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LEAVE THE BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY ALONE
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this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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Charging $20 for a 20+/- year old ROM file is wild.
Like holy shit, not even a remake or anything (I guess it wpuld be a remake of a remake?).
Pokemon Infinite Fusion is free.
Honestly one of the final nail in the coffin for me wanting anything to do with Nintendo was their shitty little ROM subscription service. Like not only are they charging you money for access to ancient ROMs, they have the gall to make it so you lose access the moment you stop paying. Gross. Obligatory "all games companies suck and do this." But man, fuck Nintendo. Pirate, emulate, fuck gaming companies. They've enshittified past the point of return now.
I was like wait, FireRed/LeafGreen is a remake, it's not...
Oh god this remake is a 20+ year old rom
I'm sorry
You want to get really mad? Look up how much a genuine copy of the original cart is going for now
Damn, I think I've still got a copy of pokemon Yellow in my cupboard somewhere. Good to know it can pay (a bit of) my rent for a week if I sell it on eBay I guess.
Yeah dawg that shits worth like... $100AUD if you replace the internal battery.
I was talking about Fire Red and Leaf Green though, those are worth even more for some reason, like $300AUD
It kind of sucks though. Used retro game carts used to be dirt cheap. I kind of miss getting a shitty old cart and restoring it, you know?
I guess there are always flash carts for the physical media lovers. Thank god for piracy.
Yeah, it really sucks. I didn't know the gen 1 games had internal batteries, I thought that was from gen 2 onwards. It really is awful how the "video game collectors" ruined retro gaming by treating old games like an "asset" to accrue wealth instead of ever actually wanting to play them.
Yeah all Pokemon games pre-DS had a save battery that dries up in 15 years or so. Your Yellow save is probably long gone, but replacing the battery is pretty cheap and simple and there are lots of guides.
But yeah, screw investor bros.
Who cares about "retro gaming" when emulation is a better experience in every way?
If there is something I don't care about bourgeois fucksticks inflating the price of, it is legacy media with a fully functional digital replica.
If you do really want physical, are there not flash carts for GB/GBC/GBA?
£20 for fire red ehehe
Oh you wacky British owls and your pounds and pence and your tea and crumpets
Hey at least our retro market isnt broken OooOoOoOoOooOoOooOoOooOooOooOooOooOoOoooOowned
Take that my antipodal owl
Damn this nose throws hands
Me playing romhacks which are just the original roms except with a single pixel changed in the title screen so I won't be called a pirate
There are some genuinely fantastic romhacks out there. Pokemon Unbound is good if you're looking for one.
If Nintendo is serious about getting my Pokémon FireRed rom off my phone they can take a page from Hasbro and hire the Pinkertons to pry it from my cold dead hands