Well as always it's not simple when talking about "emulating" old games on modern hardware. But now preservation of games is just to say threatened just because of companies having them licensed don't want those so-called ROM's being available without further paid.
Well, thanks so far to #Nintendo for hunting down sites offering ROM's for free just because they don't want them being offered for "free". But where are the alternatives? And how to have those games being played in the future for younger generations? There would be no problem when the ROM's are offered for a price to be downloaded complete without DRM-methods. But that's not the way and we stand there now, having problems of newer generations disrespecting and even not understanding how technologies are evolving and perhaps using other ways, holding off sometimes instead being just in dependency of more proprietary nonsense at all. Thanks again to the companies, you are doing us such a great favor. In fact, you're doing just the opposite, but just being ironic at the moment. #Thoughts #Retro-Gaming #Without-Hope
These were all about shooting #robots and fleeing rooms. Robotron also featured some #humans to rescue. (I played all of these in arcades, but never played the console versions.)
Cool news! After I had the idea of playing retro-games from archive.org with a local installed emulator, I've build a very simple prototype that allowed me to play games from their SEGA MASTERSYSTEM-collection with mednafen and wrote a email to the archive, explaining my idea. Now I got an answer by the archive-team. They say that they are fine with my idea and I can work on this project. The next step will be to create a frontend for mednafen that allows to browse trough the games on archive.org and play them. My mainly targeted platform will be single board computers like the raspberry pi. I dream of a cheap DIY console people can connect to their TV and discover classic gaming without pirating roms from any shady websites. #retrogaming