Legality of Roms

by **sponge** » Mar 3, 2003 @ 2:04pm

Nintendo DOES care if you pirate NES ROMs - many old games are being reborn on the GBA.

by **Dave H** » Mar 3, 2003 @ 3:46pm

I would just substitute the words "MP3" for "Rom" and "Winamp" for "Emulator".

It's an exactly equivalent argument but has probably been discussed on a wider scale.

by **James S** » Mar 3, 2003 @ 4:28pm

Actually, the DMCA law doesn't even allow you to make a backup copy of the game onto your computer, it has to be backed up to the same media that it was retrieved from. Which means if you want to backup your NES ROM then you'll have to find old blank NES cartridges somewhere. However, you can plug the NES cart into your computer and play the game directly.

It is illegal to download ROMs. If ROMS are not illegal then why are ROM sites shut down daily? If not then why wouldn't everyone just go around downloading the ROM to the latest XBox game? I'm pretty sure "ROM" doesn't show up in any article that has passed through congress because that's not what they are, that's just your l33t name for them. ROMs are intellectual property which are copyrighted.

by **Dihnekis** » Mar 3, 2003 @ 6:24pm

by **Guest** » Mar 3, 2003 @ 8:07pm

I dont see any NES games being ported to the GBA, I see a TON of SNES games being ported though....

by **Michael Y** » Mar 3, 2003 @ 9:20pm

Anonymous, what about the E-reader and those card packs of 5 NES games they sell? And Animal Crossing for GameCube has a hell of a lot of NES games built in.

by **randall** » Mar 3, 2003 @ 11:55pm

by **sponge** » Mar 4, 2003 @ 12:03am

by **Annoying Snails Master** » Mar 4, 2003 @ 12:31am

by **SiGen** » Mar 4, 2003 @ 2:03am

by **damian** » Mar 4, 2003 @ 2:21am

by **James S** » Mar 4, 2003 @ 3:00am

by **damian** » Mar 4, 2003 @ 3:02am

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