Nintendo And Sega Raid Longstanding ROM Sanctuary To Remove Tons Of Classic Games

https://kotaku.com/vimms-roms-sega-sony-nintendo-dmca-removed-ios-delta-1851526609

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Nima@leminal.space · 63 pts · 2y

they've long killed any desire to ever give them a single cent in my lifetime again.

Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 43 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I really, really hate Nintendo.

pkmkdz@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y

With how much effort they put into being most despicable company for game preservation, I'm wondering if their employees aren't constantly adraid of being assaulted in public.

BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 2y (7 replies)

Tbh, if I would be a millionaire, my hobbies would shift from playing videogames to getting every single one of them and digitalizing them into multiple drives, some of them EMP shielded

Blizzard@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 2y (5 replies)

You don't need to be a millionaire to do that.

BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I’d need a house and enough storage room for this. Where I live a 320 square foot apartment costs about $500 - that’s 25% of a regular monthly income after tax, a regular house is around around $700.000

Fungah@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I mean. Every super Nintendo / Nintendo / n64 game ever is what, like, 16gb?

dch82@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Someone squashed every* game on the NDS into 256GB

*One locale only

chrisgestapo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I heard from somewhere that you can get the whole collection down to below 120GB if you compress all variants of a game into solid archive.

BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

Yes, but it‘s not about the digital media for me. I want that stuff physical.

RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

If I was a millionaire I would shift my priorities to flooding Nintendo with frivolous lawsuits. Hit em with a bit of their own tactics.

Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y (2 replies)

You can still find them.

SeattleRain@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Where?

Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Torrent sites. Internet archive.

iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y

they think by force deleting roms for old games they are gonna generate millions of revenue from these games? what is the end game? I really dont understand

SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

: (

A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

This is so sad.... I hope a new site just like it pops up in its place. Vimms was so reliable, I'm really gonna miss it.

Titou@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y

Long live to Yuzu !

dch82@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y

Argh mate, if you don’t want to find freeloaded goodies, please don’t find the no-intro collection on archive.com

For avoiding purposes…

bizzle@lemmy.world · -27 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Normies ruin everything

Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 40 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Everyone has known about Vimm's forever, it was the first result on Google for a very long time. It's not that "normies" ruined it, Nintendo is just now deciding to take aim for whatever reason

brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Established in 1997, Vimm’s Lair has been a popular place for folks to download classic video games that originated on a wide array of platforms, including N64, Sega Saturn, PlayStation 1, and Atari 260. Many of these games can’t be bought in stores or found in digital marketplaces, making Vimm’s Lair a useful place for those looking to check out pieces of video game history. However, Apple’s recent decision to allow emulators on the App Store has seen a massive influx of people looking for classic roms, and it seems all this attention has put Vimm’s Lair in lawyers’ spotlights.

Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y

Is the speculation of this site, but also aligns well with Nintendo taking aim at emulators

TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social · 15 pts · 2y

I saw an article earlier today speculating that the iOS emulator might have raised the awareness drawing the eye of Nintendo, Sega, and others.

Edit - Ha! It was this article.

Arbiter@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 2y

No, copyright law ruins everything.