We discussed how to handle unfinished games a few months ago, and came to the conclusion that it is too difficult to handle.Įven so, even though you're able to play Starfox 2, you were never supposed to be. Rather, it is hard to draw a line for when a game is a beta, when it's a prototype and when it's just an unfinished mess of design documents. Tremulous Mods and Maps v.1.0 The tremmods project is a project who is attempting to provide documentation, downloads, and support for all tremulous mods. presumably because that chain of events involves a law being broken at some point, and we want to give the appearance of being upstanding and legitimate and not encouraging scurrilous piracy and the like?) homebrews, modified games and hong kong originalsĪlso things like playable demos of and leaked full or near-full copies of games that never made it to market - I can download and play Rock'n Shaolin: Legend of the Seven Paladins 3D, but until policy changes, will never be able to represent it here. I think there are some homebrew, "downloadable" Dreamcast games in the DB, as that system will run the cds without checking any kind of protection. I think the idea was to avoid listing games which only work in an emulation environment and have never seen proper play on the system. Because it won't run on the "off the shelf" hardware we don't list it. In most cases there is no way to boot from another type of media (or copied media) without modification to the console (also "unlicensed"). Why? Because the consoles traditionally needed to be booted from a game disc or cartridge (and usually checked the game disc to make sure it was legit). Until recently, most downloadable content for consoles did not run on the console hardware. The criteria of the database is that games have to run on the platform being described. I recently noted that we have an unspoken policy about console games only being accepted into the database if they are released in physical form.
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