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Everyone is saying No, but that's not strictly true. GoG has a slew of arcade games for sale, that are essentially emulator+rom combinations. Double Dragon, Me
by dleslie 5y ago
Everyone is saying No, but that's not strictly true.
GoG has a slew of arcade games for sale, that are essentially emulator+rom combinations. Double Dragon, Metal Slug, Neo Turf Masters, etc are all available for purchase with a good ROM.
There are also licensed miniconsoles and cabinets (Arcade 1Up and others) that are likewise just hardware+emulator+rom combinations, and you can legally extract the roms for your own purposes.
And there's more. I have a sizeable legally-acquired ROM collection, now. Even console games - Genesis games on Steam, PSX games on PSN, etc.
- jonny_eh 5y agoWhat's not clear though is if you're allowed to extract the ROM to be used in another emulator. While copying the ROM for "backup purposes" is likely legal, any other kind of copying is grey, at least as grey as downloading a ROM for a game you own on physical media.
- dleslie 5y agoThe GoG and Steam sources I mentioned don't have any copyright circumvention prevention, at least as far as I could find, and so DMCA provisions against circumventing those digital locks shouldn't apply.
- themikesanto 5y agoUnless there is some language in the purchase agreement/terms of service that specifically prohibits extracting the ROM, you are in the clear. I highly doubt such language exists. But who cares? You purchased the software, you can do whatever you want with it, and going this route is already going above and beyond what most normal people do, which is pirating the ROMs.