I’d caution that the King’s Field games are very much a product of their era, and like many early attempts at 3D they are quite challenging to engage with from a modern perspective.

One of the biggest disappointments of the PS4 Pro’s launch is that Bloodborne never received a 4k mode or a performance mode.

Same. I have a Pro but I’m still using it normally. Some day, I guess.

I’m not sure that I really need to see the visceral attack on that pig’s arsehole in first person.

Agreed. I think the word “entitled” has reached that point where it’s so overused that it is losing any kind of bite, but if people saying “I don’t like this storyline, you should have made one more to my tastes instead” isn’t entitled then I really don’t know what is.

So I’ve got you saying this and MiniColossus saying the opposite, both claiming to have played the game. I’m never going to myself, but it’d be nice to know which is accurate.

I was impressed with the edge detection and anti-aliasing in places. You can see it in the still at the top of the article, on the bulkhead at the bottom left of the image. It’s far from flawless, and you’re right that there are places in the video where it fails to recognise aliasing, but compared to the…

Oh, for sure. I don’t disagree with Miyazaki’s criticisms of otaku culture at all. Modern anime seems to be shot through with a particularly needy strain of male ego flattery, for instance. The fragility it panders to is mildly embarrassing (when it isn’t being overtly non-con creepy).

1/ They’re part of the same problem.

In some ways, the the Sakurai meme is akin to the “Anime was a mistake” meme, which features a quote misattributed to Hayao Miyazaki that many now think is real. Over time, the jokey quality of meme quotes can be lost, and those words might become etched in stone as fact, which can be frustrating if it’s your…

I’m defending the people that would distribute media because otherwise it would be lost forever.

I’m not defending this guy specifically

It was exclusively current or recent ROMs. Like 3DS, Switch and other “scene” releases. He also uploaded new movies and ebooks.

If only there were actual preservationists working on this who deserved the accolades you are so grimly determined to hand out to this parasite.

Not caring about others is psychopathy. We’re social creatures, to buy into the “every man an island” thing is to deny your nature. I hope you find a way to move past it.

by the end of the console’s lift span most of those games will completely vanish unless they’re backed up.

Alright Machiavelli, enjoy being detested. Hope it’s worth it.

It’s easy to buy, I’m actually not pirating, the app is easy to use, and I love guided view.

Most of the commercial ones got killed by free offerings from YouTube, Spotify etc, not by legal action from the RIAA. In any case, The Pirate Bay still exists, nearly 20 years after it started, and you can still download music there. What was your point?

You don’t seem to realise that a commercial ROM site is not a videogame preservation project. If this guy gave a shit about preserving Switch games then he’d upload them as a torrent and get a bunch of other like-minded people to mirror it. He didn’t do that. He elected to sell them instead.