow and intimidate as many alternatives as they can into submission

The fact that they also want sources for ROMs means they're looking to actually hunt the big people providing this shit down, or at least they want it to look that way to achieve the same effect

That's my guess at least

>>15194405

Shouldn't have monetized and advertised your fucking works to people like that. the people behind that site are fucking retards while Jewtendo, working again with their mob lawyers to kike them out.

>>15194405

>What is it with companies being extra jewish this year?

nintendo has virtually always been anti-ROM and has always, always done their level best to take down anything and everything nintendo-related that wasn't being sold by them. remember the youtube debacle? nintendo wanted to monetize every single nintendo game being played by anyone on youtube, and youtube for the first and only time that i've seen sided with the players and said "no you can't do that". they took down AM2R when it was pretty much done. they've always been some of the biggest kikes in gaming

>>15194418

Well you can buy some of them foe virtual console but really they aren't gaining much doing this. Plus I guess this is same as PC piracy, so they aren't even losing much.

So I guess they are fucking up fans out of principle.

>>15194436

>some myth that companies need to defend copyright in order to keep them

that's just bullshit redditor tell each other to scapegoat their favorite companies.

>>15194436

>how you have to defend trademarks and copyright in order to keep them

You don't have to defend a copyright to keep it. The companies only seem to partake in this to keep it from being brought up as a legal example later.

Trademarks on the other hand need to be protected otherwise they're lost.

>>15194405

if they are charging for roms that's one thing, but US copyright law allows for archival and redistributions of software products that have not been available in the distributed form for 4 or more years

Nintendo repackaging roms for sale is considered to not be equivalent to actual dumps of the carts, and thus all roms from the era are protected

>>15194449

Because people are acting like pedophiles do. They get bold, and think nothing's going to happen to them, so they stop being careful. Then the hammer drops, and for a few months, everything goes dark, then it's back to the same shit. Fucking whack-a-mole. Except pedophiles should be rounded up and burned for fuel in winter months.

>>15194445

You don't have to defend copyright for fear of losing it per se, but for something like derivative works (AKA AM2R, Pokemon Uranium, etc) the ownership of the derivative work belongs to the original copyright holder. Which is why it's stupid for fan-devs to use trademarks and copyright shit in their fan-games.

https://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

Nintendo are the best Japan has to offer for honorary jews, nothing surprising here.

>>15194449

probably some shadow study about consumer habits or something

when i see threads like this it really does depress the fuck out of me. what happened to loving video games and wanting to share stuff with the world at large? they are a multi-billion dollar, international, too-big-to-fail company. why do this? how much will they actually see on return from doing this?

i was thinking about buying a switch at least for BOTW. fuck that shit now. honestly this hobby is going to be defunct just by corporations making decisions that conflict with my values. i guess im in the fucking minority since normalfags eat this shit up because i respect myself and my hobby. whatever man.

>>15194405

Why do companies think they can still fight piracy? This isn't going to do anything, except take down a single, 2nd tier, rom site.

>>15194431

I heard a theory awhile back that Nintendo had it's lobbyists make it so that NEC was legally forced to change the PC Engine into the monstrosity that was the Turbo-Grafx in the U.S. so that they would be more expensive to make and as a result more expensive to buy. Supposedly, the PC Engine was not only more powerful than the NES, but cheaper as well. This made them a huge threat to Nintendo. Another part of the theory is that the only reason Nintendo didn't fuck with Sega and the Mega Drive in a similar way is because they were too busy trying to cripple NEC and the PC Engine. Not how sure this theory is, though.

>>15194448

They were fucking begging to be sued, the other sites don't fucking advertised their shit in facebook, twitter and other social media cancer. Just did a quick check, and other sites like romhacks and emuparadise are still safe because they don't spread their shit to normalfaggots.

>>15194473

Emuparadise purged all of their first party Nintendo games awhile ago. The pages are still there but all of the download links are gone.

I had never even heard of LoveROMs or LoveRETRO until today.

>>15194478

How many rom/emulator purges by Jewtendo's lawyers has there been? counting about 6-8 times for the last 5 years now. Still, fuck them, and there should have been a warning to these people since these lawsuit sprees.

>absurd amount of money on a per-file basis

Why is copyright law like this? They can never honestly expect anyone to pay that. Is it just to garnish the person's wages for the rest of their life because max jew, and they never actually want the money to be paid in full?

>>15194489

maybe nintendo should host their own emulation website and make everything so inconvenient that most visitors would rather buy the games if its within their wallet strength

>>15194405

>Nintendo has a stick up its ass about ROMsites

Well this can't be good. How much longer before the internet is scoured for and purged of every trace of Nintendo property? How much longer until other companies follow suit?

>>15194485

Well, Nintendo like many companies support the Copyright lobby to "protect" their works while jewing you out of unsupported games that are no longer sold, because reasons.

>>15194503

Firstly, it's also mentioned in that same article that failing to defend copyright means potentially losing more money later since you don't have a history of defending it against mis-use.

But mostly I was talking about Nintendo's right to take-down derivative works as the law states they maintain ownership of works derived from their material, since complaining about ROMs getting taken down and complaining about fan-games getting DMCA's goes hand-in-hand. Even I get fucking confused sometimes so sue me :^)

>>15194488

But plants don't have asses double dubsman

>>15194510

NOA was at that rally. I'd like to think NOJ knew nothing about it and NOA got reamed for their faggotry.

It's strange that Europe is more cucked than America but it's the American branch of Nintendo that's more cucked than the Europe branch, which manages to put out localisations without fucking doge memes in Zelda games and bring over fucking Xenoblade because NOA refused for some fucking reason.

>>15194463

pirates are fucking up the industry and if everyone pirates, then no new game will come out; there will be maybe two titles like dorf fortress that will be in dev indefinitely because dev is too autistic to actually finish anything

>>15194506

I tried to download some of their first party Gamecube games from Emuparadise last year and they had all been purged. Not sure what's going on over there. Maybe they've been slowly trying add the Nintendo games back, until this happened.

>>15194516

This is a bad thing?

>>15194521

If you hate video games, then no I guess. But then why are you here?

>>15194516

i realize this is bait, but read this: https://archive.fo/c7LuQ#selection-461.0-461.351

highlights:

"The report found that illegal downloads and streams can actually boost legal sales of games, according to the report. The only negative link the report found was with major blockbuster films: “The results show a displacement rate of 40 per cent which means that for every ten recent top films watched illegally, four fewer films are consumed legally.”"

>>15194525

It was tongue-in-cheek. Your one-sentence analysis of apparently the entire game industry is so filled with retardation that it doesn't deserve a real response

>>15194482

There are so many sites on the internet that let you download nintendo games, easily moreso then any competitor. When the file sizes are so tiny, it is way too easy to spread that shit along.

>>15194514

Oh I understand, I'd have way more than just a green thumb. If you know what I mean

>>15194516

>t. brainless executive

>>15194533

Maybe making a game really big will make it harder to pirate.

>>15194530

>pirate pirating a game

>pirate encourages friend to also pirate a game

>now at least two thieving niggers will have never bought it because they have no need to, they already played the content that was made

It's encouraging sales as much as stealing a car encourages car purchases. It also kills devs, because companies do not see the returns so they don't hire those devs ergo the studio dies. This report is as credible as science publications with indian name roster. Tell me, do you buy a movie after you have watched it? Do you buy games after pirating them?

<inb4 yes you do

Obviously that's what a pirate nigger will say always, but the truth is they never do. They just like to take moral high ground and act all high and mighty while never living up to what they claim.

>>15194536

t. no arguments

>>15194540

> equating piracy with theft

> ignoring actual scientific evidence

filtered

>>15194516

2/10 bait, got me to reply.

