Originally Posted by
Bojay1997
This is going to be a constant back-and-forth I see, so I'm just going to leave one last post for this thread and let people make their own judgement.
Some facts about this situation:
*These are not authorized by the original publishing/trademark/copyright/IP rights holders- statements made to me personally during phone calls that I have made inquiring about them. I also supplied the companies with necessary information that they asked for, such as the Good Deal Games' URL address.
What companies did you specifically speak to regarding these games? In the case of Battle Frenzy for example, the two companies in questions that held the rights, Acclaim and Domark have both since folded and the IP was purchased by successor companies. Acclaim's rights are primarily held by a Canadian mobile game developer and Domark's rights are owned by Square-Enix as part of the Eidos acquisition. Sega never owned any rights to this game as far as I can tell.
*The packaging of these completely lack what would make them official, such as listing the proper copyright and trademark information.
There is no legal requirement that copyright or trademark information appear on any packaging. While this requirement is often built into licensing deals, it certainly is not mandatory that it be included.
*These are not 100% guaranteed to work on the systems that they claim to work on due to the fact that they are burned to CD-Rs rather than being factory-pressed discs based off of the proprietary pressing methods of the original manufacturing plants.
There are new Sega Dreamcast games being released legally on a fairly regular basis that are not 100% guaranteed to work with the original hardware, are contained on CD-Rs and which require booting using an external device or boot disc. Nothing unusual or illegal about this.
*Statements on the packaging of these games state that these releases are not endorsed or affiliated with the companies that own the IP/trademark/copyright/etc. rights.
As I noted above, there is nothing requiring someone licensing rights to credit the original rights holders. In some cases, the original rights holders would prefer not to be associated with a product because they don't want to be responsible for any customer service or warranty issues.
*There are several white knights on this forum insisting that Good Deal Games have the licenses to produce these copies, but provide no form of proof whatsoever.
You're the one that came on here making the claims. You're the one who hasn't provided a single shred of proof other than ill-informed speculation by someone who obviously has no legal background.
I will not post anymore in this thread.
Great. Hopefully a mod will lock and delete the whole thing as your contribution here was completely worthless.