Re: Ignore my last message, was accident
Posted by DerpySnake on .
I'd just like to add to this that the argument that companies may lose the rights is usually invalid, as I can't find cases of it ever happening and if it did happen to the point most people said, a lot of video game IPs would be public domain due to there being so many pirated, bootleg and fan games out there, with things like Mario, Sonic, Spyro, etc...
So for your first question, your struggle with internal feelings of guilt or ethical dilemma are on you, I'm afraid. There's plenty of argument to be made that Nintendo deserves to have their games pirated or whatever because of consumer unfriendly business practices and refusal to listen to what their customers want from them. But in the end, the things hosted here and the collection of roms is not strictly legal in most countries and it is a very real possibility that Vimm could up and disappear one day because of this. Vimm has a few safeguards against that but ultimately they aren't any sort of guarantee Nintendo or Sony of whoever won't find the site (assuming they don't already know about it, which seems unlikely) and send out letters.
As to your second question, there's no way to make Nintendo do anything if they don't want to. They've heard fans moaning and groaning about their terrible virtual consoles and glorified emulators on the Switch and stuff and they don't care. Possibly because they already know people are and have emulated things for so long.
I mean you said it yourself at the end of your message, that Nintendo will never rerelease the games in the form of the virtual console again and you're probably right because companies aren't all that interested in preservation of ancient games and there is some possibility they've given up on trying to destroy emulation completely until it's something staring them in the face they can't ignore anymore. Emuparadise doesn't have Nintendo roms anymore because they just put everything they could with no regard to how that might make waves. Companies have a duty to protect their assets and copyrights from nearly every instance they know of or they face a very real possibility of losing the protections they enjoy of having them in the first place.
You are correct that if Nintendo wanted to start shoving games on some platform like Steam or GOG or whatever then people would buy them. But they have their OWN platform to use and shove whatever they want on there and they just don't cause they aren't interested or are too caught up in legal issues with putting out the games from long ago (lot of licensed games and stuff on the NES/SNES back then).
As to your second question, there's no way to make Nintendo do anything if they don't want to. They've heard fans moaning and groaning about their terrible virtual consoles and glorified emulators on the Switch and stuff and they don't care. Possibly because they already know people are and have emulated things for so long.
I mean you said it yourself at the end of your message, that Nintendo will never rerelease the games in the form of the virtual console again and you're probably right because companies aren't all that interested in preservation of ancient games and there is some possibility they've given up on trying to destroy emulation completely until it's something staring them in the face they can't ignore anymore. Emuparadise doesn't have Nintendo roms anymore because they just put everything they could with no regard to how that might make waves. Companies have a duty to protect their assets and copyrights from nearly every instance they know of or they face a very real possibility of losing the protections they enjoy of having them in the first place.
You are correct that if Nintendo wanted to start shoving games on some platform like Steam or GOG or whatever then people would buy them. But they have their OWN platform to use and shove whatever they want on there and they just don't cause they aren't interested or are too caught up in legal issues with putting out the games from long ago (lot of licensed games and stuff on the NES/SNES back then).