>>15194545

>not questioning evidence you are given

Here, have a link where "scientific evidence" is wrong. https://www.livescience.com/17635-science-journal-retractions-2011.html

>>15194559

nice try captain hook youll never make a thief of me

Thats it nintendo. go after the small guys peddling your products to fans. this will definitely work out in your favor. i mean, look at how well the record industry is doing after the RIAA went after those kids sharing britney spears songs.

>>15194578

>movies

>games

<implying the sale of the two mediums is different

So can someone tell me HOW am i supposed to legally play those games and HOW nintendo is losing money by this website existence? as far as im aware, they don't officially produce and sell cartridges any more and they also don't produce and sell officially their old consoles.

Even if i buy one of ebay, the money goes to the guy who sells it, not to nintendo anyway.

>>15194591

kojima san, herro

>>15194613

They're doing this it seems to sell the games you already got back to you at a later date.

>>15194623

Try looking up a little something called "stagflation".

>>15194613

I would say it hurts Nintendo's virtual console sales, but they aren't doing that with the Switch.

>>15194613

maybe the idea is

>if anon san prays ord games he wont buy our new games *bashes gong*

>>15194613

That's how they are losing money >>15194540

>>15194633

> hurts sales

This has always been horseshit.

>all these anti-pirates shills and baiters popping up after the news breaks out

(((PURE FUCKING COINCIDENCE NOTHING TO SEE HERE)))

>just got a wii and softmodded it

>nintendo pulls this shit

Fuck. I just wanted to play Gamecube games.

>>15194690

And where is your evidence that had they not been able to pirate they would have bought the game? That's a big fucking assumption and you're ignoring or downplaying the much more obvious possibility that if a game is not able to be pirated the pirates will either wait it out until they can pirate and simply move on a another game. Only mulitplayer games break this possibility.

>>15194691

>just kill the video games goy

>piracy doesn't affect sales goy

>look at my sources that I never read and ignore that they do not support my claim goy

Nice judaism there

>>15194708

> maybe if I use every antisemitic buzzword the goyim will accept me as one of their own

You have ten seconds to explain to me why everything nintendo related hasnt become a permaban offense!

>>15194708

>look at my sources that I never read and ignore that they do not support my claim goy

I read the source and it blatantly said that piracy of games results in more sales. Maybe you're simply mentally retarded.

>>15194718

>defending nigger behavior like intellectual theft

You can feel free to fuck off back to reddit where you can hang out with your edgelord friends.

>>15194706

Actually I do buy games that I can pirate. Support what you like. Which is exactly why I think " 'piracy" of 20 year old games hurts noone.

>>15194728

Clearly you haven't. Go read end of page 7 and beginning of page 8 again, illiterate nigger.

>>15194743

I read the study itself. It did in fact state that piracy in games leads to more sales. Please don't be an illiterate nigger.

>>15194448

That is not true at all. Trademark law distinguishes between actual trademarked works, abandoned trademarked works and generic trademarks. You can sue for infringement of trademarked works, but you will lose any trial involving the other two.

Abandoned means the company has stopped giving a fuck about the trademark, haven't released a work based on it in several years (there was a hard number IIRC), and haven't sued anyone for infringement in forever, until they wake up one day and feel the urge to sue the closest guy they can find. The judge will tell them they had forgotten about it, and they can no longer sue when not even themselves used to give a fuck. Mind you, a judge would probably consider many Nintendo games and series to be abandoned, given a lot of their stuff has been forgotten by Nintendo.

Trademarks become generic the moment people identify any form of a type of product with the trademark. Think kleenex for paper tissues, or even "nintendos" for any form of handheld console. This hasn't happened yet for any game except Rogue and possibly Dark Souls.

>>15194749

Cite pages.

>>15194708

>hurrdurr if u don't pay for 15 year old gaems ur a joooooo

Unironically hand yourself.

>>15194752

Page 84.

>Bastard et al. (2012) state that piracy affects the music industry negatively while the effect on video game purchases is positive.

Piracy doesn't hurt sales but it should because all the major companies are corrupt beyond saving and need to die. The industry as a whole is in desperate need of death and rebirth.

>>15194764

So no proof piracy hurts sales while only pretending the studies can't mean anything. Great.

>>15194731

>uses reddit buzzwords

>tells others to go to reddit

same old shit faggot

>>15194543

It works for Marvel. No one's even casually downloading their shit on Wins-days anymore because it's so fucking awful. Oh wait, they're losing all of Yidsney's money. Hahaha, if you can read this, Marvel, GET FUCKED.

>>15194557

Every time Nintendo pisses me off, I teach more people how to play all of their shit for free.

>>15194768

Imagine it. Only small publishers, people making games in their offices, ordering the materials to self-publish in limited amounts, offering bonus items like cloth maps, mousepads, stickers, soundtracks, and other neat stuff to incentivize sales. And then the cycle continues. What will the end-of-century's EA be?

>>15194767

If you read the article to the end, you'll see that there are only two surveys. The second of which states that 40% of responders did not even pirate their games even though they knew how to. Another thing is, they specifically mention that it might seem like piracy of games does not affect sales because they are locked out of content (multiplayer). Therefore, for singleplayer games or singleplayer focused games, this is still predictably an issue. In fact, even for archaic multiplayer games where you didn't have matchmaking it also probably is a problem. If you go further to the next chapter you'll see that the pirates are unwilling to pay for their products as well.

tl;dr half of survey responders were people who knew how to pirate games (and choose not to), not actual pirates who do so the N of this study is statistically insignificant.

>>15194706

>>15194779

So you have no source and are projcting your own acts and feelings on to others. What if the pirates are literal poorfags and can not afford the game at all? What if they are ethically or morally motivated to pirate games because they do not wish to support certain, people, developers, publishers, etc? What if they pirate because of abuses and disrespect of these game companies for their customers and would have otherwise been glad to buy and support a game? What if there is no way to legally purchase a game or the people that actually made the game have long since left, disbanded, or the company is completely different in all but name. What is the moral obligation to purchase a game when it would support none of the creators that made it?

You're ignoring all of these very obvious and likely situations for the one that suits your viewpoints only.

You also ignore that different people use piracy in different ways. For some piracy is a tool to try a game out without having tp risk purchasing the game and getting burned. Others as a way to protest with their wallet to punish bad business practices and reward good ones. And like I already mentioned some have to use piracy in order a play a game they could not have afforded. Piracy is also an easy way to share the game with other people. It's harder to convince someone to purchase a game with just words or video than it is to share a torrent or download of the game so they could immediately try it out for themselves and decide if they want to purchase it.

I'm part of all the above mentioned groups. Sometimes I pirated a game because I could not afford, or because I refused to support the dev or publisher, and I wanted to try it out for myself

>>15194551

Yea even one from google that was archived and then scrubbed.

>>15194793

How would you feel if you were saving money for 5 years, eating nothing but bare minimum and living in deplorable conditions to make your dream game, publish it and have pirateniggers steal it from you? They will love your game, but they won't give a shit about you or your struggle in poverty. You won't see a buck except for some pathetic donations from like 10 people. You just wasted 5 years of your life to make something neat and people will shit all over you because they can (and don't feel like paying you for shit).

>>15194427

IPFS exists. It's not a blockchain, but better than nothing.

>>15194805

It's not just specific to nintendo. Anytime piracy of any game or particular company/console comes it it gets flooded by honest to God shills and averge shitposters who know if they bait they'll get those delicious (You)s they crave.

>>15194809

>Assuming pirates wouldn't help to spread the name of your game out, increasing it's visibility.

<Piracy is stealing

It's not. Copying something is not stealing it. Feel what you want about the morality of pirating but saying it's stealing is fucking disengenuous and you're being intellectually dishonest and lazy.

>You just wasted 5 years of your life

If your shit doesn't sell, then it doesn't sell. Putting hard work and effort into something does not mean it guarantees or that you are entitled to a good and quality product or that it'll sell.

