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solosnake
07/22/18 11:58:05 PM
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https://torrentfreak.com/nintendo-sues-console-rom-sites-for-mass-copyright-infringement-180720/

http://checkpointgaming.net/news/2018/07/rom-distributors-crumble-nintendo-legal-pressure/

Nintendo are taking 2 ROM distributors to court over mass copyright infringements. The legal pressure has already caused one to omit all Nintendo games from their page and the other to shut down indefinitely

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MrMallard
07/22/18 11:58:29 PM
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Damn, which sites?
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Solar_Crimson
07/22/18 11:59:02 PM
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MrMallard posted...
Damn, which sites?

Both links have them, which probably isn't wise to post here.
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KillerKhan420
07/22/18 11:59:23 PM
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Lol, they're about 20 years too late.
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Bloodychess
07/22/18 11:59:36 PM
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They are well within their right to sue, but cut one head off and two more will take its place
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Trumpo
07/23/18 12:03:37 AM
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One site that took down in the past put them back on recently
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Mist_Turnips
07/23/18 12:11:08 AM
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Neither are the sites I use. Lol no name sites.
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NurseRedHeart
07/23/18 12:12:15 AM
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Yet Nintendo still sucks ass at releasing their own classic games.
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Swagnificent119
07/23/18 12:13:24 AM
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lol I have never heard of those sites in my life.
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HylianFox
07/23/18 12:13:52 AM
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one of them used to be DGemu
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Shotgunnova
07/23/18 12:13:57 AM
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This means that, with more than 140 copyrighted titles and 40 trademarks on the record, theoretical damages could go up to a staggering $100 million.
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ultimate reaver
07/23/18 12:14:15 AM
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Swagnificent119 posted...
lol I have never heard of those sites in my life.

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GiftedACIII
07/23/18 12:14:34 AM
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lol that's just the most public site. Literally the first google results.
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KlRBEH
07/23/18 12:15:04 AM
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I usually defend Nintendo but what's the point in this?
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LinksLiege
07/23/18 12:15:34 AM
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Swagnificent119 posted...
lol I have never heard of those sites in my life.

It's odd how one site in particular, which has certainly gotten dinged in the past, still has quite a lot of stuff on it.

Hell - there's an internet archive page where this guy has full ROM collections for like 30 different systems on it. There's another one for just DS too - all languages, all everything.
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AlecSkorpio
07/23/18 12:15:49 AM
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This is why I stick to foreign sites.

Hell, I'm pretty sure that's the reason I have a basic understanding of French.
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MrMallard
07/23/18 12:18:03 AM
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Yeah, not gonna cry over these two websites.
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Sayoria
07/23/18 12:18:08 AM
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Hey, if it wasn't for ROMs, it would be impossible to play Parody World: Monster Party. Not even lying.
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ASithLord7
07/23/18 12:18:28 AM
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Fair.
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kirbymuncher
07/23/18 12:18:56 AM
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NurseRedHeart posted...
Yet Nintendo still sucks ass at releasing their own classic games.

some of the classics they released are actually just ROMs that they downloaded from these sites lol
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HylianFox
07/23/18 12:21:58 AM
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Sayoria posted...
Hey, if it wasn't for ROMs, it would be impossible to play Parody World: Monster Party. Not even lying.

You should try my restoration:

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3756/
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YonicBoom
07/23/18 12:22:11 AM
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AlecSkorpio posted...
This is why I stick to foreign sites.

Hell, I'm pretty sure that's the reason I have a basic understanding of French.


While piracy is reprehensible, this is a pretty interesting result at the very least.
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Solar_Crimson
07/23/18 12:23:03 AM
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kirbymuncher posted...
NurseRedHeart posted...
Yet Nintendo still sucks ass at releasing their own classic games.

some of the classics they released are actually just ROMs that they downloaded from these sites lol

Wait, what? lol
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HylianFox
07/23/18 12:23:29 AM
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but yeah, ROMs are the only way to play prototype and unreleased games

Solar_Crimson posted...
kirbymuncher posted...
NurseRedHeart posted...
Yet Nintendo still sucks ass at releasing their own classic games.

some of the classics they released are actually just ROMs that they downloaded from these sites lol

Wait, what? lol


Someone hacked the NES/SNES Classics and found they even use the same filenames
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HylianFox
07/23/18 12:27:48 AM
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You can even add ROMs to the Classics since they're just glorified emulators
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RE_expert44
07/23/18 12:29:29 AM
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Isnt the nes classic running off of stolen emulator software?
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07/23/18 12:30:10 AM
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Rika_Furude
07/23/18 12:30:29 AM
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Rom sites are like a hydra. Chop off one head and two more take its place.

If we are talking about 3ds roms, they arent even needed since you can free and legally download any game from nintendos estore on the 3ds, so sueing a rom site does nothing to stop 3ds "piracy" (you cant even call it that in this case)

In regards to morality, nintendo is in the wrong since they refuse to release most classics on modern systems.
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Sayoria
07/23/18 12:42:10 AM
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HylianFox posted...
Sayoria posted...
Hey, if it wasn't for ROMs, it would be impossible to play Parody World: Monster Party. Not even lying.

