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"Pirate Gaming and Roms. Is it good?"

Pirate gaming and downloading roms of website is rising all the time. Why shell out £30+ for a game when I can spend a £10 or even nothing what so ever.

Seems a reasonable argument does it not. I myself admit to using roms plentifully. But what happens when it goes too far, what happens when 50%+ gamers start doing this what happens when it ruins the game industry altogether.

Lets take a look into my crystal ball.

All the major game comopanies, Sony,Nintendo,Microsoft etc. go bust. They can no longer afford to bring out new and exciting games [except in the case of Sony who never could].
Gmaers all around the world will mourn at the fact there will be no more Zeldas, Final Fantasies, some might even mourn for Pokemon [ God have mercy on their souls].

Not a very pleasant thought is it. We'll probably never really appreciate it till it's gone. We all no it can happen. The down fall of the Amiga was due to eveyone copying each others games. The only happy people will be the people who sold all the pirate games with their pockets full of cash.

So I urge you, stop while we still have time, befor we take it too far.

P.S. gbxemu.com has great gba roms for all interested.

I return finally to find some decent posts. [no offense ment].

those past citizen erazed give yourself a pat on the back.

Wasn't Looking Glass wiped out because of piracy? Someone who developed and made Thief [ironic], anyway.

I wonder which is worse... the amount of money spent on preventing piracy, or the amount lost by it?

I curse my unshakable tendancy to make annoying typing errors....

¦¦ lvlägmä Ðrägòón ¦¦ wrote:
> in my opinion new roms should not be allowed because they harm developers, but
> if your talking about a 5 year or older rom then they should be made legal as
> there is probably no more money to be made from these titiles.


Any title ten years old or more, is classed as abandonware, and can legally be pirated. Five years is maybe not longe enough.. but is ten years too long?

In any case, is there any evidence to show piracy is on the increase, or not? And lets not forget that developers daclarations that piracy costs them £x thousand per year is based on the idea that everyone who owns a piratecopy would otherwise have bought a legal copy - which is more than likely complete rubbish. I don't really think deveopers are being harmed that muhc by piracy. Not yet, anyway.

There is never the same feeling of content when you buy a pirate copy of a game.

cuting there balls off is a bit extream, just make them walk the blank :)

Pirates should have their balls cut off.

i think it's ok if you want to play old Snes and Nes games but for consoles that are kinda new like N64 and GBA no.

although i've had the odd pirate game i usualy buy it anyway in the end as pirates don't have manuals normaly :)

Basically, I reckon if a game is not selling either at all or very little, it doesn't matter. But getting pirated games or emulators for games that are new(ish at least) should be stopped, as it seriously damages not only the large gaming companies but also has a knock on effect on small game retailing companies. GameCube is a great innovater when it comes to combatting pirated games. They took a really good step to cut down on pirating by making their optical discs really hard to copy. With the PlayStaysion it was a joke. But, once again, Nintendo takes a step in the right direction...

¦¦ lvlägmä Ðrägòón ¦¦ wrote:
> in my opinion new roms should not be allowed because they harm developers, but
> if your talking about a 5 year or older rom then they should be made legal as
> there is probably no more money to be made from these titiles.

Is that so?

Games over or around 5 years old:

Super Street Fighter 2 (SNES) ------> Super Street Fighter 2: Turbo Revival (GBA)
Mario Bros (NES) ------> Games featured in Super Mario Advance (GBA), Super Mario Advance 2 (GBA) and Super Mario Bros 3 as multiplayer (SNES)
Super Mario Bros (NES) ------> Featured in Super Mario Allstars (SNES), Super Mario Bros Deluxe (GBC)
Super Mario Bros 2(NES) ------> Featured in Super Mario Allstars (SNES) and Super Mario Advance (GBA)
Super Mario Bros 3(NES) ------> Featured in Super Mario Allstars (SNES)
Super Mario World (SNES) ------> Super Mario Advance 2 (GBA)
Rayman (PSX) ------> Rayman Advance (GBA)
Sonic 3D (MegaDrive) ------> Sonic 3D Flickies Island (PC)
Resident Evil (PSX) ------> Resident Evil Biohazard (GC)

Need I go on?