I don’t know if this post will help or hurt Nintendo’s efforts with the Virtual Console because I’m having too much damn fun this morning playing NES titles in an online emulator to care.
Another NES online emulator has joined the ranks of everyvideogame.com, and it’s pretty slick. It offers multiple languages, although the majority of the games posted so far are in English. That didn’t stop me from trying to play Shadowgate in French, however.
Question is, ROMS are *ahem* not so legal, so could an informed reader tell me how this and everyvideogame.com stays afloat given Nintendo’s track record for coming down hard on these kinds if things?
UPDATE: This may be older news, but I’m an older, slower gamer. So there.
"Question is, ROMS are *ahem* not so legal, so could an informed reader tell me how this and everyvideogame.com stays afloat given Nintendo's track record for coming down hard on these kinds if things?"Shutting down one ROM site wouldn't do much considering there are hundreds of thousands out there. Even if somebody bought an old copy of Zelda Nintendo wouldn't see a dime from it. Because it would be used and used games don't give profit to companies. Well not to Nintendo anyways.
That was the website I was talking about on the emulator poll things. I've been going on that for maybe more than a year.
The other crazy thing is that you can look at the source code for any game's page and find the .zip file containing the actual ROM.
Even still, I look forward to playing some of these games on Virtual Console .. it's just more fun on the TV with an actual controller to me.
@DavidYou could access it using Opera with the Wii.
Requires Java and is somewhat buggy, its using NesCafe if I'm not mistaken, A free emulator.
@MacUserGreat idea! But unfortunately it is setup to use keyboard controls. So unless the Wii supports a blue tooth keyboard or you can change the controls in NESCafe, it's a no-go.
Couldn?t be published any better. Reading this post reminds me of my old room mate! He always kept talking about this. I will forward this article to him. Pretty sure he will have a really good examine. Thanks for sharing!