Denver, CO
Quoted from Russo121:Perhaps the licensing issues made them decide to release the nucore software as pinbox themselves, then claim someone else did it by informing otherwise oblivious pin2k owners that they would be chasing down the 'culprit' via a widely used pinball forum.
I think this is definitely possible.
1. Nucore and the Roms needed were/still are provided absolutely free with no software license.
2. It's perfectly legal to circumvent copy protection on something you own (so says the library of congress)...and since they offer the software free with no license involved, just by downloading it you "own" it.
3. The drama and cryptic messages about why Nucore shut their doors leads me to believe they harbored bad feelings over whatever happened, and they still had a desire to save pinball 2000.
Even if Nucore were to come back, and we all buy it as I know I plan to do (two of them actually). Pinbox is still the better product. Nucore requires a pointless piece of proprietary hardware, it makes very little sense to replace the prism card which is rare, with Nucore which is even more rare. From what I have seen, the USB hardware requirement was something forced on them by the rights holders when they got the license.
tl;dr I wouldn't be surprised at all if Nucore was completely behind Pinbox.
