Why add anti-piracy measures to Devolution ?
Yes I understand the point of anti-piracy measures , but for a project such as this one it seems kind of odd for a few reasons.
Reasons to remove AP
1. The gamecube is old as hell .
2. Can you still buy new gamecube games from the store ? I don't know , but I don't think you can.
3. Will being able to play these old games on new hardware make you wanna go out and buy them ? I wouldn't think so.
4. Are they still releasing new titles for the gamecube ? I don't know
5. Removing the protection may actually get people to buy hardware they otherwise wouldn't.
6.Removing the disc check would mean that people with dead drives would be able to play GC games.
7.Removing the AP means that we will be able to play compressed GC games. This would be really useful considering that some games are really small and use only a small part of the disc. For instance, some games only have about 200 MB of data, so why force us to keep their isos in uncompressed forms, meaning that they will instead have a size of 1.3 GB (so they will contain useless data for the most part)?
8.People who lost or gave away their GC discs would be able to play their games
9.The same goes for people with scratched discs
10.We would be able to load modded games
11.We would be able to load other regions' versions of our games without having to import. This would be great for European people who want to play NTSC games, as that would give them many advantages (ie: being able to run games at 60 FPS rather than 50, at a higher resolution, and with interlaced video).
12.People would be able to play games that are no longer obtainable due to not being sold (and since those games aren't obtainable anymore, those people wouldn't have been able to pay money for them anyway, so it's not like their makers would have gained any money either way)
13.GC games are no longer produced and sold anyway. Buying a GC game these days means that you're buying a second-hand game, so it's not like their makers would make any money anyway.
14.Why use Devolution with its AP when DM serves the same purpose and doesn't have AP?
15.No need to wear out the Wii's drive producing clean rips for Devolution
16.People with newer Wiis that don't have GC compatibility and spit out GC discs would be able to play GC games using Devolution (after it gets updated to support Wiimotes and Classic Controllers)
17.It would be easy to move games between HDDs or partitions. With the AP, you have to re-validate every single game if you moved or copied your games folder to another HD or partition (or if you formated your partition).
18.People who already have dumps of GC games will not need to redundantly re-rip them in order to produce clean rips that Devolution would accept.
