The preservation at Nintendo is pretty good; we know this from the Gigaleak, as unfortunate as its circumstances are. They also have most games which they can legally republish up on Nintendo Switch Online. But it is hard to convince people to pay for games which are ubiquitous on the Internet.

I suspect there's a reason Sega abandoned the model of selling their Mega Drives games' back catalog on Steam, complete with Steam Workshop support. I also suspect there's a reason sites which list which Steam re-releases contain trivially extractable ROMs are not very popular.

i disagree.
(a) Skills which are free in a gift economy are absolutely not free when you're a business.
(b) People are just not that interested in paying for the games. There's a reason Nintendo abandoned the Virtual Console model, and i assure you it's not because it was too profitable.

mister miyamoto-san if films remain forever then where can i watch the cult 1993 classic "super hornio brothers". i mean. you said films are forever. miyamoto-s

ever tried to watch a direct to LaserDisc anime OVA?

using “hsr” as an acronym for gachagame should be a crime. those are homestar runner’s sacred initials you heathen

"Films remain forever", says the one company which bought out a movie's rights only to vault them forever

decided to experience Mobile Suit Gundam through the movie trilogy and not the TV anime. let's hope nobody judges me too harshly for this decision

I did not have RuriDragon receiving a Polish release on my bingo chart

There are some anti-corporate, anti-capitalist creators *in* the demoscene (<3 viznut), but I don't think that's necessarily the rule.

I highly recommend his essay on machine learning, FWIW: viznut.fi/texts-en/mac...

and gives demo parties an excuse to ban its use in any of the other competitions. The (lack of?) attendance will then validate the (lack of?) interest.

As for the corporate angle? The demoscene is non-commercial, but I think it wasn't that shy to take sponsorships. Game companies hired from it.

As such, I can understand why someone would see merit in a "genAI compo". On one hand, if it is judged by people who actually follow that space, they can probably distinguish who's experimenting with pipelines better than I ever could. More cynically, it sections off the annoying people to one place

Different tools and techniques make different aspects of creating a finished piece easy. GenAI has somewhat novel issues with copyright and environmental impact. But not every generated image is made with five minutes of local GPU time and a prompt; these tools are surprisingly finicky to use.

Or a Game Boy game with a PC game borrowing the Game Boy aesthetic, for that matter. People would rightly consider that to be unfair, but for many of them this same logic goes out the window when someone argues generative AI deserves to be considered equal with all other forms of art. It doesn't.

It makes sense that these issues crop up from time to time. A lot of the demoscene had its roots in piracy/warez circles. And I certainly wouldn't want generated art to compete with handmade art, but specifically for the reasons I don't want a photograph to compete with a painting.

Over twenty years ago, many of the demoscene's artists were exposed for art tracing: www.kameli.net/nocopy/. Discussions surrounding what and how much effort deserves to be celebrated as part of demo production - the line between remixing and theft - are nothing new.

https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/sixteen/?file=SIXTEEN.ZZT&board=0
“Sixteen Easy Pieces” by Flimsy Parkins/XR7 (2005)
[SIXTEEN.ZZT] - “Board”
https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/sixteen/

can't believe Windows 95 turned fifty this year

i can't believe i missed that

i'm 28*

PLAYTIME, the distant cousin of the PLAYDATE /s

emulator filter called gameboy advance at night which looks like this

"Pick up hobbies that let you meet like-minded people!"

I think someone made a ZZT world for Oktrollberfest once which *specifically* relied on a Zeta bug to crash? So, you never know...