Reproductions...Does Nintendo / Sega care?

[Tom]

I would suggest that of the $30 asking price, he may make $20 in profit per copy sold. Say 1,000 copies are sold, he may make $20,000.00 for the game.

More like $7-8. And I would be suprised if he sold 1,000 copies.

[Great Hierophant]

Hardly squeezing the fan base is it. He could make more money hawking newspapers on the street or turning tricks in Thailand.

[strat]

This repro thing makes it sort of aggravating to see the high prices "rare" games go on ebay; it wouldn't be that hard to change a more common NES game into a bootleg copy of Little Samson.

[strat]

I think it's pretty cut and dried: You create the content, you get to do what you like with it. I know there's a thread or two where Sivak asked about implementing ice, but come on now. The same could be said for 6502 tutorials and NES hardware docs.

In principle, I agree it wouldn't kill Sivak to share his technical knowledge. But most of what he knows has probably been covered here or somewhere like Nerdy Nights. Putting it together is a different beast from sharing a few algorithms.

[tepples]

Did you try writing Taito and asking when the company plans to bring it to Virtual Console?

[blargg]

In principle, I agree it wouldn't kill Sivak to share his technical knowledge. But most of what he knows has probably been covered here or somewhere like Nerdy Nights. Putting it together is a different beast from sharing a few algorithms.

From what I've seen, Battle Kid is mostly hard work designing a game, creating lots of levels to explore, and making it a buyable cartridge that's not a net loss to produce. That is, less NES-hardware-technical.