/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8705129
The Nintendo mini consoles are pretty decent, the controllers really make the experience imho. If that's the route you want to take, it's not a bad one. Switch online is objectively worse due to input lag, monthly fee, etc. I have NSO but I don't use it for the classic game selection.

>>8705129
Oh my fucking god this has to be bait

Why specifically do you want to play NES games legally?

>>8705129
>but it seems like many of the games are rare and expensive so I don't know what to do
The games may seem expensive to you, but only collectors care about these old games. If the original rights holders bothered to actually go back and make more NES cartridges, the prices of the new cartridges would be far less, probably not even enough to cover the cost of producing them. People that want to actually play the games are already just downloading them for free.
The 95-year copyright term is about 90 years longer than it should be for software, because lawmakers are too stupid to figure it out. Don't confuse legality with morality.

>>8705129
Give a legitimate reason why you want to play the games legally and I'll give you an honest answer.

1. Buy an NES
2. Suck it up and pay $50 for a single NES game

These games weren't $5 when they came out, you know. If you want to do it the true, legal right way then cough up the cash and play the same four or five games over and over for months/years like the good old days.

>>8705129
download fceux
set a controller up
look for roms
don't tell the police you're doing it
and you're good

>>8705129
>Ways to play NES games legally?
Why are Nintenzoomers so cucked?
The mini consoles are fine, but are there even ones you can buy that aren't sold by scalpers? If you get a switch for NES games, you're getting a very small selection for a subscription fee, and a sub-par gaming system.

Here's what you do
>Go on Google
>Find complete rompack
>Download it
>Get mesen
>Connect controller
>Play NES
>Stop worrying

>>8705129
Is this console classic thing even legal? Seems shady as fuck, I doubt Nintendo would ever allow something like this.

>>8705129
Buy a Famicom.

>>8705129
You're not legal until you're 18, so you have to wait 6 years no matter what else you do.

>I want to play NES games legally
Why? Literally tell us why and then I'll give you the answers you seek.

>>8705129
>Ways to play NES games legally?
Download an emulator and some NES roms you absolute fucking pussy.

>>8705129\
>Ways to play NES games legally?
>I really want to play them and the only way to do that on PC is Console Classix
>The switch looks annoying although it's tempting because it has many games.
Not a single person who worked on these games gets a cent if you play them "legally".

Get Mesen, Nestopia UE, or fucking Retroarch and emulate you underage fucktard.

>>8705567
>Not a single person who worked on these games gets a cent if you play them "legally".

You don't know that. If a contract involves royalties, that contract remains valid.
Whether or not the devs get royalties is a case by case basis however and many would rather get a (bigger) salary while making the game than possible royalties later on.
Even if the game was knew you could apply your "the devs aren't getting a cent directly from the sale!" logic, which shows how it falls apart

>>8705580
>Even if the game was knew
Opinion discarded

>>8705158
Because I love them, I grew up with them.

>>8705410
Because it's illegal and immoral to do so.

>>8705621
You’re entitled to feel that way if you want to (and assuming this isn’t bait) but it really isn’t immoral. The NES & it’s games have been on the second-hand market exclusively for decades now, you’re not taking money out of Nintendo or any other game company’s hands by using a flashcart or emulating.

If you just want to play a few games for nostalgia’s sake it doesn’t make much sense to shell out a bunch of cash to buy them. If you’re interested in collecting as well then by all means buy an original NES and some games, just be prepared to spend more money than they’re actually worth. Pricing in the retro games market has been manipulated to benefit a few shady organizations and collectors

>>8705641
Its*

>>8705641
The devil is in the detail.

>>8705621
So you never break copyright laws ever?
You never watch pirated clips from film and television shows online? Never listen to a song on youtube uploaded by someone who doesn't own the copyright to that song?
How about all these images on 4chan? Many of these are copyright violations. I don't have the right to post this image of the Super Mario Bros. manual.
You should probably never use the internet.

>>8705621
>illegal
Yes
>immoral
No

>>8705440
>Find complete rompack
But "who needs that many roms?"
>be Russian
>your country invades another country
>get cut off from the internet
Looks like you needed those rom packs after all, minimalist dumb fucks. Back it the fuck up, and not on some Google cloud bullshit.

>>8705621
>it's illegal
you are illegal
>immoral
your parents are immoral

>>8705129
What a fuckin pussy. Kill yourself shitstain

>>8705129
Extract the ROM you rented at Console Classix and use it on your Everdrive.

>>8707676
>has to break the law because he is not man enough to do what is right
>uses insults like a woman to demean his superiors
>I'm the pussy
You will never be a human.

>>8707889
>Has to follow the law because another man wrote the law and told him he has to.
>Submits like a woman to this.
Cuck behavior

>>8707889
What an embarrassing soipost

>>8707907
Romans 13:1-7

>>8708190
>christcucking
Embarassing

>>8708190
Proverbs 26:4–5