Porthos
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[WARNING] Nintendo sues two websites for distributing ROMs of its games
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phaZed
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Oh, Nintendo. We've had unfettered access to your ROMS for over two decades with nearly a peep. Good luck putting that genie back in the bottle.
Hey Nintendo, I have a better idea. Instead of suing for your 30 year old games, that until now you could have cared less about, how about trying to create some new originals - not simply re-spin Mario Kart, Pokemon crap and Mario Party.
The Nintendo Switch is reported to be in trouble.. it only really sold in volume during its release year. Now, having Fortnite, was notable because it is the only AAA title available... not a great note for a video game console. Now Nintendo thinks that the "Labo" cardboard edutainment kits are going to be a saving grace, but wow, guess what? They ain't selling either, duh.
So, final option... release the tiny NES classic ROM-based $10 clone box and sue everyone... make sure to have 3 units at every Walmart for Christmas.. and not produce more than that.. cause you don't like to make money. Or you do? It's so hard to tell.
Hey Nintendo, I have a better idea. Instead of suing for your 30 year old games, that until now you could have cared less about, how about trying to create some new originals - not simply re-spin Mario Kart, Pokemon crap and Mario Party.
The Nintendo Switch is reported to be in trouble.. it only really sold in volume during its release year. Now, having Fortnite, was notable because it is the only AAA title available... not a great note for a video game console. Now Nintendo thinks that the "Labo" cardboard edutainment kits are going to be a saving grace, but wow, guess what? They ain't selling either, duh.
So, final option... release the tiny NES classic ROM-based $10 clone box and sue everyone... make sure to have 3 units at every Walmart for Christmas.. and not produce more than that.. cause you don't like to make money. Or you do? It's so hard to tell.
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Nintendo is a freaking joke. Their last decent console was the GameCube (but the N64 was better). I own a Super Nintendo, an N64, a GameCube, and a Wii U that I bought. The Wii U sucks. The console sucks, the games suck. They're right to try and protect their old games, because they haven't made anything decent since. They just re-hash the same games and each re-hash is worse than the original (and coincidentally, the last re-hash).
The Pokemon strategy pretty much sums up Nintendo's strategy as a game company. They just add more Pokemon (which get more and more stupid and weird with each new iteration) and people are sick of it. I haven't watched Pokemon since the 90's but I've seen the newer stuff and episodes and it's a freaking joke! It's hard to decide which is worse - the new Pokemon generations, or the re-hash garbage games they keep releasing.
I own all the old Pokemon GameBoy games, but I prefer to play them on the computer because of the bigger screen and the ability to speed up the emulation of the game so I can play it faster. Haven't played it in YEARS, but I still have the emulator/ROM folder backed up somewhere I'm sure.
If Nintendo polished up these old games graphically and released them on PC, they'd make BILLIONS, but they're too stupid and mis-managed of a company to ever do something like that. Why is it that the bigger the company is, the more incompetent they are? I wish I could be as incompetent at my job as most of these large companies are and still get paid.
Oh yeah. The last Pokemon game I played was on the XL GameBoy with 2 screens. It was a freaking joke. Not only was it slow and tedious, with tons of hand-holding and talking, talking, talking, when they FINALLY let you go off on your own, you were given these STUPID FREAKING running shoes that you COULDN'T TAKE OFF, which made your character almost impossible to control! Not to mention the HORRIBLE camera angle. The game was basically unplayable.
Then you get the new Zelda game for the XL GameBoy that was basically unplayable because they don't give you ENOUGH help to find the stupid item at the beginning of the game! I wasted nearly 2 hours looking for it before having to look up a freaking YouTube video in order to find it! Why is Nintendo incapable of making a game that's actually playable? I'll take crappy graphics over this bullsh*t any day of the week.
So yeah, Nintendo. You got my money. But you won't be getting another $1 from me after the last crap you pulled. You prove to me that you know how to design games again and I'll give you another look. Until then, the ONLY thing I'd buy from you would be if you released your old games for PC. And if you really want to sell hardware, then sell some GOOD QUALITY wireless original controllers for PC. Charge me $100 for one. I don't care. But use the same good quality plastics and such. I don't want a cheapo piece of Chinese garbage. If I wanted that, I could go on eBay/Amazon right now and get one for $8.
The Pokemon strategy pretty much sums up Nintendo's strategy as a game company. They just add more Pokemon (which get more and more stupid and weird with each new iteration) and people are sick of it. I haven't watched Pokemon since the 90's but I've seen the newer stuff and episodes and it's a freaking joke! It's hard to decide which is worse - the new Pokemon generations, or the re-hash garbage games they keep releasing.
I own all the old Pokemon GameBoy games, but I prefer to play them on the computer because of the bigger screen and the ability to speed up the emulation of the game so I can play it faster. Haven't played it in YEARS, but I still have the emulator/ROM folder backed up somewhere I'm sure.
