• The OctonautEnglish
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    Just so we’re clear, are you under the impression that ROMs acquired from the Internet” represent something other than Nintendo’s work?

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      Yes, i would generally consider ripping roms as something requiring effort similar to cracking a game

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        “Ripping” ROMs, or dumping them, takes almost no effort. If you have the cartridge reader its about as much work as taking photos off an SD card. Certainly nothing at all like cracking a game, which is pretty much software development.

        Please consider informing yourself before forming strong opinions.

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          Then why doesn’t Nintendo do it themselves?

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            They were observed finding one ROM on the Internet, ever. They do have their own emulator(s).

            Nintendo is a bunch of humans. If my boss asks me to see if I can find the installer for an old version of our software, you can bet I’ll check anywhere before volunteering to go scrape old hard drives.

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          This is the part where I focus for half a second and realize this is about SNES and everything makes a lot more sense. I would hope newer stuff would have some form of protection 😅