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It is impossibly hard to play games released before 2010.
*legally
It's incredibly easy to play games released before 2010
Piracy is a public service, and situations like this only make it harder to deny.
Copyleft should be mandatory once a game passes 20 years old.
No idea why those who own the IP don't just either open source them or release them into the public domain
Because licensing is complicated and likely they are not the sole owners of all technology involved in doing so and there's no perceived benefit for them to do that unless they feel like they can make money on it somehow.
I mean selling emulators or something is a way to make money.
I'd buy a gameboy repo in a heart beat. Or, maybe something with an SD card/chip that ran the roms; and if it came from nintendo, chances are pretty solid it'd acutally work 90% of the time.
Because they want to keep it till the very last moment just in case they can make money with a remake or something, even if it crumbles to dust and gets lost forever. What I really want to ask is why does the law enable this?
Because copyright makes rights holders lots of money, money they use to bribe politicians to keep extending copyright.
Thank God PC gaming has been shockingly good in this respect.
I was amused to see Lemmings is now on mobile. Never imagined I'd be able to play it again after like 30 years maybe? I knew there was a browser port, but yeah.
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