Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over for digital archives
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Re: Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over for digital archives
#2I am somewhat amused that a rather mainstream "archive" site seems to have all the ROMs for the Nintendo 3DS already (... and not archive.today, arxiv.org, or archive of our own)
Re: Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over for digital archives
#3I am somewhat amused that a rather mainstream "archive" site seems to have all the ROMs for the Nintendo 3DS already (... and not archive.today, arxiv.org, or archive of our own)
I hoard roms and isos of old games. In my usual backup scheme. Especially for less popular games. They aren't going anywhere!
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#4The only good thing is the WiiU and 3DS were blown so wide open by developers that the eShop is almost practically archived as it is.
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#5What a shame the article spreads some fud about roms and diminishes the community, making it seem like a futile individual effort:
"In order to play a game on an emulator, you need a copy of the original title, commonly saved as a ROM (or read-only memory) file. Depending on how the title is copied, what the condition of the cartridge or game disc is in, or the geographic region the game is locked to, you can find yourself with a buggy version of Pokémon Crystal or Super Mario Bros. 3 that can hardly run. Creating and distributing ROMs is also fraught with legal issues."
Meanwhile, people have been distributing roms for 25 years, and the strength of the community ensures you don't get burned. Every game for every region has a rom already, for each game a few roms of "analytical grade" at this point, and its not hard to be pointed in the right direction these days. Sometimes the community even fixes bugs nintendo left in. Here is a handy key for the identifiers the community often annotates for their roms: https://gist.github.com/ramiabraham/ff41ba74f2b7104ecece
Re: Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over for digital archives
#6I am somewhat amused that a rather mainstream "archive" site seems to have all the ROMs for the Nintendo 3DS already (... and not archive.today, arxiv.org, or archive of our own)
I hoard roms and isos of old games. In my usual backup scheme. Especially for less popular games. They aren't going anywhere!
Its easy to maintain your own full rom library when these games are so small too.
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#7And this is why hardware/software hackers breaking these devices are a very good thing.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hoard roms and isos of old games. In my usual backup scheme. Especially for less popular games. They aren't going anywhere!
Its easy to maintain your own full rom library when these games are so small too.
Exactly - it's nothing to me!
I have every N64 game ever made on an SD card in my Everdrive. Same for GB/GBC.
Re: Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over for digital archives
#9What a shame the article spreads some fud about roms and diminishes the community, making it seem like a futile individual effort: "In order to play a game on an emulator, you need a copy of the original title, commonly saved as a ROM (or read-only memory) file. Depending on how the title is copied, what the condition of the cartridge or game disc is in, or the geographic region the game is locked to, you can find yo…
>Meanwhile, people have been distributing roms for 25 years
Almost exclusively illegally, hence the "fraught with legal issues." Downloading a ROM for a game you own on a cartridge violates US law. You need to create your own copy, where you very likely will face the issues they raise.
Or you technically violate the law, which NPR likely doesn't want to condone for a puff piece.
Re: Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over for digital archives
#10What a shame the article spreads some fud about roms and diminishes the community, making it seem like a futile individual effort: "In order to play a game on an emulator, you need a copy of the original title, commonly saved as a ROM (or read-only memory) file. Depending on how the title is copied, what the condition of the cartridge or game disc is in, or the geographic region the game is locked to, you can find yo…
With these sorts of actions by Nintendo, the idea of keeping ROMs as backup for your purchases gains legitimacy.
First party legit online stores for emulated classic titles could be a real disincentive to people playing on third party emulators, if they wanted it to be. But the fact that they'll shut off the stores means people will not consider those purchases to be stable. They'll turn to third party emulators and ROM dumps.