purple_beard Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/07/random-elected-official-in-japan-is-looking-to-legally-preserve-games Tyranogre, Link, the Hero of Dreams and alienboyva 3 Quote Link to comment
Link, the Hero of Dreams Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Please let that work. A lot of games, like Illusion of Gaia, have only been on the SNES for a long time sans emulation. Quote Link to comment
Tyranogre Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 We live in an era where any movie produced up to a century ago has a pretty good chance of being legally available on DVD or streaming services, and of the few ones that aren't, it's usually due to the master reels being lost or irreparably damaged. If video games are to survive as a medium, it is imperative that they remain preserved in a playable format. Akamatsu is based. Ridley Prime and DLurkster 2 Quote Link to comment
Ridley Prime Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 3 hours ago, Tyranogre said: We live in an era where any movie produced up to a century ago has a pretty good chance of being legally available on DVD or streaming services, and of the few ones that aren't, it's usually due to the master reels being lost or irreparably damaged. If video games are to survive as a medium, it is imperative that they remain preserved in a playable format. Akamatsu is based. This could also work as an obligatory fuck Nintendo while we’re at it. With Nintendo’s recent bid to strip consumer rights and turn their legacy games into a subscription-based online service (requiring a subscription and internet connection even to play an NES game is insane), something could be done to ensure those games remain in a playable format, on the Switch or otherwise, or other means of owning those games again at best. Nintendo’s been the worst when it comes to game preservation as of late, so they ought to be one of the first targets for Akamatsu, regardless. Link, the Hero of Dreams 1 Quote Link to comment
Kezay Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 Preservation is important considering we have examples of games being lost or unable to be re-released because the original was not backed up or stored anywhere. I do know there are other examples but the Mana Collection being Switch exclusive is due in part to Nintendo having archived those assets and having them available where Square Enix did not. (I think it was primarily for Trials of Mana/Seiken Densetsu 3, could be wrong though) To that extent I can see legislation towards archival/preservation being a thing that happens. Comparatively there are a lot of hoops to jump through when you're talking about enforcing them being made available when that's not something really mandated for multimedia to begin with. DLurkster 1 Quote Link to comment
DLurkster Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 Difficult path to be sure but when there's a will of many to protect something precious, the way will come to fruition no matter what hurdles ahead. Quote Link to comment
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