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Legality of Emulation — #1

As far as I can tell emulation of a game console is legal, and as long as you own an original copy of a game (or an emulation package such as Namco Museum) you can legally posses a…
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Legality of Emulation — #2

By my reckoning, yes. If they don't provide for all users, then it is okay to improvise, which is what you have done. As long as the original author gets credit for it (which they …
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Legality of Emulation — #3

Who cares? I mean, if you are only talking about nintendo games... or even super nintendo... I mean, the manufacturer's arent making any money on them right now, because they a…
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Legality of Emulation — #4

This coming from someone who posted links to warez sites on this forum (which were quickly deleted).
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Legality of Emulation — #5

Bzzzt. They're IP and the company still has the capability to make money from them, as evidenced by the demand for ROMs. However, I agree with Cipher13 in that there is no way for …
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Legality of Emulation — #6

Herr, you can get the FF Anthology for PSX in English...though I think emulation is the only way to get FF4 in English... As for legality issue, I don't know law all that well, bu…
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Legality of Emulation — #7

No, bleemcast... its a PSX emulator for Dreamcast. Not that abortion of a console gaming system "saturn". Anyway, I sure as heck wouldnt pay 10 dollars for a ROM of a 10 yr old g…
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Legality of Emulation — #8

I can't remember how large the carts can actually get The biggest N64 carts are 512Mb. Cipher13
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Legality of Emulation — #9

What N64 game is 512MB?? The biggest I've heard of is about 32MB and most are about 8MB to 24MB. That was one of the major drawbacks of the N64 vs. the playstation. Because the…
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Legality of Emulation — #10

yeah, the N64's drawback was that everything was stored on the ROM instead of a CD, thus severely limits the game size...I read something like if you want to play FF7 on N64, you'l…
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Legality of Emulation — #11

blizaine, that's 512 megabits, not 512 megabytes. Big difference. 512 megabits = 64 megabytes Far smaller than the largest CD or DVD game. As for the Final Fantasy series:I was r…
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Legality of Emulation — #12

Rather incredible what Nintendo developers have managed to do with their games when working with that little space... Just look at Zelda and Perfect Dark... Puts the Playstation de…
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Legality of Emulation — #13

There is a lot more sloppy programers then neat programers, as evidence of the number of titles for psx vs n64 ------------------ -See Yea! [This message has been edited by osca…
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Legality of Emulation — #14

Quote: Originally posted by Cipher13: Puts the Playstation developers to shame... I'd say the only good developers for PSX are SquareSoft and Konaomi (i don't know …
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Legality of Emulation — #15

I think the main reason N64 games usually look better than PlayStation games is because of superior hardware. Other than more storage, the PlayStation doesn't have any major advan…
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Legality of Emulation — #16

It is legal to own a ROM if you own the original - the games are not translated by the company that released it, and the translations are not released with a price. If you own a no…
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SNES games on Mac? — #1

I once saw Sonic 3 running on a PC, and I was wondering if the same kind of thing would be possible on a Mac. If anyone knows if this is possible or where I could download any, cou…
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SNES games on Mac? — #4

If you are going for an emulator of the Super Nintendo, go for SNES9X. It seems to be the best for the Mac, and it works well with most ROMs. That is, if you have legally taken f…
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Baldur's Gate II Assertion failed? — #1

Hi, I've been happily playing Baldur's Gate II, and now it doesn't start up It says: "An Assertion failed in ChDimm.cpp at line number 645 Programmer says: Unable to Open BIG:da…
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Baldur's Gate II Assertion failed? — #3

Did you by any chance try and edit the Baldur.ini file? Sometimes, if that file gets messed up, the app no longer knows where everything is installed. In your Baldur.ini file for…
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