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Re: Talking Point: Nintendo And The Industry Needs To Get Serious About Game Preservation

SeantheDon29

@Heavyarms55

" But in my experience everyone who talks about preservation is just looking to pirate roms they want to play.

And I do understand the temptation. Believe me, I do."

Wow, if that's not painting game archivists with a broad brush then I don't know what is.

Most of us don't emulate or run ROMs because we want games for free, heck most of us would buy those games in a heartbeat if they became available, it's because we aren't given any other options by companies to buy those old games and we want to preserve those old classics for years to come and keeping maintenance on an old console that runs those games is both time consuming and costly and it's more convenient to use emulators since there's little to no maintenance involved besides the occasional update.

Do you even have the slightest knowledge of how hard it is to make a ROM or run and emulator? Because it's nowhere as easy as you may think it is and it takes time and patience to complete and learn to make sure those programs are running properly.

I understand you said you haven't done much research, but I and many others in the emulation community would appreciate it if you didn't call us all "pirates" without understanding why we do what we do.

Re: Introducing Pokémon Legends: Arceus, An Open-World Prequel To Diamond And Pearl

SeantheDon29

@Yorumi Couldn't agree more.

When something like Digimon: Cyber Sleuth: a game that is several years old and also is on the Switch has twice the content(story, better looking environments, better animations, meaningful side activities and multiple evolutions for all the mons) of a brand new Pokemon game with half the budget of said game, you know there's something going wrong.