Bright idea: Similar to every time Hamilton Nolan reports on Peggy Noonan, this should be the thumbnail for every Ingraham post going forward on Splinter.

Which is legal if you own the original cart.

Of course they’re for playing ROMs. Spoiler alert: I’d rather play Chrono Trigger on my RetroPie than break out my SNES to play the Chrono Trigger cartridge that I legally own.

You can’t ban bongs either. 

I thought your point was both amusing and pretty true. People like to pretend that emulators are only used for homebrew or to play “backups” of games they already own. 99.9% of emulator use across the board is geared towards playing pirated ROMs. And that’s a scientific fact I just came up with. I’m fine with it,…

From their license: “You can use, modify and redistribute this code freely as long as you don’t do so commercially.”

Emulator developers don’t rely on people using their software because they’re not making money off it. What are you even talking about?

lol Which is what they are designed for.  Im all for emulation but dont act like its not to play roms. 

In all fairness, this thing is most likely going to be hacked open within hours of hitting the market and people will be able to add whatever they want.

For the last time, there’s been multiple US court cases, and while companies would absolutely LOVE for emulation to be illegal so they could talk like you, it isn’t. Emulators are totally legal. Pirating ROMs isn't and that's definitely spurred on by emulation, but emulators are totally legal.

I think the overall point being made by this article and by the quoted members of the emulation community is that although it’s not illegal to use FB Alpha in a for-profit venture, it’s definitely against the stated intentions of the project and many of its contributors. So it’s at the very least really, really shitty.

With your off topic, yeah that thing is really ugly looking and for over $200 USD I expect a lot more games for it.  I just hope the build quality is awesome for something that costs almost as much as a basic ps4 or Switch.

You know, I don’t hate the Capcom logo, but this should not be a contoured shape. A big rectangle with that logo across it would look so much cleaner, at the very least ditch the weird bulge around the bottom.

A typical, but not universal, practice in collaborative open-source projects is for contributors to assign ownership of the copyright to the project, either in the form of a non-profit corporation or the main developer. This allows for the project to change licenses in the future, which is sometimes necessary. In this…

In historically set games i tend to change the language to the local language, with english subtitles.  But as my anime avatar betrays, im a dirty weeb and am very much used to reading subtitles quickly and automatically.  YMMV.

I of course don’t take Conan O’brien’s clueless gamer segments as serious reviews, but I really did agree with his annoyance at everyone sounding British in this game set in France. Even though it was obviously anachronistic for everyone to be speaking Italian-accented English in the Ezio games, it really contributed…

In the first game it actually helped Altair blend in with the scholars that would roam around cities. After that it was just their schtick.

But Grenfell Tower wasn’t a well known tourist attraction and historical building that’s around 850 years old.

Or the fact that the catholic church can afford to fix it on their own. They are worth billions.

Or for my family and friends in Puerto Rico...?