Just wondering if anyone knows what the story is with emulators from a copyright POV. are they legal because the games machines ie NES SNES C64 etc and Games are no longer in production? or are they strictly non-Kosher ? anyone suggest any good ones (If its ok with the Mods)
I think they're legal, but honestly I'd recommend buying a SNES, Megadrive, whatever on E Bay, there's no greater feeling than having a SNES to come home to every nightOriginally Posted by Block G Raptor
Beats the socks off the PS and the XBox every day of the week
Used to be big into the scene in college, less so in recent times.
Emulators themselves are legal, but use of a copyrighted BIOS to run games is not.
Also, using saved game ROM files from games you don't own is illegal.
Still, the original Mario Kart is a blast playing online using Kaillera!
Agreed. Have a SNES that's under the weather for the last while, found a few cartridges for it including MarioKart recently too. Must be another 30 or so somewhere.
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They aren't legal. Besides, most of them have been released in the last year for the Nintendo Wii for €5.
I own a master system, megadrive, saturn, dreamcast, gameboy colour and of course, Nintendo Wii for all my retro gaming needs
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The 360 has a big library of old games street fighter 2 mortal kombat 2 worms double dragon etc etc . the playable demop is free and the games are i think a fiver. But normally after playing the demo the fond memories of these games are short lived and you sit there think why was this so popular !!
Emulators themselves are legal as they can be used to play homebrew games the downloading of copywrited games id say isnt . but i dont think anyone is going to be too bothered about it
Well, either the emulator uses a copyrighted BIOS such as the ones for the recent consoles, or actually just rewrites what the console/BIOS did, which is patent/copyright infringement as much as me releasing "doo wa diddy diddy dum diddy doo" as a single would be.
Obviously the ROM images themselves are illegal too.
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