#Vimms

[wordfromoursponsor]

"It's all I can do to drag myself through shopping. I just haven't the pep any more!" (ca. 1942)

[cchanticleer]

important RAD deeplore from the manual. yui dresses like that because she's a weeb. wiltz is fucking broke but he stuck around just for the love of the game. tomoe fucks. everyone knew that grandpa was Like That and hired him anyway

[xbuster]

Yeah, because Nintendo just never knew about Vimm’s Lair until now. You can’t pretend like it’s possible to keep the most popular direct download romsite that’s on the front page of Google when searching for ROMs a secret from Nintendo.

[three-dee-ess]

you shouldnt have this just Out There, loose lips sink ships and all, nintendo already hit vimm

I'm going to be honest w you. I think my 1000 or so Tumblr followers is nothing compared to the traffic a site like reddit gets

[gamenburger]

THIS IS THE THIRD ZINE JAM FOR THE GOBLIN BUNKER:

UnSanctioned ReCollection

Salvation by Emultion-Revolution thru ISOlation

In October, 20 people submitted zines and pages for one big magazine centering around emulation, piracy, and more. FREE and PLAYABLE IN BROWSER! Print versions and PDFs free to download as well.

Also free to distribute. Share with your friends, your enemies, everyone. Spread the word. Put it out there. I have never had the privilege of being a part of something this good. Enter the emulated world of a sensation you can no longer grasp.

[antirepurp]

you know i think im going to pirate nintendo's and sega's games out of spite from now on. im going to buy a hard drive at some point to specifically fill it with pirated games i'll never play. i'll download tears of the kingdom just to be a penis. fuck them

[splinkoplinko]

Things I don't like about Nintendo:

Making games impossible to play again (Vimm's Lair getting raided by a bunch of companies including Nintendo, online stores getting shut down by Nintendo, more than one subscription required for some NSO Virtual Consoles like Genesis, N64, and GBA, lack of regional translations and ports, etc.)

Taking down fan creations (fan games, mods, music remixes, gameplay videos, etc.)

Putting limits on the monetization of tournaments featuring their games (https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/63433/~/community-tournament-guidelines)

Shutting down online services for consoles that are still very popular and used frequently (3DS getting shut down recently.)

The Switch and a few of the more recent games on it being not that great (Pokemon especially, I'm pretty sure the Wii ran better and it's almost 17 years old.)

Now I know that Nintendo isn't the only one that does this. Microsoft, Sega, and Sony aren't that great with their older games (though some of those are better than others), but Nintendo is much worse and much more strict. Sega doesn't even make consoles anymore, and modding isn't as popular on PlayStation and Xbox platforms due to it being tricky, but their games that are on PC have had plenty of mods, and the companies have no issue with them. I've heard the Xbox Series X/S isn't too good, same with the PS5, though I haven't noticed whenever I used my friend's consoles, and I have an Xbox 1 and PS4. The consoles are also definitely better than their previous gens, which is hard to say with the Switch (hot take, I prefer the Wii U 💀).

[saliddressing]

Nintendo took down a ton of roms from Vimm's Lair and I cannot be more mad about it

[adisappointedmoose]

if nintendo says something "based" within the next two weeks i will take a big dump On their doorstep

[liquid-rat]

my cool friend vimm who invited me over today to show me their collection of 3ds games :3

[good-fwiend-in-wome]

may one billion trillion gorillion hydrogen bombs rain on the homes of everyone involved in taking down games from vimms lair

[wordfromoursponsor]

"Vimms give you ALL the vitamins named by doctors as desirable in the daily diet, and a proper balance of these vitamins as officially endorsed by medical committees." (1943)

[voidofz]

after years of hunting down the Coraline on ps2 game for a reasonable price to no avail, I finally caved and decided to get an emulator to enjoy the game.

i'm using Dolphin for mac, you can get it (and other emulators) on Vimm's Lair

then download Coraline for Wii from HERE

**if you get a message along the lines of "FIFO is overflowed by GatherPipe!" followed by the game crashing, then it means you have to disable dual core processing by clicking the "General" tab in the game's properties, then uncheck the "Enable Dual Core" box, save settings**

a little glitchy at times and learning the controls on the keyboard kinda sucks, but so far so good! if my mac bursts into flames, I will report back.

[pretty-pink-seaslug]

Guys i just started playing this game called magicians quest mysterious times ITS SO CUTE AND CHARMING SO FAR AAAAAA

I cant wait to progress more in the game!!!!! I've barely done anything at all (I literally just have the beige closet sitting alone in my dorm lol) but I am STOKED I really cant believe this game isnt popular

[gamenburger]

UNSANCTIONED RECOLLECTION: PRINT RUN!

Remember when I helped put together that zine?

Well its getting a print run!!!!!! Hand cut, printed myself, and shipped myself right to YOU! 76 pages of pure, glossy goodness! Articles, comics, fiction, and multimedia fun! All around piracy, emulation, games, AND MORE! Its priced as close to cost as i can do without committing tax fraud! Which is 7 Us bucks and whatever it costs to ship to you! Final thing should be a bit under 8.5"x11". I would make it larger but im restricted by the tools i have available! This is a limited run since its not entirely my own stuff in here and so i have purpopsefully done this so i dont make a profit lol Taking payments through donations on Kofi!! currently have a bunch of order already lined up! Please pick one up or share it for a friend! Consider spreading it, or at least spread the free link i posted to read it online!

[mediumcutsteak]

I think the most interesting thing we learned when Vimms lair got targeted by the takedown bots is that we learned definitively what games and franchises matter. Mario matters obviously, but Wario can get by (sorry to Wario land 1 for having the subtitle Super Mario Land 3). Castlevania and MGS are gone, but you can still get Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon. Every Metroid scrubbed away, even the ones no one really wants to play, but we can keep Pikmin, the franchise that just had a massive recurrence in the public eye. Monster Hunter and Megaman burnt to ash, but Street Fighter, the eternal most popular fighting game series/not popular enough overall series can be worth crushing. Not even Kirby, Nintendo's only real yearly franchise was worth scrubbing away. It doesn't matter how good or popular the series is if it isn't THE series. I'm not saying I want them taken down god no, but I do think its interesting and sad that despite most definitely just throwing names into a bot to send out auto take downs, these games and franchises didn't matter to do THAT much. THATS how little anything these corporations """create""" matters to them. Not even worth destroying with a flick of a finger.