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Sell old Nintendo games (NES, SNES, GB)
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_Q_ I know this request is a long shot, but I wanted to put it out there anyway to see if there's any interest. I would love to see GOG start hosting NES, Super NES, and old school Game Boy games. I grew up playing these games and I'd love for there to be an officially sanctioned way of buying them for PC. I'd also love to get digital versions of all the out-of-print box art, manuals, posters, soundtracks, and others extras (like those comic books based on Mario World, Zelda, and Star Fox) for my old game collection. I know they've never been officially released for PC/Mac/Linux before, but people have been playing them on computers for years with emulators. There are a number of high quality, free, open source emulators that could distributed on GOG with the ROMs. I'm aware that Nintendo has always used DRM and only makes their games available for their own hardware, but maybe someone can get them to understand that they're wasting a potentially great business opportunity by refusing to sell DRM-free ROMs of their old games to the PC/Mac/Linux crowd. People have distributed NES, SNES, and Game Boy ROMs on the internet illegally for years and they're not going to stop anytime soon. If Nintendo refuses to sell the ROMs themselves or license them to a business like GOG, they're missing out.
Mr.X_from_DGN There is currently a forum topic on the RetroArch forum on Steam with a list of Emulators, Emulated (Console) Games and Roms that are being sold on Steam (or somewhere else):
steamcommunity.com/app/1118310/discussions/0/1643168364654032851/
NessAndSonic This would be great, but I don't think Nintendo has the sense to actually try this and would rather gripe about copyright infringement over actually trying to make money from the PC market like a normal business would. It would be best to get third party developers it as a starting point. Bubsy Two-fur would be just as good of a starting point as any, I suppose.
trelos_kostas Dont think Nintendo will ever do that, heck they even found out what DLC and micro transactions are a few years ago.
Still upvoted tho cause i love the classic Nintendo games.
yumyalls Nintendo has a lust for their atrocious system locked DRM, So even if they did start offering their old games on third party platforms GOG would likely see none of it on their platform.
Patneu Don't think it'll happen anytime soon, but if Nintendo would be willing to quit walling themselves in, I would be their DRM-free games in an instant!
If they don't want my money... I'll just have to go on be a criminal *sigh*.
Upvoted it anyway, if just to make a statement.
LanHikari64 I don't think Nintendo's gonna go for that.
If anything, they'll release their own proprietary game client and make you use that.
KnightW0lf not going to happen even if there is 10K votes
Chronon88 Heh, read your text after writing that but yeah a long shot indeed =P
Chronon88 Not possible by anyone else than Nintendo and they don't like to support PC.
dnovraD Given that Nintendo has utterly failed with the Virtual Console, I'd be open for Nintendo giving up and telling GOG to repackage the games.
grandmartin11 Given that Nintendo is already working the old games market with their Virtual Console thing, I'd rate this as "not going to happen".
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