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7455727 No.7455727 [Reply] [Original]

Why don't publishers sell emulated roms of old games on PC if they can sell emulated DOS games?

>> No.7455732

>>7455727
Some do. Look at SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics on Steam.

>> No.7455745

>>7455727
They do.

In fact that's exactly what those emuboxes are.

>> No.7455753

>>7455727
I believe EA did this a few years ago with SimCity 2000. Not sure if it's still available on Origin.

>> No.7455762

>>7455753
Which version?

>> No.7455790

Because selling an embedded old Windows/Mac environment requires too much legal hoops to jump through to actually be worth it.
Also most publishers now just sell old games (mostly adventure ones) with SCUMMVM now.
Or are you talking about console games? Because they already do that shit.

>> No.7455817

>>7455790
Yeah I mean console games
Since no one will bother with porting these old games

>> No.7456576

>>7455817
They already do that, they just don't do it as much because there's legal issues with bios and stuff, especially when you go into 5th gen stuff where bios are needed. Of course they could reverse engineer that stuff, which if I recall, they can legally do, but that's just too much time and money for people to spend.
The only reason why we got stuff like Megaman legacy collection and the Disney Afternoon collection is because Capcom got some developer to make a proprietary emulator that removes all mentions of Nintendo from the code.

>> No.7456818

>>7455727
Fear of Nintendo, no joke.
>Sometimes getting a game into the Eclipse Engine will mean emulating the original hardware. Other games will need to be ported more directly by hand or decompiled and rebuilt for the new engine (as was the case with the NES Mega Man titles, due to publisher concerns with direct emulation).
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/08/the-new-tech-making-game-preservation-more-authentic-and-future-proof/
And a lot of emulators require the user to provide their own BIOS.
That said, there are console games sold on Steam using open-source emulators.
N2O: Nitrous Oxide and 40 Winks use PCSX-Reloaded.

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7457196

>>7455727
> pc
> roms

>> No.7457252

>>7456818
fucking bubsy came bundled with snes9x

>> No.7457293

>>7457252
Kek

>> No.7457320

>>7457252
snes9x it's source-available, though.

>> No.7458126

>>7457320
I'ts non commercial unless you pay

>> No.7458138

>>7455817
>>7455727
You retarded. They already do so.

>> No.7458182

>>7458126
Hence "source-available".

>> No.7458225

One day people will realize how nintendo censorship and yakuza like business practices has done much more harm than good to the 8 and 16 bit era

>> No.7458238

>>7455727
They do though. The issue is finding an emulator that is licensed in a way that there aren't issues, and removing all references to Nintendo and SEGA in game. It's not a huge hurdle, but it is more work than just dumping the dos files and dosbox on GoG or Steam.

>> No.7458275

>>7455762
...2000