MAME Ported To the Dingoo A320 44
Busshy writes "Slaanesh has released a port of MAME for the Dingoo A320 (the console that comes with GBA, SNES, CPS1 and Megadrive emulators built-in), with support for thousands of old arcade games. You will have to install Dingoo Linux to be able to use MAME on the Dingoo. Some tutorial videos are available."
What a little more relaxed copyright can achieve (Score:3, Interesting)
We will never see a device with this variety of games - and this variety of games that older, more affluent gamers already know - in US. Instead companies are holding on to - or neglecting - old copyrights where they could be making decent money from products they haven't touched for 20 years. We need a system that only supports copyright owners who do something about their creation. Much shorter duration (that gets reset for derivative works, such as port to a new platform) and compulsory licensing of commercially abandoned products would do wonders for both creativity and wallets.
Re:What a little more relaxed copyright can achiev (Score:4, Interesting)
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are making plenty of money selling their old games as console downloads
Not the highly-demanded titles. You'll probably never see Earthbound on Virtual Console, and the commonly given reason is that it would take too long to clean out all the Beatles references. Sony, maker of PlayStation gaming products, owns half the publishing interest in the Beatles catalog.
Re:And this is /. news because? (Score:2, Interesting)
No, it's on Slashdot because it's something people like me are intersted in, and it's..uh...news. I'd never even heard of this thing before, and now I want one. It's always easier to move your finger slightly to scroll past something you're not interested in than to bother posting something irrelevant.