Someone should buy this and then charge like $5 to backup someone's cartridge for them.
Too expensive for everyone to own
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2024
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Yeah seriously.
Also are we not at a stage where most games have been dumped perfectly already?
This is for preserving one’s own library, which makes emulation fully legal instead of the wink wink “legal” that many gamers find themselves in.
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This is really cool, but I wonder how long it’ll last before they are bullied with legal threats.
They don’t have support for any recent Nintendo systems (not even the DS) so they’ll probably be fine.
I don't think it matters for Big N. I got a cease and desist a long time ago for using a video game trademark in my website URI as a teen. I mean I could have fought it but it was enough to kill my spirit.
Going to guess the creators aren't seeing this as their bread and butter and enough of a threat of a lawsuit can pretty quickly slow down/shut down a project.
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I think dumping your game cartridges is legal, otherwise you couldn't emulate games legally.
The thing about legal threats is that they can work even if the theory they are based on isn't any good. Fee-shifting isn't always guaranteed, if it is available at all. Capital has already budgeted for its lawyers this year, have you?
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yes tiptoe around that eula
Since when did cartridge games have EULAs?
Also: in sane countries (i.e: not the so-called US), EULAs don't overwrite civil laws.
The only dangersis when DRM is circumvented.
so-called US
I know what you mean but it’s funny to question what a country has named itself.
The people of the continent called it "turtle island". European occupiers called it the "US".
The Country is not the Continent.
Sure, the singular cultural/political/religious "those people".
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Official site: https://www.cartreader.net/
US$249.99 ready-built, for anybody curious. Not saying it's not worth that, but that will price a lot of people out of it.
Yeah if you can do it yourself it's about half that. Save the hero builds an older revision but it's also cheaper.
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This is neat!