/vr/ - Retro Games

who are you talking to

>>10854935
He specified "a lot of people around here", so those would be the people he's talking to.

Japan had a robust swap culture before 2020; scarcity wasn’t really a thing for most games so something like piracy seemed unnecessary and mean-spirited. This of course changed when the stimmy checks came and foreigners were scooping up remaining stock by the crateload. Japan now has the same problem as the rest of the world where certain games are simply inaccessible unless you’re a trust fund baby, and with that, their attitudes with piracy followed.

>>10854939
so the voices in your head, got it

>>10854935
Yo mama

>>10854942
Piracy isn't something that just suddenly started within the last few years, retard. The first NES emulator was made by a Japanese guy and there's been a romhacking scene in Japan for as long as that's been a thing.

>>10854935
Probably in response to the anons from those threads about Japanese ROM hacks and foreign scalpers buying off retro games in Japan.

>>10854932
>I see a lot of people around here saying weird things like Japanese don't emulate or that Japanese people will go to prison for several years just for downloading a single rom file.
Never heard of this, sorry.

>>10854963
A lot of people are talking about it in this thread:
>>10852909

>10 posts
>3 ips
yikes

>>10854990
There is no IP counter. Hopefully your programmer updates your code soon.

>>10854935
Me

>>10854935
The board.
You dumb, boy?

>>10855030
Yes I am

>>10854991
>updates
Not while there are elections about....
>>10854990
what the fuck...some folks are truly walking asleep....

>>10854932
>I see a lot of people around here saying weird things like Japanese don't emulate or that Japanese people will go to prison for several years just for downloading a single rom file.
You should see a doctor about that right away. Seeing things that aren't there is a clear indication of mental illness.

>>10855096
Lurk more, tourist.

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>>10854932
It's mostly the pretense from retarded shills on /v/ that you're talking about. You'll usually see it in the same sentence as "THEY RUN COMPUTAS...WITH OLD VERSIONS OF WINDOWWS!!!!" and "THEY STILL USE FACKS MACHINES!!!" but as someone with regular interactions with Japanese dudes yeah they pirate games, no they're not retarded and publicly talking about it, yeah they know about mods, they know about chink clones, they know about chink repros, they do all the same shit we do here. If you're ever seeing it, it's just anti-Japanese sentiment from infiltrator types trying to attack something 4chan generally likes by framing them in a bad light.

>>10855309
I don't understand what that person is trying to convey with that image

Are they depressed or do they have a cold?

>>10855356
He said that he has a cold.

>Japs are falling for the pocket
sad times indeed

>>10855309
I don't have twitter, can you click on the thumbs down button for me. Thanks.

>>10855406
Twitter doesn't have any downvoting feature, instead it assumes comments are like downvotes. That's why people talk about "ratios" on Twitter, it's the ratio of likes to comments, if you have more comments than likes Twitter assumes everyone hates your post.

>>10854932
>the japanese use MiSTer.
stop spreading lies,japanese use emulators but won't use fpga.
current emulators used by them are zsnes (it looks cool),snes9x,gens32 (due to being able to add a custom pic),fusion,and that would be it in most cases

>>10855432
>japanese use emulators but won't use fpga
Whoops: >>10855309

>>10854932
Citra bros..... i want to play 3ds on my new phone....

>>10855436
>one Japanese person disproves a general statement about a larger population
Retards like you shouldn't be allowed to vote

>>10855432
What's it like being retarded?

>>10854932
It's the usual misconceptions about Japan that the average pleb have after reading lies for years without checking the reliability of that info. Add to that the usual stupidity and that misinfo spread like wildfire.

>>10854957
You can tell who is making up their own headcanon around here if they really think Japanese people suddenly decided to emulate during COVID. Fucking retards.
OP is autistic, people are speaking in generalities that aren't even necessarily accurate. Twitter is also viewed as being "anonymous" so nobody has a problem openly discussing such things there. But you're not going to find a MiSTer or a emulation shit handheld for sale in Akihabara.

>>10855442
If you're not a Japanese person living in Japan your opinion doesn't really matter.

>>10855451
I have ADHD, not autism. It's not the same thing.
>you're not going to find a MiSTer or a emulation shit handheld for sale in Akihabara
You're not going to find Japanese people in Akiba either (unless you count the shop staff, but a lot of them are foreign too).

>>10855451
You can't find MiSTers at Wal-Mart so I guess no one in the US ever uses them, either.