>>15194812

>being a nigger

>muh stealing be a-ok n shiet ooga booga

<what is intellectual property theft

>>15194840

Here, let me translate it to ebonics so nigger like you will understand.

>hey mugabe look at me idea

<shit's lit yo ooga boga imma stea- er copy it

>hey wtf now i won't make any money

<haha get wrecked bro

>>15194849

Free shit? Last I checked I have to pay for my electrical bills, my internet provider, all the equipment aka my PC, the external hard drive which I have all my digital copies of video games stored on. Afraid to admit what now? You clearly have no idea what you are talking about and just want replies.

>eurocuck

Oh, so you are actually retarded.

>>15194822

>>only two surveys

Read my ID. I did not use or bring up the survey in my posts.

>faggotry

So again you ignore that some people may feel this way and instead try to claim all pirates' motivations are just and just because they want free shit. More projection. Some pirates are like that, but claiming all pirates are like that is wrong.

>I'm ignoring them for a universal truth that ties them all together: they want free shit so they pirate it. you're the pretentious faggot ascribing meaning to everything. go back to your liberal arts class, homo.

>>Sometimes I pirated a game because I could not afford, or because I refused to support the dev or publisher, and I wanted to try it out for myself

>such brave morals and views for such a faggot. do you also send them tear stained letters why you couldn't support them and how they hurt your feefees?

My views on piracy are do whatever the fuck you want. If you want to purchase games and never pirate go ahead. If you want to use it for moral and ethical reasons go ahead. If you just want free shit and don't want to pay go ahead. I have my reasons and views on piracy, but I don't project or force them onto other people. I inform them of how to pirate/emulate/mod/etc and leave it them how they wish to use that information.

Get fucked Nintendo

I bought a gamecube, I even bought a wii

I bought games for them

If I want to emulate those games on my PC because I cant be bothered to dig my consoles out of storage that is my fucking right.

I'm not paying you dirty nip bastards twice.

>>15194867

>mental gymnastics

Because not every act is done for the same reasons. You fail to understand this. There have been plenty of games that I would have been glad to support had the devs/publishers/localizers not been utter cunts. And some games that I still chose to support dispite some misgivings. Others yeah I just wanted free shit. Stop trying to project that every act is done for the exact same reasons. You're the one jumping through mental loops by trying to lump all pirates' actions under one motivation.

>>I did not use or bring up the survey in my posts.

>I'm pointing out the absurdity of your crying about sources when the big "suppressed" EU survey (circa: Gawker) only has 2 surveys about video games.

Then stop trying to group all pirates under one umbrella without proof you faggot. Otherwise you're only projecting your own feelings and motivations onto others.

>>15194908

I'm sure they'll settle for "take everything down and fuck off", like they did with Emuparadise, unless I'm mistaken.

>>15194889

I jumped into the matter because of people claiming piracy=stealing. See >>15194831

Because it's a lazy statement. If they're using it as an anti-piracy point, they're just being lazy faggots and not wanting to or are unable to properly argue why piracy is bad and instead they just want to associate all of the negative connotations of stealing to piracy instead of doing the work themselves.

That's why I'm saying reasons matter. Because these lazy faggots refuse to properly explain their stances and try to wrongly claim all piracy is only done for the end result of getting free shit. Which is false since it can also be used as a middle step or tool for some other reasons which I and others have already repeatedly mention in this thread.

>>15194405

Wonder how long it'll take for emuparadise to completely trash all games for Nintendo systems they've hosted entirely, as opposed to just pre-emptively removing ones that are set to see rerelease. Do hope it doesn't spook some other hosting sites though. Merely mentioned EP since they've been the wary ones before now.

>>15194717

Fucking Square seems to hate formerly Enix held properties. Despite owning them now, it's like they'd rather they not be officially available outside of physical copies. Granted, Star Ocean 1 and other games that had to be fan-translated I can see why they're not being rereleased when they weren't released in English in the first place, but there's fuck all on the VC or PSN aside from the first Actraiser. No Enix-era Star Oceans, Valkyrie Profiles, Dragon Quests, or other Quintet titles (Actraiser aside). Even for the PSP ports/remakes of some of those, those never got a digital version, and as far as official availability remain UMD only, at least out here.

>>15194923

>it works everytime

I refuse to let these faggots try to form a false consensus of this bullshit statement that is certainly not irrevelent or a strawman. On the admittedly small chance they actually to mean this when they post and are not just baiting shitposters looking for (You)s. I don't care I'll glady be a (You) slut and reply away. I agree with most of your points except for the last

>>so I'll get it for free instead, at no disadvantage to myself.

Plenty of times I did want to support a game, but couldn't afford it so I had to pirate it. It was definitely a disadvantage that I could help the game out directly. Though supporting a game is similar to piracy in that regard. It's just a waiting game hoping to save enough money (hoping a game to get cracked) until you can buy (pirate) it.

>>15194933

Should also mention though in regard to that first part that it's not just Nintendo games that EP fucks their usefulness over for, as they've preemptively removed PS2 games that were slated to get PS4 PSN ports as well. Though I'm not certain how proactive Sony is compared to Nintendo about slamming piracy sites with DMCAs (not that that makes them much better if they don't).

>>15194844

>Making a big deal over the fact someone said nigger.

Holy shit the cuckchan in this thread.

>>15194951

It really is, but once all niggers and kikes are dead racism will finally be solved once and for all!

>>15194944

If you're an indie and make gamedev your job, you're a retard and should go bankrupt. And I'm from /agdg/.

On the other hand, if you work for a big company, you already made your money, and so did they, from Reddit.

>>15194810

>pirates

>consumers

you are hilarious. stop pretending this is anything more than you just wanting free shit. you aren't recognizable as a consumer to a company because you dont make them money, and to think for even a second you are somehow a part of the economy and that you somehow have economic rights is retarded

>>15194951

It isn't you nigger

>>15194983

So when someone says its ok to be black its wrong?

>>15194988

https://archive.is/KvGQ6

Apparently he survived the gunshot.

>>15194999 (checked)

shiiiieeeet

>>15194999

Where does it say he survived

>>15194999

i still hope that woman spent life in prison, some people are far too fucking stupid to be in society. you dont shoot even an empty gun at people unless you are prepared to kill them

>>15195004

The second fucking sentence you nigger. It says he was on life support. Though admittedly doesn't guarantee his survival. Here's another archive where he can speak somewhat three months ago.

https://archive.is/VMFew

He's not dead, but I don't know if you could say he's very much 'alive' either.

It's funny how all the anti-piracy shills are suddenly quiet now. Though most were probably just baiting.

BASED NINTENDO

>>15194472

>I heard a theory awhile back that Nintendo had it's lobbyists make it so that NEC was legally forced to change the PC Engine into the monstrosity that was the Turbo-Grafx in the U.S.

dosen't make that much sense tbqh

>>15195087

This is completly correct. I mean it sucks the tg16 failed so hard it was a quality system, but they were in fact trying, the idea that they weren't seems absurd. The industry would be better if more consoles had succeded, but thats not the way its ever going to work.

>>15195095

>>15195104

Moralizing and grandstanding faggots will always be anally annihilated by piracy and ensuring old games continue to be available to people. Another thread another flood of shills raging against pirates and piracy for one reason or another.

>>15195140

lol if you can't take opposing arguments I think I have the website for you

>>>/reddit/

>>15195144

>implying

When you try and morally justify stealing you end up looking like some virtue signaling poorfag

>>15195156

>implying that I implied that you implied implications

I like how Nintrapo is the one company in the world where the American branch is worse than the Japanese one.

>>15195135

>>15195137

Who gives a fuck about getting laughed at you insecure faggots. The problem is shills trying to overrun this board and similar sites with anti-piracy bullshit like piracy=stealing because they're either so fucking lazy that they can't form proper arguments they need to latch on to the word stealing in order push their views or butthurt because some people are getting games for free.

