You're permitted to make your own archival copy, or allow someone to make an archival copy for you, from your physical copy of the software. Apparently, "the ne

You're permitted to make your own archival copy, or allow someone to make an archival copy for you, from your physical copy of the software. Apparently, "the new copy is being made for archival (i.e., backup) purposes only". It sounds like you aren't permitted to run the backup copy, although I'd assume that if the original copy were destroyed, you'd be within your rights to write the backup to a blank cartridge, or something. Nintendo's interpretation is some real B.S. though. Basically, that copying devices are illegal, emulators are illegal, and so on. > A ROM is a ROM is a ROM. Legally, from my understanding, there's also metadata about the provenance of the data. Where did it come from? Did you read it from a memory chip yourself, or download it from the internet? The data could be identical, but is the data legal if it was acquired illegally?