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Roms and emulaters?
Topic Started: Feb 12 2006, 10:41 PM (445 Views)
hyruleking
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Are they legal? Some guy keeps telling me they are and from what I know... they arnt.
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Seth
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They are not allowed.
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hyruleking
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Alright thanks.
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Blackyoshi (PM)
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Emulators are FreeWare Made By small groups of people THERE NOT COpyright material, and there's no where in the TOS that says, Emulators Are not allowed!

ROMS ARE ILLEGAL! however. you got one right
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hyruleking
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Blackyoshi
February 12, 2006 09:45 PM
Emulators are FreeWare Made By small groups of people THERE NOT COpyright material, and there's no where in the TOS that says, Emulators Are not allowed!

ROMS ARE ILLEGAL! however. you got one right

Well.. if you download an emulater what are you gonna play on it?

EDIT:Are emulaters legal?
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pangolin123
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Emulators are not illegal, but roms are illegal. If i am not wrong, I think if you own the original game, you can download the rom and use it.
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pangolin123
February 12, 2006 08:53 PM
I think if you own the original game, you can download the rom and use it.

Even if you own the game, the rom is illegal

http://www.nintendo.com/corp/faqs/legal.ht...20an%20emulator


There is a good deal of misinformation on the Internet regarding the backup/archival copy exception. It is not a "second copy" rule and is often mistakenly cited for the proposition that if you have one lawful copy of a copyrighted work, you are entitled to have a second copy of the copyrighted work even if that second copy is an infringing copy. The backup/archival copy exception is a very narrow limitation relating to a copy being made by the rightful owner of an authentic game to ensure he or she has one in the event of damage or destruction of the authentic. Therefore, whether you have an authentic game or not, or whether you have possession of a Nintendo ROM for a limited amount of time, i.e. 24 hours, it is illegal to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet.
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pangolin123
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Sorry abt that..Now i know its illegal to use them.. :)
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Thanks, I was wondering about this in the past
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pangolin123
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Therefore, whether you have an authentic game or not, or whether you have possession of a Nintendo ROM for a limited amount of time, i.e. 24 hours, it is illegal to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet.


That means, we can download the roms and delete them in 24 hrs, they can't blame us for illegal use of roms. I remember some roms sites have this warning in the front page of their site.
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pangolin123
February 12, 2006 09:51 PM
That means, we can download the roms and delete them in 24 hrs, they can't blame us for illegal use of roms. I remember some roms sites have this warning in the front page of their site.

No, you read that wrong. It is illegal to even be in posession of a ROM on your computer, no matter how long. Those websites that give the "24 hour" warning are just trying to sound legit.

I'm not going to say I've never played NES ROMs, though. :r
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if Nintendo says roms of any type are illegal, then why do they have a rom dl page? Why do the sell flash GBA cards?
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