I have pretty much the entire N64 library on a cartridge that plays on my N64, an SD card in my Wii, and my computer. Obviously these are all legitimate backups from games I own.
Which they and every other gaming company have tried to kill at one point or another, and I fully expect them to try again next Gen. They probably hope that the people who pay attention and care are getting older and won’t make as much of a fuss as we did with the last three generations.
It’s not easy having to pay to keep a warehouse with every arcade cabinet, game cartridge, and game disk ever made, but we can’t be violating copyright, now can we? Think of the corporations!
Barring me from getting old games in a modern platform will not stop me from playing old games on a modern platform.
The sooner they realize that and plan accordingly by releasing their old catalogs for appropriate pricing, the sooner they will get what they want and piracy and emulation will plummet.
When people have a cheap and easy way of doing something without wondering if they’re about to get SWATed, they’re way more likely to actually do that.
I’m sure you meant it as hyperbole, but SWAT will not actually show up to anyone’s home just for pirating video games. At most, a handful of local police or FBI may knock on your door, but SWAT are not called in for something like that. Not unless you have some history with the police of extreme violence or you have given them reason to suspect you are going to put up a fight.
A person is most likely to recieve a letter in the mail or an email from the lawyers of Nintendo before police are invovled.
Hey, remember that game you loved as a kid and wanted it on your newest system with minor quality of life changes? We made a mobile version that kills the style, has a shitty controller layout that you cant change, and its $59.99 more than when it originally released 30 years ago
SNES was home to some of the best RPGs. Chrono Trigger, FFVI, Mario RPG, Secret of Mana, Tales of Phantasia. I remember when FFVII came out it was a heated debate of which one was the best between VI & VII.
Shows how timeless the games you listed are, I played most of them in the mid-late 2000s as a kid and never thought of them as “old” like I do with the SNES, lol.
Your thinking of Fanal Fantasy Anthologies which includes FFV and FFVI which were both originally SNES
Europe actually didn’t have FF Anthologies 🥲 I played both VI and VII while visiting my family in Europe, and my cousin had them as standalone games (and I am forever grateful he was kind enough to trust a snot nosed brat like me with his precious PlayStation)
The fact that SNES games were $60 30 years ago and games are still that price means we are actually getting a deal. Except the physical part is what made the $60 feel worth it, the cart, the full color 30 page manual and sometimes posters! Now games are digital they should be like $10 max from Nintendo.
I emulate GBA games on my beast of a gaming PC if I’m home because that’s the most comfy setup
If I leave, I used to use my hacked PSP and manually synch the files, then it was my hacked Vita and a program that synched them automatically, and now I use retroafch and my steam deck so my files are synched automatically without even having to think about it
Everyone I know who’s just playing emulators is doing so on their phones these days anyway
Steam Deck absolutely changed my habits. I played more Elden Ring on it than I have my high end gaming PC. It’s just more convenient to turn on a play. Where lately, my gaming PC distracts me with emails, YouTube, random kinks like it can’t see my controller.
I don’t think Ill ever buy a gaming PC anymore and might fully switch to buying Steam Decks every few years.
I fell in love with emulating last summer. My one complaint is that multi disc ps1 games ask for disc 2, and no matter how many tutorials i watch on YouTube, i just can’t get it to work…
I mostly use handheld emulators, so not sure about one’s experience on the computer. In my experience, RetroArch makes it easy enough to swap discs. It’s not obvious how without instructions, but once you find those online it’s not hard to do. Try RetroArch if you have not yet done so.
I am on retroarch. Did all the steps to put the discs into a single folder. And reading your comment has made me realize i forgot to eject, and load. I’m a major dumb…
He’s posted like 4 games, 3 of which are considerably old and cheap to get on sale. I assume this one is as well. I enjoy his content. Sorry if this is a just a joke
Edit: he’s posted quite a bit more than 4, but a majority of them are still older titles that are inexpensive
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