Nintendo Lawsuits

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Nintendo Lawsuits

Post by Feynamn1 » Tue Jul 24, 2018 10:30 am

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/07/ ... ere-suing/

So I'm sure a lot of you have heard about Nintendo coming down ROM sites like L*****, E******, L******, etc. for sharing ROMS of their games as well as Github for sharing the BIOS files for the gba. Any thoughts on how this will affect Retrogaming in the future? How new players will be able to play games that haven't been in production in years?

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Re: Nintendo Lawsuits

Post by Helder » Tue Jul 24, 2018 4:16 pm

If you read the article it's them mainly taking down a site that offered the roms and emulators in one site that you can play on there, this is going against their plans of reselling the classic games they offer like virtual consoles and the mini consoles. Rom sites will always be around one way or another, this site just made it easy for Nintendo to take them down. You don't see other rom sites that have been around for decades going anywhere.
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Re: Nintendo Lawsuits

Post by dryja123 » Wed Jul 25, 2018 5:54 am

Mod note: I redacted the names of the websites

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