Have not actually heard of that one. Any chance that made it to the US?
It did. But with a low print. It's known to be creepy because the characters models don't have face :)
Have not actually heard of that one. Any chance that made it to the US?
Have not actually heard of that one. Any chance that made it to the US?
Archive.org is about to blow up, I think. I'm honestly amazed with how many probably-not-legal things are openly available for download via their page.
Same! Memories of getting that to actually work are flooding back now. I went there again recently for the NES and SNES Classic. It was cool that the cd in a regular player played the whole OST too. Knowing how fucking hard it was to get that game to run is one reason I am never selling my VITA. RIP
Archive.org can only host what it does thanks to the DMCA and copyright being a largely civil issue. The ROM collection there is more-or-less a don't ask/don't tell type thing. There is no publisher permission, but the publishers who own the ROMs that it hosts haven't sent along DMCA notices. It's why you see a large collection of SEGA ROMs and no appreciable number of Nintendo ROMs.
The TG-16 / PCE / Duo CDs had no region protection.
Getting Rondo to run was as simple as putting it into your console and booting it up. At least for a SNES or Genesis, you needed a Game Genie (or other cart converter) to play imports. With the Duo, you could just order from any import shop and play them directly.
It's still a fantastic system.
This is a great post and a great example. There's definitely a fine line, but the idea that a site like this with a focus on preservation is a mere lie due and a facade for piracy is BS. The vast majority of bed, SNES and heck id even say N64 and newer games will never be reprinted. Many studios and publishers are defunct. Emulation is necessary for the preservation of gaming history. Itd be horribly sad anyway for younger generations to essentially have to pay thousands of dollars just to have access to even a small fraction of gaming history when most of the original creators don't even have a way to get money from potential sales of those decades old games.This is Terranigma.
It is one of the best games ever released on the SNES and an important part of the history of JRPGs. It is also an incredibly rare title that goes for well over $100 on eBay or other secondhand resale websites, with said copies only functioning on PAL territory SNES unless one makes a physical modification to their NES. When I reviewed the game, I mentioned that emulation is the only means for most people to play it because that's the only way to experience Terranigma outside of paying a ludicrous amount for a two-decade old, out-of-print SNES that the original publisher makes no money off of and either paying additional money for a PAL region SNES or modifying your own. If there was a more legitimate means of getting Terranigma (as I say in the review) such as through a Virtual Console release or a hideous-looking remake, then there wouldn't need to emulate the game.
Equating Emuparadise to the likes of some torrenting site to get a copy of, say, The Witcher 3 (which is piracy and I oppose it) exemplifies a profound level of ignorance as to the purpose of emulation sites in general. More importantly, if the games industry is going to continue to slack on preserving its history (including Square, who lost the code to the original Kingdom Hearts), it falls to the gaming community to preserve the history of the medium. As Cisce said, it's better for someone to have experience the rich history of the medium than to not experience at all.
A repro cart, probably burnt using a downloaded ROM. Oh, the irony.
Says it right on the page.Cool, I have no way to prove that and neither do you. Weighing your argument on a random possibility doesn't really mean anything here.
So someone in this thread didn't even bother checking the actual item, and is actively promoting people profiting off stolen goods as opposed to people downloading them for free.All Carts tested before shipping out, I test in a original Genesis and Super Retro Trio plus. these repros work like the original carts
This is Terranigma.
It is one of the best games ever released on the SNES and an important part of the history of JRPGs. It is also an incredibly rare title that goes for well over $100 on eBay or other secondhand resale websites, with said copies only functioning on PAL territory SNES unless one makes a physical modification to their NES. When I reviewed the game, I mentioned that emulation is the only means for most people to play it because that's the only way to experience Terranigma outside of paying a ludicrous amount for a two-decade old, out-of-print SNES that the original publisher makes no money off of and either paying additional money for a PAL region SNES or modifying your own. If there was a more legitimate means of getting Terranigma (as I say in the review) such as through a Virtual Console release or a hideous-looking remake, then there wouldn't need to emulate the game.
Equating Emuparadise to the likes of some torrenting site to get a copy of, say, The Witcher 3 (which is piracy and I oppose it) exemplifies a profound level of ignorance as to the purpose of emulation sites in general. More importantly, if the games industry is going to continue to slack on preserving its history (including Square, who lost the code to the original Kingdom Hearts), it falls to the gaming community to preserve the history of the medium. As Cisce said, it's better for someone to have experience the rich history of the medium than to not experience at all.
