What do you think about emulation?

To be precise, programmed by hobbyists, who release it using other toolchains or methods not used by official devs, and usually not distributed on some sort of media state (except for illegal writables etc.). Because of this, homebrew can't really get protected like a commercial game can. Would be hard to win some sort of law case concerning homebrew.

well someone kind of touched base with this but if you bought the hard copy of the rom/iso you have then technically bought all rights to own and play the game. i know it's a bit harder to find the old ones and shouldn't really matter at that point since they don't sell it anymore hence they can't make profit off it anymore and so long as you don't make profit it's not illegal.point being is roms and iso's are meant to have back up files in case your copy breaks or gets lost so you don't have to repay for another copy and also to find those hard to get games.

you are supposed to make the rom/iso yourself, downloading one is illegal

this is getting too complicated for me ???
that rule about deleting within 24 hours is made up...
i used to win the game as fast as possible ;Dbut if you are allowed to make your own Roms isn't there
supposed to be a program for that. If so tell me cause it seems fun :P

By making your own ROM loony means you actual create your own game from scratch.

all that just to be able to play a game on an emulator....
i'll buy the game on ebay since no stores sell PS1 games ;)
but once again thanks for your answer CRV

He means dumping the ROM image yourself.

Cahos Rahne Veloza · #25By making your own ROM loony means you actual create your own game from scratch.

No, I mean dumping it from an original you own.

I thought you meant something like making a homebrew game.In that case, what you meant was making a back-up of a real game cart, my bad.And I think I scared lille_mac with my last post, sorry.

you really scared me there Cahos :P so if i own the game and i copy
the .iso from the cd and play it on an emulator then its fully legal right?crappy rule, and i like messing with those sothen i have a question
(sorry to bother) why buy the console if you could just buy the
game and play iit on the computer?

console is less effort, and if you think about it, when the consoles are released they can't be emulated. Even PS2 emulation is still far from perfect.As to your first question, yes it is legal so long as you retain ownership of the original.

thanks Loonylion that really helped. i had the games i downloaded but my mom gave them away when i was a child so
that i wouldn't stay addicted(because i was). but that's not proof enough...
don't you think PS1 Roms should become legal because it's nowhere to be found.
not even on Ebay, that's how bad it is (lame joke to all Jay Leno fans.)
by the way thanks to all posts because i fully understand the rules i am breaking...but i will still relive my memories proof or no proof....  ;D

What do ya think?

Yeah it says for promotional use only, so you may only use it as a demo.
But nobody uses it like that xD

No. We would like it to be legal, but the current copyright circumstances deem otherwise ;)

Emulators are legal, roms/ISOs/bios files are not.

Emulators are legal, roms are only legal if you dumped them from media that you own, (e.g. DS game carts, Wii discs, etc.)

I swore we've had this discussion before :P lol
Exactly what Loony said.

if there is then sorry as im new at RomUlation ;D

Topics merged ;)