@Kalmaro You should look at the back of a DVD or game next time you get off your high horse. When you buy something, you're free to do whatever you want with it. Including backups. It's sharing them that becomes the illegal bit.
As for preservation, you do realize that when something is out of print for an extended period of time it's public domain right? So while sharing ROMs is certainly in a moral and legal grey area now, in about 50 years no one will care and you'll be able to download Friday the 13th for NES and Spider Kong for Atari 2600 without giving a two poops and a canary. Hell, old DOS and arcade games that have since been abandoned by their devs and publishers are already hitting that state.
@Kalmaro Get over yourself. There's plenty of good reasons to own a flashcart that don't involve piracy. Playing backups of your own cartridges, playing unreleased games, translation patched versions of imports you may on, etc.
And ROMS also help games stay alive and relevant when the cartridges/discs eventually rot away and die.
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Re: Flash Carts Could Be Slowly Killing Your Retro Consoles
@Kalmaro That's not a comeback. That's ignoring most of my statement because you literally do not have an argument.
Re: Flash Carts Could Be Slowly Killing Your Retro Consoles
@Kalmaro You should look at the back of a DVD or game next time you get off your high horse. When you buy something, you're free to do whatever you want with it. Including backups. It's sharing them that becomes the illegal bit.
As for preservation, you do realize that when something is out of print for an extended period of time it's public domain right? So while sharing ROMs is certainly in a moral and legal grey area now, in about 50 years no one will care and you'll be able to download Friday the 13th for NES and Spider Kong for Atari 2600 without giving a two poops and a canary. Hell, old DOS and arcade games that have since been abandoned by their devs and publishers are already hitting that state.
Re: Flash Carts Could Be Slowly Killing Your Retro Consoles
@Kalmaro Get over yourself. There's plenty of good reasons to own a flashcart that don't involve piracy. Playing backups of your own cartridges, playing unreleased games, translation patched versions of imports you may on, etc.
And ROMS also help games stay alive and relevant when the cartridges/discs eventually rot away and die.