Post #3522458
2026-07-01 17:58 UTC
@zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place
I guess it's time to propose a serious exemption to piracy laws for this kind of use?
At this point arguably you should probably be playing Bioshock on an emulation of a median 2007 PC/PS3/360, not a modern remaster, and you should definitely just be loading up supermariobros.nes into an emulator instead of having to buy a friggin' Switch.
(hell, I could see a piracy-embracing game history course where half of the games were just crammed onto a Raspberry Pi with emulators and a nice front-end, plug it into your TV and jack in any common USB controller and go.)
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@zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-07-01 18:01
@anthracite@dragon.style VGHF has been arguing this sort of exemption in front of Congress for years, to little effect. https://www.thetechedvocate.org/vghf-libraries-lose-again-on-dmca-exemption-request-to-preserve-old-video-games/