RIP Emulators and ROMs

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It's literally all online. Rare used to be a child studio of Nintendo until 2002 when they were acquired by Microsoft. Rare only owned rights to banjo kazooie for like a few months

lol @ people who think you should spend thousands of dollars on your hobby to get obsolete and offshelf games

lol @ people who think you should follow the law


its legal to have as many copies of the game for personal use if you also own the original content
its legal to use an emulator with a system bios if you own the system
romhacking a game you have previously purchased from nintendo is legal and falls under fair use, distributing a patch file that is intended to be used in conjunction with the rom file is also legal and falls under fair use

lol @ people who think you should spend thousands of dollars on your hobby to get obsolete and offshelf games
think about this: you sell cars. you’ve sold pens at the top car technology for decades, and have the best quality cars in the nation, on the verge of then world. you develop a new car spending millions and years, except as soon as you release it people start selling older models of your car for little to nothing, thus nobody buys you’re kew car which you could make a ton of money off of. of course you’re going to go after the dealers because you’re being forgeted over by their individual selling of your old cars, and people are going to be pussed off about it, because they’re cheap and don’t want to spend all the money to your new car—but you’re still absolutely justified because you’re  businessman and they’re ruining your market

think about this: you sell cars. you’ve sold pens at the top car technology for decades, and have the best quality cars in the nation, on the verge of then world. you develop a new car spending millions and years, except as soon as you release it people start selling older models of your car for little to nothing, thus nobody buys you’re kew car which you could make a ton of money off of. of course you’re going to go after the dealers because you’re being forgeted over by their individual selling of your old cars, and people are going to be pussed off about it, because they’re cheap and don’t want to spend all the money to your new car—but you’re still absolutely justified because you’re  businessman and they’re ruining your market
Except it's nothing like that. Games aren't cars, they aren't tools. It's more comparable to books. Imagine it more like if someone had written books for several years for specific book sizes, and to qualify for the specific book size your had be published by a certain company, if years later the writer has changed ownership and publishes through someone else, is defunct, or otherwise unable to respond to questions regarding copyright on their book, the publisher has no right to rerelease it. Some of these books can still be bought now, for extreme prices, others are believably common, and there are quite a few that almost never get listed. However there are digital copies of all the books listed on some websites, albeit illegal. Even though the books they can rerelease take up a fraction of the library, the Publisher shuts down the entire website for piracy.

Years from now, some of these books could be lost to time without proper documentation, yeah the publisher is still making money from the rereleasable books, but the others they can't rerelease are not able to be documented online, and the original cartridges will not last forever. Then if your original copy is destroyed, lost, or sold, you are supposed to DESTROY all copies of your books, digital or physical.
 
« Last Edit: August 11, 2018, 09:17:52 AM by Master Matthew² »

its legal to have as many copies of the game for personal use if you also own the original content
its legal to use an emulator with a system bios if you own the system
romhacking a game you have previously purchased from nintendo is legal and falls under fair use, distributing a patch file that is intended to be used in conjunction with the rom file is also legal and falls under fair use
I don't think distributing copies of a purchased game counts as personal use but I might be wrong.

think about this: you sell cars. you’ve sold pens at the top car technology for decades, and have the best quality cars in the nation, on the verge of then world. you develop a new car spending millions and years, except as soon as you release it people start selling older models of your car for little to nothing, thus nobody buys you’re kew car which you could make a ton of money off of. of course you’re going to go after the dealers because you’re being forgeted over by their individual selling of your old cars, and people are going to be pussed off about it, because they’re cheap and don’t want to spend all the money to your new car—but you’re still absolutely justified because you’re  businessman and they’re ruining your market

In the end Nintendo can't fully stop emulationscene

there will always be alternatives to get roms and that will never stop.

Well at least the emulation pirating scene was dealt a 100 million dollar blow so at least some inpact on this illegal operation has been made.

think about this: you sell cars. you’ve sold pens at the top car technology for decades, and have the best quality cars in the nation, on the verge of then world. you develop a new car spending millions and years, except as soon as you release it people start selling older models of your car for little to nothing, thus nobody buys you’re kew car which you could make a ton of money off of. of course you’re going to go after the dealers because you’re being forgeted over by their individual selling of your old cars, and people are going to be pussed off about it, because they’re cheap and don’t want to spend all the money to your new car—but you’re still absolutely justified because you’re  businessman and they’re ruining your market
One of the worst brown townogies I've seen in a long time.

One of the worst brown townogies I've seen in a long time.
Indeed.

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Piracy =! Emulation and ROMhacks

Emulation and romhacking isn't piracy, but downloading roms is. Since emulators and romhacking both require a rom it is basically a given that if you use an emulator you have pirated before. The only people exempt from this are users who own a copy of the ROM in physical form already

This whole "emulation isn't pirating" bullstuff is purely semantic and is probably the weakest argument the pro-pirating users in this thread can muster
« Last Edit: August 11, 2018, 02:42:04 PM by thegoodperry »

I feel like the BL community should try to make a Collab for SMBX

That can be managed

Well at least the emulation pirating scene was dealt a 100 million dollar blow so at least some inpact on this illegal operation has been made.
If one source is taken down, two more are born