Anyone that cares about the image of pirates or goes "pirates are giving pirates a bad name" is a gigantic faggot. We're all anons here who give a fucks about names and images.

>>15195199

>>thinking its about getting laughed at

>been laughing at piratefags the entire thread. utter embarrassments, should honestly kill themselves.

You obviously do think it matters since you and others keep bringing it up you nigger.

>second point

I agree on that's a problem too. But at least the damage is mitigated since most shit is already archived to hell and back. The worst those plants do is make it annoying to collect everything in one place but since they tend to be so transparently obvious it's easy to tell when normalfags begin flooding a place and downloading any shit you were interested in.

Will you retards acquire some fucking self awareness and stop replying to obvious bait/shitposts for once in your idiot lives?

>>15195128

>>15195131

>Don't make me beat your ass kid

>Crying about "archiving"

Painfully cringeworthy shit, I'd say go back to reddit but you're approaching facebook tier right now you faggot.

>>15195236

>(((1)))

>>15195231

>(((1)))

Ayy buttmad pirates strike again. How are your virused .exe's, retards? Why don't you go back to cuckchan already?

>>15195239

cuckchan would probably be even more butthurt about piracy. Considering that site is 100% normalfags.

>>15195250

>>>/cuckchan/

Go back to cuckchan, faggot.

>>15195183

>I like how Nintrapo is the one company in the world where the American branch is worse than the Japanese one.

>what is NIS

>>15194848

>>15195270

>accusing me of ID hopping

>while being cuckchan

That's some advanced judaism, no doubt you'd fit in at your local synagogue. Go back to >>>/cuckchan/

>>15195283

did he seriously get mark'd that fast? That's fucking funny

>>15195282

>you seem to have trouble contributing

You havnt "contributed" any more than me tbh famalamazam

>>15195286

plenty more, but since Mark is on clean up duty it's been wiped. Just take my word for it.

>>15195125

>>15195285

i did it you both, fagets

>>15195288

Don't worry, I believe you

>>15195281

I miss him and his beautiful wife. I hope he has found happiness.

>>15195289

>You've done nothing but shitpost to justify your shitty lockdown boxes.

sounds like someone is traumatized

>All of DoA

>caring about a shitty fighting game franchise

skewed perspective

>>15195291

gj retard, have fun with lawson tonight

>>15195293

That's what friends are for

>>15194418

>>15194421

Nintendo is planning on reselling their old games, that is what's happening.

>>15194516

>>15194540

I would really enjoy it if the entire gaming industry would crash and burn, anon.

How many times do I have to download a 30-year-old NES-rom to make it happen?

And why are you so bad at this?

>>15195301

Too bad VC will always be an extremely limited and overpriced garbage service.

>>15195309

NES and SNES roms aren't the only roms, Gamecube, Gameboy, DS, Nintendo 64.

>>15195322

Wow, anon. I never knew.

How many DS roms do I need to download then? You must know since you're that smart. Take into account that I have some pretty fast internet.

>>15195327

>How many DS roms do I need to download then?

Im guessing a couple TB's of data but probably not a huge amount. Maybe set up your own home server after you figure out the requirements, even with a fast internet if it's the same as mine, a few days, maybe a week or longer if you turn off your PC like I do.

>>15195331

>you've been at it since late night

Dreaming of me, huh? Good to know I made an impact.

>You couldn't point to the general direction of Connecticut

not very hard to find a state right next to mine. Try not to to talk about things you don't understand you mong.

>much less my country.

I'm not too familiar with the armpit of the world, I don't pay attention to the third world very closely. I'm sure I could find it pretty easily, unlike you, who couldn't google American time zones to figure out what time it was, you retard.

>Try harder,

I don't need to, no arguments all thread long, I'm in total control here.

>Go back to bed now,

>pwease stop posting I can't argue against you

We both know that.

>>15195338

> if piracy was not an option?

some might, most won't because they're too poor. most pirates just do it cuz its free shit, few do it for other reasons.

>why are you buttflustered again?

why are you? Taking that bait a bit too hard?

Silly goim, they just plan to sell remasters(game+emulator) of old games.

>shills defending current copyright laws in 2018

Fuck off. Copyright isn't what it was originally envisioned to be anymore, and is now little better than a tool for copyright/patent trolls to abuse so that they can get massively wealthy at fools' expenses.

I'd believe you shills if Nintendo wasn't asking for 2 fucking million per ROM, but here we are. 2 million PER ROM. That's not a "hey bro, that's my stuff, please stop selling :(", that's more like a "FUCK YOU GAIJIN, GIVE ME MONEY OR WE ASK YOUR (SYMPATHETIC) GOVERNMENT TO FUCK YOU IN THE ASS".

2 million. Blows moralfags the fuck out.

>>15195358

it's just a normalfag site getting raped for being retarded. They asked for it.

>>15195384

Christcuck morals now preach that you should tolerate every race and be friendly to homos.

Make your own goddamned morals based on the culture and society you live in instead of following an outdated guideline.

>>15195403

Big difference between Christcucks and actual Christians. I don't really care about religion, but most of my family is.

t. Slav.

They don't really keep up with this type of stuff, so whenever I've told them about the current Pope's exploits, they're very opposed, and frankly disgusted, especially my uber-religious uncle and his family. It's a damn shame, Christianity is quite important to a lot of these countries and it's a shame to see it perverted like this.

>>15195327

You'll need at least 20 seedboxes for my cunning plan.

>>15195380

>halfchan image

>>>/cuckchan/

>>15194405

Didn't the trade thing that bolstered corporate control over their own IP by US/EU has been pushing since forever got passed this year?

>>15195384

I'm not a fedora tipper. I use the term as a shorthand for the "piracy = stealing" crowd. I used to be part of that crowd, but seeing the absolute state of the gaming industry I just don't give a damn anymore. These corporations have a greater responsibility due to their power and roles as producers, but they abuse them so much that I really just stopped caring what pirates do. And with crap like Denuvo, that just makes me want the pirates to win even more.

>>15194908

It's a scare tactic. It makes the guy scared shitless and the hope for nintendo is that it scares other people too. They realistically can't go after every single pirate and ROM seeder/site so they cherry pick popular ones to scare people off. If this site goes off permanently they'll be another that pops up within the month.

>>15195439

What the heck is that torrent, anon?

>>15194962

You don't own NOTHING, goy

>>15195496

It's two archive files of like every NES and SNES game, they're pretty common and popular as far as things go.

It's existed since like 2011 I think.

>tfw the video game industry in itself doesn't want to perserve its own history

This is why the medium will never be art and so many hack writes and others don't know anything about the medium, they think The Last of Us invented story in games.

>>15195505

You don't even need to torrent if you don't want to, it's not hard to find one of the other million sites that hosts isos.

http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/ROM/ISO_Sites

And you know If I remember right isn't like, every NES game like under a Gig?

And isn't every SNES game like 3.7GB?

>>15195543

Yep.

>>15195543

>isn't like, every NES game like under a Gig?

Try under a megabyte most of them at least

>>15195543

Including every revisions and regions the current No-intro set for NES is 280MB and the SNES one is 2.9GB

>>15195543

Every worthwhile SNES game combined is under 300 mb. Despite having some of the best games of all time, there's no escaping shovelware.

>>15195516

>This is why the medium will never be art

and that's a good thing

>>15195554

He meant all of them combined.

>>15194405

>site already shut down

>evaporate the LLC which was operating it

>lawsuit goes into the trash can

>start up again with a new LLC and site name

>lather, rinse, repeat

I get that "news" places are somewhat obligated to do writeups on these, but it's a never ending merry-go-round that only enriches lawyers. Jacob Mathias clearly ignored multiple C&Ds before getting to this point exactly because he can just walk away.

