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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

What with all the layoffs across the games industry to compensate for rampant budgetary overspending in publishing, the reality behind keeping retro games within a paid walled garden is about charging new money for old rope and controlling the market to force gamers to play new games.

The specific quote is that “there would be a significant risk that preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes.”

This explains why people like Jim Ryan hate retro games. They think these older games would cannibalize sales from newer releases, which is uniquely stupid.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Where's a safe place for that. I've only used fit girl as of the last couple years but otherwise haven't torrented since like 2010

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

try a dht crawler (e.g. bitsearch . to) and then search for something like "playstation" or "1g1r" or "no-intro" and other similar terms. Sorting by file size tends to yield collections.

Caveat emptor, since you're going to be using a torrent and you need to have all the precautions that go with that.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

What are the precautions these days? Is VPN enough?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That, and knowing how to use it, is mostly what I had in mind. But it's also worth just being aware of bad torrents. If you are downloading a full PS1 collection and it's 14MB and has a .exe in it... that kind of thing.

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