It may be technically illegal for me to play 10 Yard Fight on my computer instead of using the cartridge I own, but any reasonable person can see that it's not doing them any good to stop me. I believe that second assertion is arguable under US copyright law, but in any case the argument that ROMs of archaic games in all forms are bad, while 100% understandable from a legal standpoint, is asinine in reality. They are, however, saying that they have no legitimate use, since a ROM in any form, including of a game you already own, is illegal. This was determined conclusively by the the VGS case where Connectix cleanroom reverse-engineered the Playstation ROM.
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And after reading that, no, they're not saying that emulators are illegal-that's just plain wrong unless they utilize a copy of copyrighted ROM code from the console. but I won't care, because doing it on a proper TV and legitimately would be so worth it.Ĭlick to expand.Interesting link. If so, THEN downloaded ROMs would be difficult to call abandonware anymore. I'd heard rumor (or fact? I've been out of it for a long time) that the Wii will allow you to download and play classic NES and SNES games on it. There's a legit abandonware argument to be made here. Then again, if YOU can show me where to buy a copy of, say, MetalStorm for the NES, then I'd really be impressed. Now, I admit that's not how most emulators are used.
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Takes 10 seconds to fire up an emulator on my computer, however, and again if I own the cart, it's not even illegal to have the ROM. There are times I'd like to play one of them, but frankly the hassle of digging the thing out, cleaning the contacts, and hooking it up to my TV all to play a game for 10 minutes just isn't worth it. This is not a hypothetical situation, I might add-I, for example, have an NES and a box of games in a closet. And ROMs aren't illegal either if you own the game.