>>15195564

The lawsuit is filed against the site owners, there's an injunction against their site, but the lawsuit is against them personally.

>>15195564

Copyright law is one of the greatest crimes enacted upon the human race. No other concept has so stifled human creativity and freedom of expression, so it should come as no surprise that Jews have built it, brick by yiddish brick, every step of the way.

Who wants to bet that Disney is going to get another extension on Mickey Mouse?

SAVE ALL THE ROMS!

>>15195580

Read only memories and a rewritable future.

Save the roms.

>>15195563

Oh. I'm gonna use his multiple uses of the word "like" as reason for my misunderstanding.

>>15195580

Reminder that this: https://archive.org/details/No-Intro-Collection_2016-01-03_Fixed exists if anyone actually needs or wants these roms

>>15195388

>i have no concept of what apostates are

>>15195572

Well if you think about it really it's less copyright law and more "the laws that extend copyright law" like, say for instance you had developed a piece of software for commercialization and you know, you put it out for sale and ideally you just let people buy their own copy of the software, hey maybe you throw in a shareware version of the software in, but after it's a sale it's out of your hands, and you get protection, for, let's give it a decently safe number as far as software goes, 10 years.

But no, now copyright law extends to retarded shit like

"Me selling you this game isn't actually selling you a game because I say you're only Licensing it"

Which Licensing is a thing, it predates digital software and the current "excuse" for what is declared Licensing when it comes to digital software is fucking retarded.

Or shit like

We own the rights to this this and that asset from the game, therefore you're not allowed to modify the game, because you'd be violating are copyright, which, from the get go, can I say is quite possibly the most fucking retarded overreach and misuse of copyright law I have ever heard.

At that point it's like saying

I sold you a shirt, but technically I OWN the design on the shirt, so you're not allowed to ever change the shirt because you'd be violating my rights, and I get it, yeah digital items are distinctly different from a physical good, but analogously it still essentially works they're both products.

>all the legal misinformation in this thread

I'm not a lawyer

but you guys are retarded. Let's break this down:

>Copyright

This is legal protection against copying the work you did and also against creating derivatives of the work you did. As it applies to video games, it means some faggot can't copy a rom or installer for a game unless it is a backup created by them for personal use only. It also means some faggot can't use a game's assets to make their own game, regardless of if the game is a fan game. You also can't use the games sprites to make a comic or flash animation, the sounds or music to make music, etc. Read up on fair use situations where copyright does not apply. Copyright does not have to be protected, you own it for the entire time until it expires or until you sell your rights to someone else. You do have to register your copyright to have an easier time enforcing it in court, but it's not required to do so in the US.

>Trademark

This is legal protection for your brand, and ONLY your brand. It applies to specific graphics owned by you, and any names owned by you. Not to characters, but be aware that characters may be protected by copyright law's derivative works clause. If you create a video game franchise X that is heavily linked to your brand, and everybody knows that X = your brand Y, you can protect X and iconic depictions of characters from X against being used by some other brand or random person. Your brand Y's logo is a traditional trademark - it's the literal mark of your brand. You can't put (Nintendo) on your shit, because it's not made by Nintendo and Nintendo is not involved with your product. A trademarked name can be used in other unrelated markets, but if some faggot has a name that conflicts with an already well known brand of large scope, he would likely have to prove in court his use of that name was before he knew of that brand and that he never tried to confuse his brand with the more well known brand. Unlike copyright, trademarks have to be protected or you lose them. Like that screenshot says, many people have lost a mark for not defending it. Likewise, while you can (TM) something, people generally pay kikes to register (R) their trademark, because jews love to register unregistered trademarks of unsuspecting victims then take them to court over it for shekels.

>Patents

This one is top jewery, to be honest, but thankfully it doesn't last as long as copyrights. This is legal protection for an innovation (be it an invention or a new way of doing something) you (hopefully) made yourself. In exchange for filing a patent that fully outlines the innovation, you are the only one that can use the innovation until the patent expires. You can however license it out to other parties for shekels. If I recall correctly, this also requires defending or you lose it, but I might be wrong. Either way, if somebody is using your patented technique, then it is fully within your power to destroy them. The alternative to a patent is a trade secret, where you have no legal protection against copycats, but if you can keep your shit from getting out, you can potentially hold onto it forever. Patent trolls exist just like with trademarks, but I've not done a lot of research on patents.

Nintendo has to protect its trademarks, but not its copyrighted works. It is in their best interest to do so from the standpoint of some suit that doesn't play games - less piracy = more sales, right? :^) True, we know that's bullshit, but given there are people that actually buy virtual console games that could learn to emulate, it's not entirely wrong here. You know, due to Nintendo's demographics of children and soyboy manchildren.

They've still been jewish in other ways (paid online, jewtube bullshit), but you can't really fault them for protecting their brand and exclusivity. It's pretty obvious that they're the Apple of video games, and they intend to keep it that way. Only Nintendo actually tends to make good shit. :^)

t. emulates old Nintendo games, not a lawyer, this is not legal advice

>>15195580

If by this point you don't have one of the 5th gen and down No-intro set you're doing something wrong, 35-50GB isn't much space to dedicate to that, hell even the DS one isn't too big only disc system start being really big and shit just explodes with 6th (except NGC) and 7th gen.

>>15195605

It's all fucking kikery. Every single part of it. None is in place to protect content creators, it all exists to fuck you over so some Jewish CEO and shareholders can hoard more shekels. It's almost unheard of for the creative and talented to actually get a decent cut since the Jews suck it all on like a black hole of greed and vice.

>>15195603

https://nicoblog.org/wii-iso/the-legend-of-zelda-twilight-princess-usa/

Literally the first result, bud.

I don't know if it's good but I've used the site before without problems

loveroms was a decent source, albeit kinda sketchy compared to paradise or pre-adware coolroms. It was inevitable for a top-result rom site to get fucked

>>15195619

It always ran weird on my browser, and half the time, if i tried to get a rom from it, it'd try to make me download an .exe instead.

>>15195615

>Wii

fug, I should've specified I was looking for the GC version. I'll look around though, thanks

>>15194540

>Do you buy games after pirating them?

Yes. If the game is actually worth my time, and I can give the devs money instead of kike publishers, then the game is worth my money.

>>15195629

http://www.portalroms.com/en/gamecube/legend-zelda-twilight-princess-iso-download-torrent

Try this, if you havn't found it yet. When you click download it'll open a pop-up but it's actually the download

>>15195007

FUCK YEAH BURNING FORCE

>>15195600

A shorter time period would be better, but the real problem here is if you're allowed to license shit, then you're still getting paid for sitting on your ass for 10 years. If you're not working, you really shouldn't be getting paid. Maybe an even shorter 1-3 year limit depending on the current work being made would encourage you to keep working so that you have the next big thing ready when time is up. You could always keep selling shit even in public domain, keep in mind. People will buy it regardless. If it's not shit. It would help drive indie losers out of the market too, because they wouldn't be able to make a living. Only the good, the popular (unfortunately), and the truly devoted would remain.

>>15195613

I know. It's too bad we haven't gassed them yet, really.

>>15195600

If you actually read the instruction manual for cartridge NES/SNES games, they specifically state that they grant you a nonexclusive license to the software so long as you don't attempt to modify it, the console, or the cartridge that said software is on. So technically Nintendo *could* revoke your rights to said software, but how would they ever enforce that?

>>15195605

>virtual console

Except that the Switch doesn't have virtual console yet, instead there's a very basic subscription service

>but you can't really fault them for protecting their brand and exclusivity

Yeah, i can't imagine how they could publish great games such as Metroid: Federation Force and Pokemon Let's Go otherwise

>>15195638

>even congress pushes back against their attempts to do so

They only refuse to grant them another extension. Not that if fucking matters since we're at 120 years anyway. At this point we might as well burn down the whole legal framework of the West and start from scratch and remember not to give women rights.

