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the entirety of all roms and emulators are probably in the hands of those who actually want to play them, this only prevents research archives from being operat
by rolph 2y ago
the entirety of all roms and emulators are probably in the hands of those who actually want to play them, this only prevents research archives from being operated.
i find it interesting that OG retro games actually are considered threatening to modern AAA games.
- prophesi 2y agoYep. The games are already being archived. It's kind of silly to strike down an official archival at this point, and only brings risk to consumers that seek out illegally distributed ROMs on malware-infested sites. And shout out to Red Viper on the 3DS for letting me experience the Virtual Boy without needing to deal with a second hand market that gets more expensive as the years go by.
- zb3 2y agoThe web platform can help mitigate this risk - while native emulators might be malicious or attacked by malicious roms, emulators written to run on the web platform are practically safe. Plus you get the bonus ability to run on iOS :)
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoWhy would it be anything other than expected that the top 10 or so percent of the whole history of games would compete favorably against any other subset of games, like whatever happens to be releasing this week?