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Cool, anyone please pm the forum on which it was sold or more info on this kinda intresting. Castlevania was in the news recently I think there is a beta or something?
Very interesting - I'm keeping an eye on the DCH and Assembler forums. (Sorry, I post no linky since it's considered a wee bit shady). At one point (actually at two points on two different forums) groups of dudes were pooling money to buy the Propellor Arena GD-ROM and rip it (though it looks like someone else ended up buying it). Looks like the deal has been done. Interesting...
Hipocricy aside, we all know that we all have or have played Half Life on the Dreamcast! If we think a little why the hell we are here (in this forum), its cause we LOVE or at least like Dreamcast and videogames in general.
And i think it's a little hipocritic and stupid to say that we wont play a game that never got released because its warez???? We are gamers! I respect the Dreamcast and 99% of my games are original GD roms... The other 1 % is well.... homebrews, emus and Half Life. I think we have a right to play this game, because we supported the DC, we waited for the game and we got fucked! Anyway Propeller Arena has not been released on any other console (i'm not sure, correct me if i'm wrong) or planned to be released, so i dont think it will affect segas business cause only DC owners will have it..
I understand your sentiment, but we do not have a right to play it. We arent owed anything by Sega, if anything we owe Sega for the years of gaming we have gotten out of them [then again, most of us paid for those years of gaming]
OK, you're right! I just got excited, because everybody talks about warez as if it is some kind of disease or a virus, the question is not "to download or not to download" in my opinion is:"to respect or not to respect the game developers and their hard work" and i think that the developers who made Propeller Arena will feel good if people play and love their game:).
We arent owed anything by Sega, if anything we owe Sega for the years of gaming we have gotten out of them [then again, most of us paid for those years of gaming]
Maybe sony owes us or the corporate desicion makers, or maybe the pirates who managed to crack DC games in the first place, or the people who never trusted sega!!
I understand your excitement Segata Sanshiro, but unless
Maybe sony owes us or the corporate desicion makers, or maybe the pirates who managed to crack DC games in the first place, or the people who never trusted sega!!
this was meant in jest, you are wrong.
i think that the developers who made Propeller Arena will feel good if people play and love their game:).
You could be right, but I think they would feel better if we were buying their game, so that they could make some sort of profit from their hard work.
i think that the developers who made Propeller Arena will feel good if people play and love their game:).
You could be right, but I think they would feel better if we were buying their game, so that they could make some sort of profit from their hard work.
Unfortuantely--and where the hitch comes in--is that you *can't* buy it. It's not been release anywhere for anything, and it's not even been proposed for any other systems. It exists in SOME usable form, but that form is shelved and locked away, much like Castlevania Resurrection or Sonic Xtreme (both of which I'd be more than enthusiastic to take for a test-drive).
Also, another interesting twist is added (at least in the U.S.) by an amendment to the Digital Millenium act passed by Congress last year (and this is important for those into emulators, too):
I'm not entirely clear on the details, because I only caught the second half of the report on CNN...but, in response to the rising popularity of emulation, and the tangle of ROM-related lawsuits choking courts, digital copyright law was modified to permit the download and possession of game images when both of the following qualifications are met: (A) those games are not "reasonably available" for purchase, and (B) the games require hardware that is no longer in production to run.