MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Reality Check part 3 Bizimonki Gold Edition

> > If you buy your games on eBay you are probably doing the companies absolutely no
> good
> > whatsoever, and that is certainly the case for buying them from that Blockbuster
> bin,
> > if you somehow have a Blockbuster that is still in business near you seeing as
> though
> > they went tits up.
>
> I do not buy new Xbox 360,or PSP games off ebay. I do buy Xbox 360 games from BB that
> are a year or two old, but the game companies did not get the rental revenue (which I
> think they should get a percentage) only the fee for the title.

Yeah a special rather high fee for selling out for rental purposes, the same way they pay more for movies...

> I buy that same used title thus keeping blockbuster in business. If BB died in the
> US, it was because of their poor customer service and marketing.

Good job supporting BB, we are proud. They are such a great company, I still love them for ripping me off 10 years ago before the class action lawsuit. And yeah it was marketing, nothing to do with Redbox or Netflix or Hulu or Crackle or...

> I buy my games from Steam for the PC, and eBay.
>
> I do not buy X game and crack/dump it on the Internet with the view to archiving the
> game after three years with the hope that someday a emulator will come out when the X
> console support goes out.

Jesus.

> Platforms which are dead like Laseractive definitely should be preserved. You know
> how old Laseractive is and what it took to get it working in the first place. The
> LDV(100?) and two devices? Then we have the old disks which need archiving before the
> rot sets in, so I'm all in agreement for that. Oh and that MSX LD unit too.
>
> I'm not saying that should be the practice for the Mame dumping project. I cannot see
> why there isn't two or more factions of the dumping project that could be better
> coordinated. I would lose the will to live if I was tasked to dump the entire
> Laseractive catalog.

Uh I think redump.org does a better job on non-arcade stuff than we could ever do...

> The x86 is still being manufactured, so until we all start using Desktop ARM CPUs,
> those games should be off limits and stored, even if it means ghosting the drive. 20
> years is a safe bet.

Good thing everybody agrees with you. Oh wait...

> My question is, how do these new Mame games end up on the Internet in the first place
> so quickly? Especially if it is such a rare game. Who leaks it?

A guy named Nunya.

> All the BB in the UK are fine, I was back home last month and it didn't dawn on me to
> see if there was any BB around in my neighborhood. I use redbox for DVD rentals or I
> buy them at Wallymart. I only have one DVD player that is region 1.
>
>
> I digress....

If only...