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If the existence of piracy was more common knowledge would more people favor it?
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Theres no need to apologize sir. If you felt I said something which you think I said I'm just asking to quote where I said it. If you just want to move on I'm cool with that too. Have a good day.
Would *points at android* be an option here?
Even without root you can do a lot and force install a lot by hand. Android seems to have done well enough and keeps a boot held at Nintendo's throat, as well as a bit of an exodus of devs that were once prominent on the GBA and DS.
Also on Nintendo using a downloaded ROM then if they outright own the copyright then how is it a bad thing? We did have that discussion before though ( http://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-downloaded-super-mario-bros-from-internet.459258/ ) and probably the time before that when it was last dug up, and then before that when it was originally discovered. For the most part it seems it is an amusing side in a trivia night, not worthy of much more consideration.
A possibly related one. I install adblock for a lot of people (basically every system I touch unless I am asked not to, and in that case I will usually just teach them how to disable it should they have to go on one badly coded site). The amount of times the existence of adblock takes on the features of some kind of revelation.
The bigger umbrella is how many people do and want to use their computing devices as some kind of passive thing, not learning even the first thing about the inner workings, if they can fix a problem is a memorised solution rather than anything deductive (or some other form of reasoning), might even fear they will break it should they mess around and so forth? If you want to make emulation more known you will likely have to first solve that, though on the way you might try to undo some of the damage Nintendo did by casting emulation as bad.
Even without root you can do a lot and force install a lot by hand. Android seems to have done well enough and keeps a boot held at Nintendo's throat, as well as a bit of an exodus of devs that were once prominent on the GBA and DS.
Also on Nintendo using a downloaded ROM then if they outright own the copyright then how is it a bad thing? We did have that discussion before though ( http://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-downloaded-super-mario-bros-from-internet.459258/ ) and probably the time before that when it was last dug up, and then before that when it was originally discovered. For the most part it seems it is an amusing side in a trivia night, not worthy of much more consideration.
A possibly related one. I install adblock for a lot of people (basically every system I touch unless I am asked not to, and in that case I will usually just teach them how to disable it should they have to go on one badly coded site). The amount of times the existence of adblock takes on the features of some kind of revelation.
The bigger umbrella is how many people do and want to use their computing devices as some kind of passive thing, not learning even the first thing about the inner workings, if they can fix a problem is a memorised solution rather than anything deductive (or some other form of reasoning), might even fear they will break it should they mess around and so forth? If you want to make emulation more known you will likely have to first solve that, though on the way you might try to undo some of the damage Nintendo did by casting emulation as bad.
Sure Android phones and even iPhones (requires a little more work) are options too. Even people that want to argue how they rather use the controller for the system it belonged to thats an option too and 8BitDo makes some quality controller that are near indistinguishable from the real thing which can be used on phones or PCs.
Retro gaming is still hot but prices are peaking on lots of cartridge games, maybe it has to do with too much supply and not enough demand, maybe people are not willing to pay the high prices or maybe people are wising up to emulation.
It is pretty hypocritical of Nintendo to try to dissuade people into emulation but then point to their offerings of the virtual console (which is emulation in itself.) You could argue its to protect their IPs and ensure they get the sales on games people are playing but they do paint a false picture of the legality of emulation.
Nah, not quite. More likely the roms were both gotten using similar or same particular method. Either nintendo had the original rom backed up, they used a similar method to take their roms out of their cartridges originally, or they took their rom from someone who ripped it out of an individually owned cartridge. Either way, it's still their rom. Your phrasing makes it sound like you don'y really know what "pirated" or "copyright" means.
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