There are gamers who will ape an entire console's library. Terranigma turned out to be one of the best games that I have ever played, and I have told countless friends about it, who had never even heard of it! I was certainly more in the wrong than in the right. Adding the games to my Classic boils down to simply having access to a number of games that I have desperately wanted to play for over twenty years. I'll be the first to admit that Nintendo/any copyright holder owes me nothing. However, they seem to have a plan that is working for them, and I'm sure that it wasn't as easy of a decision as "we're just not going to do it." It is only modded with games that have never, nor will ever, see release in North America (Terranigma, Live a Live, Seiken Desetsu 3, etc.) I would never add games that are readily available, even though I do think that Nintendo could make things much easier on themselves by adding a dedicated VC to Switch. So, I have an SNES Classic that is modded. To be perfectly honest, I find myself in all camps of thought: If every game from past generations is going to be kept behind lock and key by these companies, then it's ultimately the gamer/consumer, that loses.
They're not listening: most people could easily be persuaded to go legal, if there would be a reasonably priced alternative, and they want a good selection of titles, and not just the same ones every damn generation, like Nintendo often tends to do.Īnd Nintendo specifically, also needs to take note of the online model that Microsoft and Sony use, which gives players some free games to play every month, and also allows them to keep some of them.
But, regardless, I do see the merit in sharing and keeping software alive, instead of keeping it locked away somewhere in some company vault, where no one can ever see it anymore, let alone play it.Īnd it gives the companies too much leverage. I've also done my share of downloading in the past, but I've also bought for thousands upon thousands of euros worth of hardware and software. These kinds of things are exactly the reason why I tend to remain in the middle ground on this topic, because I both understand the need for legal practices, but also the desire to be able to play these, often decades old games, but having almost no other reasonable way to obtain or play them. The original cartridge or ROM isn't stolen, so that remains untouched. Wed 8th Aug Well, regardless of what any of us think about mass-scale piracy or illegally downloading ROMs, that DVD stealing comparison is incorrect.