GameBoy retro games to play online (on IPFS to stay there forever)

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by evgy • 1 year ago

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duckkg5• 1 year ago

I love this. I bet Nintendo does not. But ... can their lawyers do anything about IPFS?

evgy3• 1 year ago

They need to take the whole internet down for that :)

snvzz2• 1 year ago

For chilling effect, they can just sue a few ipfs users who happen to be mirrowing the files.

IPFS really needs to move to a darknet. It's a major privacy issue when it's possible to see which user has a file cached (e.g. has used the file).

3np3• 1 year ago

Er, no.

In this sense IPFS is just a transport protocol. Hosting illegal metarial over it is not inherently safer than doing the same over e.g. Bittorrent.

It's enough to go after the endpoints. Which is actually easier than with HTTP or Bittorrent because it is really hard to properly proxy and run IPFS without inadvertently leaking metadata. Being able to run IPFS anonymously over e.g. Tor has in the past been referred to as an anti-goal by maintainers[0].

In practice today even that's probably not necessary, just go after the top 5 or so public http bridges like dweb.link and cf...

[0]: Anyone aware of alternative implementations or forks with a different stance on this?

that_lurker• 1 year ago

They will most likely go after the ipfs clearnet proxies like dweb.link

blackeyeblitzar• 1 year ago

I’ve been seeing articles showing off new handheld hardware that looks like a GameBoy, but presumably are emulators. Where do people get games for those?

JoeyJoJoJr• 1 year ago

I heard there is an archive by an organisation or something or other.

AngryData• 1 year ago

Presumably they just download the original ROMs which are incredibly easy to get just by searching "gameboy ROMs". Because they are so incredibly small in filesize they are hosted pretty much everywhere. People share still photos with each other that are larger than most of those games.

thot_experiment• 1 year ago

iirc most of these type of things come preloaded with all of the games up to GBA or so, the entire library is tiny by today's standards, I download ML models bigger than like... all games made prior to 2000 on a regular basis

Cpoll• 1 year ago

Sometimes it's not an "emulator" in the typical sense. Some of these are hardware reproductions (see: Palmer Luckey's ModRetro Chromatic).

Others do hardware emulation using FPGAs (see Analogue Pocket).

Even a lot of the emulator-based hardware include a physical cartridge slot. They read the data off the cartridge and then run it on an emulator.

DerekL• 1 year ago

Sometimes the maker of the game offers a ROM for download, either for purchase or for free. There are USB devices that'll dump a ROM cartridge, such as the Retrode.

yapyap• 1 year ago

1. torrenting sites

2. archival sites

Waterluvian• 1 year ago

I don’t like that they’re called “Retro GameBoy games” and they’re all Game Boy Advance games ;)

GameBoy retro games to play online (on IPFS to stay there forever)

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