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Post by toei on Sept 6, 2019 11:49:49 GMT -5
I thought the attack on rom sites was more about the NES and SNES classics? Which seemed to be very lucrative.
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Post by Sarge on Sept 6, 2019 12:23:19 GMT -5
Probably part of it, at any rate. I suspect those sites could have likely gotten away with it if they pulled just particular ROMs (i.e. Nintendo's properties). But I can certainly understand how they would think it safer to just nix the whole thing.
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Post by Ex on Sept 6, 2019 12:51:22 GMT -5
SargeI think the ROM sites that shuttered down assumed other large publishers were going to follow in Nintendo's footsteps, and they just said the hell with all of it. While it sucks we lost such troves as Emuparadise and The Iso Zone, for the most part I don't have trouble finding ROMs online presently, even Nintendo ROMs.
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Post by Sarge on Sept 6, 2019 13:12:35 GMT -5
True. I can generally find them as well. Fullsets aren't that hard to come by, and honestly that's about the best way to get them. (No-Intro for the win!)
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Post by Ex on Sept 6, 2019 13:21:19 GMT -5
True. I can generally find them as well. Fullsets aren't that hard to come by, and honestly that's about the best way to get them. (No-Intro for the win!) The most painful for me was the loss of The Iso Zone, as they had a lot of very esoteric Japanese PS1/PCECD/Saturn disc images, along with a bunch of Japanese computer disk images as well. Luckily I'd already downloaded most of what I wanted before the big stink though.
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Post by Sarge on Sept 6, 2019 14:22:33 GMT -5
Yeah, that's where I wish they'd just kept some of the stuff. I think they could have kept Saturn/PS1/TGCD games, and no one would have cared. I definitely used them and others when I went on my Sega CD/Saturn/PCE CD kick.
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Post by toei on Sept 6, 2019 14:46:14 GMT -5
I wonder what happened with that effort to restart the Iso Zone under a different name? It was active for a few days and then it disappeared, though they said they'd be back.
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Post by Xeogred on Sept 6, 2019 15:51:09 GMT -5
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Post by Ex on Sept 6, 2019 15:56:14 GMT -5
Pathetic. To think I paid for some of those ROMS on the Wii and Wii U to play them in low quality emulation, ugh. Ouch. Yeah, that is pathetic, agreed. In a similar vein; I often find that non-sanctioned emulation is of higher quality than official emulation. The difference between a labor of love and a love of lucre.
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Post by Sarge on Sept 6, 2019 16:02:35 GMT -5
The emulation isn't that low quality, it's just a dim color palette they used. Technically, the NES doesn't have a "true" color space, it uses some weird NTSC-derived trickery. But I've also read that the dimness helps alleviate epilepsy/seizure-related issues, although I can't find absolute confirmation of that claim's veracity. NES Classic has some other issues, though: there is some shimmer in the scrolling, and sound effects are slightly delayed. Not sure why they'd filter the audio that much, though. Ex is right, though, the PC side of emulation is better at this point. Stuff like Nestopia, Mesen, or even FCEUX are better than what they use. One exception where they did do better is probably the SNES Classic, which works well for probably 90% of the library, and has the added advantage of having very little input lag (something the NES Classic also can't claim, despite sporting the same hardware). EDIT: Ah, the claim comes from DF Retro. Seems reasonable. Check starting at 16:06.
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