MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Geinohjin Sikaku Siken (DECO Cassette)

> > I can't read the page. Last I heard from a Japanese friend, it appeared he was
> trying
> > to get legal rights to be able to sell them in an emulator package. That could be
> no
> > longer true (I guess) but either way he's obviously not wanting to share the dumps
> > with MAME. Look at the date.
>
> I actually wonder who owns the rights to those particular games. I know many Data
> East games got released on the Wii on an emulator disc recently, so SOMEONE owns the
> rights to part of the catalog, at least. But these are older than those games... so
> who knows.

Wikipedia, that ever reliable font of all info says:
"Most of Data East's intellectual properties were acquired in February 2004 by G-Mode, a Japanese mobile game content provider.[4] However some of Data East's assets, including Karnov,[5] Chelnov [6] and the Glory of Heracles series are owned by Paon Corporation instead of G-Mode. Likewise, G-Mode does not own rights to the Metal Max series and the Tantei Jingūji Saburō series which were retained by Createch and WorkJam respectively. Ownership rights is unknown for some of the DECO Cassette games as well as for games that were created from licensed properties (such as Robocop and Captain America and the Avengers)."
So G-Mode, maybe, except for that vague "Ownership rights is unknown for some of the DECO Cassette games" part...