Eurogamer: Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us?

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daredevil.shark on 19 January 2017

If true then it's really disappointing.

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Raven on 19 January 2017

Why is it "really disappointing"?

Nintendo owns the IP and created the game. Its a little lazy that whoever was tasked with creating the VC version didn't have a copy to dump the ROM from on-hand, but I'm not really sure how this affects people.

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kitler53 on 19 January 2017

lulz.

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 19 January 2017

Meh, I pirate it anyway

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onionberry on 19 January 2017

this is one of those "we are the owners, so deal with it" situations.

quite funny in my opinion... something like this:

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daredevil.shark on 19 January 2017

RavenXtra said:
Why is it "really disappointing"?

Nintendo owns the IP and created the game. Its a little lazy that whoever was tasked with creating the VC version didn't have a copy to dump the ROM from on-hand, but I'm not really sure how this affects people.

Technically this makes Nintendo a pirate. And I think I will buy Zelda botw and rip it in my PC to play (just like Nintendo I am not doing anything illegal).

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KLAMarine on 19 January 2017

Maybe? I mean it's their IP and their work originally so I can't say I feel too strongly about it.

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KLAMarine on 19 January 2017

daredevil.shark said:

RavenXtra said:
Why is it "really disappointing"?

Nintendo owns the IP and created the game. Its a little lazy that whoever was tasked with creating the VC version didn't have a copy to dump the ROM from on-hand, but I'm not really sure how this affects people.

Technically this makes Nintendo a pirate. And I think I will buy Zelda botw and rip it in my PC to play (just like Nintendo I am not doing anything illegal).

Yeah. If you have the know-how to do it, freaking do it. You paid for your copy.

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Jpcc86 on 19 January 2017

Well it may be their IP, so yeah, they can do whatever with it, but to download an illegal rom and just put it for sale its kind of a weird way to handle things, specially since they are very rigid with roms and anti-piracy measures.