Not only do Japanese people use MiSTer, but Jotego has a separate Japanese Twitter account and he's followed by Naito Tokihiro (M2), BEEP, BEEP's Akiba store, the official MSX Twitter account, and a Japanese video game news site.

Cope harder faggot.

>>10855454
NTA and I'm not Japanese but I spent 13 years living and working in Japan and one of my fondest memories was helping a co-worker build a desktop PC with a Radeon 6850 to emulate PSX, PS2 games and get into PC gaming because he disliked scaling on modern TVs.
After work we'd go to a bar for a couple of drinks then wander back to his place and play SMT III Maniax in high resolution on his TV before I'd wander to 7/11 and back home. He later ended up playing Witcher 2 and enjoyed it.

>>10855494
Based former English teacher kun

>>10854932
>there's also a large community for ROM hacks and fan games
where?

>>10855524
Do you know how operate a search engine?
ROM hacks get posted primarily to the author's personal sites and then shared elsewhere like Twitter.
There is an entire offline community around fan games/fan comics/fan anime and the creators get together to hold events where they sell their stuff for money and the big corpos are cool with it. If you miss the events you can usually buy the games at stores that specialize in that stuff.

>>10855524
ever heard of kaizo mario? retard

>>10854935
Clearly not you, so go back to Twitter with your quirky quips, fagtard

>>10855412
What a terrible way to bump threads.

On this topic, there's some Japanese computer magazines that dabble into this "taboo", such as iP! and Windows100%, though both have ceased publication now.
Speaking of Windows100%, they also used to crib Vocaloid/MMD/Utau stuff online to their CDs in style of Doom/Quake shovelware CDs.

>>10855726
>japanese warez
based as fuck, even more-so since this was printed.

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>>10855139
You talk like a samefag and neither of those posts say anything of the sort, tourist.

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>>10854932
Are you really shocked that anons around here who seem to think that the Japanese can do no wrong and only shit out solid gold are going to have a strange view of the country and it's people?

>>10856080
Their perverse anime already painted a not-so-subtle picture of their culture kek.

>>10854932
anyone who knows anything about the early jap micro scene knows better. people were making their own games, ripping published games and reselling them, selling hardware to rip NES games to floppy, porting games they didnt have the license to and selling them blackmarket, writing hacking zines, making highly demented text-based torture/rape sims etc
lots of very illegal shit, right downtown
i know for a fact there was a pretty thriving blackmarket meet-up in shibuya at least once a month for years and years back in the 80s/early 90s. and its also an open secret that some of those guys went on to make some VERY big name games that we all grew up playing
from humble beginnings lol

not too different from really any cunt that had an established microcomputer scene
piracy is fun, necessary, and inevitable

>>10856113
I'm glad I've been pirating since before I entered my double digits :)

>>10854932
Nintendo has Japan by the balls and has hijacked its gaming dev scene. Its why its output in modern games has been copy-pasted for years now and looks like otaku shit;

its all a way to appease the Nintendo suits. Its why they hate the Western fans.

>>10856136
Nintendo can suck it, because they wouldn't be where they are without their fans. (Yes, even the retarded ones.)

>>10856123
lel same man
wouldnt have it any other way
thx bleem. for literally everything
we would genuinely already be living in the "own nothing" timeline were it not for those maniacs willing to get themselves sued into oblivion multiple times by some of the bigger corporations in the world

still remember looking up the word "emulator", finding zophars, and feeling like i had just unlocked a cheatcode for irl

>>10856141
Heh, I found out about emulation thanks to emulator-zone. CoolROM was also once a great site pre-DMCAs.

>>10856136
>Nintendo has Japan by the balls
Funny you mentioned this. A company called Colopl made a mobile game that had a virtual joystick as its controls. With its immense success and millions of dollars, Nintendo eventually sued them many years later claiming they invented touch controls for games and a virtual joystick, and their proof was their patents for the DS of all things. Despite Colopl having a good lawyer and showing them over 50 games that existed like this, which should’ve voided Nintendo’s patents or at the very least dropped the case, they lost and had to pay something like 30 million dollars and that doesn’t count the other offenses. Because of this, Nintendo can quite literally sue any company RIGHT now with a mobile game that involves touch controls or a virtual joystick. Quite literally the most insane lawsuit I’ve read in my life

>>10856151
Hmmm, I've heard rumors about Nintendo being backed by the Yakuza. Curious...

