• @[email protected]
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      19 days ago

      With how much effort they put into being most despicable company for game preservation, I’m wondering if their employees aren’t constantly adraid of being assaulted in public.

  • @[email protected]
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    3120 days ago

    Tbh, if I would be a millionaire, my hobbies would shift from playing videogames to getting every single one of them and digitalizing them into multiple drives, some of them EMP shielded

      • @[email protected]
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        620 days ago

        I’d need a house and enough storage room for this. Where I live a 320 square foot apartment costs about $500 - that’s 25% of a regular monthly income after tax, a regular house is around around $700.000

        • @Fungah
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          620 days ago

          I mean. Every super Nintendo / Nintendo / n64 game ever is what, like, 16gb?

            • @chrisgestapo
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              118 days ago

              I heard from somewhere that you can get the whole collection down to below 120GB if you compress all variants of a game into solid archive.

    • @RightHandOfIkaros
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      720 days ago

      If I was a millionaire I would shift my priorities to flooding Nintendo with frivolous lawsuits. Hit em with a bit of their own tactics.

  • @iAvicenna
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    they think by force deleting roms for old games they are gonna generate millions of revenue from these games? what is the end game? I really dont understand

  • @A_Very_Big_Fan
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    820 days ago

    This is so sad… I hope a new site just like it pops up in its place. Vimms was so reliable, I’m really gonna miss it.

  • Bizzle
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    -2721 days ago

    Normies ruin everything

    • body_by_make
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      4021 days ago

      Everyone has known about Vimm’s forever, it was the first result on Google for a very long time. It’s not that “normies” ruined it, Nintendo is just now deciding to take aim for whatever reason

      • @[email protected]
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        1920 days ago

        Established in 1997, Vimm’s Lair has been a popular place for folks to download classic video games that originated on a wide array of platforms, including N64, Sega Saturn, PlayStation 1, and Atari 260. Many of these games can’t be bought in stores or found in digital marketplaces, making Vimm’s Lair a useful place for those looking to check out pieces of video game history. However, Apple’s recent decision to allow emulators on the App Store has seen a massive influx of people looking for classic roms, and it seems all this attention has put Vimm’s Lair in lawyers’ spotlights.

        • body_by_make
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          220 days ago

          Is the speculation of this site, but also aligns well with Nintendo taking aim at emulators

      • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)
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        I saw an article earlier today speculating that the iOS emulator might have raised the awareness drawing the eye of Nintendo, Sega, and others.

        Edit - Ha! It was this article.

    • @Arbiter
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      No, copyright law ruins everything.