[game_preservation] More games pulled from virtual console

[Benj Edwards]

Seconded, Frank.

On a tangential topic -- has anyone ever made a list of video games that 
have apparently been lost to history (or are particularly endangered)?  
I've though about undertaking it a few times, but it's hard to make a 
list of things that are, well, lost, because few people know about them.

Benj

On 11/19/2012 3:04 PM, Frank Cifaldi wrote:

> Indeed. As far as I know, the raw files from every Virtual Console 

> release have been ripped and torrented thousands of times over, so I'm 

> not personally worried about games getting pulled. It's not ideal, but 

> it's the best we can expect to have accomplished I think. Too bad we 

> can't say the same about other digital Nintendo stuff from the past, 

> like a lot of the games that were beamed into the BS modem in Japan.

>

>

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Benj Edwards 

> <editor at vintagecomputing.com <mailto:editor at vintagecomputing.com>> wrote:

>

>     One link:

>

>     http://technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/

>

>     :)

>

>      Benj

>

>

>     On 11/19/2012 2:52 PM, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>>     Local until your console fails, you send it back for repair and

>>     it is wiped in the process.

>>

>>     Sigh.

>>

>>     Andrew

>>

>>     On 19/11/2012 17:39, Philippe Dubois, association MO5.COM

>>     <http://MO5.COM>, Président wrote:

>>>

>>>     :(

>>>

>>>     I believe that "local copies" of your legal stuff bought for the

>>>     Virtual Console will still continue to work, i hope !

>>>

>>>

>>>     Best regards,

>>>

>>>     Philippe Dubois, Association MO5.COM <http://MO5.COM>, President

>>>

>>>     -- 

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>     	

>>>

>>>     I didn't know Nintendo had pulled games previously, but now the

>>>     DKC games are no longer available on US Wii Virtual Console and

>>>     will soon be unavailable in the UK (and probably in Japan soon

>>>     after).

>>>

>>>

>>>     http://www.nintendo-gamer.net/2012/11/19/the-donkey-kong-country-games-are-being-pulled-from-virtual-console-this-sunday/

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>     I guess the thing that's worse about stuff being pulled is stuff

>>>     being pulled with no announcement.

>>>

>>>

>>>     -- 

>>>

>>>     Devin Monnens

>>>

>>>     www.deserthat.com <http://www.deserthat.com>

>>>

>>>

>>>     The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

>>>

>>>

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