Vimms lair is starting to remove many roms that are being requested to be removed by Nintendo etc. soon many original roms, hacks, and translations will be lost forever. Can any of you help make archive torrents of roms from vimms lair and cdromance? They have hacks and translations that dont exist elsewhere and will probably be removed soon with ios emulation and retro handhelds bringing so much attention to roms and these sites
fuck nintendo
fuck nintendo
fuck nintendo
fuck nintendo
Nooo… that was my goto rom archive after emuparadise went down. F u Nintendo I‘m not paying a monthly subscription to play retro games.
Nintendo is just cheap Japanese Disney for gamers. They’re every bit the corporate monster the mouse is, they’re simply just not as powerful yet.
Worldwide, Mario is more recognizable than the mouse. Nintendo is going to start their own movie studio soon. They are copying the blueprint set out by Disney.
The whole point of IP laws (according to the Constitution of the United States) is to develop a robust public domain. Every registered idea, multiplied by every limited rights extention is a violation of public interest and public rights.
By burying or failing to preserve content, they are in fact stealing from the public, since we won’t be able to access it when it is our right.
Someone should present this to some progressive legislative body so that we can develop a safe haven for archiving games.
Well there is the Stop Killing Games initiative started by Ross Scott and supported by the Pirate Parties. If they succeed, companies selling games in recent years will be required to either keep supporting their game or to make it available in a way so that others can ensure its continued support.
When this is achieved the step to free older games is small.
If you live in Europe you have the chance to support the movement by vote in the upcoming elections.
I’ve been keeping a close eye on it. He said something along the lines of “If you live in the US and the ToS of a piece of software said the publishers could come and shoot your dog, you’d have to prove that they broke some other law, like animal cruelty, to sue them successfully if they shot your dog.” I’m curious to see how companies react if they get a mandate from the EU to preserve games.
Here in the US, there are no progressive legislative bodies. The Democratic party treats its progressive members as the red-haired stepchildren who have to dine at their own table.
This is America, the only law that is enforced is ownership by means of a monetary transaction.
“Ownership” by public nature is laughed at.
C.R.E.A.M :(
It wouldn’t be too hard to go through every archived game and determine if it’s still available through corporate means or not. Those are the ones that are threatened to be erased forever if corpos get their way. The biggest problem is the money and means to fight against corporate goons and lawyers.
Where are IP laws mentioned in the constitution?
Here.. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8.
[the United States Congress shall have power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
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It’s honestly kind of amazing that it lasted so long in the first place
I’m gonna miss vimms lair, never told a soul about it. And I’d help but my internet is terrible rural internet.
Vimms always appeared first in Google searches for ROMS. it was inevitable
Ugh…Next will be the Archive
Somebody should tell Nintendo that a bunch of their games are available from the Switch NES app. Maybe they’ll she themselves out of existence and we can finally enjoy their games in peace
It’s not gone, they didn’t even take down all of the Nintendo games, they took down specific games (reddit link), albeit a lot of them, but there’s still lots of stuff left.
Damn…Vimms Lair was my favorite, friggin Nintendo doing what it does best…
At least vimms lair still has xbox roms. Pretty hard to come by compared to nintendo roms.
vimms lair was where i first played seiken densetu 3 back in 2000 when it wasn’t available anywhere
Is there a list of impacted roms?
Not sure, but the blast radius is tremendous, even games from the Atari 2600, a console released nearly fifty fucking years ago have been taken down.
Damn it how will I play my annual 20 minutes of Pitfall now. This is terrible.
I know you mean this is as joke, but oddly enough, Pitfall, by Activision is still available!
I’ll always have Activision Classics disc for PS1, pitfall is safe.
The nointro metadata lists would be a good place to start.
Please also post on the filehoarder subreddit.
Datahoarder@lemmy.ml? Or is there one on another instance?
I guess he means the subreddit in reddit : https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder
VIMM’s Lair has been around for ages… If Nintendo really cared why didn’t they do something around, say, 2002? 🤔
Why is there no statute of limitations on this kinda bullshit?
I don’t think that’s a good argument. In a more general case, if you didn’t pursue your rights 10 years ago that doesn’t mean you can’t get your shit together and do it today. Maybe you’ve lost some of what you deserved but you still should get future benefits.
As for statue of limitations, if it keeps happening today then it doesn’t matter when it started. They could only talk about things that happened in the past year - it’s still being hosted and shared.
To be clear, I’m not taking Nintendo’s side, all efforts to preserve these games are amazing and I love to see everyone keep it up :)
It’s more the fact that actual crimes can be nullified by a statute of limitations, but shit like this doesn’t seem to have any expiration date
If someone shared ROMs 20 years ago and stopped, Nintendo wouldn’t be able to do anything about it today. The statute of limitations does apply.
But if someone started sharing ROMs 20 years ago, and continued doing it every day until today, then that means they shared ROMs yesterday. The “crime” still happened yesterday.
Edit: but they care a lot more about preventing it from happening tomorrow.
As soon as I heard about the emulator stuff I grabbed some archive torrents to seed overall more then 5 tb. All WII DS 3DS and SWITCH roms so they aren’t gone if you have the space to join seeding pm me and I’ll send you the magnet links because there are like only 5 seeder and a lot of leecher
Hai, I might be able to help. I also have some more retro systems if you want
I got a VPS I’m not fully utilizing, I can seed a bit
This shit pisses me off so much. I need a gun
Use a NES Zapper converted to an actual gun, seems fitting.
Why not a super scope ?
It reads like many ROMs are already gone? So any archive created now would be incomplete, right?
Centralized archives will always be vulnerable to this.
We need explicit legislation against this type of behavior.
I recommend switching to Myrient! Has been my source for quite some time now, because Vimms was just to slow for me.
Issue with myrient is lack of box art and stuff, thing ibliked with vimm is the bonus ability to browse games
