Nintendo Removing ROMs From Websites!

While the news of Nintendo taking revenue from Youtube partners who are making movies of Nintendo content using copyright laws present, the emulation community

For me, I have nothing to hide or haven't really done anything wrong but this still effects me because I contribute in gaming in various ways, however this move from Nintendo got me interested. I always buy my games and play them on the hardware that I always buy and talk about it.

ROMs and Emulators have been around for over two decades. It's been on the internet hosting various websites since I've started visiting the websites. It isn't just what going on at Youtube with Nintendo's way of having people share what they see in terms of content in there video games.

Nintendo is the first company (or from what I believe) to enforce a copyright notice against websites hosting ROM dumps from their video games. Here's a copyright notice from a website where the Nintendo list of games used to be.

It's clear Nintendo have a plan and are finding ways on removing content relating or extracted from any of their video games or games that run on their hardware anywhere on the Internet.

... and there's a webpage from Nintendo addressing the legality of ROM dumps from Nintendo hardware: http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp

The next question is...are the other companies such as Sony, Sega and even SNK going to follow?

It's also worth mentioning Microsoft hasn't got any pirates against them who have dumped Microsoft console game data anywhere on the Internet because of the security placed in their game discs.

Blog Theme Change!

I've decided to change the blog color scheme from the Black dark feel to a more white feel with blue color to cover the font. I'm saving the dark feel for some other time. I'm going to put the dark feel in some the blog!

80s Cambridge and Their Computer Revolution

Today, I wanna talk about 80s Cambridge in England, not that I'm running out of website to review, there's loads of websites for me to review. I actually want to talk about one of the more interesting things I've gathered up and that's the computer think-tanks and manufacturing force from Cambridge during the 80s. I'll just type these bizarre and heavily focused articles once in a while.

Where did this start? I was doing research on computer hardware over the years and the Spectrum and Acorn Hardware popped up. I was reading their wiki pages and found they had something in common, they were based in Cambridge in some point.

Sinclair was actually founded in Cambridge however they relocated their headquarter into London. They still carry that really intellect experience with them into London. A nice trait of intelligence that it's can freely can be carried around.

Anyways, I don't know what happened to Acorn. Maybe after Microsoft offered their OS system, people went into Microsoft's way of getting a computer software along with hardware and Acorn were struggling to get into the market and it ended for them in the year 2000. That's competition I suppose. A bit depressing if anyone was a big fan of Acorn,because they were the leaders of computers during the 80s and early 90s. It's nice to knowthat the OS for the Acorn is still around, the RISC OS.

Sinclair's hardware on the other hand was a different story, they went out there to make a bike, which is bizarre and went out of the way to ditch the computer business. That's a story for another time. They later sold the Spectrum trademark to another person to continue and it lost it's value when computers and their software from the United Stated show off what can be done which out the ZX Spectrum to shame. More on this another time.

Cambridge do make video games but that's really all they can do now days. That's all I can say about it for now.

Now Cambridge still brags about how 'culture' their town is, a town that people don't want to live in, which has a population of 100,000, compared to many other cities around the UK, that has alot more.Some places London have loads more then that. I think Cambridge is over-hyped and show off and when they burn out, they know and it all becomes a con-game for them and it's certainly put me off using computers for a while with the amazing stuff they had at the time. I suppose I'll have to sort that out and think that out for some time.

Fun With Google Search Looking at GT6's Updates

Searching for Gran Turismo 6 updates news on Google News search is fun. When I was 18 or 19, when I bought and played Gran Turismo 4, I was amazed with the realism and how so much content appeared in the game. It wasn't never boring but I do compared it with the content on the Internet for it's realism, due to the fact that the game has real cars, tracks and other amazing features that make the game so real.

As it turns out, the realism in the game and the updates in Gran Turismo 6 are almost as real as the news given out and reported online. During the Google search function, it's nice to see how news appears in the results, seeing how the developers of the game are handing out news of the game to have players run back for more. Apparently it's not as good as Polyphony Digital does release content without reporting it, as they did that with the Mazda Vision GT concept on Christmas Day, but with the idea of using the google search engine for such updates, it's fun to say at least.

Sega Japan's Website Review

I've never actively looked on the Sega of Japan's website. Despite being a Sega fan myself, I wouldn't take a look at the website, because so many other people are doing it and sharing the news but I suppose that's why they spread the news, because it keeps them into work. Sega of Japan website looks bizarrely like many other video game websites out there, with the baby blue or spearmint border or windows, representing what someone could go out there and get for their consoles. Must be a common trend in gaming.

4gamer.net Website review

Japan makes the best video games, it's no surprise consider that they are called Japan however sometimes I wonder the really cool the trivia can become from the games industry there, so that's when 4gamer.net comes in. 4gamer.net is a Japanese only website for all the video games ever released. The interest is so strong that it's almost littered and overcrowded with information of their games. Sometimes it's only geared towards Japan. I've found concept art posted onto the website of games that have never been released in the West, which is worth the website viewing. There are also PC games that make me wonder why they even made them. This is because Japan isn't into PC or computers games. They love consoles over PC and Microsoft, which is why it's interesting to look at. I'll tell people to pop over to 4gamer.net website and find the differences for themselves.

SNK Playmore Website Review

I've always followed SNK Playmore's website. Since I started using the internet back in 1999 and was downloading the Neo Geo ROM software to run with the emulator, it always made me visit the SNK Playmore website. Baring ROMs is illegal unless it was dumped by the user itself, which is another story.

Anyways, that urge got the better of me, so all the internet talk of the new release of SNK's games, such as SNK vs Capcom Chaos, Metal Slug 5 or Samurai Showdown X or whatever, made me hunt for people who would dump the ROMs however I knew about the official releases because of the SNK Playmore website and then see what everyone is talking about in fighting video game forums and etc. The website had really colorful graphics and art work, that make it appealing for my generation at the time, which is what I liked the most. I know I wasn't the only one. SNK always pumped out artwork upon artwork of their colorful world, which always prompted me to go back. I knew about the releases because of the main website, which is why I've always visited and never stop since.

It's nice that they continue making games for the handhelds or mobiles, knowing this by visiting the website and checking the latest news. Not that I should be learning Japanese because the Google translator takes the text into English.

Not that I'll be into downloading the ROMs, because that measures to piracy and clearly that's what they want me to do. That is to download their stuff and make me feel bad for me to buy it, seeing that I am done with ROMs. Website wise, it's nice that this big, long standing company has a website which represents them with the colorful graphics, artwork and product information for both Japanese and Western English speaking audiences. It's standard for anyone to take their time until they release the information of the products and publish them on their website.