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You can get SD cards/USB sticks loaded with ROMs from Ali Express if you want to pay money, there are torrents around that are completely free, if your a techie
by zxcvbn4038 5y ago
You can get SD cards/USB sticks loaded with ROMs from Ali Express if you want to pay money, there are torrents around that are completely free, if your a techie the there is probably someone in your workplace you can get copies from, etc. Nobody really cares as long as you are not making a profit. China doesn't care period. Nobody is going to start a two ocean war over fifty year old video games.
- timmg 5y agoYeah, I mean, I know it's easy to get the ROMs. Just wondered if any of the original manufacturers made them available for sale.
- koz1000 5y agoJamie Fenton has released the ROMs for Robby Roto as freeware. So that's one.
- koz1000 5y agoActually, there's a whole list here: https://www.mamedev.org/roms/ https://www.mamedev.org/roms/
- sumtechguy 5y agoCapcom over the years has had a ROM set you could buy on and off. Not sure if they still do. Think it was side by side with an arcade controller. I think there is one of their current console releases where there are a bunch of games and it uses MAME as the core to run their games. They are the only one I can think of that has sold ROMs to be used in MAME both loose and bundled. There was a service about 20 years ago claiming they had the ability to sell them but it seemed kind of shady. Also it is not very clear cut on many of them anymore who actually owns the game. Most of it has very clear lineage but not all of it.
- zxcvbn4038 5y agoIt would be nice, but I bet most of them would be hard pressed to dig up items from that far back even if they wanted to.
- tremon 5y agoSo, the answer to the GP's question is basically: no?
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