can't believe my fucking eyes

[Anonymous No.1404235]

>browsing for retro games etc
>see this
>it's not a fucking joke

[Anonymous No.1404298]

>>1404235

You're right.

http://kitchener.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-video-games-consoles-older-generation-The-Gamer-Codex-Emulator-Retro-Game-Service-W0QQAdIdZ566764408

[Anonymous No.1404314]

You can inform the authorities since they are selling illegal copies.

[Anonymous No.1404564]

>>1404235
not sure whats more pathetic: the dude who thought he could make money selling free emulators and roms or the moron who pays him for it.

[Anonymous No.1404632]

>>1404564
Obtaining an emulator and getting it to run can be tricky and some specific games can be hard to obtain but I expect they'll only cover mainstream stuff except for the Xbox.

[Anonymous No.1404649]

>>1404632
This: if you think the average computer user will find the process of downloading & unzipping an emulator (average computer user: "okay, you just lost me at unzip"), finding & downloading games, then playing said games on said emulator, to be straightforward, then you don't get out much. Not everyone has been playing ZSNES for over 10 years. Seems like a great idea, actually, and $5 seems reasonable for meeting up with some schmo and getting them set-up on their journey to becoming a retrofag.

[Anonymous No.1404650]

>>1404235
For just 5 dollars more, you can hook it up to your TV!

[Anonymous No.1404653]

>"in the scenic city of Cambridge"

[Smile No.1404691]

>>1404649
yeah the average computer user totally doesnt know how to right-click->unzip and google anything else
ok, sure thing buddy
get out more

[Anonymous No.1404702]

>>1404649
You won't be able to get the licenses to legally sell the games, certainly not for $1 per game.
You may be able to use a cartridge copying device to copy a rom to a computer.

[Anonymous No.1405247]

>>1404235
I heard from a friend that there are people trying to hustle and actually *sell* DOSBOX as retail software.

[Anonymous No.1405596]

>>1404314
The listing was probably made by the authorities to lure in people who want to pirate the software, but obviously too dumb to know how. At the end of the day it's still one less pirate on the streets.

[Anonymous No.1405597]

>>1404314
>>1405596
>implying cops give 2 fuckin shits about some old nintendo games

[Anonymous No.1405613]

>>1405597
I'm sure Nintendo's legal department would love to know what's going on.

[Anonymous No.1405708]

>>1404691
It's true, the average computer user would have no idea what's going on, but you have to remember that people here are in the significantly more computer literate portion of all computer users. What's simple to us will not be simple to most people. Setting up my first emulator was an absolute bitch.

[Anonymous No.1405965]

>>1405597
>implying cops are the only part of the legal system

[Anonymous No.1405969]

>>1404649
5$ isn't even worth the gas+time and effort to meet up with someone, just to download and extract it to his computer. He'll probably ask questions and take more of your time. There are better ways to make money than this. I even doubt that he'll have that many customers in his area anway.

[Anonymous No.1405996]

>>1405613

>implying Nintendo's legal department gives a shit

They're more concerned with catching actual thieves and people who infringe on their copyrights than arresting some random Joe from Albuquerque for downloading 10 NES roms from Internet.

[Anonymous No.1405997]

>>1405996

Also what's with the sudden influx of "playing on emulators is against the law, I will report you to Nintendo!" moralfags?

[Anonymous No.1406007]

>>1405997

It's not about emulators being a quasi legal area. It's about,people trying,to make money off of it. If anyone should be making money from an emulator it should be the guys who spend their spare time coding them and dumping roms. Or the original license holders.

[Anonymous No.1406014]

>>1406007

I'm not talking about this specific thread. There's a lot of people here on /vr/ shitting on emulation threads claiming that playing on emulators and downloading ROMs, for free or not, should be prosecuted.

[Anonymous No.1406041]

>>1404649
I disagree with the reasonable bit, but the guy is right, and it's more common than you guys think. >>1403502

Example right on this board.

[Anonymous No.1406048]

>>1404235
>One dollar per game.

Dang, my collection could make me rich.

[Anonymous No.1406070]

>>1404691
They don't. Try working with the general public sometime in your life. People are astoundingly stupid, especially in regards to computers.

