0K4M1 wrote:
xD I see Nostalgic on the title. for me FF XII was like...yesterday Anyway, great game, but somehow cursed... I got the feeling that this FF never reach the audiance he deserve.



Was it a matter of timing ? (public switching from PS2 to PS3 => saving their money) just like FF9...

Was it the history/univers ? Ivalice is nice but... not realy catchy. For every people I know (including myself), it's the same refrain "Did you like FF12 ? - yeah ! Did you finish it ? - Ugh..noo :/"

Was it the game mechanic ? Realtime combat + gambit + licence grid system. pretty cool, but are we talking about a Final fantasy ?



I emulated Ôkami (Ps2) on my laptop once....didn't worked that well :[/QUOTE]



Well, I'm only 21 so Nostalgic to me has a slightly different meaning than it does for you, in relation to periods of time. I was pretty young when FFXII came out, in fact it was the second PS2 game I ever played. Also, I'm using the PSX2 emulator and it's working as good as ever. :P



Onto another subject... I could sure go for some Spyro right about now... lol

Spiridon7761 wrote:
Oh and I need to get a good PS1 emulator now too... all this Mario, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro talk is killing me. XD

Alien@System wrote:
The game I have the fondest memories of is Pharaoh, from Sierra's City-Building series. Sigh... there's a genre that really ought to be rebooted at some point.

Buzzkillington1990 wrote:
I preferred the Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom entry in that series over Pharaoh, but then, it had the opportunity to itterate on what Pharaoh had already done.

ds108j wrote:
It is legal (just to be sure)

Mansen wrote:
Except it isn't - Old or not, this is still very much software piracy...



Edit: Or rather, I can't find a single mention of them actually getting permissio from the ton of developers and right holders out there who owns those games. And I can see a lot of games from companies who would rather support devil worship than let go of the rights of their old games for free.

Law



In most cases, software classed as abandonware is not in the public domain, as it has never had its original copyright officially revoked and some company or individual may still own rights. While sharing of such software is usually considered copyright infringement, in practice copyright holders rarely enforce their abandonware copyrights for a number of reasons - chiefly among which the software is technologically obsolete and therefore has no commercial value, therefore rendering copyright enforcement a pointless enterprise. By default, this may allow the product to de facto lapse into the public domain to such an extent that enforcement becomes impractical.



Rarely has any abandonware case gone to court. But it is still unlawful to distribute copies of old copyrighted software and games, with or without compensation, in any Berne Convention signatory country.[56]

Enforcement of copyright



Old copyrights are usually left undefended. This can be due to intentional non-enforcement by owners due to software age or obsolescence, but sometimes results from a corporate copyright holder going out of business without explicitly transferring ownership, leaving no one aware of the right to defend the copyright.



Even if the copyright is not defended, copying of such software is still unlawful in most jurisdictions when a copyright is still in effect. Abandonware changes hands on the assumption that the resources required to enforce copyrights outweigh benefits a copyright holder might realize from selling software licenses. Additionally, abandonware proponents argue that distributing software for which there is no one to defend the copyright is morally acceptable, even where unsupported by current law. Companies that have gone out of business without transferring their copyrights are an example of this; many hardware and software companies that developed older systems are long since out of business and precise documentation of the copyrights may not be readily available.



Often the availability of abandonware on the Internet is related to the willingness of copyright holders to defend their copyrights. For example, unencumbered games for Colecovision are markedly easier to find on the Internet than unencumbered games for Mattel Intellivision in large part because there is still a company that sells Intellivision games while no such company exists for the Colecovision.