I still need to play the original one, which I only started and kinda enjoyed

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Is this server based or p2p?
if the first, will the server the self-hostable?

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I had been thinking about stopping buying proprietary games, but I think I can make an exception with this hehe

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Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeThis is worrying for the future of emulators, and the possibility of even going after older ones like dolphin

I guess snes9x and stuff like that should be pretty safe at least 🤣 which kinda reminds me how if Nintendo had it their way, we'd only be able to play their old legacy games through their NSO subscription service

The community do this for preservation, not to take money from nintendo

Even if they did it for money, so what?

Making money is literally the result of finding a niche that people want and providing something that fills that niche. There are people who want to play Nintendo games and don't want to buy a Nintendo console, they use an emulator. If Nintendo released their games on PC, that would be all, no emulators needed.

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If this goes on, it will truly be a sad moment for humanity, mostly for the ramifications of it.

Everyday that passes I'm more against this whole "Intellectual Property" thing. What a scam!

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Suckers, was thinking about buying the pokemon legends games, but fuck them

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Quoting: slaapliedje 
sudo apt install uqm
Then download the 3do version from archive.org? It always weirds me out a little bit when someone basically takes an open source project and throws it up on Steam and hopes to make some money, or they don't fully support all the operating systems that the opensource project supports.

No supporting other operating systems is a weird choice indeed. The rest I don't agree, I wish more FOSS games offered paid for releases on steam/gog whatever while maintaining a free download version on their webpages. That might give them some extra money and people would get to play them with some extra services like cloud saves, automatic updates or mod integration via steam workshop.

It's how this was meant to work as a business, after all, offering services around a program as a source of income

It... depends. A good example of this is games that are ancient, and in the 'who actually owns this?' state. If you look at Rogue (yes, THAT Rogue that is ancient, but published for a lot of platforms by Epyx) on Steam. What did they do on Steam? They released the crappy DOS version instead of the ST or Amiga version that actually have graphics. If they did a 'proper' release, they'd let you select which version to play! It is a very cheap move to get a few bucks. The Discussions on Steam are all about 'this is illegal!' and 'You don't own this!' though they likely do.

Some of the open source stuff put on Steam are shady at best and not published by the main developers. Also, can you get the source code through Steam? Assuming the software is under the GPL, then you should be able to.

The best things for the stuff like this is to have Lutris or even the Debian packages that people make that will ask if you have gog / steam, and download the closed source data files for the open source binaries. For example, OpenMW has stuff for the game-data-packager in Debian where it will package up the data files for Morrowind, then allow you to use the updated open source engine to play it.

I agree there are shady practices, yeah. But if. for example, 0AD was released by Wildifre at a fee, even a minimum one, on steam/gog whatever, it wouldn't be a problem IMO.

Plus it would make it more difficult to come up with the shady practices in the first place.

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Quoting: slaapliedje 
sudo apt install uqm
Then download the 3do version from archive.org? It always weirds me out a little bit when someone basically takes an open source project and throws it up on Steam and hopes to make some money, or they don't fully support all the operating systems that the opensource project supports.

No supporting other operating systems is a weird choice indeed. The rest I don't agree, I wish more FOSS games offered paid for releases on steam/gog whatever while maintaining a free download version on their webpages. That might give them some extra money and people would get to play them with some extra services like cloud saves, automatic updates or mod integration via steam workshop.

It's how this was meant to work as a business, after all, offering services around a program as a source of income

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Great to see this game continue to evolve. One question, how does it adapt to modern resolutions? Last time I tried it, it was so damn small on a 4K screen

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Great to see godot keep improving

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