hey fedi, what would be cool ways for people to access retro games if it were legal :3 like what out there solution would you do to save game preservation if it was enshrined in law

@j0 abolish ip law

personally i would fucking love to volunteer at a retro gaming library, modding consoles and stuff

@zebo ok. what next

@j0 im not sure what question youre asking

@zebo like how do you make sure the average person can setup an emulator or whatever. how do you make retro gaming as accessible as buying a book or a dvd

@zebo cos like most games can only be ran on like, dying hardware

@j0 A web player where each game has it's own page for playing it, reading manual scans, viewing old ads and other promotional material and any other information about the game.

Would also have pages for specific consoles, devs, publishers, franchises ect. and everything would be linked together so for example if you went to the page for Sonic the Hedgehog you could go to the page for the Mega Drive and from there get to say Rocket Knight Adventures.

@j0 I think a governed public old video game library is one of the coolest ideas ever.

@j0 i’d help out at a museum where people could see both final and prototype versions of games and give talks about them

like for instance i’d do a talk on glitches, speedrun tech, and in depth stuff that’s easy to understand but gets the point across well too

also a hands on area with a bunch of game consoles that allows a MASSIVE library of games including all the rare stuff, probably raspberry pi arcade cabinets and the works

anyways yeah i would KILL to do something like this because its dream interest and best job ever rolled into one, may have gone slightly off the topic but you know what i mean!! game museums please and thanks (alternatively retro game reproductions would be so cool too, and having laws that would mean that consoles would have to have backwards compatibility/access to emulated old games unless there’s a REALLY specific reason, and even then they should release the games that can’t be emulated as freeware)