Comment by RiQuY@lemm.ee on Preserve Your Games with the Open Source Cartridge Reader

The Open Source Cartridge Reader (OSCR) is a versatile tool designed to help preserve video game cartridges and save data. Developed by Sanni and the community, this device allows users to back up ROM files and save games from a wide range of vintage consoles.

I think dumping your game cartridges is legal, otherwise you couldn’t emulate games legally.

The thing about legal threats is that they can work even if the theory they are based on isn’t any good. Fee-shifting isn’t always guaranteed, if it is available at all. Capital has already budgeted for its lawyers this year, have you?

Yep, this even has a name, SLAPP.

I’m not sure if this would strictly be a SLAPP rather than general litigious bullying (GLiB has a nice ring to it actually.)

In this respect though open sourcing it was a good move. Even if the creator were to be blocked from distributing, it’s out there.

Nintendo sent a bunch of thugs to the home of an emulator developer last week, and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Everything he did was legal, but that doesn’t stop Nintendo from literally threatening harm to your family.

If you dump a game cartridge, Nintendo can kill your wife.

yes tiptoe around that eula

Since when did cartridge games have EULAs?

Also: in sane countries (i.e: not the so-called US), EULAs don’t overwrite civil laws.

The only dangersis when DRM is circumvented.

In glorious people-protecting America, we actually have something called “shrink wrap” EULAs which state that you agreed to the terms by opening the box. Even if those terms were inside the box.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkwrap_(contract_law)

Wow… but did e.g. Gameboy games have those?

I honestly just assumed they did because everything does, but thinking back I don’t recall noticing one in the box but I was young and may have just tuned it out. I hope someone else here can recall!

EULAs on every game are afaik a produch of everything going online. i don’t think those old games have eulas.

so-called US

I know what you mean but it’s funny to question what a country has named itself.

The people of the continent called it “turtle island”. European occupiers called it the “US”.

The Country is not the Continent.

Sure, the singular cultural/political/religious “those people”.

The Country is not the Continent.

I still don’t want to give the country the satisfaction.

Sure, the singular cultural/political/religious “those people”.

AFAIK, the name is quite consentually agreed upon by the first nations from the continent.

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