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8408671 No.8408671 [Reply] [Original]

What's stopping corporations from selling ROMs for pre-32-bit and arcade video games wrapped with an open-source emulator on Humble Store, Steam, and GOG.com like they already do with MS-DOS games?

>> No.8408697

Companies selling MS-DOS games on those platforms have the license or rights to the games they are selling. Meaning they have the right to sell it. And Sega is already selling their Genesis titles through Steam bundled with an emulator. You could have just posted "I'm retarded HURF DURF" and gotten the same result, and sounded just as intelligent.

>> No.8409416

>>8408671
They kind of do, and generally it's real mixed. For instance, while you can get a real good port of Doom + Doom 2 for cheap on just about any current machine you want, you also can get ReLoaded on Steam, instead of the DOS version, it's the Playstation version running on ePSXe, with always online DMR tacked onto it.

For every decent/good port or repackaging of a classic game being resold digitally, there's three which are a a mediocre or really shitty package like previously mentioned, or just the bare game files with a DOSBox thrown on. Nintendo somewhat did it ok with Virtual Console on the 3DS (apparently worse on Wii and WiiU), but for the Switch they ended up abandoning it completely and giving people really bad ports for paying a monthly subscription fee.

>> No.8411101

>>8408671
A lot of the problem is proper emulaton. A lot of games from the 70s through the early 80s used circuitry that's completely analog, and therefore difficult to emulate. It can be done, but it's still a challenge. Ozma Wars by SNK was added to their 40th anniversary collection because the original logic board was easy to obtain (especially in japan) with the extended sound daughterboard that gave the game it's charm. Other games like the Micon Kit or Yosaku aren't dumped and therefore present a harder challenge. The corporatization of conpanies also presents a problem as a lot of time, the problem is that people don't give a shit. This isn't something that is going to make money for them, which is pointless to them. As unfortunate as it is.

>> No.8412814

>>8409416
I wish Nintendo would keep adding to the eshop.dvs0j