• Kotaku reports Playstation Classic uses open source emulator, PAL roms
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It's one of those things that gets corrupted as it gets told. The reason this started is Nintendo was found using a ROM that had an iNES header in it. iNES headers came from iNES
Nothing really ever gets corrupted unless the dumping hardware is broken. The reason pirate dumps are different is because they've been edited. Pirates would sometimes remove the title screen or change the main character in a misguided attempt to circumvent copyright laws. Other differences in pirate dumps consist of hard-coded live cheats and stuff like that. It makes sense to use an identical header. Why use something else when iNES works and is open-source? Added benefit is that having iNES headers allows you to test more easily and compare with other emulators. In this case, people were just looking for a story; Nintendo hates people who emulate their games (for free), so someone grasped at all the straws they got and made something up about ROM dumping. It's like criticizing Apple for using the BMP header because Microsoft made it.
Stuff like this is probably because the UK got updated english-language versions compared to the rest of the world. EU versions are typically revision 1, and UK vers are typically revision 2. MGS1 and MGS3 are vastly different in the UK in terms of bonus content and bugs as a result of this.
Nononono the dump wasn't corrupted, the thing people repeat has been corrupted.
Ah, like that. Yeah, happens all the time sadly.
So anyway it sounds like this thing will take no work at all to hack and load up Pepsiman. Or at least I hope that's the first priority.
I think the funny thing is nintendo using a format that was made for an emulator, if nintendo hates third party emulators so much why do they depend on them?
Okay, let me make this clear: Nintendo (and other video game companies) DOES NOT hate emulators. What they DO hate is people downloading their games online for free, as that constitutes as Piracy. To help illustrate my point, let’s use the Film industry for example: Now, say I wanted to watch a movie like, for instance, Back To The Future. Companies like Universal do not give a single fuck as to how I VIEW my copy of the movie. Whether it be through a physical player or a digital one like VLC, they don’t care about that. What they DO care about is how I GET my copy of the movie. I say this because if my copy was something I actually own myself, then that’s perfectly fine. I own it, I choose how I want to view it. But if that copy was something I downloaded for free online, then that’s the problem. Because the copy I own is an illegally pirated copy. And I know what you’re thinking. “But those games are old and many aren’t even being sold anymore! It’s the only way for these games to preserved, so Nintendo should’t even care!” And while I do agree with this, it’s unfortunately not how things work. Video Game companies do in fact care about these old games being distributed online, it’s just a matter of how much they care. For companies like SEGA, they don’t really care a whole lot. In fact they whole heartily embrace it, as they even have a commercial emulator for people to buy, and even put other games in through the steam workshop. But for Nintendo, they consider downloading roms of games for old consoles like the NES & SNES to be just as bad as pirating a 3DS or a Switch game, even if many of those games have not gotten a rerelease in years, if any at all. To go back to my Film illustration, let’s take the movie “The Bushbaby”. This movie only has two releases. The original theatrical release in 1969, and a home VHS release in 1995. That’s it. And yet, if I were to upload a copy of this movie online, even if it’s for the sake of preservation, what I’m doing is still considered Piracy according to the law. It absolutely blows, but that’s unfortunately how it is. And if you want that to change, you basically need to go to the law itself and have that changed. Otherwise, we’re just going to be in this unfortunate cycle for as long as possible.
Sony has actively fought emulators in the past though: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UGHul1PrXCE
To be fair, at the time, there was no legal precedent and it was a legal grey area. On top of that, it was an unlicensed commercial emulator for a then-current console. If someone came up with a PS4 emulator that you could just go buy at retail, you bet Sony's lawyers would be up your ass about it.
... And? I don't feel emulators should need the preservation excuse, emulators are done because they can be done, and it's just another perfectly fine work you can do in the industry.
Emulators are done largely in the name of software preservation. Nintendo and Sony don't hate emulators (not anymore at least), but they hate that they easily enable software piracy of their legacy software, and they thought if they could take down emulators, it would stop that aspect of piracy. However in the eyes of the law, software preservation is an entirely valid reason for them to exist, provided they do not infringe on any intellectual property. That's why the Bleem! case was so important as it allows emulator projects to continue to exist.
The funny thing is I'd be more than willing to pay more for NTSC ROMs over PAL on a device like this.
Well, I think I should have worded it differently, I do agree with the law, emulators are a perfectly valid way to make money, even for current, still in the market consoles. I never liked the argument that emulators are fine because preservation, and the law agrees with this, emulators are fine because it's completely independent software (assuming it's done using clean room reverse engineering).
XMB might be one of the most underrated UI happenings ever. It was exactly what a console controller needed, and the way it was organized was perfect.
The XMB is such a piece of shit I can't believe people still praise it to this day. The PS3 and the PSP are the only consoles I have that feel old just due to their interfaces. I'd almost take the Xbox One's clusterfuck of menues from launch over the XMB. Almost.
If they don't want people to pirate their ages old games, they should offer a better deal but they won't because it takes more effort to make old games profitable in 2018 than is arguably worth. They operate like just because romsites are piracy they don't count as real competition so it's not their problem people don't go on the eShop in droves to buy Donkey Kong on NES for 5 bucks a pop, which is exactly what makes romsites thrive. I'll propose a subscription service offering access to every Virtual Console game, across all the consoles, for a flat rate monthly fee once again.
Dude if your gonna bash it, you need to at least quantify your opinion. You essentially just said "its bad and its feels old". Okay, but why? I like it because its very straightforward and everything has its own category. It does exactly what it needs to do.
I have a Sony Bravia TV from 2007 that has the XMB. It runs surprisingly full speed and is really easy to switch between inputs. it wasn’t even that clunky with a TV remote.
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