Piracy is making a physical copy of a game and then selling it while passing it off as legitimate.

Copying by itself isn't piracy.

>>15195646

I didn't say everything they made was good, anon. And yes, I'm aware of their subscription based service. It still has nothing to do with my argument. They have everything to gain by maintaining their exclusivity. I believe it's the reason people buy their consoles and write emulators for them with such speed. They're going to continue making shittier games and pozzed/anti-consumer decisions now that Iwata is gone, so it really doesn't matter.

>>15195645

I don't necessarily recognize the authority of a EULA. Especially if they're selling me a physical product. I mean technically wasn't there some whole big fucking debacle over microsoft being shitter shattered about people using third party File Managers that aren't the included explorer because most of their rights management bullshit was tied to explorer

>>15195668

Never heard of this before, but I could believe it.

>>15195673

>>15195634

>>15195615

>>15195593

Open your eyes, bucko. Those might have what you're looking for.

I've never even heard of these two ROM sites. Must not have been that "notorious".

>>15195682

check out vimm's lair

>>15195732

You didn't miss anything, just /leftypol/ trying to shit things up.

>>15195740

I'll confirm what he's saying, if that means anything. Just a bunch of anti-piracy dorks.

>>15195753

>communists

>understanding their own ideology

>not being hypocrites

It could go either way.

>>15195605

>patents the most jewish

Wrong. Patents require extreme detail in order to be approved, and each patent is made public. So you are allowed to study and implement the patent, you're just not allowed to produce and make money off it. Patents also only limit a specified means to solving a problem, and doesn't prevent you from solving the same problem a different way. For example, you can make a mousetrap which works better than the competitor's, and they wouldn't be able to fuck you over if you used a new design.

In terms of software and especially video games, it gets kind of gay, but they're generally understandable. Namco patented minigames in loading screens, then proceeded to barely use it. By the time it expired, we've generally figured out how to deal without loading screens, or minimize them. The industry had improved from dealing with the problem without that solution.

t. engineer with a couple patents

>>15195682

What list? Who are you?

>>15194438

This. Also, the reply conflating trademark laws with copyright laws is incorrect. If copyrights faded away due to lack of legal enforcement, programmers wouldn't have to re-implement so much legacy shit that isn't explicitly licensed. Trademarks are different despite their top-level similarities.

I don't blame Nintendo for doing this. Given how few people actually leave Nintendo, I'm sure lots of people who made those old ass games are still working there. I'd be peeved people were putting my hard work on the internet for free, no matter how old it was. Especially since Nintedo keeps selling the roms. I'm still going to pirate all their games though, ReiNX is looking pretty good, should be relatively functional in a few weeks. Speaking of, anybody seen a .nsp of Octopath Traveler?

>>15195769

I tried to explain that in my post, albeit in less detail. I think it's pretty jewish due to software patents and patenting shit you don't plan to use yourself (i.e. you patented it just so you can stop other people from doing it or to license it out) specifically. However, I do agree that they are more beneficial than copyright that they don't take as long to expire and the information is public.

Copyrights don't impede real progress as much, it's just a nuisance to culture and the consumer. (Except in the case of open source projects where someone could poison the project with proprietary code to kill it.)

>>15195606

I have everything but the dreamcast and PSX

>>15195817

This kike wants us to think Nintendo is giving their 60 year old devs profits from their switch re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-releases of games.

>>15195948

I don't know how Nintendo allocates their funds, of course. Just speculating. By the way, how would you feel about somebody taking your hard work and distributing it for free on the internet? I'd be miffed, but I'd understand that's how things work and there's not much I can do about it. But I'm not Japanese so work isn't my life, and I don't sell anything I create because I hate money. Also, what games have even been re-released on Switch? I'm pretty sure that they're not re-using the virtual console branding, and have no old game roms up anyway. Hell, I think Capcom and Square Enix have released more of their old games on the Switch at this point.

>>15194405

Every-time i hear about this i fire one of those 6000 roms torrent. Just to be safe.

>>15195947

>having nintendo over these

the GC and N64 don't even have anything worth archiving.

>>15195017

https://archive.fo/qNvJI

Nigga is making a comeback.

>>15194540

>do you actually buy games after pirating them?

some, that are actually worth the money. I'm getting the impression you're too young to remember but when Hotline Miami was released the developer uploaded a pirate version to TPB and even offered advice on how to get it running properly, tech support etc for a couple weeks. it was one of the best-selling indie games of all time

>>15196012

it was also heavily marketed and regarded as a pretty good game, in retrospect it's mediocre but when your game becomes a meme sales are basically guaranteed.

>>15196003

Neither does the Dreamcast, and a PSX archive is probably insanely huge.

>>15194418

1. it "sets an example" (it doesn't, but some dumbass middle manager sweating because his exec boss yelled ar him because he thinks this is losing them tons of money tells himself that so he can sleep at night)

2. they are legally required to do this in many nations, U.S. included to prove that they have an interest in their own property and are defending it; not doing this risks them losing their copyright to their own shit (yes, seriously)

basically this won't stop happening until the copyright laws in the U.S. stop being fucking idiotic which won't happen until every rich ip holder dies and is replaced with their son who may or may not understand how retarded these laws are and try to replace them. so like 20 years at the absolute earliest

>>15196022

the dreamcast has better games than the DC and N64. PS1 pick and choose. I'm sure you aren't interested in Tigger's Honey Hunt.

>>15196026

GC, not DC.

>>15196026

I agree that the GC has nothing worth playing, but the N64 has some solid games. The problem is that the most well known ones are Nintendo's, and then Rare's mediocre platformers.

>Tigger's Honey Hunt

I remember playing that, actually.

>>15196022

>a PSX archive is probably insanely huge

500Gb if you're looking at the US set, tarts going onto 2TB if you take every region, US +PAL/JP exclusives should still take you around 900GB if not higher.

>>15196026

>I'm sure you aren't interested in Tigger's Honey Hunt

You'd be dead wrong.

>>15196038

Sin & Punishment, MNSG, Goemon's Great Adventure and Mischief Makers being the few that come to mind. That said N64 is small as fuck compared to its competition, and had less games than either the Saturn or PS1.

>>15196040

Considering the number of JP exclusives, US and JP are most worth getting, with a few PAL games sprinkled in.

>>15196056

There's a few hundred other mediocre licensed platformers out there

Companies protect their IPs. I mean, I like free shit too, but everyone knows the piracy train has never been smooth ride. Whining about companies locking down their shit is like whining that it's cold in the winter. Put on your jacket and your wool socks and act like a man.

>>15196165

(((Intellectual Property))) is bullshit, anon. It lumps separate concepts such as copyright, trademark, and patents under one term designed to cause confusion and make people associate ideas with physical property.

>>15196025

>(yes, seriously)

No seriously, you are thinking of trademark law. You don't lose copyright unless you willingly release your right or the time you or some group may possess it passes and the work goes into public domain.

Full Conspiracy theory mode, Anyway else think with the resurgence of 8-16bit games, Nintendo is simply looking to "remaking" old games then selling em as new ones?

>>15196180

>>15196190

Doesn't change the way things are. Want things for free, don't expect it to always be easy.

>>15196194

Well I'm sure there is a torrent on TPB. Half tempted to copy paste the magnet to my seedbox.

>>15195968

>how would you feel about somebody taking your hard work and distributing it for free on the internet?

I'd be extremely happy that people were enjoying something I created. Money isn't everything, kike.

>>15196205

-t. trustfund kiddie

>>15196193

That's not a conspiracy so much as some fags at Nintendo exploiting stupid suckers who keep buying the same shit every few months.

>>15195605

best post itt full of cuckchan retards

>>15195968

>By the way, how would you feel about somebody taking your hard work and distributing it for free on the internet?

