The bootlickers always reveal themselves.

Congrats, for literally the dumbest take. You should look into the BBC fires and the practice of taping over old tv film that caused countless tv shows to be lost forever.

Nintendo has actually historically been pretty good in terms of physical game preservation.If you owned Nintendo hardware and a physical cartridge/disc, you would rarely have any problems.

It’s also important to note that some of the ROMs exist now only because of piracy. Nintendo lost many of the originals precisely due to their reluctance to archive anything and their attempts to restrict anyone else from doing so either. Much of the Satellaview archive is gone forever because Nintendo didn’t keep the…

All that stuff is only 25-30 years old at most. Of course it still works. What VGHF wants is for all of these still-not-that-old games to still be available in another 25-30 years, and another 50 beyond that. We might not be at risk of outright losing any WiiU or 3DS games right now, but Nintendo’s refusal to support,…