[game_preservation] More games pulled from virtual console

[Andrew Armstrong]

Yeah, software piracy is about it, shame the same can't be easily done 
on other consoles.

None that I know of Benj regarding lost to history games. There are a 
few noted rarities in various articles, but no compiled list AFAIK.

Andrew

On 19/11/2012 20:10, Benj Edwards wrote:

> 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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