I guess Nintendo doesn't need them anymore, now that they don't plan to sell roms for Virtual Console anymore. Wasn't there some proof that the version of Super Mario Bros used on VC was taken from a rom online?
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Nintendo Sues Console ROM Sites For ‘Mass’ Copyright Infringement
- Thread starter Chessguy1
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But it also makes sense to go after this particular low-hanging fruit rather than allow them to profit from letting people play Nintendo games illegally. Also, don't companies have to go after copyright infringers or they lose some rights, or something? Or am I making this up?
Why are those games being destroyed!! Ahh, that hurts!!
Let's go back to this again.
Nintendo is well within their rights to do this. But, Nintendo, just a thought: I'd LOVE to purchase these games on switch, but you don't seem interested in taking my money for your incredible suite of legacy games.
Well they will get this site down and owner if indeed American will face legal repercussions, but we all know there will be another site with the same offering appearing sooner or later and at the end of the day their games will still be made available. That's why IMO it's pointless.
Also I don't think that applies to piracy, only if they were commercializing them. I know what you're talking about, but don't know all the intricacies.
They are commercializing them; I just checked the site and as I expected it's riddled with ads and popups. They are 100% profitting from piracy, it's not fundamentally different from actually selling pirated games.
What does that have to do with anything? That doesn't condone somebody making money by pirating their intellectual property.
This is the key. I've seen a few other prominent sites out there with ROMs, but they don't host any games that they've received take-down requests on. I'm guessing these sites were ignoring those requests.
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Pretty shitty of nintendo to do this, they're the only publisher that do this. And I assume there's going to be huge backlash in the emulating and pirating scene. Anecdote: One of my buddies in college started pirating nintendo games because of that nintendo take down of emuParadise then moved on to other publishers . His reasoning was spite and to "...what if other developers do the same?!"
Nintendo is suing websites distributing ROMs illegally. It's piracy.
Eh, in all likelihood they'll just keep their database but any Nintendo game you'd click would say unavailable.
Hey Nintendo, how bout you... release SNES games on the switch? And make them a worthwhile investment that's not gonna be stuck there and liable to disappear the moment you make a new platform? Better solution.
Hey Nintendo, how bout you... release SNES games on the switch? And make them a worthwhile investment that's not gonna be stuck there and liable to disappear the moment you make a new platform? Better solution.
This is so weird a large chunk of those games aren't even being sold anymore. Is Nintendo planning to start selling N64/GBA/GBC games again? Id love it if they did. And id support them I want a complete boxed copies of the earlier Pokemon games. But they cost so much because they are out of production.
I'm confused. It did look like they removed a small handful of titles from there but there's still tons of Nintendo's first party stuff - in fact I don't even know what's missing.
What I am always in awe of is how an absolutely enormous rom site like Emuparadise is still around. What magic are they pulling to stay alive with that huge a collection (and that site that hasn't changed since like 2001).
The last time I checked all the first party games were no longer hosted there, it was nuclear. Maybe they posted them all back
They already did. Capcom and Rockstar were part of the emuparadise rom takedown.
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And yet people will defend Nintendo for this disgusting act just because it's Nintendo.
Lmao what the fuck is this reasoning.
Those games from SNES are obviously coming to the Switch in the online service after the batch of NES titles.
Checked emuparadise and sure enough, the first party stuff is back there again. Even though the sticky on the forums says it is restricted to upload them.
Weird. :v
Weird. :v
Not going to be surprised to see if they are nuked once more then.
Purchase without a shitty online subscription. And not four years from now after they drip feed ice climbers to us for the 30th time.
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nintendo: our games have a lot of value and piracy shows that our consumers clearly want them
me the consumer: okay so if you recognize that, can you bring Gamecube titles to the Switch so I can buy them?
nintendo: no
me the consumer: okay so if you recognize that, can you bring Gamecube titles to the Switch so I can buy them?
nintendo: no
Its cheap to run these sites. Easy money some people think, but some people will not regret running those sites sor the rest of their life.
You're right about indeterminate, but not necessarily about revenue lost being greater than zero. It's entirely possible that ROM piracy and emulators have actually helped them by keeping these old games relevant. But again, indeterminate, practically indeterminable.
That would only work if Nintendo offered said games for free, which obviously isn't happening.
Having said that, I hope a strong virtual console AND arcade archives will be a thing someday. The latter is somewhat slowly coming, while the former... we'll see.
When the Nintendo Online Service starts growing it's library and it's confirmed the library moves on to Switch 2, Nintendo will be in a good place with its backlog. Just a shame it takes time to get going.
I am surprised there is a single rom site that is run in the US by someone not hiding their identity. That is crazy.
They already confirmed that it's going to be via online subscription.
A shitty online subscription is 100x better than a stupid VC model that is already old. I'll pay less for it the same quantity of games instead of buy them and pay more. I like this model and to get something cheaper as well.
Gabe always said piracy was a service problem.
Nintendo is the one who understands that the least. Followed by companies like Sega.
Nintendo is the one who understands that the least. Followed by companies like Sega.
Oh fuck off Nintendo. Instead of shutting these down, give us all these NES and SNES ROMs on your system. They're kbs for God's sake and it shouldn't be too hard to have them streamed from the cloud already, like many sites do, instead of having to wait years. And have them available for a very attractive price, not $5-10 a game.
And I recall Nintendo using these ROMs for the NES and SNES minis.
Just leave them alone and do your job right.
And I recall Nintendo using these ROMs for the NES and SNES minis.
Just leave them alone and do your job right.
It's no secret anyone with a bit of research and with the right tools can download Nintendo's own catalogue of ROMs (and that includes everything on their eshop including every 3DS and WII U game, dunno about switch) from their own servers and that's possible for years now, these sites are useless.
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GameCube? You're shooting for the moon there buddy. How about NES and SNES?
And no, an online subscription with 20 games isn't the same.
I doubt the lawyers doing this for Nintendo aren't involved with putting this content on Switch, and thus shouldn't result in any delay. I have a very hard time seeing this spinned in a bad way for Nintendo but people are obviously doing their best!