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> To be clear, these recompiled N64 apps do not include the game itself, which is part of their charm — while protective Nintendo lawyers might argue they encou
by chrisjj 2y ago
> To be clear, these recompiled N64 apps do not include the game itself, which is part of their charm — while protective Nintendo lawyers might argue they encourage piracy, they do not redistribute the ROM files you’d need to actually play the copyrighted Nintendo works.
But you don't need the ROM files to actually play the (c) works. You are now playing a translation of those files that remains (c) Nintendo.
This will not end well.
- dvfjsdhgfv 2y ago> They make a distribution that lets you play the copyright works without the ROMs. I understood the opposite: They make a distribution that will not let you play the copyrighted works unless you have the ROMs.
- chrisjj 2y agoI saw only that it asks for the ROMs. Perhaps I'm being overly sceptical, but I don't see anything saying it actually requires the ROMs. And that ask will be easily circumvented.
- sli 2y agoIt explicitly says that you do need the ROMs, though. The software is all original and it extracts resources from the ROMs. It's useless otherwise, you can't use these to play SM64, OOT, or MM on PC without also obtaining the ROMs.
- chrisjj 2y ago> The software is all original and it extracts resources from the ROMs. I missed that. Where does this article say that?
- c-hendricks 2y agoSecond paragraph: > told the app where to find a Majora’s Mask ROM file