Shouldn't "game preservation" be an argument the people hosting the games should be making?You as the downloader aren't preserving shit, you're taking advantage of the fact it was "preserved". You just didn't want to spend money on something that stopped retailing 18 years ago because a collectorfag wants six times a GBA game should be worth.
>>737116441>You as the downloader aren't preserving shit, you're taking advantage of the fact it was "preserved".Free ability to make copies of something is the best way to ensure preservation, though.Also multiple definitions of preservation. They're preserving something for themselves 30+ years down the line when the physical media no longer works. And if something happens and the big game preservation sites get nuked or something, they can be reassembled from all the people who downloaded the games.
>>737116985Well on death I hope your storage devices are donated to the community to extract all the stuff you have that was lost media prior to the discovery you had a copy of it.
Also there's the matter of something like this, where the first public release of something came from the source itself. So THEY'RE the ones actually doing the preservation (making something otherwise regarded as lost media available to be used publicly for the first time).Yet when this game drops on NSO it WILL be extracted from the app and sent to whatever Virtual Boy download hive will host it. It was already preserved, what are you doing by decoupling it from how it was released? Sure the argument can be made that it would otherwise only exist within a transient app that Nintendo could pull down at any time but that hasn't happened yet and it's definitely not happening the day after it first goes up so any immediacy in making it available outside the legit channel is just for non-payers to get at it. No preservation there.
