I would love to see a game store.
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It would be great to see a game marketplace for some indy or mainstream games. I would be willing to pay a few bucks for some good games that are not really emulated or free ported like Axiom Verge, Ori, Dust, Braid, swapper, etc.
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@mviars We would all love to see a game store for roms. If you can convince nintendo and the rightsholders to set that up you'd win the award of the century in video game advancement. The fact that there isn't a rom store is the reason projects like RetroPie exist.
The raspberry pi foundation has (had?) a store of sorts for pi based games if you're into that kind of thing. Sega also sells some roms on steam that work on the emulators retropie ships with.
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That is not exactly what I'm saying. No ROMS for emulators. I said Indy type games and games that have many ports like the ones I mentioned that the single or small developer can charge a small one time fee and still give us a quality product. In fact I never mentioned roms at all.
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Seems the pi foundation tried it to some extent:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/introducing-the-pi-store/
https://www.raspberrypi.org/pi-store-shutdown/
Didn't last long though. A cool idea if enough developers got behind it though.
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Their reason for shutdown is a bit vague. looks like some law changed in some part of the world and caused their revenue to dwindle. Too bad but maybe one day someone will figure it out.
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