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how legal are emulators and Roms
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Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:09 pmby Strawb
I just read from nintendo they are illegal and we are not allowed to have them. So stuff like a super key and any emulators on computers are illegal. Here is an interesting fact all games are copyrighted under us law for 75 years.
Re: how legal are emulators and Roms
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Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:13 pmby smac
US Law doesn't cover us, as far as I know, however I believe that you cannot own a ROM for a game unless you have purchased the rights - usually by owning the original game on a console, or by buying an old arcade machine with the ROM included.
Happy to be proven wrong.
Re: how legal are emulators and Roms
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Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:32 pmby Strawb
according to nintendo even that isn't allow smac.
http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#romsprovides all the information needed
Re: how legal are emulators and Roms
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Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:59 pmby smac
See - this is me happy after being proven wrong!
Interesting attitude that they have to piracy though, much more matter of fact than the movie/music crowd.
Re: how legal are emulators and Roms
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Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:29 pmby smithy
Are we talking MAME here ?
Re: how legal are emulators and Roms
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Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:41 amby smac
smithy wrote:Are we talking MAME here ?
That's the most widely known one smithy, but there are stacks of them. I can even get a SNES emulator for my mobile phone!
Re: how legal are emulators and Roms
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Sat Dec 08, 2007 1:16 pmby Strawb
I will not admit to how many I have i am a nerd
Re: how legal are emulators and Roms
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Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:37 amby zipzap
Somewhere on a couple of CD-Rs I have every Sega Mega Drive / Genesis game ever made. Sounds like fun doesn't it...it isn't