[Anonymous No.1406075]

>>1405969
>implying it's not just some 12 year old trying to make some extra pocket money

[Anonymous No.1406081]

>>1404691
>yeah the average computer user totally doesnt know how to right-click->unzip and google anything else

Precisely. Most of them don't. You obviously never worked in tech support. Hell you probably never worked in an office environment if you don't think that's true.

>get out more

No u

[Anonymous No.1406104]

Seriously. Most people don't even know what data compression is let,slow the difference between a zip rar and 7z and don't even try to explain an MD5 checksum.

[Anonymous No.1406110]

>>1405708
>Setting up my first emulator was an absolute bitch.
retard detected.

[Anonymous No.1406115]

>>1406110
Well if his first emulator was something like epsxe with all that plugin bullshit I can understand.

Arcade emulators like MAME and FBA can also be pretty confusing for first timers.

[Anonymous No.1406120]

>>1404298
>http://kitchener.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-video-games-consoles-older-generation-The-Gamer-Codex-Emulator-Retro-Game-Service-W0QQAdIdZ566764408
it's been removed from the site, so I guess this thread is moot now.

did someone cross the line and threaten his life or something?

[Anonymous No.1406134]

>>1406115
MAME is not hard at all to run most people are too stupid to get a full romset for a single game. They get like the 300kb english patch rom but dont even get the 2mb main rom and wonder why it wont load when all they have is the text and maybe some other graphics for different regions.

[Anonymous No.1406162]

>>1406134
That's why I didn't say it's hard, I said it might be confusing for first timers. Romsets aren't exactly an obvious concept for the completely uninitiated.

MAME devs also don't help with their bullshit of changing roms and filenames every couple of versions or so, so you have to get a romset that's compatible with your mame version. That's not an obvious concept either. It's all quite unintuitive when you think about it.

[Anonymous No.1406168]

>>1406162
but what the fuck is 300kb going to do? Like if you are not any sort of retard you should know 300KB isnt enough for TMNT the arcade game

[Anonymous No.1406180]

>>1404691
There was a user on this very board like half a year ago or so who was wondering why his emulator wouldn't retain any settings between sessions, and then it turned out he was running the program straight from inside its zip file every time.

[Anonymous No.1406186]

>>1405247
You can legally sell DOSbox, though. If people are stupid/lazy enough to pay for it, why not?

[Anonymous No.1406198]

>>1406014
>There's a lot of people here on /vr/ shitting on emulation threads claiming that playing on emulators and downloading ROMs, for free or not, should be prosecuted.
Can you link to one specific instance of this? Emulator wars and hardware purist rage is common, but I've never seen what you're talking about.

[Anonymous No.1406227]

>>1404298
>Oops... Too late! This listing was so awesome that it's already gone. Check out other similar ads in your area

[Anonymous No.1406293]

His name is Kurt Hvorup, and his Company is called The Gamer Codex. He has facebook accounts for both.

>inb4facebooklinks

[Anonymous No.1406313]

>>1406293
>everything about this person

[Anonymous No.1406359]

>>1406293
>I greatly enjoy video games. I was born in 1995, and was raised with such classic consoles as the Nintendo 64 and the Sega Dreamcast.
>I have written for GameNTech.com, an ill-fated journalism site that was initially active from last September to November, and GamingRev.
>Currently, I am the C.E.O of Codex Network, a journalism media company.

[Anonymous No.1406394]

>>1406359
I can put buzzwords together and call its a business to ya know.

[Anonymous No.1406402]

>>1404235
This isn't as bad as a the people on Craigslist that I see trying to sell modded consoles (xbox, wii, psp, ds+flashcart) with shitloads of roms trying to make $100+ more than the systems are worth by selling illegal copies. Usually their listing goes away after they get reported, but I hope the scumbags never made money from it.

[Anonymous No.1406589]

>>1406014
Never seen this here. The biggest complaint from /vr/ are the purists who wont settle for any flaws outside of the original game/hardware.

On topic: I've seen this type of shit since the late 90's. As someone who pretty much grew up in the warez scene, it's pretty damn depressing to see people still get away with this.

[Anonymous No.1406602]

>>1404649
The point someone is making a profit from pirated material. Offering paid services to help setup software is fine, but bundling games you have no right to sell is wrong. And charging $1 per game after that? This guy is an asshole.