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Rant: What's wrong with romsites?, Not a ROM request thread!!

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Littlink	Posted: Jul 2 2006, 06:52 PM
hip 2b square Group: Members Posts: 5146 Member No.: 2010 Joined: 11-April 06 Status: (0d)	To answer a question (hasn't been asked), ROMs are considered illegal since the companys that reated them either: 1. Still selling them 2. Not realeased as freeware. But I think getting old roms (ie LoZ, SMB, etc..) are perfectly legal, seeing the numerous hacks, and the fact that Nintendo doesn't sell them anymore. [/rant] -------------------- [████████░░] 80%

Retriever II	Posted: Jul 2 2006, 07:00 PM
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Posted: Jul 2 2006, 07:00 PM

How rude!

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QUOTE (Littlink @ Jul 2 2006, 07:52 PM)

To answer a question (hasn't been asked), ROMs are considered illegal since the companys that reated them either: 1. Still selling them 2. Not realeased as freeware. But I think getting old roms (ie LoZ, SMB, etc..) are perfectly legal, seeing the numerous hacks, and the fact that Nintendo doesn't sell them anymore. [/rant]

Ah, but there's the rub: The NES classics series for GBA.

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Littlink	Posted: Jul 2 2006, 07:02 PM
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SonicProject	Posted: Jul 2 2006, 07:03 PM
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Posted: Jul 2 2006, 07:08 PM

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QUOTE (Captain Jeff Silvers @ Jul 2 2006, 04:55 PM)

Everything you said is true and irritating, though I guess we can't say we're much better, what with breaking the law and all.

I know of at least one fantastic ROM site for old school games (no pop-ups, only a single banner on each page, fast downloads, no voting, et cetera), but that's it; other than that site, all of the sites that are even "decent" are still pretty sucky.

Would you say it's Good Quality?

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Posted: Jul 2 2006, 07:13 PM

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QUOTE (Littlink @ Jul 2 2006, 08:02 PM)

I speak of the NES games

Still not legal and even your ethics argument will have holes in it with the many remakes and the advent of the virtual console.

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Yoshimaster	Posted: Jul 2 2006, 08:09 PM
Magical 404 Group: Members Posts: 6475 Member No.: 25 Joined: 13-October 03 Status: (0d)	I know of at least two good ROM sites, although one sometimes has "lines" for certain downloads. For the most part, you have to know the site to be able to find it. Very rarely have I found a good site (read: one that actually has ROMs) by doing a google search... but it does happen sometimes. -------------------- Fanfiction.net Account - Fictionpress Account DeviantArt Account - Reference Picture

ShadowMan	Posted: Jul 2 2006, 08:12 PM
Roll away baby. Roll away forever. Group: Members Posts: 23782 Member No.: 47 Joined: 13-October 03 Status: (0d)	The only thing I can think of that's 100% perfect to emulate are games that have been completely and totally abandoned for over 25 years and/or released to the public domain. This includes: -------------------- end of line

Waddle dee	Posted: Jul 2 2006, 08:13 PM
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Posted: Jul 2 2006, 08:14 PM

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QUOTE (ShadowMan @ Jul 2 2006, 10:12 PM)

What about the two paddles? Pong needs those too.

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Posted: Jul 2 2006, 08:22 PM

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QUOTE (ShadowMan @ Jul 2 2006, 09:12 PM)

The only thing I can think of that's 100% perfect to emulate are games that have been completely and totally abandoned for over 25 years and/or released to the public domain. This includes:

You missed Gridlee, Poly-Play, and Robby Roto.

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Posted: Jul 2 2006, 09:05 PM

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QUOTE (ShadowMan @ Jul 2 2006, 09:12 PM)

The only thing I can think of that's 100% perfect to emulate are games that have been completely and totally abandoned for over 25 years and/or released to the public domain. This includes:

Dont forget the countless homebrew games.

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Posted: Jul 2 2006, 09:05 PM

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QUOTE (Bungalo @ Jul 2 2006, 10:05 PM)

Dont forget the countless homebrew games.

I was thinking commercial games.

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Posted: Jul 2 2006, 09:07 PM

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QUOTE (ShadowMan @ Jul 2 2006, 10:05 PM)

I was thinking commercial games.

Your previous statement is failure then.

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Posted: Jul 2 2006, 10:51 PM

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QUOTE (Klobber @ Jul 2 2006, 05:17 PM)

Haha, if it's the one I'm thinking of, they have EVERYTHING - the zip files even have different language versions of the games

Although ROMs for newer systems like GBA require donations to download.

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Posted: Jul 2 2006, 11:04 PM

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QUOTE (ShadowMan @ Jul 2 2006, 05:45 PM)

Me, Klobs, and Elly are all thinking of the same one.

I go to that site all of the time.

...I turn to Limewire for GBA roms, which I rarely download.

Bungalo	Posted: Jul 2 2006, 11:06 PM
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Posted: Jul 2 2006, 11:14 PM

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QUOTE (Bungalo @ Jul 2 2006, 11:06 PM)

I used to have a good russian rom website in my bookmarks. Sadly all my bookmarks were deleted somehow..

Firefox?

Yeah that happens.

Just don't shut down by only pressing the button. Actually go and shut down the computer

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BubbleMan	Posted: Jul 3 2006, 12:37 AM
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