/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5733358
Well I just reposted it.

>"He was hoarding the games"
They were being shared and he was well aware of it, pic related. I had been already been reuploading some of them to legendsworld and a couple other abandonware sites by the time he took the links down. He was uploading something like 5 games a week at one point and taking the time to scan the boxes and manuals, and rip the official soundtracks, for free (since no one ever contributed to his patreon.) Only a few games at a time out of hundreds were ever off limits at any point, and he usually added them to the public folder later.

>"His games were stuff that was already out there that no one cares about."
There were a ton of extremely valuable undumped games in his stash that few had ever seen, one of the last things he uploaded before the Labyrinthe leak was a PC version of the cancelled Sega Saturn adventure FMV game Obelisk, which no one even realized existed, not even Saturn collectors, it was considered lost. He also dumped the full set of Psychic Detective games for Windows ported from FM Towns... for those who don't know, these sell for ridiculous prices, something like $1000 for the full set, and the previously undumped Windows version of Chu Teng (same price). He also dumped rare floppy disks like Flappy 95 with a Kryoflux. Those are just a few examples. Again: he was freely sharing them.

>"He made a douchey post on the bemani tracker."
This is probably closer to the real reason, the leaker got triggered or ego bruised and so decided to boost his own notoriety and publicly slander him, to the detriment of the preservation community at large. Pretty fucking selfish if you ask me, and exactly why /vr/ doesn't deserve nice things ever.