You should try my restoration:

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3756/


What is it? Parody World translated?
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ElatedVenusaur
07/23/18 12:43:08 AM
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Nintendo's incredibly dumb over this stuff. They should adopt Sega's attitude: they've straight-up helped rom-hackers hack their games better.
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Bloodychess
07/23/18 12:48:43 AM
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Rika_Furude posted...
Rom sites are like a hydra. Chop off one head and two more take its place

Oh lookie a parrot
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Rika_Furude
07/23/18 12:49:33 AM
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Bloodychess posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Rom sites are like a hydra. Chop off one head and two more take its place

Oh lookie a parrot

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ProfessorKukui
07/23/18 12:51:52 AM
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the writing was on the wall. it is why a fair amount of them started dropping nintendo titles altogether ages ago.
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yusiko
07/23/18 12:52:21 AM
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well i think emulating modern games is a horrible thing i personally dont see the issue with emulating classic games that you cant find anymore
they arent really making money off these titles anymore so this seems like a waste of time on nintendos part
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Darmik
07/23/18 12:52:26 AM
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ElatedVenusaur posted...
Nintendo's incredibly dumb over this stuff. They should adopt Sega's attitude: they've straight-up helped rom-hackers hack their games better.


They're targeting sites that distribute the ROMS which is a bit different than altering a ROM you have.

Nintendo should do a better job embracing fan projects though yeah.

yusiko posted...
well i think emulating modern games is a horrible thing i personally dont see the issue with emulating classic games that you cant find anymore
they arent really making money off these titles anymore so this seems like a waste of time on nintendos part


They just re-released the NES and SNES Classic so maybe that's a factor for why they're doing this right now.
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GiftedACIII
07/23/18 12:59:05 AM
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Honestly, it's actually much easier to find modern roms than it is retro roms right now to me. Modern roms have all the current hacking community active in it and there are a bunch of psuedo-gated communities (you just need to make an account) that revolve around them. Meanwhile, retro roms, at least from what I've found only have those open sites like the ones in the OP that are easily sued.
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Muffinz0rz
07/23/18 1:01:01 AM
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don't recognize the sites so fair next
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smoke_break
07/23/18 1:03:44 AM
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Cool, the Paradise is safe.
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ProfessorKukui
07/23/18 1:06:21 AM
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smoke_break posted...
Cool, the Paradise is safe.

because they stopped distributing ages ago.
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MrMallard
07/23/18 1:23:20 AM
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ProfessorKukui posted...
the writing was on the wall. it is why a fair amount of them started dropping nintendo titles altogether ages ago.

Aye. Plenty of sites have been around for longer and done it better, and some of those places have dropped Nintendo stuff to avoid legal trouble.

These two websites are nothing.
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Esrac
07/23/18 1:25:49 AM
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I pirated the fuck out of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance a year or so ago.

Not to shaft Nintendo or anything, but because they didn't ha e it for sale through any first party means. If it had been put up on the Wii, Wii U, or Switch eshop, I would have bought it.

I wasn't about to pay a bunch of money to some asshole on ebay.
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The_Juice_
07/23/18 1:39:11 AM
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A bunch of the fire emblem games were never even released outside of Japan, I would love to pay Nintendo money to play those games but I literally couldn't without importing a foreign console and learning Japanese
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MarqueeSeries
07/23/18 1:46:31 AM
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Yeah if Nintendo is taking down these rom sites, then where the fuck is the VC on Switch

There's a literal gold mine waiting to be pillaged if they release a bunch of GB/C/A games on the Switch, and they're just doing nothing with it
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butthole666
07/23/18 1:53:13 AM
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Nintendo is the dumbest company in this business and that is no small feat
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SpiralDrift
07/23/18 2:13:58 AM
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Nintendo usually have my support but they can eat shit on this one.
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knuxnole
07/23/18 2:24:02 AM
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Good.

ROMs are illegal. No one should use them.Real gamers don't
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ShadowofSolidus
07/23/18 2:28:13 AM
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I wouldn't mind if Nintendo officially distributed all the games at a fair price, since most of the old games are not even manufactured anymore...
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kingdrake2
07/23/18 2:53:30 AM
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ShadowofSolidus posted...
I wouldn't mind if Nintendo officially distributed all the games at a fair price, since most of the old games are not even manufactured anymore...

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Esrac
07/23/18 3:00:58 AM
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kingdrake2 posted...
ShadowofSolidus posted...
I wouldn't mind if Nintendo officially distributed all the games at a fair price, since most of the old games are not even manufactured anymore...


This.

I normally have a no piracy policy when it comes to games. I only make an exception when I have no feasible way to get a copy of an older title that is not in production or on a digital platform. And I don't want to pay elevated prices to a third party seller.

If Nintendo were to ever a virtual console on the Switch, there are a lot of games I'd buy in a heartbeat. Or some HD remasters.
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545x39
07/23/18 3:50:56 AM
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Ill backup my files again just in case.
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