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| burningdoom:
--- Quote from: sworddude on December 03, 2021, 11:30:38 am --- --- Quote from: burningdoom on December 03, 2021, 11:17:18 am ---If its legal emulation/ROMs or its something intended to be distributed by it's creator, sure, I'm fine with it. I'm also okay with having back-ups of owned games, that's understandable with the way old hardware and even old games break or corrupt. But I feel theft is still theft and not okay if you're just looking to get free games; and I completely understand that's not a popular opinion. But I stick to my morals and beliefs. --- End quote --- What about games that never got a western release and are only available by piracy with fan translations. Unless you really love to play games with guides or not understanding what one has to do. not really being able to fully enjoy the game unless you go for those fan translations piracy roms. The developers never have any intention to make any money from the west if you go that route. --- End quote --- There are ways to play imports and get translations without theft, so I personally wouldn't do that. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on December 03, 2021, 02:17:20 pm --- --- Quote from: sworddude on December 03, 2021, 11:30:38 am --- --- Quote from: burningdoom on December 03, 2021, 11:17:18 am ---If its legal emulation/ROMs or its something intended to be distributed by it's creator, sure, I'm fine with it. I'm also okay with having back-ups of owned games, that's understandable with the way old hardware and even old games break or corrupt. But I feel theft is still theft and not okay if you're just looking to get free games; and I completely understand that's not a popular opinion. But I stick to my morals and beliefs. --- End quote --- What about games that never got a western release and are only available by piracy with fan translations. Unless you really love to play games with guides or not understanding what one has to do. not really being able to fully enjoy the game unless you go for those fan translations piracy roms. The developers never have any intention to make any money from the west if you go that route. --- End quote --- There are ways to play imports and get translations without theft, so I personally wouldn't do that. --- End quote --- For allot of games there aren't or pretty inconvenient ways wich are just machine translation or cart surgery for those pirated fan translations. |
| burningdoom:
--- Quote from: sworddude on December 03, 2021, 03:13:24 pm --- --- Quote from: burningdoom on December 03, 2021, 02:17:20 pm --- --- Quote from: sworddude on December 03, 2021, 11:30:38 am --- --- Quote from: burningdoom on December 03, 2021, 11:17:18 am ---If its legal emulation/ROMs or its something intended to be distributed by it's creator, sure, I'm fine with it. I'm also okay with having back-ups of owned games, that's understandable with the way old hardware and even old games break or corrupt. But I feel theft is still theft and not okay if you're just looking to get free games; and I completely understand that's not a popular opinion. But I stick to my morals and beliefs. --- End quote --- What about games that never got a western release and are only available by piracy with fan translations. Unless you really love to play games with guides or not understanding what one has to do. not really being able to fully enjoy the game unless you go for those fan translations piracy roms. The developers never have any intention to make any money from the west if you go that route. --- End quote --- There are ways to play imports and get translations without theft, so I personally wouldn't do that. --- End quote --- For allot of games there aren't or pretty inconvenient ways wich are just machine translation or cart surgery for those pirated fan translations. --- End quote --- There might be a few exceptions, not sure, but for the most part you can find translations online. And you can play import games on an import system, a modded system, or on a normal U.S. system via GameSharks or or Game Genies (for those consoles that have them). So I still personally wouldn't pirate them. If I wanted to play it badly enough, I'd go one of those routes |
| oldgamerz:
I feel safer buying ROM's like on some multicart off amazon or Walmart than actually downloading them question is is that considered pirating them if they are not the original copies, and how about repo carts? Because these days it's probably near impossible to find an official copy of a N64 cartridge going for any price whether it be $30USD or 100USD or more used. For example I bought a Mario Kart 64 cartage advertised as an official release but it's brand new and fit much more snug then all the rest of my older beat up N64 cartridges do. Clearly this copy is not a real copy, but it looks great on the outside and plays great, |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: oldgamerz on December 03, 2021, 04:29:59 pm ---I feel safer buying ROM's like on some multicart off amazon or Walmart than actually downloading them question is is that considered pirating them if they are not the original copies, and how about repo carts? Because these days it's probably near impossible to find an official copy of a N64 cartridge going for any price whether it be $30USD or 100USD or more used. For example I bought a Mario Kart 64 cartage advertised as an official release but it's brand new and fit much more snug then all the rest of my older beat up N64 cartridges do. Clearly this copy is not a real copy, but it looks great on the outside and plays great, --- End quote --- You really think Nintendo or sony have given permission for them to use these roms in those repro carts? The only way in wich those are legit are in the case of the megaman X/ street fighter 2 carts in wich the company was involved aswell. Or some of the repro snes nes sega games with some more known brands behind them such as 8 bit limited run etc. in those cases permission was granted by the devs. I'll say this repro carts are breaking more rules than just getting a rom from the web on pc/everdrive. |
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