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where will you get legal ROMs for those consoles? You don't. You put on your eyepatch, grab your cutlass, and raise the Jolly Roger.

by Zimahl 13y ago

reitzensteinm 13y ago
You've both missed his point, which is: why pirate SNES games but not Xbox 360 games?
- ergo14 13y ago
  Because people love classics.
- Zimahl 13y ago
  I can't speak for the OP but the main reason for me would probably be nostalgia. The second reason is that I could probably download every single ROM ever produced for these systems and store it on an average sized flash drive. Finally, I don't know much about pirating on the 360 but I'm personally not inclined (read: lazy) to mod an XBox.
- brigade 13y ago
  Whose point? People don't pirate 360 games because it's probably fairly annoying - you need a 360 console to begin with, then mod it which might need an older one running an out-of-date OS, and likely can't play multiplayer without the risk of your account being banned. Plus the size of games means torrents which means letters to your ISP. And if it's a couple years old you can probably buy the game for $10-20. Pirating games for older consoles is trivial in comparison - any computer you have and most smartphones can emulate a PS1 or older almost perfectly. And the game sizes are tiny. If you were asking about a moral justification, there's always the "it's not being sold new, so the makers won't get my money if I buy it used anyway." Though by now at least 95% of games that people actually play have been re-released, so that justification doesn't hold much water.
  - ekianjo 13y ago
    The "makers" of the games (i.e. developers) don't get the money for re-released games, just the publishers do. It does not cost them anything, it's full profit and they own all rights to their distribution. I don't think it makes it more reasonable to support them for making fresh, full money out of completely outdated games.
- __david__ 13y ago
  I, for one, have zero moral qualms about pirating something that isn't being produced any more. I'd even argue that pirating abandonware is a net-positive to society--it keeps the past intact (much like a museum or a library) and as a bonus, the people that work on the (usually open source) emulators get to dig in and understand yesterdays technology. There's pretty much zero downside.

where will you get legal ROMs for those consoles? You don't. You put on your eyepatch, grab your cutlass, and raise the Jolly Roger.

by Zimahl 13y ago

where will you get legal ROMs for those consoles? You don't. You put on your eyepatch, grab your cutlass, and raise the Jolly Roger.

reitzensteinm 13y ago

You've both missed his point, which is: why pirate SNES games but not Xbox 360 games?

ergo14 13y ago
Because people love classics.
Zimahl 13y ago
I can't speak for the OP but the main reason for me would probably be nostalgia. The second reason is that I could probably download every single ROM ever produced for these systems and store it on an average sized flash drive. Finally, I don't know much about pirating on the 360 but I'm personally not inclined (read: lazy) to mod an XBox.
brigade 13y ago
Whose point? People don't pirate 360 games because it's probably fairly annoying - you need a 360 console to begin with, then mod it which might need an older one running an out-of-date OS, and likely can't play multiplayer without the risk of your account being banned. Plus the size of games means torrents which means letters to your ISP. And if it's a couple years old you can probably buy the game for $10-20. Pirating games for older consoles is trivial in comparison - any computer you have and most smartphones can emulate a PS1 or older almost perfectly. And the game sizes are tiny. If you were asking about a moral justification, there's always the "it's not being sold new, so the makers won't get my money if I buy it used anyway." Though by now at least 95% of games that people actually play have been re-released, so that justification doesn't hold much water.
- ekianjo 13y ago
  The "makers" of the games (i.e. developers) don't get the money for re-released games, just the publishers do. It does not cost them anything, it's full profit and they own all rights to their distribution. I don't think it makes it more reasonable to support them for making fresh, full money out of completely outdated games.
__david__ 13y ago
I, for one, have zero moral qualms about pirating something that isn't being produced any more. I'd even argue that pirating abandonware is a net-positive to society--it keeps the past intact (much like a museum or a library) and as a bonus, the people that work on the (usually open source) emulators get to dig in and understand yesterdays technology. There's pretty much zero downside.