@Priceless_Spork That's not really a comparison. You make your OWN tomatoes. That's like saying you make your OWN GAME. But if you steal your tomatoes from the local farmer because he has so much anyway and birds might pick one or two away as well, so "why should it hurt them" - it's still theft.
I get more and more angry with justifications of emulating games, and the attention big personalities draw to it.
There are so many clone-devices by now that only play ROMs.
It was already bad when it was just the PC, then your phone. But now, it's displayed as more and more legal. And when I hear people defending it like "But that big Internet Archive has Roms, so THAT'S making it legal!" or "The original copies are too expensive - just play the Rom" - It's driving me mad.
We are gamers. We love this entertainment and I doubt that anyone wants to see it gone. So stand up and support it.
"But no one earns from old games anymore" is a bullpoo argument as well - there are lots of peoples and companies that depend on it. The big ones release the old titles digitally (Nintendo Virtual Console, X-Box Arcade, Playstation Network, NES/SNES Mini, remakes of old classics are common now, as well as re-releases on current plattforms), and on the Retro-Market - do you think that shops, big and small, who sell retro-games do this just for fun? They need income as well or they have to close down! If everyone just downloads the games they wanna play, these shops will go out of business! And with more and more collectors appearing who do not intend to SELL the games they own, the market would empty out without the professional sellers.
Personally, I don't mind if you own a game and want to play it on PC for any given reason. Or make your own arcade machine with a Raspberry pie. But I grudge everyone who uses emulation as a term to profit. Everyone who creates and sells clone devices fueled by ROMs is promoting piracy. And the more people talk about these devices, promote them, report that they exist, the more games are getting pirated.
I highly prefer Clone Devices like the Retron 5, the Smart Boy, or the currently in devolpment Polymega, who do not support ROM import but only the original games! They actually support the market and the videogame entertainment. They don't hurt anyone, they only give us the opportunity to play the old classics on modern TV/devices in "modern" graphics!
Finally a new Retro-System that doesn't allow you to dump hundreds of Roms in there and only works with the original games <3 So glad they stand against piracy! If they also allow for translation packs, I'm fully on board! If not, I still might get it in addition to a Retron 5 :3
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Re: Flash Carts Could Be Slowly Killing Your Retro Consoles
@Priceless_Spork That's not really a comparison. You make your OWN tomatoes. That's like saying you make your OWN GAME.
But if you steal your tomatoes from the local farmer because he has so much anyway and birds might pick one or two away as well, so "why should it hurt them" - it's still theft.
Re: Flash Carts Could Be Slowly Killing Your Retro Consoles
I get more and more angry with justifications of emulating games, and the attention big personalities draw to it.
There are so many clone-devices by now that only play ROMs.
It was already bad when it was just the PC, then your phone. But now, it's displayed as more and more legal. And when I hear people defending it like "But that big Internet Archive has Roms, so THAT'S making it legal!" or "The original copies are too expensive - just play the Rom" - It's driving me mad.
We are gamers. We love this entertainment and I doubt that anyone wants to see it gone. So stand up and support it.
"But no one earns from old games anymore" is a bullpoo argument as well - there are lots of peoples and companies that depend on it. The big ones release the old titles digitally (Nintendo Virtual Console, X-Box Arcade, Playstation Network, NES/SNES Mini, remakes of old classics are common now, as well as re-releases on current plattforms), and on the Retro-Market - do you think that shops, big and small, who sell retro-games do this just for fun? They need income as well or they have to close down! If everyone just downloads the games they wanna play, these shops will go out of business! And with more and more collectors appearing who do not intend to SELL the games they own, the market would empty out without the professional sellers.
Personally, I don't mind if you own a game and want to play it on PC for any given reason. Or make your own arcade machine with a Raspberry pie. But I grudge everyone who uses emulation as a term to profit. Everyone who creates and sells clone devices fueled by ROMs is promoting piracy. And the more people talk about these devices, promote them, report that they exist, the more games are getting pirated.
I highly prefer Clone Devices like the Retron 5, the Smart Boy, or the currently in devolpment Polymega, who do not support ROM import but only the original games! They actually support the market and the videogame entertainment. They don't hurt anyone, they only give us the opportunity to play the old classics on modern TV/devices in "modern" graphics!
Re: Exclusive: Getting Under The Hood Of RetroBlox, The Clone Console To Rule Them All
Finally a new Retro-System that doesn't allow you to dump hundreds of Roms in there and only works with the original games <3
So glad they stand against piracy! If they also allow for translation packs, I'm fully on board! If not, I still might get it in addition to a Retron 5 :3
Re: Modular Console RetroBlox Could Be The Ultimate Old-School Gaming Platform
If the price is right, the quality can hold up and it supports fan translations like the Retron 5... I might get that instead of, well, a Retron 5