The people that made those games not only already got paid, but some may have already retired. There is no hard work involved at this point, except that of the archivists that keep games like those alive.

>>15196194

It's easy as fuck. "Oh no, I had to spend 10 minutes finding a new site to download this shit from, woe is me!"

The real takeaway is "if you don't want things to be free you better be a 100+max ultra jew willing to sacrifice all your good will in the name of a few extra sheckles." But even then: if it's digital it will always be free regardless.

>>15196211

I work in a factory. Nice attempt at an ad hom though. You don't have to be undeservedly wealthy to appreciate that money isn't everything in life.

>>15196211

>if you don't want to stifle culture with copyright and other retarded government-imposed monopolies, then you're a trustfund kiddie

Nice reasoning, faggot. I bet you think you'll be the one doing the suing like Nintendo one day, dipshit.

>>15194436

>you have to defend trademarks and copyright in order to keep them

Why do faggots keep spewing this BS? Anyone who's ever played a Kingdom Hearts game knows that that's not how copyright works. (Unless I missed Disney buying Square-Enix at some point?)

>>15196218

I think when I was downloading some obscure 68k games loveroms was the only site that had them.

>>15196223

As someone that works with rich folks for a living (real estate), I find that folks with money are usually the most tight-fisted, especially those that didn't earn their wealth.

>>15196218

I just see no reason to get angry at the tides, that's all. Companies being driven by money is a force of nature. You work around it, if need be, but being bitter or angry about it is a waste of energy.

Someone post the Nintendo Pride shit

Look at all the ROM sites that haven't been sued. The common theme is that they do the shit for free and don't publicize themselves and their names. The ones that get sued and C&D'd are always the same fucking story:

* Owners list their names publicly

* Owners advertize their sites publicly, and try to "spread the word"

* Owners profit from the site, either actively accepting donations through patreon, having extensive advertisements that do more than support the costs of running the site itself, selling services and shit, etc

Even with fan games, the ones who get shut down are the ones that run patreons and shit and advertise their work. If you're doing something that's illegal, you keep a low fucking profile, you idiots.

Copyright law is fucked, and there should be stipulations for reasonable downloading of media after the creator can't be expected to turn a profit on it anymore (like downloading old TV shows that aren't even offered on DVD and such, older classic films, and ROMs for old systems out of production), but the fact is that it's illegal, so treat it like it is. If you're breaking the law, don't do it like a goddamn retard. Nintendo isn't in the wrong here, because these were fucknig idiots basically bragging about breaking the law. Look at the OP's image. What company is basically going to see somebody taunting them publically about stealing their property and not hit them hard? They'd be basically putting a sign on their back saying "we won't do anything if you pirate our games".

Basically, this is more "talk shit get hit" than anything else.

So what? It's their games, they can do what they with them. The pirates certainly don't own the legal rights to the games, and they can't even make archival copies legally.

>>15196246

>This site requires cookies and javascript to run

>As soon as you hit accept, it fires up a BTC miner while you browse the site

>Eventually, this results in invisible money changing hands

>>15196239

So what you're saying is that the solution is to boycott Nintendo and not give them half a shekel.

>>15196248

but muh archival, if pirates don't do it, nobody will

>>15196239

Apathy is the bastion of weak-willed cowards.

>>15194868

Then rip those games yourself instead of downloading copies of other people's rips, faggot

>>15196190

>Nintendo is "protecting" ancient shit that barely anyone really gives a shit about

Then explain this thread and the butthurt anons in it

>>15196248

>It's their games

But they're not. They're our games. Copyright is, in principle, a limited monopoly so as to encourage creation of new works, but they do not give you ownership of the work. They give you the right to distribute it. Mario, Zelda, Metroid, and so on do not belong to Nintendo. They belong to us.

>>15196267

So by complaining about it on the internet, you are actively changing it. Nintendo will see this thread, and next week offer all their classic games for free.

>>15196276

If you can prove that your resistance isn't futile, I'll resist right along with you. Otherwise you'll just banging your head against a wall for no good reason.

>>15196280

>suckers exist.

One born every minute.

>>15196285

>If you can prove that your resistance isn't futile, I'll resist right along with you

Getting people to care about issues relating to culture is part of resisting. Apathy is cowardice.

>>15196279

>Mario, Zelda, Metroid, and so on do not belong to Nintendo. They belong to us.

So can I blame you for Metroid being shit then?

>>15196290

That's like blaming the owner of a house for it falling apart. You don't get how shit works, do you?

>people actually posted links to other romsites in this thread

fucking retards

>>15194933

>>15196280

Probably to prevent cases of self-competition. They would have canned Dragon Quest in favor of Final Fantasy a long time ago if DQ didn't have the fans it does.

Its the same reason why EA controlls what games are put on the FPS market and why they tried so hard to smother Titanfall in its crib, despite being such a sleeper hit that Call of Duty directly ripped off the 3D movement gameplay in Advanced Warfare.

>>15196292

>That's like blaming the owner of a house for it falling apart.

>owner does something stupid to the house

>the house falls apart because of it

>"hurr not da owners fault"

Also you're the one who has no grasp on how any of this works.

>>15196279

Culture used to be read/write. You could add to it, but people could also take what you added and modify or use it how they wished.

Then the jews got involved and made it read only. Now you can only add to the shared culture, not take anything out of it. And guess who controls what gets added?

the hypocrasy is the amount of jewish media conglomerates built off the backs of public domain works. Disney being cheif among them and also the most hostile to public domain.

The real kicker is that in recent years the jews, in a display of blatant laziness and cowardice, have decided that they don't even really want to write into the shared culture. So it's all remakes, reboots, cover songs, etc of shit that's allready popular.

>>15196285

Yes, that's obviously what I'm saying. Definatly not an attempt to put words in my mouth there. But you are right about one thing. The only real way to change anything is to quietly and passively accept it and make sure no one around you ever questions it in any way shape or form. PRAISE DISNEY! :^)

>>15196309

Enjoy your ban, newfag

>>15196232

Sony gives a shit, just not as much as Nintendo

They were one of the original people to try and shut down emulators and they had a class action lawsuit filed against them for people hacking their PS3s, I think it went through last year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment,_Inc._v._Connectix_Corporation

>>15196297

>Probably to prevent cases of self-competition

Explain this concept to me, its just completely alien to me. It seems like you're cutting your fan base in half.

>>15196286

Joy

>>15196288

There is zero chance of laws being changed to allow you to pirate stuff legally. Don't pretend to be stupid, because I know you aren't. And I'm not telling you don't pirate, and just buy all these games from Nintendo for $5 each. Pirate all you want.

>>15196307

I download roms just like you. You ask that Nintendo sucks your dick for downloading roms, and I don't. I understand that they will never ever do that.

>>15196307

>Culture used to be read/write

This is true, its only recently that (((they))) tried to turn ideas into a commodity that you traded in and then acting like this is how it should be and always was. They've got such a strangehold that if you, for example, conduct your own research and try to get it published in a respectable journal you first have to "sell" the rights to a publisher who makes money off your work by putting it behind a paywall and you don't see a cent of it. Thats why sci-hub and its mirrors exist; go through a publisher to get the recognition and then put your paper up on a host for free access for sharing.

>>15196326

>There is zero chance of laws being changed to allow you to pirate stuff legally.

Well, with that attitude, of course. That's exactly what you want, though. You fucking shill. For some reason you're offended by the idea that people might organize to take their shit back. Laws were passed to extend copyright. They can be passed to curtail it.

>>15195515

he's baiting you to report it to nintendo retard don't tell the faggot anything

>>15196278

lurk more, refugee

>>15196297

Or how Nintendo doesn't make a new F-Zero game because "they already have a casual racing game" (eg Mario Kart) despite them being two completely distinct playstyles and franchises

>>15196326

Kind of a defeatist attitude.

