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Comment by alanfalcon | Hacker News Reader

Some people have more respect for intellectual property rights than others.

And some people still have the cartridges laying around in boxes from 1980s and aren't in the mood to lug all that stuff out, let alone re-purchase what they already own.

EDIT

I'm not bashing Nintendo's IP rights, just the notion that ROMS are inherently illegal/immoral.

It's questionable however for those who own the games they have ROMs for. If you bought and paid for them, but prefer to play them on the PC are you really harming them by playing it on a different media?

I'm not taking a side, just saying it's debatable for sure.

Some of us that don't have respect for intellectual property rights certainly understand the concept of "plausible deniability", and how it applies to an ARM system running an emulator for 30 NES roms. :)

What rights? They don't make the consoles or games anymore.

The article is literally about them making a console with these games right now.

After 25 years of them not being available, and nobody saw this coming.

Edit: downvotes aplenty, perhaps someone could tell me how I could play two player Double Dragon 2 legally until this device came out?

Many (most? all?) of these titles have been available under Virtual Console or ported to a handheld for a long time now.

Double Dragon 2 is available for the Nintendo 3DS, Wii and Wii U.

But more generally, the person who started this thread appeared to be suggesting emulation as an alternative to this device. So in context, your comment reads as meaning, "Even though this device is out now, it's still OK to download the games illegally rather than pay for them because there wasn't a legal avenue to get the games before this device came out," which doesn't make very much sense unless you're just looking to punish Nintendo or something.

It was intended to be more like "if you can't get hold of a game in any other way, ROMs are an invaluable resource". I didn't realise that Nintendo had such an array of old games available on new consoles.

It's been ten years since I tried to play Double Dragon 2, the landscape has clearly changed lots more than it did in the fifteen since the console went out of fashion.

The existence of the NES Classic Edition says otherwise.

They still sell the games on the Virtual Consoles of the Wii U and the 3DS.

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