I don't understand why Disney needed to get the time extended. It seems to me that they are kind of like the living creator of Micky even if they are just a company. If they were viewed as the creator then they woudn't have to worry about him falling into public domain. I would feel that they have every right to keep him out of public domain. I do not however, think continualy pushing the copyright ownership laws back over and over to be a good way of doing that. Using a dead man's name to push a law through in an underhanded sneaky way, doesn't seem right either.
As far as game roms go I can't understand why game companies wont cash in on them. They could just let you buy ROM rights for a couple of bucks off a website and mail you a certificate. They wouldn't have to make the emulators, or even supply the ROMs. Just take your money and run. If they want to resell the game then maybe they could, I don't know, redo the graphics and sound.
The SnesBox!
Quote:As far as game roms go I can't understand why game companies wont cash in on them. They could just let you buy ROM rights for a couple of bucks off a website and mail you a certificate. They wouldn't have to make the emulators, or even supply the ROMs. Just take your money and run. If they want to resell the game then maybe they could, I don't know, redo the graphics and sound.
Sega have done a lot in this area. Sonic Jam for the Saturn was a collection of the original Sonic games, where they remade them all from scratch. They weren't emulated, they actually remade them. The sound and music was significantly better, and the intro movie for Sonic CD was remade from the original cells. Once Genesis emulation got good enough, they licensed emulators behind the scenes. They used Kega to make the Sega Smash Pack, and a few other things I believe. Later on, when they got to things like Sonic Mega Collection for the Gamecube, they used gens. Despite the fact that they were emulated, they still remastered the Sonic CD intro from the original cells again, for this collection. They didn't manage to get Sonic Cd itself into this collection however, because they had trouble with the CD audio tracks and gens.
Apart from that, they sell each game on an individual basis, for quite cheap prices. They did it for Saturn games using a commercial version of the giri-giri emulator, and they did it again with the Mega Drive, using gens. Most of these projects have been limited to Japan only however. There is an english version of the deal with the Mega Drive however, using something like RealArcade I think.
Oh, thought I'd add, on the site I linked to above, Sega dumped all those roms themselves, including a few long lost games that had passed out of existance. Most notably, some of those games were streamed over a modem you could buy (in Japan only). You could dial in and download whatever games were up at the time, but they only remained on your system while the power was on. Those games never would've been seen again if it wasn't for this service.
That's got to be one of the coolest pieces of hardware out there. I mean, screw the Xbox. Get a SNESBOX! SnesBox's rule! Please be sure to tell the guy who made it that it is beyond cool!
That is awesome. Somewhat related, has anyone seen the portables that ben heckendorn has made? especially the portable ps2
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