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I get that. Warez aren’t for everyone. Dealing with cracks, possible malware, or a program that might phone home when you don’t want it to. Some might be willing to take the risk, others just want legit copies they can play when they want. The fucked up thing is that we shouldn’t need warez for abandonware.
The world doesn't run on shouldn't. It's why lockpicks exist, and genocide.
Nintendo is never going to budge, and the only thing keeping Sony and Sega from doing it is no shareholder is twisting their arms yet, but the timeline will eventually find the wrong dude in the right place.
Better isn't something things tend to get unless we do it for ourselves, and with the way the world is getting?
I stocked up a 16TB hard drive with every rom and iso I could ever feasably imagine myself ever needing to download, and I seed every possible torrent that the community pays attention to.
Too much? Overkill? There's no such thing.
If we don't preserve gaming, it won't happen because no one else is going to do it. All of us, we are "those guys". We are the line of defense, here. We have to be the ones to do it.
We’re on the same page, dude.