So some idiot on Forbes posted this article about how to play Nightmare Busters on a SNES EMU:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/01/27/new-super-nintendo-game-nightmare-busters-isnt-exactly-new/He originally had a link to the emulator and ROM in the post, but after everyone started calling him a dumbass he removed the links and said he wasn't advocating piracy.
Then he added this update to the post, which just made things worse:
I want to make it very clear that I in no way support or advocate piracy. To be quite honest, I assumed that a game like this was on an emulator precisely because it was never released. Since it was never released, I assumed that there was some process that its creators must have gone through to license it out to the websites that hosted it, especially since the one I visited apparently charges a subscription fee after you’ve tried a game a few times.
This site wants me to pay to use a SNES emulator! It must be totally legit!
Either way, my actual intention with this post was to show simply that the game wasn’t new, and that in fact people had been playing it via emulators for some time even though it never was released for the SNES.
Everyone else is playing it on emus, so it must be ok! Right?
I would just add that people who have played this game with an emulator, which is not a very good gaming experience, might be the most likely to purchase it for their SNES. I could be wrong about that, but I don’t think anyone is guilty of “stealing” when the only way this game was ever available was in this format. Maybe it is unethical to play it this way now since it will be available, though I’m not sure how many people still have Super Nintendos. I hope Super Fight Team sells many, many copies though.
Pirate a game to drive sales!
And then he ends it with this gem:
P.S. Does anyone know the law in regards to IPs like this, that were cancelled and abandoned for decades? In other words, was it at one point legal to play via an emulator but now it is no longer legal? As I said, I’m unclear on the laws surrounding emulators in the fist place, but even more so with regards to abandoned software.
