Emulators/ ROMS

[Damrod]

Originally Posted by Mikuro

And next year, when the Nintendo Revolution comes out, they'll be offering their entire library of NES/SNES/N64 games available as downloads through their online service. I assume that will make all trading of these ROMs plainly illegal again.

But, don't they charge a fee for the service? I'm not 100% sure, but I think I read something like that in an article about the Revolution.

Originally Posted by Mikuro

Oh, and I'm pretty sure the whole 24-hour thing was always 100% BS. I don't know where that came from.

I think it was a self made way of the ROM-Sites to somewhat get out of the grey zone, or invent some rules for the grey zone

[JetwingX]

Originally Posted by Mikuro

Things are still gray a lot of the time even now. For example, is it legal to download Megaman 2 for NES, or Donkey Kong Country for SNES? Neither of those systems has been sold in years, but the games have been remade for other platforms that are available. Are the remakes considered to be the same body of work?

And next year, when the Nintendo Revolution comes out, they'll be offering their entire library of NES/SNES/N64 games available as downloads through their online service. I assume that will make all trading of these ROMs plainly illegal again.

"video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete"

I don't think that thee revolutions emulation of old games will cause much of a problem.