/vr/ - Retro Games

Also they're paranoid about takedowns and they hate slow downloads. So while there is an online element to it for relevant stuff like rhythm games that require a network, much of it is operated like a library. There are physical servers hidden in some of the more hardcore arcades. They have a catalogue and you tell them what you want and provide a removable storage medium and they will give you the files. It takes time, but it makes it harder to get shut down. There's multiple arcades in on this so you don't have to go to a single arcade, and this is also how some of those arcades stay in business. Mikado is a member. Some of the membr arcades shut down though, like that one in Saitama where competitive Puyo players hung out. The biggest member was that arcade warehouse that operated out of a building owned by Taito - which shows you just how big this circle is. The reason they had to move out from the Taito warehouse is because it was discovered that they had some of the servers there and were providing files to people.