first off correct me if im being incoherent or misunderstanding
im in the middle of doing something but wanna get this post off before to late
let's look at it this way
ng.com has some old carts for sale
if I just dl those roms
but buy the new games im supporting snkp
right?
imho WRONG
if you pump money into ng.com by buying old carts you are allowing shawn to be able to purchase and offer more new snkp games
so you are indirectly supporting snkp
even buying new games is indirect support
its not like snkp sees the 335 you are going to spend on svc
Ehh, not so true. You're talking about supporting Shawn and that's very different from supporting different re-sellers.
I've bought a few things off Shawn in the past, and I'm getting SvC off him, the man is one of those incredible sellers I was talking about earlier. But that doesn't mean I'm buying some of the other stuff he sells, it's too over priced for my liking. But like with any seller, when he's offering an item I want for the price I want, then I'll be there to pick it up.
And as for supporting a reseller so they can afford new releases to stock, that's a little backwards. If they want to take the risk in stocking things in order to sell them, that's what they do it's how you run a store.
Look at it this way, using Shawn as an example. It costs $XX,XXX amount of money to order a set of US SvC carts right? Reguardless of how good or bad the sales are of old stock you can be assure that Shawn (or any other smart retailer) will stock a good amount of SvC carts because they know that they will sell. It's all about what the market will support.
People who re-sell used games make a profit, and what ever the markup is over what they paid for it, that's their profit. Hell what if I were to own only a Neo-Geo AES, and all I wanted were the new releses. I own MS3, Sengoku 3 (lord knows why, but follow me on this), KOF2k1, 2k2, MS4, ROTD, and Matrimelee.
Am I now not supporting the scene and the new releases? Yet I haven't put a dime into the used game sales that people have here.
What if I have all those games, but I buy all my used games from individual sales in the selling forum? There is no indirect SNKP support there, just giving money to someone with a cart to sell.
And BTW, SNKP does see quite a few dimes from that $325 I spend on a new release. They make their money off of the initial sale of the cart to Shawn, who makes his investment back through my sale.
With old games, it's different, SNK made their profit off of it a long long time ago, now the only person who see's money from a $2000 Metal Slug AES sale is the reseller.
Let me clarify.
I still think it is disrespect.
If you buy a mame cabinet and just dl the romz while conciously(sp) knowing that you are not supporting resellers, snkp, the scene, whatever (they're all connected).
It is disrespect to those who took they're time putting it together, those legally purchasing/supporting the sellers, those selling the games, etc.
If you throw in buying the ports that opens up a whole new can of worms. But what you originally said I think was disrespect. Just my 2 cents.
Heh, yeah buying "teh portz" is that evil little way of showing monetary support but still sorta getting the "perfect version" of the game (through ROMZ).
But at the same time, it'd be the same thing as me not owning those games and only buying the ports, SNKP would have the same level of support from me and yet they have lost nothing.
Kinda why Capcom doesn't really care about shutting down MAME dev or rom distrobution sites. They've made their money off those games already and the new stuff they make isn't going to be emulated any time soon. I mean they're not selling any more copies of Alpha 3 anymore, all they can hope for from that title is to produce another fan of the series who will buy future products, and MAME will give them just that.
). But which one should I get, the NEO GEO version of SvC or should I wait for the PS2 version and save all that money? 
