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Hephaestos on 29 May 2011
thismeintiel said:
KylieDog said:
Hephaestos said:

good, these were paid emulators ^^ which is piracy i'm really against.


If they were just emulators it is not piracy.  Your comments makes no sense anyway, if they were free it wouldn't be piracy somehow?

It would be piracy of tech.  However, this is only illegal if the HW patents were still active.  I do know that the patents for the 16-bit consoles, and those that came before them, have all expired.  This is why Nintendo and/or Sega can do nothing to stop the sales of products that can play NES, SNES, and Genesis cartridges.  I'm not sure about 5th gen consoles and on, though.  Which is why I don't get why they would take ALL of them down.  Only the newer ones are questionable.

nint's website says patents are 70 years ^^



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Euphoria14 on 29 May 2011

Can any of you "Anti-piracy" crusaders point me in the direction of where I could buy a copy of Terranigma on SNES?

I don't want to hurt the industry and would rather buy it on VC or possibly a newly shipped copy.

 

Oh yeah and while you are at it, please do the same for Dragon Ball Z: Legend of the Super Sayain. I loved that game back in the day when I...err... fuck, it never released outside of Japan.



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xinstantnoodlez on 29 May 2011
mrstickball said:
xinstantnoodlez said:

paid emulators?? idiots actually paid for an emulator....wow...idiots


So what emulator do you use for Android that is free and works well?

 

OT: Its sad, but much needed. Yongzh has made millions from his emulators, while the market is likely hurt by his products - why buy other games when $2.99-$4.99 get you hundreds?


I use my PSP, DS, or computer for all my emulation needs...it's nice to have a working d-pad as opposed to a touch screen



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thismeintiel on 29 May 2011
Hephaestos said:
thismeintiel said:
KylieDog said:
Hephaestos said:

good, these were paid emulators ^^ which is piracy i'm really against.


If they were just emulators it is not piracy.  Your comments makes no sense anyway, if they were free it wouldn't be piracy somehow?

It would be piracy of tech.  However, this is only illegal if the HW patents were still active.  I do know that the patents for the 16-bit consoles, and those that came before them, have all expired.  This is why Nintendo and/or Sega can do nothing to stop the sales of products that can play NES, SNES, and Genesis cartridges.  I'm not sure about 5th gen consoles and on, though.  Which is why I don't get why they would take ALL of them down.  Only the newer ones are questionable.

nint's website says patents are 70 years ^^

For HW, I'm pretty sure it's only 20 years.  Copyright and trademarks last for 95 years, or so I've read. 



 

mrstickball on 29 May 2011
xinstantnoodlez said:
mrstickball said:
xinstantnoodlez said:

paid emulators?? idiots actually paid for an emulator....wow...idiots


So what emulator do you use for Android that is free and works well?

 

OT: Its sad, but much needed. Yongzh has made millions from his emulators, while the market is likely hurt by his products - why buy other games when $2.99-$4.99 get you hundreds?


I use my PSP, DS, or computer for all my emulation needs...it's nice to have a working d-pad as opposed to a touch screen

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I like having a device I carry around all the time on me when I want to play Final Fantasy III or some Secret of Evermore.



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Krstorm on 30 May 2011

Android did not remove shit, they just got removed from the Market, you can still download the from sites and installe them cause you know, Android is Open Source and doesn't need jailbreak to run anything.

People should read about Android before posting threads with misleading/inaccurate titles like these



thetonestarr on 30 May 2011

That's what he's talking about, you goof. Everybody else understood that from the context, too.



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famousringo on 30 May 2011

This is a move to support Android game development. Regardless of how legal emulators are, how would you like to be a little indie mobile game developer trying to compete with Nintendo's classic back catalog? It had to be very discouraging seeing those emulators consistently up in the top ten list.



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Hephaestos on 30 May 2011
Euphoria14 said:

Can any of you "Anti-piracy" crusaders point me in the direction of where I could buy a copy of Terranigma on SNES?

I don't want to hurt the industry and would rather buy it on VC or possibly a newly shipped copy.

 

Oh yeah and while you are at it, please do the same for Dragon Ball Z: Legend of the Super Sayain. I loved that game back in the day when I...err... fuck, it never released outside of Japan.

I have the french version :p

I'm anti-paying-piracy, cause there's no logic behind it.

Moreover that dev who did the oid emulators most likely ripped 90% of the code from the dozens of PC emulators that took years to build (right... the guy drops a stable emu for every system in 6 months, while dedicated&pationate hackers did it over years). This is just akin to selling burned CDs/DVDs in the streets.



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Hephaestos on 30 May 2011
thismeintiel said:
Hephaestos said:
thismeintiel said:
KylieDog said:
Hephaestos said:

good, these were paid emulators ^^ which is piracy i'm really against.


If they were just emulators it is not piracy.  Your comments makes no sense anyway, if they were free it wouldn't be piracy somehow?

It would be piracy of tech.  However, this is only illegal if the HW patents were still active.  I do know that the patents for the 16-bit consoles, and those that came before them, have all expired.  This is why Nintendo and/or Sega can do nothing to stop the sales of products that can play NES, SNES, and Genesis cartridges.  I'm not sure about 5th gen consoles and on, though.  Which is why I don't get why they would take ALL of them down.  Only the newer ones are questionable.

nint's website says patents are 70 years ^^

For HW, I'm pretty sure it's only 20 years.  Copyright and trademarks last for 95 years, or so I've read. 

then the N64 is definitely not over that and I believe neither is the SNES  (it's 91 no), at least when they released these emus.



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