Kien - the wait is over

LostCorpse · 5 Jul 2024 at 09:42

a 22year development and release

Kien, the most-delayed video game in history, released after 22 years

The makers of Italian action game have endured the longest development journey in history. Their game is now finally out – on the long-discontinued Game Boy Advance

www.theguardian.com

The makers of Italian action game have endured the longest development journey in history. Their game is now finally out – on the long-discontinued Game Boy Advance

might be a nice read for some.

ttaskmaster · 5 Jul 2024 at 10:20

More interesting that Incube8 is still producing game carts for GB, GBC and GBA, but also offers them as digital versions - If that takes off, the likes of Nintendo might actually make their ROMs available digitally too. The number of 'pirate' sites they took down clearly shows there's a market for them...

LostCorpse · 5 Jul 2024 at 11:21

ttaskmaster said:
The number of 'pirate' sites they took down clearly shows there's a market for them...

a free market...
people like free..

but yep i do agree its a proof in concept.
could do a generic carteriged you can flash with a rom

ttaskmaster · 5 Jul 2024 at 13:10

LostCorpse said:
a free market...
people like free..

but yep i do agree its a proof in concept.
could do a generic carteriged you can flash with a rom

I already have an EZFlash cart, for my GBA-SP and DSL, which currently holds a couple thousand ROMs and has plenty more room.
It doesn't have to be free, but it does have to be available, and even if games are only a couple of quid - Nintendo gets money out of a back catalogue that they're otherwise not doing anything with, while people get to play the games they want.

Two of the drawbacks in the second hand market is that Nintendo make no money from it, and people have to buy a physical cart for each game they want to play.
Official online ROMs would basically replace the 'dodgy download' sites that Nintendo got rid of, with a legal and profitable solution that makes piracy fairly pointless, and eliminates the need for a bucket-load of carts to cart around.

LostCorpse · 5 Jul 2024 at 13:14

all valid and i agree. also safer for the average person as well.

katy81 · 5 Jul 2024 at 18:32

ttaskmaster said:
Two of the drawbacks in the second hand market is that Nintendo make no money from it, and people have to buy a physical cart for each game they want to play.
Official online ROMs would basically replace the 'dodgy download' sites that Nintendo got rid of, with a legal and profitable solution that makes piracy fairly pointless, and eliminates the need for a bucket-load of carts to cart around.

Never going to happen. You'd spend millions chasing rights to put the game on your platform
It would never make any money.

ttaskmaster · 5 Jul 2024 at 18:56

katy81 said:
Never going to happen. You'd spend millions chasing rights to put the game on your platform
It would never make any money.

Nintendo would be selling their ROMs on their own site. They already have the rights....

katy81 · 5 Jul 2024 at 21:26

ttaskmaster said:
Nintendo would be selling their ROMs on their own site. They already have the rights....

They have the rights to first party games, not the entire system libary. So only a few titles.

ttaskmaster · 8 Jul 2024 at 10:44

katy81 said:
They have the rights to first party games, not the entire system libary. So only a few titles.

How do they have the rights to shut down websites over games that are not theirs, then?
Presumably they have publishing rights to anything they've previously published, and so control who does or does not get to put those games out there?