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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

Not much info here but I wonder if these were some sort of fake NES/SNES/Mega Drive minis or just handheld emulation devices in general

I was wondering if shipping SD cards full of ROMs would ever come to bite the manufacturers in the ass and I guess it might have. Will this be a one-off thing or a sign of a wider EU crackdown? I think there was a warning earlier issued by some agency this month about how the solder in one of the Anbernic devices exceeded EU's maximum lead levels

Edit: There's a video of the Italian cops' raid on the warehouse where the devices were being held, looks like a large variety of different devices

https://youtu.be/U4lYIzijJSU?si=mmvXSsipSaMEnaOv

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[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 43 points 11 months ago

Around 12,000 consoles with 47 million games

No. That is incorrect. Each console had a few thousand games, and you did bullshit math to make that sound worse. Each copy of a rom does not count as an individual video game, that’s an insane way to measure things.

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

10 grams of Mario would be worth 50k on the streets according to Cop Math™️

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago

Like, this would mean that if I took a rom for Super Mario Bros and hit ctrl-c ctrl-v 10,000 times you could say I have 10,000 video games. Thats insanity.

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago

I'm pretty sure Nintendo's lawyer ghouls would argue you just described illegally producing 10,000 illegal copies of SMB and would need to be punished accordingly

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

Which is why Nintendo’s lawyers deserve barbara-pit

Hell, most lawyers in general, but especially IP lawyers.

[-] AndJusticeForAll@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

Infinite crime.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

I'm freebasing Mario Sunshine, fuck the police.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

Going into a Fluddhole

[-] sawne128@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

But what about those Famicom cassettes on which it is written "9999999 games in 1!"?

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