1GB GD-ROM images?

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:03 am

I'm saying, most emulators that i know of, don't emulate anything unless a game or BIOS is loaded. opening a emulator is not the same as engaging in emulation. opening a emulator is just like opening mspaint... it just sits there. therefor that is why most emulators by themselves is legal.

Truth Unknown · Post by **Truth Unknown** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:20 am

Well if a company gives out licenses and copies of the software then everything is great.
http://www.harmlesslion.com/cgi-bin/sho ... =Classic99

EDIT: And Paint is a bad comparison, Paint already generates a blank bitmap on execution ready to be modified.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:29 am

franpa wrote:I'm saying, most emulators that i know of, don't emulate anything unless a game or BIOS is loaded.

There's not a computer in the world that actually DOES something without software.
You've mistaken an annoying kludge by NoA for actual system activity in the NES.

opening a emulator is not the same as engaging in emulation. opening a emulator is just like opening mspaint... it just sits there. therefor that is why most emulators by themselves is legal.

Your conclusion is WRONG.

Emulation is legal for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that you can use legally-owned or freely-available software.
Which was my point with the counter-questions.

See also: Sony VS Bleem!. Any one of them. Sony NEVER won a lawsuit against Bleem!, they just whittled away at their finances with groundless lawsuit after groundless lawsuit until Bleem! couldn't afford to fight anymore.

They bought Connectix' Virtual Game Station instead of suing, likely because Connectix' pockets were deep enough to fight(or maybe they made the Bleem! guys an offer, and they were refused).

Now drop the holier-than-thou attitude, batten your hatches, and fly your Jolly Roger. You're sailing the Warez Sea on the HMS Rawmz, and you know it.

Post by **grinvader** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:57 am

Arr, there be stupid in here.

Emulators are a fine way to run homebrew. HOMEBREW. It's all the rage.

Now everybody shut the fuck up and gimme back the deadhorsebeatstick.

DancemasterGlenn · Post by **DancemasterGlenn** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:47 am

franpa wrote:therefor that is why most emulators by themselves is legal.

And so ended franpa's fourth grade school project on "why teh emulaters isn't bad".

EDIT: There should be a "CUTE: but wrong" franpa alert. It would be pink. For serious.