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“Emuparadise being shut down is a good thing. Buy your games legally”

Ladies and gentlemen of the court I present my first piece of evidence. Exhibit A

And Nintendo doesn’t get any profit from that inflated price so what’s the point of stopping emulation?

not to be that guy op but…. path of radience isn’t that much. amazon always shows the prices of new, sealed games. it’s maybe about $100

ahhh yes that’s just ok then. $300 is a bit too much but $100 is a perfectly reasonable price for a 13 year old gamecube game

I hate when people complain about gamecube games being expensive like they d9nt make those games anymore. at all. the ones that are left are rare and hard to come by. like come on it’s not that hard to figure out?? yeah ok some of them are cheap but those were probably the games that no one wanted. still come on.

Yes…people know that…which is why they want the emulations…so they don’t have to pay for a game over and over?

People who support Nintendo taking down EmuParadise are no longer allowed to say “What do you mean you haven’t played…?”

Well, no, I didn’t get to play the game when it first came out, and now it’s out of print and costs over $100 for a used copy, so chances are slim I’ll ever get to play it.

The ultimate example of this, I think, is the Sega Dreamcast.

Nintendo, especially back then, made very durable hardware that can take a beating. Sega does not. The Sega Saturn’s cartridge slot will crumble to dust if you so much as blink within a 10 mile radius of it.

The Dreamcast was known to have wonky controller ports, but more importantly, more than a third of all Dreamcasts have defective disc drive mechanisms. Essentially, all optical lasers are rated for how many times the laser can be turned on. Sony was actively worried that Crash Bandicoot, with its CD-streaming technology, would actually break the Playstation because conservative estimates lowballed how many times the laser could be used.

That’s because lasers generate heat, even miniscule amounts, so every time you read a disc, you are damaging your hardware. Fortunately for Sony, the rate of damage was only something like 0.000002%.

That’s not true of the Dreamcast. By the time Sega announced they were getting out of the console market (around three years), a rapidly growing number of Dreamcasts were already showing signs of degradation.

The Dreamcast, unlike most optical-media consoles, uses proprietary hardware. This means your Dreamcast discs cannot be read by anything other than a Dreamcast. (Now, I know there are drives for the PC that can read Dreamcast-format GD-ROMs, but they are extremely rare; you’d have better luck winning the lottery than getting one)

What this ultimately means is there are a finite number of Sega Dreamcasts in the world and every day that number gets smaller. These consoles were not built to last 20 years. They apparently weren’t even built to last five years.

The following is a very incomplete list of Dreamcast games that have never been ported to any other platform and are thusly permanently shackled to Sega’s decay:

Climax Graphics bizarrely unique horror games, “Blue Stinger” and “Illbleed.” Capcom’s top-down shooter mash-up “Cannon Spike.” SNK’s visually striking rhythm game, “Cool Cool Toon.” One of Kenji Eno’s final games before he died, “D2.” Sega’s own “Daytona USA 2001,” which combined content from all versions of Daytona USA up to that point. The visually enhanced version of “Soul Reaver” produced by Eidos. And so on.

A lot of these games may never come back. The only way you’ll ever play them is to download an ISO and load them up in an emulator.

What about “Segagaga”? It’s a roleplaying game made by Sega that’s ABOUT parodying the death of the Dreamcast. It was never even released in English. If the translation patch is ever finished, literally the only way you’ll ever get to experience this silly slice of history is to pirate it. You can’t buy the disc, copy it to your PC, and apply the patch that way. That’s as close to impossible as it gets. Because of the way this hardware works (or in some cases, doesn’t work), you will have to pirate this game to play it.

You cannot tell me destroying sites like Emuparadise is “fine” in that kind of light.