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Re: R4 Card Sales Outlawed in the UK
« Reply #50 on: August 03, 2010, 10:51:06 PM »
Sure they do. Lots of people like to make stuff for free, stuff that Microsoft wouldn't let you sell on XBLA, like SNES360 and Free Styles Dash...again, it's not illegal. It's called PartnerNet (what I couldn't remember before), and lots of these are not banned. I don't want one, and I don't need one. A JTAG'ed 360 is (arguably) almost just as good. Still, I think it's great that beginners can get something like this for cheap, make some nice programs the way that they want to, release them for free, then decide if it's something they want to commit to and go about doing it "the right way."
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Re: R4 Card Sales Outlawed in the UK
« Reply #51 on: August 03, 2010, 10:54:15 PM »
It would be cheaper and (legal) for them to just get the XNA Development Kit. They could then submit those games and actually make money.
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Re: R4 Card Sales Outlawed in the UK
« Reply #52 on: August 04, 2010, 12:32:44 AM »
Not everyone is in it for money, and also a lot of these garage developers get donations. It's usually a hobby or just a way to challenge themselves. I don't see Microsoft letting anyone release a Super NES emulator through XNA Studio anytime soon.
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Re: R4 Card Sales Outlawed in the UK
« Reply #53 on: August 04, 2010, 10:03:42 AM »
That's because the emulator would only be used for illegal matters (although the emulator itself would be legal.)
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Re: R4 Card Sales Outlawed in the UK
« Reply #54 on: August 04, 2010, 03:58:05 PM »
No, it's because Microsoft and Nintendo would never reach a deal on something like that.
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Re: R4 Card Sales Outlawed in the UK
« Reply #55 on: August 04, 2010, 04:01:29 PM »
No, it's because the emulators would only be used for illegal matters. It's as simple as that. People can get away with that on PC's/Macs because no on regulates computer games.
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Re: R4 Card Sales Outlawed in the UK
« Reply #56 on: August 04, 2010, 10:44:20 PM »
It's not as simple as that. Say someone wanted to make an SNES emulator that didn't play commercial ROMs - only demos and homebrew SNES games, but it was fully emulating the SNES hardware. Microsoft would say, "Hey go ask Nintendo," and Nintendo would say, "Hey, go eat a dick."
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Re: R4 Card Sales Outlawed in the UK
« Reply #57 on: August 05, 2010, 11:26:10 AM »
Quote from: Brandogg on August 04, 2010, 10:44:20 PM
It's not as simple as that. Say someone wanted to make an SNES emulator that didn't play commercial ROMs - only demos and homebrew SNES games, but it was fully emulating the SNES hardware. Microsoft would say, "Hey go ask Nintendo," and Nintendo would say, "Hey, go eat a dick."

Then why call it a SNES emulator?

But really, instead of playing homebrew games you could just make games. Most homebrew games on commercial platforms aren't very good because they're made for the novelty, a serious game maker could just use an easy platform like the PC that allows installing and playing with little effort instead of only being available to hackers.
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