• @CatZoomies
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    1 year ago

    Leaving this here:

    https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us

    Nintendo has also committed piracy of their own software, by downloading a rom that a piracy group extracted and uploaded to the internet, so that Nintendo could then can re-sell the game back to us.

    If Nintendo will sell me the old games I love, I’ll happily rebuy them so long as there’s no installed killswitch (sorry, “DRM”) that will take it away from me one day.

    • Karyoplasma
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      51 year ago

      It’s impossible to pirate your own game tho. Why find an old cartridge and dump the ROM yourself if somebody already did it. The actual source code is probably somewhere in the shadowrealm, so nothing they can do.