Hi,
I have some tens of original SNES and Megadrive games cartridges, as well as many ZX Spectrum cassettes. Some of then were purchased when I was a child 30 years ago, other were 2nd hand acquired more recently.
I wanted to download all of these in order to play them more confortably emulated in a PC, and as a backup. I live in Europe and the roms are meant for PAL Tv systems (50 Hz). The thing is, for example, in many cases I found that I downloaded roms with the rome region code (US) instead of (EU), that's to say, for NTSC (60 Hz). Obviously there's little problem nowdays in emulating either of them (and I persolanlly prefer to play them at 60 Hz). And here arrives the question: if I have the same game cartridge game, but different region code, am I legally entitled to posess and play that downloaded file, or are they considered different intelectual properties?
Othe particular case with a spectrum casette: I bought "Army Moves" by Dynamic for my 48k spectrum. I downloaded the proper rom and, to my surprise, the menus are in English, and the music makes use of the Spectrum +2 sound chip. That's why I notice that this is a more recent version programmed for 128 K. I am sure that it did not exist the year I bought it originally. It must have been released some years later for the english markett. Anyway, in such a case, am I illegally possesing that rom 128k-english-versioned game rom?
I know it is trivial question of little or no importance but I am just curious...