Not around these parts!
Shit though that reminds me I need to go bookmark the r/roms megathread.
Think I’ve see. This article like 6 times on lemmy 🥴
Crossposting is popular and there are a lot of overlapping communities that post the same sort of content so of course you will right now. The current lemmy users are overwhelmingly nerdy, so piracy and gaming communities are going to show up a lot and there are several of them over the different instances.
So you’ll see this on several gaming communities and again on several piracy communities.
I wonder if we need ‘aggregate communities’ where communities across instances can agree to share a set of rules and guidelines. You still have to pick which community to post in but the content itself can be browsed like one large community, similar to a ‘multireddit’.
Not sure if this would work in practice but it could be a way to merge communities across instances. It’s been something I’ve been thinking about to address fragmentation without solving it by centralizing around one big platform.
Just because it’s not sold doesn’t mean they’re “critically endangered”. You can get most if not all ROMs on the internet.
*legally available, if those megacorps won’t spend/earn a penny on running antiques or legacy services. The players can do it. And they need support from the law to do it, which in this case, Nintendo of America.
Yeah but what can you do if a lot of the companies who made the original games aren’t around anymore and didn’t sell the rights to anyone else? Even some of the people who claim piracy is immoral understand that “pirating” abandonware is perfectly fine.
It’s alarming to think about losing our gaming history. How can we work together to preserve and safeguard beloved classics?
If i had a homeserver (or just some bigger hard drives) I’d try do download every game available
It’s chill bro I have a copy of everything.
