New distribution system for Jotego cores
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Re: New distribution system for Jotego cores
Think of JT as an excellent bong maker. There is nothing illegal about making and selling bongs. What you use those bongs for is up to you, and it's not JT's fault if you use his magnificent bongs to smoke illicit substances.
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Re: New distribution system for Jotego cores
I am so sure I replied to this already but I can't see my post... well from what I understand patreons will still have to go and download a new key and put it on their SD card for every new beta release, so this is not going to automate them getting and being able to play the cores by running update all. There is still a manual download step for them.ByteMavericks wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 10:26 am Any ideas how keys will be distributed to patrons? Couldn’t see anything about it on patreon. Looks a good idea to me, but I do see a lot of people asking why core x doesn’t allow them to play it![]()
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Re: New distribution system for Jotego cores
It is supposed to be this week. As JT releases beta versions on Friday it could be the day.
This Friday some Sega System 16 arcades should be in beta.
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Re: New distribution system for Jotego cores
You're either very slow on understanding or being a troll. Jotego's (and all MiSTer developer's) scripts are perfectly legal. It is NOT illegal to create an emulator. People get paid to create emulators all the time. It is legal and you can pay someone to do that work, via Patreon for example.C-R-T wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 10:39 amThe script is downloading copyrighted files that you have to pay Jotego to use, but those files copyrights do not belong to Jotego. How is that not paying for piracy?XtraSmiley wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 4:42 amNo, he's creating a core through reverse engineering. The money goes to him to help develop these cores. He's the right person, if you want to support him. It's only weird because you are trying to be a smart-ass about it, but you shouldn't.
If you are downloading shit that you don't own, you might be a pirate! Arrrr matey!
Do note, I don’t give a crap. I am strongly in favor of piracy in all aspects, but piracy shouldn’t be for profit.
Downloading ROMs you don't own, or doing so without paying the copywriter holder is illegal.
This update will allow you to download Jotego's cores for free. If you want to access the use of the cores, you'll have to join his Patreon or wait until he releases it for free, which he has always done!
I'm not sure what is so hard to understand about this?
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Re: New distribution system for Jotego cores
19 year old video games typically don't have EULA in software, additionally just because something has an EULA doesn't mean the EULA is legally binding. IANAL either, but I have just kept up with this stuff for a couple decades. Honestly, every single person patching a game hasn't been sued as far as I can tell, ever, except for the early pioneers (Missile Command difficulty hack done by modders in the 80's who were selling their modding services to arcades, and they weren't going to lose the lawsuit anyways).gibs wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 7:12 amhttps://reverseengineering.stackexchang ... s-old-gameXtraSmiley wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 4:42 amNo, he's creating a core through reverse engineering. The money goes to him to help develop these cores. He's the right person, if you want to support him. It's only weird because you are trying to be a smart-ass about it, but you shouldn't.
If you are downloading shit that you don't own, you might be a pirate! Arrrr matey!
You are confused.C-R-T wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 10:39 amThe script is downloading copyrighted files that you have to pay Jotego to use, but those files copyrights do not belong to Jotego. How is that not paying for piracy?XtraSmiley wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 4:42 amNo, he's creating a core through reverse engineering. The money goes to him to help develop these cores. He's the right person, if you want to support him. It's only weird because you are trying to be a smart-ass about it, but you shouldn't.
If you are downloading shit that you don't own, you might be a pirate! Arrrr matey!
Do note, I don’t give a crap. I am strongly in favor of piracy in all aspects, but piracy shouldn’t be for profit.
Jotego develops a reverse engineered hardware emulator of the system that a video game runs on. This is not illegal to do. Reverse engineering of game systems and even games has been publicly litigated in multiple countries and the overwhelmingly majority of times has sided in favor of the person reverse engineering it... And the specific way he's doing this (not looking at source code, etc...) allows him to be basically legally in the right.
He does not supply the roms. The roms are the copyrighted content. If he were, then your comment would make sense, but he's not, so your comment doesn't make sense.
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Re: New distribution system for Jotego cores
Forget the Patreon. Let me introduce to you supporter system designed specially for the JT Cores:
Every JT fans should support this system. I believe it's fair in aspects of both original playing methodology and supporting JT. BTW, JT can change the rates anytime he wishes, please don't panic if you think rates are too low in terms of the supporting JT.
- JT Beta cores can be DL'ed free.
- Playing with cores will be mandatory to input your credit card.
- Every coin in the core charged as $1 via your credit card.
- JT Final cores can be DL'ed free (like always).
- Playing with cores will be mandatory to input your credit card.
