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Bleem, the company that helped make emulation legal, is being resurrected and teases "the largest retro gaming project" (gbatemp.net)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Over two decades ago, a small company by the name of Bleem! appeared and offered a unique product in the gaming market, the ability to play PlayStation games outside of the original hardware, in what would be popularly known as "emulation" worldwide, be it in Windows PCs at the time (Windows 95...

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[–] delticus 10 points 5 days ago

It just sounds like some random company (piko interactive?) is trying to use bleem's corpse in order to... Something lol. The page doesn't really say much but my gut instinct says grift for now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Now, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time...

After getting hooked on Metal Gear: Solid, without owning a Playstation, Bleem helped me get by.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Nintendo has entered the chat

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The ".net" makes me think it would be some online service that runs on remote servers or ties you to some online platform without any real gain other than just to increase their level of control over the customer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Phew, for a second there I was thinking of Microsoft .NET

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

oh sorry, maybe that's why I got downvotes. Just to be clear: I was talking about it being "bleem.net" vs just "bleem".

That rebranding does not bode good, imho.

To me, one of the things that make emulation interesting is that it's released from DRM. If it turns out it's an attempt to lock things to an online platform you might as well just play many of the retro indies that are available on Steam.