Advocates argue that once the eShop closed, many games became abandonware – no legal purchase method exists for hundreds of DSiWare titles and 3DS exclusives. Physical cartridges degrade, and the used market prices skyrocket.
The megathread peaked in as users scrambled to back up the entire 3DS library before Nintendo’s servers went read-only. It was framed by archivists as a “digital library of Alexandria” for handheld games. 3. Structure of the Megathread (Example Snapshot) A typical entry looked like: 3ds rom megathread
Dumping your own 3DS cartridges for personal backup is arguably legal in some jurisdictions (e.g., US DMCA exemptions for obsolete platforms). But downloading from a megathread is not. Advocates argue that once the eShop closed, many
Advocates argue that once the eShop closed, many games became abandonware – no legal purchase method exists for hundreds of DSiWare titles and 3DS exclusives. Physical cartridges degrade, and the used market prices skyrocket.
The megathread peaked in as users scrambled to back up the entire 3DS library before Nintendo’s servers went read-only. It was framed by archivists as a “digital library of Alexandria” for handheld games. 3. Structure of the Megathread (Example Snapshot) A typical entry looked like:
Dumping your own 3DS cartridges for personal backup is arguably legal in some jurisdictions (e.g., US DMCA exemptions for obsolete platforms). But downloading from a megathread is not.