- Every coin in the core charged as $2 via your credit card.
Every JT fans should support this system. I believe it's fair in aspects of both original playing methodology and supporting JT. BTW, JT can change the rates anytime he wishes, please don't panic if you think rates are too low in terms of the supporting JT.
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As a Patreon supporter of Jotego's work, I have to admit, I'm partial to the mindset that if it isn't broken, don't F with it! The current method just keeps everything neat & tidy. Why introduce more hassle?
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Wow! Jotego is implementing a cycle-accurate recreation of the coin system in arcades???dawshan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 2:34 pm Forget the Patreon. Let me introduce to you supporter system designed specially for the JT Cores:
- JT Beta cores can be DL'ed free.
- Playing with cores will be mandatory to input your credit card.
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- Every coin in the core charged as $1 via your credit card.
- JT Final cores can be DL'ed free (like always).
- Playing with cores will be mandatory to input your credit card.
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- Every coin in the core charged as $2 via your credit card.
Every JT fans should support this system. I believe it's fair in aspects of both original playing methodology and supporting JT. BTW, JT can change the rates anytime he wishes, please don't panic if you think rates are too low in terms of the supporting JT.
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The current system before this change is technically more of a hassle than this beta key version, to the end user. Manually going in and deleting the previous core, manually updating the _Arcade folder, and all that is more work than just updating the key file in /games/mame/
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Re: New distribution system for Jotego cores
I used to quite like faffing with all the beta stuff though. Made it seem as though I was getting something for my trouble. I don't use update all anyway. First time I did I didn't realise the name.txt was going to overwrite my own edited one and since then I like to be in control of what gets overwritten. Just me though I guess.
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Jotego's updater doesn't actually grab the ROMs, right? It's the update_all script, which integrates his updater.
As nice as the update_all script grabbing the arcade ROMs is, I do think it's problematic that it does so. Much like emulators, the scripts should only be distributing the cores.
As nice as the update_all script grabbing the arcade ROMs is, I do think it's problematic that it does so. Much like emulators, the scripts should only be distributing the cores.
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what about if someone has paid patreon for let's say 6 months and then decide to stop, he will loose access after eol of the beta.zip file (I read 1 time per month) because udpate_all script will overwrite things ?
today we can stop but continue to use beta things we got so far and that seems fair for me ortherwise this is not just an update method change but that'll become a pay as a service economical model.
today we can stop but continue to use beta things we got so far and that seems fair for me ortherwise this is not just an update method change but that'll become a pay as a service economical model.
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Re: New distribution system for Jotego cores
hear hear,
This is a marketing type of stunt surely, which might increase his Patreon income but is a risk, as I see many people jumping ship at the same time.
I for one, being already JT's patron, resent the prospect of the update_all script messing up my storage, as he is known for setting his particular folder hierarchy (see: _Alternatives to _alt for example).
Also, this peculiar introduction of a DRM scheme to the MiSTer project, shall not end well regarding things as a whole![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif)
This is a marketing type of stunt surely, which might increase his Patreon income but is a risk, as I see many people jumping ship at the same time.
I for one, being already JT's patron, resent the prospect of the update_all script messing up my storage, as he is known for setting his particular folder hierarchy (see: _Alternatives to _alt for example).
Also, this peculiar introduction of a DRM scheme to the MiSTer project, shall not end well regarding things as a whole
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Re: New distribution system for Jotego cores
As I understand it Jotego is working with theypsilon to integrate this as an optional feature into the update_all script - defaulting to off. As such it is not going to affect a non-Patreon, unless they specifically turn it on themselves. It's just there to make the whole beta process simpler for his patrons (me included to be clear).
@taz07rx I do see your point about the enduring access - but all Jotego's cores seem to have ended up public eventually, so I think long-term it's not a big deal for me.
@taz07rx I do see your point about the enduring access - but all Jotego's cores seem to have ended up public eventually, so I think long-term it's not a big deal for me.
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Re: New distribution system for Jotego cores
But this is the purpose of update_all. If you don't like a script downloading the roms you can use another script. Update_all is the script that besides combining different core updater scripts also updates the arcade roms.Sarge wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 6:35 pm Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Jotego's updater doesn't actually grab the ROMs, right? It's the update_all script, which integrates his updater.
As nice as the update_all script grabbing the arcade ROMs is, I do think it's problematic that it does so. Much like emulators, the scripts should only be distributing the cores.
You are free to use the normal update script and the jotego update script these scripts won't download the roms.
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Re: New distribution system for Jotego cores
You can use the update all script and disable mame and hbmame getters as the script provides an easy menu to do that. For example on my MISTer I disabled BIOS Getter and Names TXT Updater.