I'm watching it now for the first time and it's a pretty damn good lecture.I haven't watched that video, but Cifaldi is a goddamned international treasure.
SEGA lost the code to Panzer Dragoon Saga.This is why I deeply appreciate Sega because for all of their faults, they have one of the most progressive viewpoints on shit like this.
Not very well given a (very brief) Google search that suggests it involves patching the console.
How does Terranigma run on the SNES Mini?This is Terranigma.
It is one of the best games ever released on the SNES and an important part of the history of JRPGs. It is also an incredibly rare title that goes for well over $100 on eBay or other secondhand resale websites, with said copies only functioning on PAL territory SNES unless one makes a physical modification to their NES. When I reviewed the game, I mentioned that emulation is the only means for most people to play it because that's the only way to experience Terranigma outside of paying a ludicrous amount for a two-decade old, out-of-print SNES that the original publisher makes no money off of and either paying additional money for a PAL region SNES or modifying your own. If there was a more legitimate means of getting Terranigma (as I say in the review) such as through a Virtual Console release or a hideous-looking remake, then there wouldn't need to emulate the game.
Equating Emuparadise to the likes of some torrenting site to get a copy of, say, The Witcher 3 (which is piracy and I oppose it) exemplifies a profound level of ignorance as to the purpose of emulation sites in general. More importantly, if the games industry is going to continue to slack on preserving its history (including Square, who lost the code to the original Kingdom Hearts), it falls to the gaming community to preserve the history of the medium. As Cisce said, it's better for someone to have experience the rich history of the medium than to not experience at all.
I've seen some of it first hand via previous work projects. For examples of companies working with museums, take your pick. Here is a local one in the Bay Area: https://www.themade.org/
You could also ask one of Era's professional archivists (like Borman) for their first hand experiences.
Pretty big loss to the backup and preservation community, but I wish them well and think they're making the decision in good faith.
The whole story/string (or whatever) is worth reading:
This is a good point, too:
.So we are supposed to be unhappy about a site going down that enabled piracy on a large scale?
Archive.org can only host what it does thanks to the DMCA and copyright being a largely civil issue. The ROM collection there is more-or-less a don't ask/don't tell type thing. There is no publisher permission, but the publishers who own the ROMs that it hosts haven't sent along DMCA notices. It's why you see a large collection of SEGA ROMs and no appreciable number of Nintendo ROMs.
The TG-16 / PCE / Duo CDs had no region protection.
Getting Rondo to run was as simple as putting it into your console and booting it up. At least for a SNES or Genesis, you needed a Game Genie (or other cart converter) to play imports. With the Duo, you could just order from any import shop and play them directly.
It's still a fantastic system.
Quite a lot of people coming out of the woodwork to confirm they are pirates.
Really contextualize all those " it's just for legal homebrew" defenses you see whenever a piece of hardware is hacked.
It's just as shocking how many people are openly promoting piracy.Quite a lot of people coming out of the woodwork to confirm they are pirates.
Really recontextualize all those " it's just for legal homebrew" defenses you see whenever a piece of hardware is hacked.
I feel like the shuttering of these sites is going to scare private collectors into hiding.I don't think you understand how dire this situation is. Disc rot is slowly eroding huge swaths of physical collections. It's getting increasingly rare to find old games in working condition, and the discs that are working are fragile and need to be preserved as soon as possible.
Piracy allows people to work together to protect our history while we still can. If we wait another 30 years, it could very well be too late. The whole sentiment of copyright gets thrown out of the window when the history of an art form is at stake. Like, we have plenty of years to fight over that nonsense (which won't even matter ultimately because everything will go into the public domain).
It saddens me when the Internet gets increasingly censored because it has the potential to scatter collectors...when in reality we should all be coming together to save everything before it disappears.
It's equally amusing to see how many people don't understand for a large swath of older video games the only real avenue to play them is through piracy.Quite a lot of people coming out of the woodwork to confirm they are pirates.
Really recontextualize all those " it's just for legal homebrew" defenses you see whenever a piece of hardware is hacked.