Copyright on software should be much shorter than other media.
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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Especially older online only games will probably disappear forever.
Most offline games will probably always be available to some degree. Games for exotic hardware like old phones or weirdo consoles are likely going to the dustbin of history.
Maybe some future advanced AI or some schizo madman blessed by the heavens will develop emulators even for those tho.
There's a JavaME emulator already, and someone even started to work on a high-level 32bit era iPhone emulator.
I loaded up Dirt 3 a week ago and half my friends list lit me up wondering how the fuck i was running Dirt 3. (typical racing people)
I uhh, bought it, like a decade ago?
This is how I found out some steam games don't exist for everyone.
Racing games are rotten with this due to licensing issues. I don't know how liberally Dirt indulges in licensing, but these games are not built to be sold forever, and that sucks. Mortal Kombat 9 is no longer available for sale, and they never said why exactly, but everyone suspects is because they lost the license to Freddy Kruger, who is a guest character in that game.
Not according to my ROM archive.
I wonder if Nintendo even has all the ROMs for their old games still saved somewhere.
It would be funny, if Nintendo would be forced one day to download a ROM from an illegal ROM site for a future re-release