[game_preservation] More games pulled from virtual console

[Andrew Armstrong]

Yeah, kinda says a lot about the companies.

Although it is unlike book and film industries who are (either by law or 
pressure) forced to provide copies of their works, simply nothing like 
that exists for games.

It's a long time coming though, but if I have a chance I'll see how it 
is going in the UK in regards to that (I think publishers have to 
provide copies of books to the British Library, but nothing the same 
exists for other areas yet).

Andrew

On 20/11/2012 16:14, Martin Goldberg wrote:

> Same here. It really comes down to the fact that (in my experience) a

> lot of the IP holders simply don't have access to any of the original

> resources anymore, be it ROMs or game code. So it's far easier for a

> developer to grab already dumped (but pirated) ROMs than track down an

> original to dump.

>

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> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Frank Cifaldi <fcifaldi at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I won't name names but I have personal experience with MAME zip files of

>> dumps being sent for an official re-release.

>>

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>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> 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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