Originally Posted by
marktuson
I'm not bitching about people not dumping their cartridges; I'm bitching about the way people are bitching at each other, and at me. Where I came from, we just had a four-year-long war, so I'm very used to people telling me it isn't going to happen - actually to the point where I've all but lost interest in collecting beta software. So I came here because I was interested in seeing beta/prototype versions of some of the games I like to play. Seems like that was a mistake too, eh?
Yes: at BETAArchive we have people who paid for stuff, but they generally leak it to the other members after a period (about 2 months or so) of time. The software doesn't get to be worth significantly less, because the number of original copies hasn't increased. And unless I'm very much mistaken, it's much more difficult to make up a NES cartridge than it is to bang off a CD and print "Microsoft Windows 'Chicago' version 4.00.56" onto it, so there wouldn't be any great risk of people faking copies of the games.
So, I'm sorry for asking about a couple of things and for being a bit sensitive to Internet bitching. Nobody's been any help with anything I've asked about, anyway. I only wanted to ask; if someone had just said "if you look hard enough, you'll find it" to me then I would have gone off and looked for it, and probably found it. But as it is, I'll just have to resume my searches on the Internet until I find something.
Wow.