Sad news tonight. Nintendo of America has requested for 717 games and their images to be removed from The Vault. Each download plus it’s box art and screen shots are no longer available.
Nintendo seems to be going harder than ever. Probably preparing for their new console which I will never buy out of principle.
Would you not buy it at all or buy it used then mod it afterwards to run your “homebrew” applications?
That’s certainly a possibility
I imagine a lot of people are in that mindset. They want to try out a console that’s a little past it’s prime and not pay collector or new prices for games that are only a few years old.
With the steam deck and the various related options out there, wouldn’t it make more sense to get one of those and run some emulation?
Note: I haven’t bought anything Nintendo since the 3DS.
well this took literal years longer then I thought it would.
If you look at the replies a lot of people are thinking copyright trolls are responsible and it’s not actually Nintendo
I don’t really use vimm’s layer since everything is on archive.org that I wan’t (it plus aria2 is quite nice) but it would be nice if they could put them back up
Fair enough. Most people don’t seem to use Vimm’s Lair for downloading sets. They mostly seem to use it for sporadically downloading a couple titles. Especially for newer systems like the PS3 or Wii for example.
Their labeling of what hasn’t been archived is also neat to see.
They said the same thing when the Garry’s Mod takedowns were issues and Nintendo later confirmed it was them. So, I’m not gonna hold my breath
Oh look Nintendo doing more shitty things. Mild shock
“We literally lack the ability to hire programmers that can write a decent networking stack, but boy can we litigate.”
I feel like they are trying to push Japanese laws regarding piracy and console modding on the rest of the world.
717 is an interesting number. I’m guessing that’s the entire NES library.
I don’t think so. Tetris is still up for example and some SNES games have been taken down. It seems quite sporadic.
Is there a list anywhere of what was taken down?
I don’t even play games anymore but this makes me want to pirate everything Nintendo owns.
is there any way to get these games from somewhere else?
F
When is Nintendo going to learn that you can’t beat pirates? It’s impossible.
30 years after the rest of the world, so estimates are probably 30 years after the heat death of the universe.
Now more than ever I wish the Purge was real so I could steal a car, drive over there to their HQ, and then absolutely destroy the place. They deserve it.
Speaking of which does anyone have a quality article about that recent time where Nintendo’s lawyers showed up at someone’s door and confiscated something? I believe that’s what happened but I could be incorrect.
Searching online I am just finding other examples of Nintendo shenanigans.
Don’t think I’ve heard anything about that. Closest I can recall is when someone was accidentally sent some Magic the Gathering cards last year that weren’t released and the manufacturers decided to send Pinkerton goons to get them back.
Thank you! That was it. I guess it sounded like a Nintendo thing to do
If the purge was real they’d have a private security firm there to turn you into a reddish paste.
The entire point (aside from being violence bait) of the movies is that the violence is a tool of the ruling class to keep the masses at each others throats.
I wouldn’t know the point of the movies since I rarely watch live action movies anymore, but neither that or the security firm thing would stop me from trying. I’m a stubborn, pig-headed individual at times and this is one of those times.
You realize the security firm in this case would be sporting hardware that would make you a stain on the wall in 2 seconds from “trying”.
This fictional universe you would rather live in than reality?
Be the purge you wish to see in the world.
