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Cameron
Title: :O � O:
Joined: Feb 01 2008
Location: St. Louis, MO
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Your image responses always delight me. 
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The Opponent
Title: Forum Battle WINNER
Joined: Feb 24 2010
Location: The Danger Zone
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| Can I pirate old Tiger LCD games? Is anyone still trying to sell those commercially? |
Do they run on ROMs or discrete circuitry?
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Mr. Satire
Joined: Jun 08 2010
Location: Termina Field
Posts: 1541
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| Fernin wrote: |
| Emulators are legal. ROMs are illegal. End of story, no further discussion needed. |
Actually, only ROMs of commercial games are illegal, and possibly non-commercial games (that use completely original code, graphics, etc.) that were released to cartridge format (eg. NES Battle Kid). Anything that was released by whoever developed it in ROM image format is legal to have in ROM image form. |
This is not true. Even if it's non-commerical, it's still copyrighted. The only time it is legal to distribute a ROM is with the permission of the copyright holder (by default the creator), or if it has been released into the public domain.
Since you live in another country, though, your local laws may vary. |
By non-commercial, I was thinking about public domain games, or games distributed exclusively in ROM format.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Most ROM-only games are hacks, which use sprites or code they do not have license to use.
Public domain games are free to distribute. I don't know if it still does, but MAME used to come bundled with a public domain ROM.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
Posts: 7565
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| Fernin wrote: |
| Emulators are legal. ROMs are illegal. End of story, no further discussion needed. |
Actually, only ROMs of commercial games are illegal, and possibly non-commercial games (that use completely original code, graphics, etc.) that were released to cartridge format (eg. NES Battle Kid). Anything that was released by whoever developed it in ROM image format is legal to have in ROM image form. |
This is not true. Even if it's non-commerical, it's still copyrighted. The only time it is legal to distribute a ROM is with the permission of the copyright holder (by default the creator), or if it has been released into the public domain.
Since you live in another country, though, your local laws may vary. |
By non-commercial, I was thinking about public domain games, or games distributed exclusively in ROM format. |
"Non-commercial" means "Not sold".
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