ZSNES problem-can't see shit in full screen
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Ninja Scooter
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its gods way of telling you to stop stealing games.
Smiles and Cries
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can we even post about this here?
naz said:
If people can talk about modding Xboxes and having their programming illegally changed, then I can assume it's fine to talk about emulators
And I usually end up buying (or in some cases already own) most of the games I emulate, except for stuff that had a print run of about a week or was unreleased, or stuff that would require me to get $2000 worth of college courses in Japanese to play
And furthermore
Smiles and Cries
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k good to know
TheGreenGiant
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belgurdo said:
I think this is wrong. Its STILL PIRACY. The only reason why its seems to be okay so far is because a) its Nintendo and GAF loves a good Nintendo cruxification; anything goes.
SteveMeister
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belgurdo said:
It's illegal to possess the ROMS of commercial games you don't own, period. Even for evaluation purposes, even if you intend to eventually purchase the original game. Unless you're given permission to do a test drive, you can't drive a car off a dealer's lot and drive it around for a week even if you intend to buy it. And the copyright holders of those ROMS have NOT given you express or implied permission to use those ROMS in any way, shape or form if you haven't previously purchased the game.
That said, if you have LEGAL ROMs, then there's nothing wrong with playing THEM on an emulator
SteveMeister said:It's illegal to possess the ROMS of commercial games you don't own, period. Even for evaluation purposes, even if you intend to eventually purchase the original game. Unless you're given permission to do a test drive, you can't drive a car off a dealer's lot and drive it around for a week even if you intend to buy it. And the copyright holders of those ROMS have NOT given you express or implied permission to use those ROMS in any way, shape or form if you haven't previously purchased the game.
That said, if you have LEGAL ROMs, then there's nothing wrong with playing THEM on an emulator
Yes, I know that. But I can't even fathom where to purchase 90% of the stuff that came out in America, let alone where to get some C-grade RPG made by college students in Japan.
That said, I don't emulate to steal games, but mainly to sate my own curiosity more than anything
ravingloon
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Well I personally have zero moral problems playing SNES RPGs that were never released in the US, but have been translated into English by fans. If God had intended me to buy these games, he would have had the clueless dolts release them in the US.
JoshuaJSlone
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Not necessarily. Like a few days ago I just beat NES Final Fantasy for the first time using FCE Ultra. I've got the cart, but getting the system to work consistently and the cart to not lose my save would've taken divine intervention.TheGreenGiant said:
TheGreenGiant
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kpop100 said:
duh. but its against the TOS to discuss piracy... I like how the rule applies to :OMG: HAlo2 but its okay to discuss how to make a programme that emulates PIRATED SHIT ... okay.
Brofist
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TheGreenGiant said:
Yeah but that's different, now you're talking an actual piece of pirated software. Emulators, modchips...they actually have legal uses (I'm not gonna go into how people actually use them) but you get the point.
My original point was this could have easily been a Sega Genesis emulation topic, and you said
It's OK to talk about emulator programs, but don't even think about asking where to get ROMs. I don't see why you have to make this a black-and-white issue -- it's not that simple.TheGreenGiant said:
Despite what you might have heard, there are a few reasons which come to mind immediately about legal uses for emulators, and probably more I haven't thought of:
1) Emulating games which you already own. Have an NES cartridge, but your NES broke? Feel like playing a Dreamcast game on your beautiful VGA LCD computer monitor? Go ahead and run the game on the emulator.
2) Developing your own games. Some people -- believe it or not -- still write games for older platforms. There's no way that you could create a physical cartridge, but you could run the new code on an emulator just fine.
As long as people refrain from discussing illegal activity, it's more than fine to discuss emulation.
What's up with all this morality crap about old ass roms now? I remember a while back we used to always post about and discuss emulators, if I had a dollar for every n64 emulation thread we did on the old forum I'd have about...........alot of $dollars! Seriously though, what's with the sudden change of karma here? I remember people used to boast about how many roms they had. (Of course no one ever discussed where they came from back then either! 
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)DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
The ROM haters are quite a nuissance.
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