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- gaming@lemmy.zip
- cross-posted to:
- gaming@lemmy.zip
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Didn’t Nintendo do this when they started selling “their” ROM’s in their virtual console? I remember some hubba about the .nes format?
It was that they were using roms ripped straight from the internet, they left the headers in place.
Yeah. I think they also used an emulator. I don’t remember which game/system it was though.
It’s like Disney releasing a Micky Mouse movie, buts it’s actually Felix the Cat.
It’s like Disney releasing a Micky Mouse movie, buts it’s actually Felix the Cat.
It’s more like Disney releasing Mickey Mouse into the public domain.
More like Disney releasing Mickey Mouse fan art without crediting the artist.
I sure hope none of those cracks were licensed in a way that would cause trouble for unauthorized commercial use 🤷
Any software engineers who work for big companies have any insight on this? Don’t these places keep their own source? Or is it just on somebody’s laptop that no one’s seen since 2015?
Don’t these places keep their own source?
There’ve been some cases of remastering projects being affected by the loss of some of the source material, such as the Silent Hill HD Project
Which is why I find the negative attitude of so many of these companies toward emulation and fan conservation of abandonware so frustrating, there’s a proven track record that they cannot be trusted with the task.
Don’t these places keep their own source?
It’s easy to lose track of important files when years go by with lots of employee turnover and migrating data across servers or to the cloud.
I’m a sysadmin and more than once I’ve had to shut down a file server just to find out what is still important when someone comes looking for it.
