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| digitaldj:
Hello All, I am new to Arcade Emulation Software like Mame or what ever programs are out there. What confuses me is the fact that these programes support game play and when you ask where to get the games it is an illegal question, so how can these sites support the emualtion software of such illegal game play? I would appeciate someone explaining this all to me! I am upset with the fact I was kicked off of mame world for asking about the games. My feeling is that if you are creating emulation software that the games should be legal, if not then the whole process is illegal. Thanks, Kevin |
| Bleagh:
It is legal to own backups of the software you own, but for no other reason than a backup, and illegal to distribute it. |
| BobA:
The emulator is legal as long as you are running roms that you have the right to use. This means owning the original roms on an arcade board. There are some roms that have been released to the public domain and some that were never in the arcades that were written just for the emulator. These are relatively few and none of the popular games full under this catagory. From the RULES of this forum. 5. Nothing illegal! Do I even need to explain this one? Need a ROM to repair an arcade board you own? Fine to talk about. Need a ROM to complete your MAME collection? Don't bother to post here. If someone posts such a request, please don't answer it -- no direct answers, no hints, no private messages |
| digitaldj:
Ok! Then where to find legal games for the emulators? You know as well as I do this enables illegal activity to have other copies then legal games. It kills me that everybody acts so wholesome! People are trading games and you can't tell me anything diferent because people do it with music also! How many people on here or mame world own a copy of something they don't own? To have a forum that supports emulators and doesn't entertain questions as to where to get games especailly legal games is ludacris. Besides to get kicked off of a forum without first answering the question to legal games tells me you can do illegal activity but don't say so on their forum which supprts emlators and inturn will support illegal games. Just my personal opinion! |
| saint:
This is not a MAME support site nor an emulation site, this is a site about building hardware systems to play arcade games on a computer. You can play hundreds if not thousands of games on arcade controls without ever once using an illegally gotten ROM or even MAME. Note - I am a fan of MAME, but MAME and arcadecontrols.com are two completely different entities with different goals. That said, there are a few options: 1. Get the freely released ROMs at mamedev.org - currently there are 12 listed. 2. Purchase a HotRod joystick or ArcadePC upright cabinet from HanaHo, which come with fully licensed CapCom ROMs. 3. Buy any of the various PC compilations that have been released that have emulated or recreated versions of arcade classics. 4. Buy Dragon's Lair and other laser disc games from the legally licensed seller, Digital Leisure, and play them with their engines or use Daphne. 5. Try the hundreds of shareware/freeware arcade remakes and originals available from places like retroremakes.com, Big Fish Games, Alwar Entertainment, retro64.com, and many others. 6. Search the software forum on this web site for games that people are legally playing on their arcade controls. It used to be that the only thing that was a guarantee to irritate me was to attack my integrity, but I've found that the other thing is the "if you're building arcade controls you must be a pirate" line that keeps coming up. --- saint |
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