What kind of nonsensical hipster stunt is this?
I read an article about a new SNES game coming out, and on top of it apparently not getting a digital release, in order to find out how to get the physical release you have to play through the demo? Wouldn't that significantly reduce sales of an already very niche product?
It gets even crazier though, if you do play through the demo the game asks you to send a postcard to Germany for a CHANCE to win a copy... not any way to actually purchase the game.
Game itself was.... ok but weird. Decent gun-and-gun platformer, large sprites, but there was several parts where I ran into npcs who most of the time didn't seem to even acknowledge I was there and just spoke nonsense. I felt like I was in the middle of a series of inside jokes that wouldn't have been funny even if I knew the context.
i like the idea of remaking new physical copies for retro consoles, but all this devs (and they do an awesome work) needs to stop caring so much about the rom being dumped on internet, it's gonna happen whatever they do.
If people like your game, they will buy a physical copy, simple as.
>but all this devs (and they do an awesome work) needs to stop caring so much about the rom being dumped on internet
From my experience it's been half-and-half with devs that lose their shit over it, and devs that understand trying to put effort into anti-piracy on a game that will be releasing on 30-40 year old hardware is a fool's errand and just focus on those who would purchase such a niche product in the first place. Majority of people who would pirate the ROM are likely just going to play it for 5 minutes, go "neat", and never touch it again anyway, they never would have paid money for it in the first place.
Ironically every Genesis, and SNES, and Dreamcast modern retro game I have purchased though that came on a physical cart/disk included a ROM/ISO download.
There was recently a kerfuffle over intellivision Roms of all fricking things.
Did they finally dump Boulder Dash for Intellivision?
No.
Some guy selling Intellivision ROMs announced he was discontinuing sales for 90% of the ROMs he was selling in a week. He said they might not be available again "for a long time". This started a feeding frenzy where all the ROM kiddies pooled together their pocket change and allowance to make a giant archive of all the games that would no longer be for sale for an indeterminate amount of time. This caused the guy to turborage, remove ALL the remaining ROMs he had for sale (physical only lol) and announced no more ROMs in the future and all physical carts would be undumpable/serialed. He was making some pretty spicy rage posts on AA and NGR.
>AA and NGR
Not familiar with those, I assume they are retro forums?
Got links to any of this drama or the archive? Or even whatever online name that person used? I would like to see the meltdown over his attempt to pull a Disney Vault over some Intellivison homebrew and getting BTFO over that stunt.
Serialize the carts my ass, does he have ANY idea how much that would drive up the costs and complexity of making them? IIRC not even Nintendo does that the actual data on the Switch carts.
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/358657-changes-to-rom-sales-intellivisioncollectorcom-in-2024/ (It's already locked, don't get any bright ideas.)
https://www.nextgenroms.com/topic/21380-alert-intellivision-roms-about-to-disappear/ (Ditto.)
I may have mis-remembered the serialzed part. He definitely said they would be undumpable, though.
Are we finally entering the copium era of retro gaming ?
>(It's already locked, don't get any bright ideas.)
I have no intention of joining in on the drama, especially one I just heard about, just wanted to see the mess.
Wow, so this guy still got what he wanted by that romsite deleting the zip of his roms because he sperged out, and he responded with a final post by DOXING people? Why did they even honor deleting the zip for someone like that?
Hope that site wasn't the only place that zip ended up on, any idea what to look for?
Yes, that post had some random first names, presumably customers on his site, of course his stupid ass had no way of knowing who could've uploaded what so he was really just fishing for reactions at that point. And then a moderator stomped on his nuts for it. I don't know where to find the ROMs now, I was too little, too late on that one. By the time I found out, it was long gone.
It's surreal seeing how opposite a stance the two sites took, AtariAge was completely kissing up to that guy and trying to argue "preservation is just piracy!" or something along those lines, makes me sick. One of the posters even commented how that guy used his real name and the mods did nothing. Though there was a few people with some brain cells pointing out out they waited until after he said he was going to stop selling them before they uploaded them and how the chances of these hurting his sales are pretty much zero since it's such a niche collectors product anyway.
Hope that zip surfaces somewhere just to give another middle finger to that guy.
What a bizarre little world. I feel sorry for every person there.
>undumpable/serialed
And how was he gonna try to achieve this magical property in a way that the SNES at the same time can still read the thing but a copier somehow can't?
Trying to go full Paprium autism?
Yes, there are ways to build "undumpable" carts that only confuse dumpers into dumping a fake ROM or the exact same garbage data over and over. In fact
mentioned an exact case of this; Boulder Dash has never been dumped before. Not saying it's impossible, but you would need way more advanced skillset than just "plug ROM into dumper and click dump".
What was the drama?
If a dev is autistic enough to make a game on a retro console in the first place, they're not going to have the common sense about basic business practices
I buy this kind of stuff, i like getting new games for old hardware. Frick jumping through hoops though just cause the dev wants to try and be a cute/quirky gay. Either let me give you money for a good or service, or frick off.
hipsters
Making undumpable copies of games that are infact not original titles, but just adapting other people's works onto a niche platform it never came out on? Now thats funny.