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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (11 children)

People are buying them?

. . why?

[–] raina@sopuli.xyz 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It's a nice, cheap, easy and legal way of obtaining the ROMs to play on flash carts, emulators and FPGA systems.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I mean. An RPi and a retropie image is nice, cheap, and easy and it gives much more than a Steam bundle. Plus the legality of paying Steam for a bundled version is - tenuous, at best. Most of those companies haven't existed for decades and it's not like the authors are getting royalties anyway.

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