you can be a fan without stealing intellectual property
Many compagnies like SEGA doesn't care because that one of the rare way for their character to stay alive.
Nintendo characters are still extremely popular and Nintendo is still making games with them.
"Many compagnies like SEGA doesn't care because that one of the rare way for their character to stay alive.
Nintendo characters are still extremely popular and Nintendo is still making games with them."
that is pure bullshit! do have even the slightest idea of how much of video game history would be purged from existence by the big companies were it not for the efforts of collectors and those of us who collect and emulate old titles?
let me put it this way:
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take a good look at those 3 lists i made.
for the genesis mini console, sega tried to DMCA and eradicate all of the US versions of the games listed.
for the NES mini console, nintendo tried to DMCA and eradicate every single ROM (regardless of region version) of the games listed.
for the SNES mini console, nintendo went a step further and DMCA'd the entire FRANCHISE of each game on the mini consoles. (for the mega man franchise alone, that's over 50 games that could've been lost)
why did they do this? to leave people with no choice but to pay them to emulate a tiny miniscule fraction of the games they tried to erase.
it is fans and collectors that keep these old games and consoles/handhelds from being wiped from existence by the big companies. those companies that once produced these games don't care in the slightest unless the games make them more money in some way.
actually, there's currently a number of video game preservation organizations and museums in a legal battle with the ESA to try and revive and preserve currently dead online games like MMOs. take a wild guess why the ESA and the big game companies don't want this to happen.....
because reviving these old games means potential competition for the newer games. which, with loot boxes and microtransactions currently plaguing the industry, would be a major threat to the newer crappier titles.
"you can be a fan without stealing intellectual property"
as for any anti-piracy comments... take them and shove 'em. cuz if it weren't for emulation supporting pirates out there, we'd probably be short about 20-40k+ video games right now (if you count the insanely large collection of MAME arcade ROMs out there).
edit: actually (and i likely need to go and update my copy of it again since i rarely bother to do so), as of version...MAMEUI64 0.188.A Aug 3 2017... there were (likely many more now) 34, 497 titles listed in MAME.
granted, the majority of those are simply different versions and revisions and whatnot of the "parent" ROMs but that's still a vast amount of games and that's just arcade games alone.