[soul'd out]

Now is the last chance to let me know why you think they should or shouldnt be released, maybe you can sway my decision.

• This topic was modified 16 years, 1 month ago by soul'd out.

Enough already. realyst, if you think all roms should be made available for free to the public just because they “deserve” it, then that makes you a communist.

DanB schrieb:
…if you think all roms should be made available for free to the public just because they “deserve” it, then that makes you a communist.

😀
You made my day!
Now I know why the Virtualboy is red!

BTW: Thanks to the communists out there for uploading the missing rare games.

Many people payed hundreds of dollars for some games that only they could play, but now, the situation has changed and everybody can play them for free. And maybe was the only possitiblity they had to do it.
I suspect of course that most of people commplaining about dumping these games are people who payed lot of money for the original games….. Well now more people can play them, you still have the originals, don’t be so selfish and don’t try to built another explanations, let the “relavity theory” to Einstein.
Imagine that everybody who is working on new developments for the VB decided that they are not free, and that only people who can pay hundreds of dollars will be able to play them…
Please let the VB scene progress, don’t act like wolves protecting their valuous wolverines.
VB has a very limited catalogue of games, a hardware that is still very far away from reaching their limits (I’m sure that with a 32 Risc at 20 mghz processor, it is posible to make games based on polygons much better tecnichally than 3d alarm for example).
Give the opportunitty to everybody to play all games, and try to focus on creating new ones, reach the top of the tecnichal power of VB, discover new ways to solve the Glitchy Display Problems, repair the units which appear on Ebay and many places which maybe will end in dumping site… :thumpup:

PD: Maybe a Lenin’s secret son?? 😀

Commie bastards! 😉
I don’t think the ROMs will ever be released that haven’t already. I don’t really mind that much. We’re arguing against nobody here because a little indirect forum argument over the internet probably won’t sway any diehard collector’s ideas about whether or not he should share his collection. And that is what it boils down to, really.

I would probably like to see them released, if only for curiosity. But I’m not gonna sit here all day arguing at the air for their release. It’s up to the people who own the prototypes, who have the ROMs that no-one else does.

EDIT:
P.S. I hope the communist comment was done as a joke! 😀
Made me laugh.

[realyst]

DanB: Now that you’ve discovered my secret, comrade, I must ‘dispose’ of you 😉

VUE:

I don’t support anything that violates someone’s trust. However, I don’t support greedy behavior. Maybe it’s the layered morality of this issue that makes it such a ‘hot button’.

Should the original ROM dumper have dumped the ROMs? Well, if there was a contract that he wouldn’t, he/she(it?) probably shouldn’t have.

Also, if he/she(it?) was their friend, then he/she(it?) probably put that friendship in jeopardy.

However, we have no reason to believe that the original proprietors would ever have released these. So I stand by my statement that, in the end, this was a good thing.

I also believe that the original proprietors are doing a massive disservice. With the exception of a Flashboy or some other, private, home grown solution(maybe the original WarioLand EEPROM hack), they would have needed an emulator to use these ROMs. The emulator authors are able to create those awesome applications because of community support. They need ROMs that utilize all the features of the emulated hardware, acquired one way or the other, to test them fully.

The MAME team, for example, takes donations for dumping arcade boards so they don’t die in the end as well as lobbie developers and rights holders to release the titles. They use this for both preservation as well as to aid in the development of the application.

By holding on to these so ‘tightly’, they are reaping the rewards of a larger community without actually giving back to it.

–Edit: I should rephrase that as “they are reaping the rewards of a larger community without actually giving back to it when they are easily able to without negative consequences” since many people enjoy that which the emulation community produces but have nothing with which to contribute.

While it is a sticky moral question when it comes to the original dump, I disagree with anyone who somehow justifies this protectionist act or chastises a member of this community who really thought he was doing a good thing(and to which I believe he did).

Is it their right? Of course it is. But I think we’ve all seen enough examples of something not being right, even though it (rightfully so) is a right.

If that makes me a commie, paint me red and Viva la Revolution! 😉

• This reply was modified 15 years, 11 months ago by realyst.

I wish the roms were still up, and shame on the people insulting the guy who did us all a huge favor that so many jerks were unwilling to do

Techni wrote:
I wish the roms were still up, and shame on the people insulting the guy who did us all a huge favor that so many jerks were unwilling to do

All of the ROMs are still up for me, when I log into Planet Virtual Boy.

Benjamin Stevens wrote:

Techni wrote:
I wish the roms were still up, and shame on the people insulting the guy who did us all a huge favor that so many jerks were unwilling to do

All of the ROMs are still up for me, when I log into Planet Virtual Boy.

I think you need at least 10 posts or so to see them.