Emulation

AegisReflector

AegisReflector

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Just curious, but why is it a rule that we cannot talk about emulators or ROMs on here? Like I said in another topic, the government has made it clear that practices like homebrewing and jailbreaking are legal, so why is it why can't talk about emulators? Just think it's kind of a dumb policy.
 
The Rules state that emulators cannot be discussed at all. To be honest, that is an old rule that simply hasn't been changed. There shouldn't be a problem with discussing them.

Tenzin said:
Aegis said:
Because not paying for media that fat cat corporations that are worth billions of dollars produce means you are a communist sinner and you must perish in hell.
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It's not our rule it's SZ's. If it were up to me it wouldn't be an issue. You have a problem with it take it up with him.
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Not true. I'm open to the discussion of emulators. I am not open to providing links or explaining how to obtain ROMs.
 
Well, think about it. If you can jailbreak your iPhone, you can get ROMs and various emulators and play them with some sort of programmed interface. Heck, you can even use your Wiimote and use it as a controller to play most NES and SNES ROMs since iPhone supports Blutooth. Since jailbreaking is legal, emulating is legal.
 
Aegis said:
Well, think about it. If you can jailbreak your iPhone, you can get ROMs and various emulators and play them with some sort of programmed interface. Heck, you can even use your Wiimote and use it as a controller to play most NES and SNES ROMs since iPhone supports Blutooth. Since jailbreaking is legal, emulating is legal.
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No, not at all. Jailbreaking is legal. Downloading free apps through jailbreaking is illegal. Same goes for emulators. Using an emulator is legal. Downloading and playing ROMs is illegal.
 
They already established by the SOPA fiasco that jailbreaking is basically a form of emulation and ergo making way for ROMs to be legal for playable use. Technically, if I downloaded a Super Mario Bros. ROM, it's legal since I also own a physical copy of the game. Loopholes, loopholes.
 
Aegis said:
They already established by the SOPA fiasco that jailbreaking is basically a form of emulation and ergo making way for ROMs to be legal for playable use. Technically, if I downloaded a Super Mario Bros. ROM, it's legal since I also own a physical copy of the game. Loopholes, loopholes.
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My sentiments exactly
There are a bunch of loopholes in the rules of emulation / roms that it doesn't even make sense
You can literally state a fact and it will override the rule about emulation
I just don't get it
 
In the case of maintaining a rule on the Forum, we are going to stay away from loopholes.

Aegis said:
They already established by the SOPA fiasco that jailbreaking is basically a form of emulation and ergo making way for ROMs to be legal for playable use. Technically, if I downloaded a Super Mario Bros. ROM, it's legal since I also own a physical copy of the game. Loopholes, loopholes.
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Not according to Nintendo at least:

http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#download_rom
 
Basically roms are legal if it's a rom from the very cartridge/disc you own. Not the same game, emulators are not illegal, I bought one for my phone on it's marketplace so it is perfectly fine to have an emulator. It's just illegal when it's a rom your downloading. Not that anyone really cares anyways since the fuzz aren't gonna track down that person who downloaded a couple game boy games.
 
But that's NINTENDO's policy for warranty and quality assurance purposes. Those statements don't reflect the rulings of the US government. Nintendo would first have to file a lawsuit against the creators of the ROMs, but since ROMs are deemed legal from a government standpoint (IE having an emulator and having some sort of software to run these programs) it would be very tough for Nintendo to come out as the victor, since they aren't really doing anything wrong (they can show that they have a physical copy of the game in question, claim it was for storage purposes, and somehow got leaked to the internet by mistake). The only major action the government has ever took against online piracy was the shutdown of Limewire and the supervision of Napster, both very outdated music sources. But, you can still use Grooveshark (which is actually funded by companies like Ecko, AE, McDonald's, etc.), Aries, and uTorrent to download any kind of media for free. Point is, nobody is gonna charge us with anything for ROMs.
 
ROMs already preexist in all cartridges so the creators are Nintendo. ROMs are obtained by using special equipment to dump the data into something we call a ROM file. Giving this data out for free and obtaining it for free is against US Law. However nobody will give a damn unless you solely are responsible for a 100 million dollar loss. I don't think anybody here is gonna get that far in the distribution business. There's no problem in talking about it.

Imaging a jury hearing you're in the court for downloading a $5 game off the internet.
 
Either way, Spectre is on the ball. So, I still don't understand why there shouldn't be discussion about ROMs. I mean, nobody probably will talk about them after this ruling, but I am just saying the possiblity of the topic coming up could be possible, and they shouldn't get a warning for that.
 
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