Banjora Marxvile

Nothing, Adalbert was just paying them to bother him xD

ask me any detail you want and I'll remember -.- I've written those chapters like a month ago!

Psshaw, not really, I was just making sure on what Houndoom you were talking about! xD

Oh, oh. Yeah.. writer's mistake, I guess. xD

Yeah, the Virtual Store is what I had in mind. Unfortunately, I do not believe the original Pokémon games of any type are on there at all. Plus, how would you trade from them into the newer games, which are not programmed to recognize them on this type of platform? It would seem useless.

I think we're talking about different perspectives.

Too bad we don't live in a world where companies like Nintendo/Game Freak can find this kind of activity and license the work for sale by them as an official game. That would help Nintendo earn more money even factoring in the amount of money lost to the creator of the hack. Would be too complex and could involve all sorts of legal issues, however, so yeah...

Yes, I know the ROMs would still make their way around. My comment is more to the end user. However, as someone who has followed the music and MP3 bit for a long while (recently found an article from something like August 2001 in a very well preserved back issue of Maclean's magazine talking about Napster), I know that they also tried things to circumvent hacking that prevented fair use (people putting music onto their own systems to listento at their leisure), and thus those practices had to be stopped; I believe a Mariah Carey disc was the most notorious one using it.

I say it all the time: no matter what anyone does, hacking will continue. One employee can't wait to share the work with a friend, and that friend quietly shares it with another, and so on, until the game or music starts appearing online. However, even if they company takes the step of releasing it into the online world themselves, it's still an Epic Fail; Lady Gaga's new CD was promoted through Farmville and people finishing certain tasks got to hear the entire CD, and soon after, copies of the CD started floating around torrent and warez sites long before release in much the same way as a ROM would appear online two or three days before being released in stores. Hacking is an unstoppable monster.

Yes, I know that. But Nintendo also knows people will hack games. You have no idea how often I went online on Super Mario Kart Wii and found people using infinite Starmen, Bullet Bills, and firing Red Shell after Red Shell to disable you for sport. Here's a good sample of what I'm talking about.

Given how prevalent hacking is, I always find it odd that providing a fully patched ROM - thus removing most traces of what it originally is - would not be preferred by Nintendo/Game Freak over telling someone to find the original ROM and patching that. The latter involves getting two games, one an official publication by Nintendo/Game Freak. The former involves only getting one game, and the downloading player does not see the original game at all. Obviously the Pokémon, some music, etc. are copyrighted regardless, but what I think is something obvious to prevent the spread of the original ROM is still considered illegal (not a PC rule of course, just in general and I know as well it's illegal). I find that strange.

I've always found it strange that sharing a fully patched ROM is still illegal when the player wanting to use the patch still has to download the actual ROM separately; you'd think Nintendo would want them fully patched by default so their own game wasn't floating around everywhere. Anyone wanting to play a hack will by default get two games instead of one, and one is official. Silly Nintendo. :)

I would have thought that we don't discuss porting games to systems as that would be illegal. After all, people have to download the ROM, apply the patch, and port.

Been good.

Decent, considering.
You?

Yeah, it has. How've ya been? ^^

Greetings.

What Houndoom?

It's the Pokemon world, man, anything goes. Pokemon with armours xD

I had massive inspiration to write :B The members of the Gold Tribe have a name besides their titles. Simon's title was Pyro Dancer

sadly, I can't watch anything right now - internet is too crap.. I'll be home tomorrow, though, I'll watch it then.

did you finish reading the PM? :D

That's true too, of course. It'd just be nice to be able to do it myself, but I'm sure I'd find a way if I can't, haha.

I've never thought of comparing them, haha. I guess it IS good practise, really- moderating threads is like reviewing homework or something, and.. yeah. Good job making me realise that. XD

Yeah, it's definitely worth looking into, since it's the only thing that's stopping me from having my own music in my hack, haha. :)

You're probably right, I may well have, in passing or something :P Haha, thanks, I suppose that's good then. I've never really thought about doing anything else, so.. yeah. XD It's probably similar, seeing as I'm dealing with a lot of people around secondary-school age for the most part, so that's a good point. :D