[game_preservation] More games pulled from virtual console

[Devin Monnens]

Well, what irks me is that they may own the copyright, but if they're
selling cracked games, they're doing players an injustice. I feel it's the
same with official emulation attempts. The emulation scene can do game
emulation far better than any developer - partly because they have nearly
20 years of experience, and partly because they have a different focus.
Bells and whistles like save states aside, the visual appearance, sound,
interface, and loading are also very important, and these are areas in
which developers fail. I remember one instance with the Mega Man
Anniversary Collection where the team that ported it axed Wiley's burning
castle from the Mega Man 7 ending, stating "We couldn't figure out how to
get that effect to work." It sounds like they redid them with the source
code, but I honestly don't see why they couldn't have just emulated it or
used a video. The way they dealt with it sounds lazy.


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


> 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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