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MAME is a great emulator. The big issue is of course locating and installing grey-area ROMS from potentially shady sites and torrents. Isn't it time the rights
by nonrandomstring 5y ago
MAME is a great emulator. The big issue is of course locating and
installing grey-area ROMS from potentially shady sites and torrents.
Isn't it time the rights holders like Namco, Williams, Nintendo and
Sony just quit living in the past and gave up on trying to restrict
distribution of old games that are arguably a part of modern heritage.
It seems petty and anachronistic to do anything other than just let go
and give these ROMS their deserved freedom in the public domain.
- mumphster 5y agoIt's actually easier than ever nowadays. Do a quick search on archive.org and you'd be surprised on what you can find.
- Underphil 5y agoYeah, it's really trivial to find full and complete sets of games for any system now.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoIsn't it time for copyright to be abolished? Or at least fixed so that these companies no longer have functionally eternal monopolies? It's insane that stuff created 40+ years ago is still covered. They've already made their fortunes several times over, it's time to let go.