If Nintendo polished up these old games graphically and released them on PC, they'd make BILLIONS, but they're too stupid and mis-managed of a company to ever do something like that. Why is it that the bigger the company is, the more incompetent they are? I wish I could be as incompetent at my job as most of these large companies are and still get paid.
Oh yeah. The last Pokemon game I played was on the XL GameBoy with 2 screens. It was a freaking joke. Not only was it slow and tedious, with tons of hand-holding and talking, talking, talking, when they FINALLY let you go off on your own, you were given these STUPID FREAKING running shoes that you COULDN'T TAKE OFF, which made your character almost impossible to control! Not to mention the HORRIBLE camera angle. The game was basically unplayable.
Then you get the new Zelda game for the XL GameBoy that was basically unplayable because they don't give you ENOUGH help to find the stupid item at the beginning of the game! I wasted nearly 2 hours looking for it before having to look up a freaking YouTube video in order to find it! Why is Nintendo incapable of making a game that's actually playable? I'll take crappy graphics over this bullsh*t any day of the week.
So yeah, Nintendo. You got my money. But you won't be getting another $1 from me after the last crap you pulled. You prove to me that you know how to design games again and I'll give you another look. Until then, the ONLY thing I'd buy from you would be if you released your old games for PC. And if you really want to sell hardware, then sell some GOOD QUALITY wireless original controllers for PC. Charge me $100 for one. I don't care. But use the same good quality plastics and such. I don't want a cheapo piece of Chinese garbage. If I wanted that, I could go on eBay/Amazon right now and get one for $8.
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brandonkick
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It's only an issue now because everyone out there is hacking the NES / SNES classic and loading it up with ROM's.
I wouldn't be surprised if it this is a bit of a forced move by or a move to appease a lot of third party developers who
are having their work pirated right along with Nintendos.
I thought the copyright had expired on a lot of these old NES games? Am I wrong about that?
I have little interest in a switch, never once considered the Wii U, never personally owned a Wii but wasn't wowed by it, never owned or played a gamecube.
I did have an NES, SNES, and N64 as well as a gameboy color and gameboy advance growing up. Loved the early nintendo stuff, big pokemon fan (of the first and second gen games). But like sapphirescales said, I probably played through my copy of red and gold maybe 2 or 3 times each on the handheld... after that I discovered emulators... played through yellow once, crystal once and I think blue once. A lot more fun when you can speed it up to ease the pain on "grinding".
I only bought an SNES classic for nostalgia really, wasn't all that much more than a retropie setup and I'm a sucker for that old school "fit and finish". I also think their emulator design is pretty good, nice UI, nice display. All over, worth $80 for the unit and two controllers.
This won't stop people, and I'm not sure nintendo really cares. I think this is just to save face with a lot of third parties.
I wouldn't be surprised if it this is a bit of a forced move by or a move to appease a lot of third party developers who
are having their work pirated right along with Nintendos.
I thought the copyright had expired on a lot of these old NES games? Am I wrong about that?
I have little interest in a switch, never once considered the Wii U, never personally owned a Wii but wasn't wowed by it, never owned or played a gamecube.
I did have an NES, SNES, and N64 as well as a gameboy color and gameboy advance growing up. Loved the early nintendo stuff, big pokemon fan (of the first and second gen games). But like sapphirescales said, I probably played through my copy of red and gold maybe 2 or 3 times each on the handheld... after that I discovered emulators... played through yellow once, crystal once and I think blue once. A lot more fun when you can speed it up to ease the pain on "grinding".
I only bought an SNES classic for nostalgia really, wasn't all that much more than a retropie setup and I'm a sucker for that old school "fit and finish". I also think their emulator design is pretty good, nice UI, nice display. All over, worth $80 for the unit and two controllers.
This won't stop people, and I'm not sure nintendo really cares. I think this is just to save face with a lot of third parties.
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I bought and modded an old original xbox so I could just use it to play old NES and SNES games on it. Sure, I downloaded all the ROMs from one of these websites, but I wouldn't exactly call it piracy. Every game I cared to play is a game I'd bought at some point in my childhood. They got their money back then, now it's just a goofy nestalgia.
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Like I said... the funny part was they never really gave a crap until now.
I think it has more to do with third parties getting hot under the collar than nintendo really caring. If it's not that, then it's basically nintendos way of saying they will defend their IP hard and fast regardless of what it is. Giving that image that they have zero tolerance with piracy.
It's just to save face IMO.
I think it has more to do with third parties getting hot under the collar than nintendo really caring. If it's not that, then it's basically nintendos way of saying they will defend their IP hard and fast regardless of what it is. Giving that image that they have zero tolerance with piracy.
It's just to save face IMO.
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