Nah, I'm good.
 

LOL, yeah my thoughts exactly. 

 

I googled Scott Stilphen just to have some fun and the first thing that pops up is an anti-Scott bit. Hopefully someone finds that amusing
 

I'm sort of a noob on this scene so I'm feeling my way around this debate. Is this about a situation you have a prototype of an unreleased game (or maybe a game that was released but the prototype is different to what came out?) which has not been dumped on the internet, or maybe even dumped at all. So if you want to play this software you HAVE to have the prototype and there is no other way to do it...and this guy is arguing that if you take said prototype and make the game on it available to all on the web, the prototype does not lose value, even though it has now been rendered functionally useless and only has value, albeit significant, as part of a collection. It doesn't do anything unique any more.

So I've got in my hands a NES cart which has Zelda III - Link's Banana Odyssey (or whatever). It's a full game but unreleased for some reason and only I have it. Millions of people across the world want what I have so they can play the game. If I dump the ROM on the internet then 99% of those people don't need me or my cart any more, they can all play the game for free and the only residual value is to hardcore collectors. And the value does not go down???

Is that it?

Let me get this right, you own Zelda III - Link's Banana Odyssey?!!!

OMG give me da romz!

Show me the money

Call me a tosser but this is not a bad question for those of us not up on this sort of thing.

Zing!
 

Yes, in a nutshell, that's the other guy's (not DreamTR) argument. That prototypes, dumped or not, always retain full value.
 

Wow, that guy is a complete idiot! There are always people in this hobby that think they know everything. I've seen in in small scale before, but never seen someone with the massive idiocy of that guy....

Common Logic says that if there is only one/2/3 known copy(s) of something that it will be worth much more than if there is a way to get it free. In his thinking Rockstar could basically release the next GTA to bittorrent and not loose a sale.

He's still going at it. The last response was even more hilarious, trying to turn stuff on me personally without reading previous posts. Sheesh.

Wow...

Now that's entertainment!

I like how he thinks using your real name which is right out in the open is going give him an edge in the argument.

Kamikawa...? Is that the guy who programmed Dragon Hopper? LOL.

I know the guy's website. Apparently he was also involved with Super Metroid, and all the Paper Mario games. Still employed with Nintendo/IntSys, but never said much about Dragon Hopper except a vague passing post on his forum.