>There is zero chance of laws being changed to allow you to abolish slavery/child labour/illegal toxic waste dumping

>>15195542

But don't you see! the AVGN is the biggest pirate there is because almost all the games he bought were from ebay and nintendo didn't get a single dime!!!

he's flaunting it on youtube!

>>15196301

I once put $400 in a League of Legends account, then my graphics card broke. Didn't play it for two years, came back and saw someone broke into my account, tried to bot it for comp games (which I never played) and got perma'd.

Tried to appeal, providing: passwords, emails, phone numbers, known IP addresses, etc., and they said "NOPE, fuck your shit, YOU cheated, gtfo". It's leaving your car in the garage for summer holidays and a bunch of teens joyride it so you call the police, and you end up getting life without parole for it

>>15195135

>oy vey you justify things because i say so ha ha wow you pilpul i say so lol wow ha ha

>watch as I denounce all of you and then instantly state that I’m one of you, but superior because I don’t abide by my own strawmen

Yeah, reported.

>>15195558

not really, i have a compressed 5gb .rar file that uncompresses to 30gb of snes games.

>>15196335

How is downloading something that someone else created "taking your shit back"? I won't bother arguing for how long copyright should last because it seems pretty arbitrary to me. Anything that people want will be available for free regardless of the law. You need the government's approval on top of getting free stuff? You need Nintendo's approval? Do what you want, and fuck them both. You care that much what they think of you? Because they sure as hell can't do anything to you. You're not a victim.

>>15196361

I think he means in the current political/legal climate. The companies who benefit from anti-piracy laws have the influence required to keep them from being changed, but they can lose this influence over time.

>30gb

The collection that I have is only 3 gigs uncompressed. Am I missing a bunch of games?

>>15196320

You don't want, say, two JRPG titles releases near to each other or the casual fan will get one or the other because they're so outwardly similar they figure that they only need to play one. Early Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy titles had that problem, they played and looked very similar especially on the surface. Basically, they don't want to divide the amount of money they get per title since each has the production costs to take into account and because a company's stock forecast is dependent on a game's launch sales.

>>15196373

>How is downloading something that someone else created "taking your shit back"?

Those games belong to the users. It is the game studios with the help of the government that keep them from you.

>You need the government's approval on top of getting free stuff? You need Nintendo's approval? Do what you want, and fuck them both. You care that much what they think of you? Because they sure as hell can't do anything to you. You're not a victim.

They constantly shut down fan projects, sites, and archivists, and threaten legal action to simple downloaders once in a while. It isn't about what they think of me. It's about the fact that they stifle culture. Stop trying to make this about "free stuff". It's about more than that. Think free as in freedom.

>>15196326

I don't ask that nintendo suck my dick, I ask that they be non-jewish.

On the other hand, you ask to suck their dick and shout at anyone who tries to tell you this is a bad idea.

>>15196369

Don't suppose it's floating around a share thread/ vola somewhere?

>>15196359

Ah, that makes sense, i don't agree but i can see where they're coming from. Especially in regards to some movies

>>15196402

I do miss old Enix approach to games too, but they are basically doing what they know will make them money.

>>15196403

It's worse than that. It's an effort to make it seem like there are no sincere pirates that just wish to share things, and have real standards that they hold game studios to. It's nothing but a strawman argument.

>>15196405

woops my comment was actually meant for >>15196387

But it applies to yours as well.

>>15196411

Its just bait and D&C, shills are mad about the whole pedo shit on /pol/

>>15196421

>mad about the whole pedo shit on /pol/

Care to fill me in? I just come here for the vidya.

>>15195781

same could be said of /pol/

>>15196364

That's how Commiefornia handles reports of stolen firearms. Friend of mine was in San Diego for a while (military), and his home was broken into, his pistol safe was cut in half, and his handguns were stolen. Police said that if they came up in a crime, he would be charged as an accessory, and they weren't joking. They claimed that he "let it happen". By locking his home up, and locking the guns in a safe.

>>15196424

No, go to /pol/ to be informed.

Just stick to vidya if that is why you are here.

>>15196433

Oy vey

>>15196253

they aren't making money selling torrents, they are making money from you browsing the site so they can pay for the website.

>>15196424

Dan Harmon, the co-creator of Rick and Morty, deleted his twitter account after an old comedy sketch of him fucking a baby doll surfaced. He played the part of "Daryl" who was described as the "Pedophile with a heart of gold," and I think the original sketch was intended to parody the TV show called Dexter, which was about a serial killer of the same name. The sketch in question shows him graphically raping a doll, apparently you can see his asscrack and dick a little bit too. Cuckchan has been deleting threads about this subject left and right, going so far as to ban any user who even replies to a thread about Dan. This in turn has undoubtedly caused an increased number of refugees to come here. Which also explains some of the decreased post quality in this very thread.

>>15196394

I agree with you on fan projects, and they are serious fucking assholes when they take down youtubers trying to review their games and whatnot. But there is a middle ground here. We can expect them to not be complete assholes, while still understanding that they're going to take some measures to hold onto the things that they legally own. I don't want them to fuck over fan projects or shut down reviews and let's plays, but I understand that they're also not going to just give all their games away for free either.

>>15196446

/pol/ thread, if anyone cares

>>>/pol/11898942

>>15196444

>lets fight the jews by putting zion man in charge

oy vey indeed

>>15196446

To be fair, that actually sounds pretty funny.

>>15196424

Some anon on /pol/ went digging into the creator of Rick and Morty's twitter account and other social media he uses. He found a video of Dan Harmon(?) molesting a baby doll.

An Anon from Hollywood shows his 1040k tax form with 300 million dollars and askes to find the owner of the site to resolve the matter. /pol/ mods then begin banning everyone so all cuckchan inhabits ran here.

Also sage cause this is getting off topic

>>15196424

Associates and friends of Gunn, who was recently fired by Disney for pedo tweets were found to have posted similar creepy shit, using known pedo lingo and behavior, associating with convicted pedophiles, bestiality, and as >>15196446

mentioned, Dan Harmon fucking a baby doll on camera, among many, many other things. Hollywood is freaking the FUCK out over half/pol/, which in turn is banning everybody, and they're running here as refugees with their findings and archive links. The Streisand Effect is running full throttle, with a turbo and nitros.

>>15196452

BUT PIRATING IS THEFT

SPEND MORE OF THAT JEWISH CONFETTI GOY

YOUR HOBBY IS DYING

DON'T YOU DARE GIVE THAT CONFETTI STRAIGHT TO THE DEVELOPER

>>15196450

> We can expect them to not be complete assholes, while still understanding that they're going to take some measures to hold onto the things that they legally own.

Again, they don't legally own those games. They hold a copyright. There's a world of difference.

>I understand that they're also not going to just give all their games away for free either.

Nobody is advocating for that. We're advocating for the rights of users to do as they see fit with content they paid for, including sharing with a neighbor. Non-commercial piracy doesn't hurt game studios and there is no evidence it ever has.

>>15196346

just so you all know, capitalism was invented by jews and exploited by jews.

it was only until after the gilded age that government stepped in due to public outcry and news organizations exposing corporate practices to regulate capitalism.

>>15196467

>anti-capitalist

You commie fuck I bet you think we should all get everything for free.

You will get counterarguments like this if you ever criticize capitalism in any way, black/white fallacy.

>>15196462

>lolsorandom

there are some brilliant anons on that board, but most of you are just underage reddit memesters looking for a place to fit in.

>>15194812

>Fuck that noise, video game developers know EXACTLY what they are doing and going into.

If we have to get technical the publishers are the cancerous part in the whole deal.

>>15196385

>>15196401

my bad, looks like it was a mega drive

i need to get the snes

>>15196518

It was a live action skit, not animated

>>15196480

in the future we will all be able to download car or peice of fried chicken and print it out.