[game_preservation] More games pulled from virtual console

Andrew Armstrong andrew at aarmstrong.org
Tue Nov 20 07:31:29 EST 2012


Hehe, yeah, not a rumour as such, just no one speaks very loudly about
it AFAIK, certainly no real compiled effort to see what are cracks (and
how we can tell too). All very interesting none the less; I didn't
realise many GoG ones were.

I guess legally it is all fine, since they own the copyright, eh? Sigh!

Andrew

On 20/11/2012 04:40, Jim Leonard wrote:

> On 11/19/2012 3:42 PM, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>> There are also always the whispers that some virtual console games (from

>> a variety of releases over the years) have actually used pirated roms as

>> their source, making it an odd roundabout of content delivery...

>

> This is more than a rumor; it is sometimes quite common given a

> particular circle. Many GoG windows releases, which are authorized by

> the copyright holder, are cracks.

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