![]() ![]() Homebrew, when applied to video games, refers to games produced by hobbyists for proprietary video game consoles which are not intended to be user-programmable. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ![]() Please help improve this article, possibly by splitting the article and/or by introducing a disambiguation page, or discuss this issue on the talk page. But these are games people discover and want to play for themselves.This article may lack focus or may be about more than one topic. Thanks to copyright and general nonsense, we are likely NEVER going to get legitimate releases of a huge chunk of the N64's library. Not everyone has a massive box filled with N64 cartridges like I do. You must remember that from a sales viewpoint, most people did not actually play iconic, cult classic N64 titles at the time. Or spend significant amounts of money on the less expensive but still very expensive entries in the N64 library. While N64 emulation has been obscenely broken for over a decade (but is improving), people turned to it in droves because they didn't feel like paying 50-200 bucks in order to play Conker's Bad Fur Day. You may as well ask why someone would want to watch movies from the 80's or buy Michael Jackson albums instead of One Direction albums.Įmulation allows people to play games they would not ordinarily be able to play or afford to play. *pours coke into glass* Newer games are not necessarily better. same with Minecraft.Ĭlick to expand.Because. but i support the online aspect, you could probably download demos from console markets or download freeware stuff like the Original Cave Story or Spelunky classic, seems to be the trend these days that solodevs releases a game, then gets picked up. also stuff like "Piracy is legal if you own the game in real life" or "you won't get arrested if you delete it after downloading it for a day" wouldn't really be defensive, however copying stuff for personal use may be legal in some places, though there'd be conflicting stuff about bypassing console locks or reverse engineering consoles for PCs since there's probably something illegal in how the copiers were made. but you would see large extensive cases taken against people for sharing early airings of movies or non-sharable source codes. So you probably won't see people getting arrested and made example of just for downloading something like Super Mario Bros. ![]() films are much more larger than Videogames so a lot more people would probably torrent it however each person who downloads a torrent also adds seeds for other people to download said data, so it's not just 1 person pirating but also the piraters are sharing with the others. some are just more vigilant about it than others like Warner Brothers or Sony. ![]() videogames just doesn't look as major as film releases where the worldwide market is much more restricted. I assume that they just go after the contributor of ROMs/ISOs rather than the clients. Tread with caution if you value your forum health! As people have stated, actually publishing something on a site is far, far riskier than merely downloading something.Īnd has been stated, The Escapist does NOT promote piracy or illegal activity of any kind. So my advice would be to find out what exactly the actual laws in your country are, as well as studying whether people have been convicted in the past, and what happened to them. Note that this means that torrents are still illegal, as you are both an up- and downloader! Some countries also have gaps in their laws, so downloading may be legal, while uploading is illegal. The result is that people in Switzerland can pretty much do whatever the fuck they want with impunity (for now). So for me, living in Switzerland, the authorities have more or less stated that chasing pirates is too much of a hassle, ineffective and a waste of resources, and hence they've decided to not give a shit. How dangerous this kind of stuff is also depends on where you live. ![]()
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