Nintendo's policy rings especially brutal when you consider that, really, they're just hoarding these programs. Apart from drip-feeding Nintendo Online users obscure NES and SNES games every month - despite the fact that most people that are interested have probably played them to death *on* emulators - there's no sign of Nintendo actually making much use of its back-catalogue. But for a lazy port of Mario 64, we're not really seeing any sign that the catalogue they fought so hard to "protect" is actually going anywhere. It might go a long way to restoring some goodwill in those who utilised roms to tap into their nostalgia or preserve Nintendo's games if they released games wholesale on their NO platform. Including, en masse, Gameboy, GBC, and Gameboy Advance games. If NO, an otherwise pretty empty online presence, provided access to full catalogues of past games - in the vein of their old Virtual Console - it would be far more enticing and a good reward for those of us who have stuck with it. If they want to keep N64 and Gamecube games back to continue their policy of re-releasing old games at high prices (i.e. the entire WiiU catalogue, or Super Mario 3D world for £50) then they can do that, I guess. But I don't see much of a reason not to let Nintendo fans and users access the back catalogue of 2D/portable games. On one hand, the preservation of games is better when tried in the public imagination/sphere. On the other, if they worked so hard to remove all reference of Nintendo emulation and roms, the least they could do is let us enjoy them in a Nintendo-mandated way (which, given NO is the only real avenue for that, would be paid) rather than keeping them in a virtual vault, ready to play on gamers' nostalgia, as if they're Disney in the 2000s hoarding VHS tapes.