>>10856156
They aren’t funny enough, they’re just very influential. I know Sony used to and Sammy is but that’s it

I think it has to do with being a cultural powerhouse exporter and money maker (Pokemon)

>>10856163
I'm pretty sure Nintendo has a grand majority of stakes in Pokemon, so it checks out.

>>10856163
I thought affiliating with the Yakuza was banned by Nintendo though?

>>10856168
their fans would say otherwise: "gf isn't by tendo tho" or some other dumb shit.

>>10856176
I take the words of Nintenfags with a grain of salt, since I doubt they look into the history of these things all that closely.

>>10856156
they were literally started by it
undoubtedly some are prolly still invested in it i mean no shit, right?. vidya is one of japans bigger exports, after all.
but any guys who had direct ties to it and were involved directly with yakuza while also being part of corporate management died decades ago
i dont think they have any more control over it nowadays than any other major board member would. if anything theyd prolly WANT it to be as legit as possible so that they have some actual clean money on the books

now the jap porn industry is another matter...

>>10856182
>now the jap porn industry is another matter...
kek, westerners are doing their work for them

>>10856184
all the porn-art of Nintendo properties technically tie into the Japanese porn industry, no? along with all the other Japan related stuff.

The anti-nintendo posting went full retard very fast

>>10856190
im talking more about the human trafficking that goes hand-in-hand with irl porn desu
thats always been one of their main rackets

>>10856190
I'm not surprised if Nintendo artists themselves make lewd shit behind the scenes.

>>10856208
Prostitution is legal there, but it lacks regulation? That's beyond fucked...

>>10856210
considering the nu pokemon games now try to kiss you ingame, no, i wouldn't be surprised.

>>10856204
Nearly everyone and their grandmother is anti-nintendo these days.

>>10856220
No wonder the eshop is filled with vnslop.

>>10856204
>anti-nintendo posting
i cant tell if youre just a clueless /v/irgin or just dumb af
its not a big secret man. hell, its not a secret at all.
yakuza is organized crime. they used to run illegal casinos. casinos need fresh cards constantly. nintendo made those cards. its on their wikipedia ffs. were talking like literally 200yrs ago tho.
that doesnt mean miyamoto is taking dudes out back and dissolving their bodies in barrels of acid or whatever

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>>10855676
I know there are several japanese hacks and small personal sites but I was hoping that there would be some larger site containing hacks and discussion about the hacking, similar to romhacking.net

>>10856363
>I was hoping that there would be some larger site containing hacks and discussion about the hacking
Yeah, it's called Twitter. It's big in Japan.
>>10856269
Yakuza is a meme. You're talking about shit from literally centuries ago and are ignoring the fact that Yakuza are almost nonexistent today.

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>>10855686
>he's so mad that his pathetic gaslighting attempt was called out by fpbp

>>10856667
dumb frogposter

>>10855471
There are plenty of Japanese people in Akihabara on a daily basis, easily outnumbering foreigners, what the fuck are you talking about

>>10855489
the point wasn't that nobody uses them, the point was that while you might commonly find emulation crap at specialty stores in the West you almost never will in Japan. you can blame Nintendo and heavy handed enforcement against R4 for that mostly but it's also the strictness of their laws.

>>10854935
fpbp

OP, /vr/ is not a "chat room". Do no post every random thought that comes into your head. Keep it for your discord.

>>10857268
>There are plenty of Japanese people in Akihabara on a daily basis, easily outnumbering foreigners, what the fuck are you talking about
You have never even stepped foot in Japan if you think that is the case.
>you almost never will in Japan
They literally sell clones and emulation consoles at mainstream stores like Bic Camera, Yodobashi, Village Vanguard, Donki Hote, etc. You have definitely never been to Japan.
>>10857284
Go back to pisscord, tranny.

>>10857421
nta, I've lived in Japan for 20 years. The first few years were spent in bicycling distance of Akiba. It's 99% Japanese and always was. Not even sure why you're freaking out over that. There may be "a lot of tourists" but "a lot" is insignificant compared to the sheer numbers of Tokyo population. Unless you're counting all the kebab and curry shop guys. But the majority isn't backpacking white guys buying anime figs and retro games.

>They literally sell clones and emulation consoles at mainstream stores
They did around ten years ago but stopped when the government cracked down on it.

>Go back to pisscord, tranny.
That post literally identified you as the discorder as you're treating /vr/ like a discord. Trying to reflect the same words back doesn't work. Also, "tranny"? Is that just a generic insult to you when you're losing an argument now? Sorry, I'm not in favor of genital mutilation and narcissism.