Hi,
This question is directed at owners of the few original protos and repros knocking around. Would you be bothered if the ROM image was released to the public? The obvious point is that it devalues the repros and protos that are floating around but that's inevitable the minute that they start to change hands its only a matter of time before people duplicate the game and sell it, or someone else dumps and releases it to all. I wanted to start a conversation here to see what people think (without getting into major arguments please, lets keep this a logical discussion).
When I mentioned I had dumped EOTB a few people threw words like 'pirating' into conversations I had with them etc, which is irrelevant in the context here imo, as not one person on these forums has the legal right to the copy they own - excepting that possibly Harry or whoever got the original version was 'given' it from someone else. The ROM image was never commercially released, it will never be commercially released on the Lynx, and there are only 3 or 4 (possibly only 1!) original prototype that came from someone close to the developer, and since then from what ive learnt from other people and researching these forums is that Harry or someone made a very small number of duplicates and from there people like Lance and Eric then distributed to the wider audience, possibly 20 each, meaning there are probably less than 50 in existance.
Clearly the presidence was that Lance and Eric could freely produce the game and sell it, the overall community didnt have a problem with that approach but it leads me to the next question, if it isnt released to the public will we see more sales from Lance or Eric or someone else?
Incidentally, EOTB is in my opinion the best Lynx game released, it's a deep excellent conversion from its big brother the Amiga, this is part of the reason why I feel it should be released but as I said I take everyones views into account here.
This question is directed at owners of the few original protos and repros knocking around. Would you be bothered if the ROM image was released to the public? The obvious point is that it devalues the repros and protos that are floating around but that's inevitable the minute that they start to change hands its only a matter of time before people duplicate the game and sell it, or someone else dumps and releases it to all. I wanted to start a conversation here to see what people think (without getting into major arguments please, lets keep this a logical discussion).
When I mentioned I had dumped EOTB a few people threw words like 'pirating' into conversations I had with them etc, which is irrelevant in the context here imo, as not one person on these forums has the legal right to the copy they own - excepting that possibly Harry or whoever got the original version was 'given' it from someone else. The ROM image was never commercially released, it will never be commercially released on the Lynx, and there are only 3 or 4 (possibly only 1!) original prototype that came from someone close to the developer, and since then from what ive learnt from other people and researching these forums is that Harry or someone made a very small number of duplicates and from there people like Lance and Eric then distributed to the wider audience, possibly 20 each, meaning there are probably less than 50 in existance.
Clearly the presidence was that Lance and Eric could freely produce the game and sell it, the overall community didnt have a problem with that approach but it leads me to the next question, if it isnt released to the public will we see more sales from Lance or Eric or someone else?
Incidentally, EOTB is in my opinion the best Lynx game released, it's a deep excellent conversion from its big brother the Amiga, this is part of the reason why I feel it should be released but as I said I take everyones views into account here.