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Nintendo And Sega Raid Longstanding ROM Sanctuary To Remove Tons Of Classic Games (kotaku.com)

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[-] Nima@leminal.space 63 points 5 months ago

they've long killed any desire to ever give them a single cent in my lifetime again.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 43 points 5 months ago

I really, really hate Nintendo.

[-] pkmkdz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

With how much effort they put into being most despicable company for game preservation, I'm wondering if their employees aren't constantly adraid of being assaulted in public.

[-] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 31 points 5 months ago

Tbh, if I would be a millionaire, my hobbies would shift from playing videogames to getting every single one of them and digitalizing them into multiple drives, some of them EMP shielded

[-] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 months ago

You don't need to be a millionaire to do that.

[-] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

I’d need a house and enough storage room for this. Where I live a 320 square foot apartment costs about $500 - that’s 25% of a regular monthly income after tax, a regular house is around around $700.000

[-] Fungah@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I mean. Every super Nintendo / Nintendo / n64 game ever is what, like, 16gb?

[-] dch82@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago

Someone squashed every* game on the NDS into 256GB

*One locale only

[-] chrisgestapo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I heard from somewhere that you can get the whole collection down to below 120GB if you compress all variants of a game into solid archive.

[-] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Yes, but it‘s not about the digital media for me. I want that stuff physical.

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

If I was a millionaire I would shift my priorities to flooding Nintendo with frivolous lawsuits. Hit em with a bit of their own tactics.

[-] Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

You can still find them.

[-] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Where?

[-] Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Torrent sites. Internet archive.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

they think by force deleting roms for old games they are gonna generate millions of revenue from these games? what is the end game? I really dont understand

[-] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

: (

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

This is so sad.... I hope a new site just like it pops up in its place. Vimms was so reliable, I'm really gonna miss it.

[-] Titou@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

Long live to Yuzu !

[-] dch82@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Argh mate, if you don’t want to find freeloaded goodies, please don’t find the no-intro collection on archive.com

For avoiding purposes…

[+] bizzle@lemmy.world -27 points 5 months ago

Normies ruin everything

[-] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 5 months ago

Everyone has known about Vimm's forever, it was the first result on Google for a very long time. It's not that "normies" ruined it, Nintendo is just now deciding to take aim for whatever reason

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 months ago

Established in 1997, Vimm’s Lair has been a popular place for folks to download classic video games that originated on a wide array of platforms, including N64, Sega Saturn, PlayStation 1, and Atari 260. Many of these games can’t be bought in stores or found in digital marketplaces, making Vimm’s Lair a useful place for those looking to check out pieces of video game history. However, Apple’s recent decision to allow emulators on the App Store has seen a massive influx of people looking for classic roms, and it seems all this attention has put Vimm’s Lair in lawyers’ spotlights.

[-] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

Is the speculation of this site, but also aligns well with Nintendo taking aim at emulators

[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I saw an article earlier today speculating that the iOS emulator might have raised the awareness drawing the eye of Nintendo, Sega, and others.

Edit - Ha! It was this article.

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

No, copyright law ruins everything.

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