Nintendo has shown a no-tolerance policy for ROMs but it seems they are not really interested.
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So, if you want to make it seem legal, stick your hands in your pocket, roll your eyes to the ceiling, smile, and say "Okay, I promise I have the Cartridge." No one's gonna come knocking at the door, demanding proof that you have a Super Nintendo cartridge.It is illegal to download ROMs from the internet but editing them.Įh, you can read threads like this one for concrete answers. Right now, they've got bigger things to work on. Nintendo doesn't get much profit off them anymore to begin with. Some efforts may be made here and there, but an all out movement to stop all ROM distribution would be a total waste of money on Nintendo's part. The amount of structure required would be so immense, and the weight of the entire sea would be so great. So, given the relative size of the internet, stopping the distribution of ROMs would be like trying to dam up the Mediterranean sea. It is impossible to control the entire cybernetic universe, especially at its rate of growth. Countless major companies dream of owning the world wide web, shaping it to serve them, however this concept is not only far fetched, it's unfathomable. The internet is quite possibly the most difficult domain to rule over. Its not a matter of whether or not ROMs are legal, but whether an effort to put an end to their distribution would be worth it. We shouldn't have to stop doing something we love because Nintendo doesn't feel like handling a problem.
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(although maybe that's already evident with the Wii updates for "Piracy" when all they're really doing is shielding "homebrew.") So unless Nintendo either very seriously persued legal action against ROMs, or they sold a license for it, I'll just keep on using them for free. If it's for fear of piracy.then they have no idea what they're talking about. It's not a hard choice and I fail to see why they haven't acted on it. Either offer it to us for a profit or we'll do it ourselves for free. What apparently that don't seem to comprehend is that we're not trying to rip them off, we're trying to have fun with an old game.and the only way to do that is to port it to the computer. (screw the VC.) If Nintendo were to let us buy a liscense to a ROM, I would take it. Fact is, they probably don't lose much money to ROMs anyway- classic games are the only ones with popular ROMs, and those aren't for sale anymore.
I agree, it does feel like I'm cheating Nintendo- but really, by denying us ROMs, not even selling them, etc, and then doing little to enforce that, they're really not helping the matter much. Last edited on 06:36:16 AM by imamelia Kieran Menor
I'm working on a hack! Check it out here. If there is a good way to do it without getting arrested or ignored, why not request ROMs from Nintendo itself? We'd be able to continue hacking to our hearts' content, but without that constant feeling of guilt. I've gotten more out of Lunar Magic and its sister programs than I have out of any thirty or forty dollars of video games I've bought, except possibly Cubis or Dynomite. Heck, I'd be willing to pay $30.00 for a new, clean Super Mario World ROM, as long as I was allowed to make backup copies. Unless Nintendo charged insane prices for them, that plan would let us see who is truly honest. The current situation sucks, and I've said all along that it should be possible to buy ROMs directly from the company. We've all downloaded them, consequences or not, merely because we have no alternative. The problem is, there is simply no way around it: in order to hack Super Mario World or any other game, one must have a ROM, no matter where it comes from. Kate: Yeah, thanks, Kieran, for making me feel like a common criminal.
Flandre Scarlet and SpikyRat: Very true, but that doesn't make it right.
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