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I like the functionality, and yeah, the options to disable the download are there. From a legal standpoint it's not great, but I didn't realize that the MAME-GETTER stuff is also a separate script that's part of it, like Jotego's stuff. Good to know in the future.
So basically, yeah, if you use the update_all script, just be aware of what you're getting into.
So basically, yeah, if you use the update_all script, just be aware of what you're getting into.
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License key for FPGA cores? This kinda makes me want to end my support on Patreon
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I also retract my statement.
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I also retract my statement.
It is my great regret that we live in an age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of people who try to.
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Yes. Update-all is just a meta-script that downloads and runs other scripts. one of those is the jotego updater script.Sarge wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 6:35 pm Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Jotego's updater doesn't actually grab the ROMs, right? It's the update_all script, which integrates his updater.
As nice as the update_all script grabbing the arcade ROMs is, I do think it's problematic that it does so. Much like emulators, the scripts should only be distributing the cores.
I don't know why people started talking about jotego's script downloading roms in here, it doesn't.
Effectively how is it any different than the way it was before? This is just for the beta cores which were already behind a paywall on patreon. You previously downloaded the beta core from patreon, now the beta core is downloaded with jtupdater and the key to unlock it is downloaded from patreon.
The only thing I don't like about it in all seriousness is the adware functionality redirecting people to patreon.
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The update_all script needs this to be disabled by default and "opt-in" by the patreon support themselves .. so these beta cores that require a key are NOT downloaded by default.. put up instructions on the patreon page how to turn it on and opt-in and setup your key ..
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And this is exactly how it is done:ericgus09 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 4:34 amThe update_all script needs this to be disabled by default and "opt-in" by the patreon support themselves .. so these beta cores that require a key are NOT downloaded by default.. put up instructions on the patreon page how to turn it on and opt-in and setup your key ..
https://twitter.com/topapate/status/1403215950548197379
"You will be able to download betas via the update_all script. But you will have to enable the feature manually.
Thanks to theYpsilon for adding support to this on his script."
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How is this any different to paying patreon to unlock access to beta cores?
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Jotego says this option is disabled by default. It can be enabled from the Jotego cores section in update_all. If you run the script via SSH, be sure to run this before update_all.sh command:
Otherwise update_all.ini new settings will be saved in the current directory (/root) and will not be applied when the script runs.
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cd /media/fat/Scripts
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It is about the spirit and philosophy associated with MiSTer and FPGA cores.
I absolutely agree that each contributor should be free to monitize their work. I also agree that reverse engineering is not the same as paying someone for access to core ROMs. So all good there.
What I do disagree with is embedding, what is effectively, digital rights management into the actual cores that will be physically present on hardware; and then distributing it as such via the MiSTer update script. I, for one, do not want to "pollute" my system with cores I need conditional access to.
I'm also working on my own core (admittedly a long term project based on work, family and study commitments) but once done, I will freely contribute it as "payment" for enjoying the work of others. Which I believe is in the spirit of the MiSTer project.
For those who cannot build their own cores, if they wish to support particular developers....well, there are ways to do that other than a digital rights management feature.
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Re: New distribution system for Jotego cores
But it is not distributed via the MiSTer update script. Update_all is a different script that is not the default script for updating your MiSTer.antonie wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 8:55 am What I do disagree with is embedding, what is effectively, digital rights management into the actual cores that will be physically present on hardware; and then distributing it as such via the MiSTer update script. I, for one, do not want to "pollute" my system with cores I need conditional access to.
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I am happy about the feature ending up as an opt-in option on the update_all script. Not disturbing the majority of the community by default and enabling an easier way to update betas for patreons.
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And you have to turn on an option to download the beta cores from jotego. You won't be "polluting" your system unless you go in and turn that option on. And only if you're using update_all, not the MiSTer update script.
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Being an option turned off by default as he already says, I don´t see the point for the drama. Those who are actual patreons will work as always with a new tool that help them downloading the beta stuff -cores, mras, roms...-, but everything else is untouched. Nobody will download anything at all if they don´t want to.
I see it very reasonable.
I see it very reasonable.
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These cores will be 100% free when complete, and you won't have any of these BETA cores/ROMs in your MiSTer system unless you specifically go out of your way to gather them by enabling an alternate update script to include these specific cores. Nothing has changed other than current Patreon subscribers have a handier method to update their MiSTer. Trying to paint this as some ethically corrupt tactic that is against the open-source ethos of the MiSTer project holds absolutely no water, and comes across as hyperbolic.