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McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by LinXitoW »

yellowapple wrote: post #250
oh_sigh wrote: post #223

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Who else should get random bonuses? How about the hundreds of open source contributors to web browsers? What about the children of the people who clean the offices of the studio that made the game? I bet I could identify about a million people who deserve a bonus here.

...yes? They all arguably deserve something. Hell, we're long overdue for a universal basic income - such that everyone can pursue things for the sake of coolness or intellectual curiosity or whatever if they want to, without needing to worry about making ends meet.

One could argue that the relatively high compensation for programmers is the main reason so much cool opensource stuff could even get started. A universal income for everyone could, hypothetically, put everyone in a similar position of being able to afford to do "productive" hobbies, vs. working a third minimum wage job.

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by datpiff »

manojlds wrote: post #275
hackernewds wrote: post #185

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do you get compensated for use?

Funny how people ask this while also being critical on Nintendo. If creator of emulator is to be compensated, are you going to compensate Nintendo as well?

Why would Nintendo be compensated? All the technologies used are re-implementations of their work.

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by LinXitoW »

golergka wrote: post #41
pcthrowaway wrote: post #28

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I think this is pretty cool too, but um.. > Just because something is done by a massive corporation doesn’t make the thing bad I don't think anyone was saying this. Some airlines plant trees. That doesn't make planting trees bad. But massive corporations (with maybe ~1% or fewer exceptions) don't base their practices on anything remotely resembling bad or good, and this leads them to profit-seeking behaviours that ha…

Their profits pay pensions of the ordinary people. How is that not a good thing?

Their profits exist solely because they exploit and steal from other ordinary people. Most ordinary people will lose far more money to labour or wage theft than they'll ever gain from profits.

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Post by einr »

ClassyJacket wrote: post #169
mortenjorck wrote: post #101

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Either it's in the console ROM, in which case it's not a problem, or it's in the cartridge ROM, in which case I'd imagine it's just a matter of replacing the raster data with something else.

Why is it not a problem if it's in the console ROM? How do they get around it?

The idea is that by forcing games to include the trademarked Nintendo logo in the game ROM, an unlicensed dev would be guilty of trademark infringement if they used the logo.

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Post by Oxodao »

cubefox wrote: post #166
DanTheManPR wrote: post #61

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I just tried the rom out on my flashcart, and it boots and plays on a real gameboy.

Still different. A normal Gameboy doesn't include a flash cart, it only plays physical games, no mere ROM files.

Guess what's in a physical game ?

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Post by [deleted] »

throwaway290 wrote: post #234
dumpsterdiver wrote: post #217

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I mean... yeah. In the meantime you haven't taken anything from that person; they are performing on a public street. On the contrary, similar to a packed restaurant, your presence might signal to others that there is something worth experiencing where you and your friends are crowded. This could in turn benefit the person you're crowded around by bringing more wallets within earshot. So you haven't actually given not…

Yes, the performer would benefit from that attention. Maybe some of the people your presence brings around will tip them, etc. The difference is that the existence of the performer is super obvious while in this case author and their work is hidden so author will not benefit in the same way.

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Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by somedude895 »

wageslave99 wrote: post #279

I'm amazed of this release because, does Nintendo even sell gameboy consoles right now? So are they targeting retro-clone handheld owners or what? What would you say is the best retro-clone handheld console to play Gameboy games?

The article is so awful I also had to scour the comments for that question: This is only a gameboy rom they made that's playable through the browser. They're not making any physical cartridges.

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Post by wkjagt »

anthk wrote: post #123
wkjagt wrote: post #47

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I find it difficult to call any PC that has a CPU clock expressed in GHz retro / vintage. Even though I know PCs 20 years ago were already in that ballpark.

Pentium 3-4 CPUS up to SSE2 from the last days of the W98SE era surely are.

I'm currently playing around with a PC I built up from random parts, based on an AMD Duron 1200. I have Windows 98 SE on it. It does feel retro. But then I compare it to my 486, and it suddenly doesn't anymore.

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by Sebb767 »

yellowapple wrote: post #250
oh_sigh wrote: post #223

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Who else should get random bonuses? How about the hundreds of open source contributors to web browsers? What about the children of the people who clean the offices of the studio that made the game? I bet I could identify about a million people who deserve a bonus here.

...yes? They all arguably deserve something. Hell, we're long overdue for a universal basic income - such that everyone can pursue things for the sake of coolness or intellectual curiosity or whatever if they want to, without needing to worry about making ends meet.

Even with UBI, wouldn't the argument that the people involved should get a bonus still exactly be the same?

I'm pretty sure that most developers in western countries have no problem making ends meet and freely pursue things for intellectual curiosity.

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