Topic général NeoGeo

NewYorker a écrit:As collectors have become savvier about counterfeits, the bootleggers, the majority of whom are based in France and Germany, have become more up-front about their wares. Demand for rare titles is such that many players will knowingly spend hundreds of dollars on a fake grail, just to plug a gap in their collection. Today, most bootleggers don’t bother to use original chips. They simply use modern off-the-shelf parts, onto which the game’s files are loaded. “The experience is identical,” one French bootlegger told me. When I spoke with Puttirungsriwong, he seemed sympathetic to the completist impulse, but Oda was mortified. “I do hate the people making these pirate versions,” he said.