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This looks like an amazingly polished product. is legality no longer an issue in emulation-land? been a while since I checked into that scene

brymaster 13y ago
OpenEmu dev here. Reverse engineering is legal. However, check your local laws and as always, use your best judgement when it comes to playing games that you own or some great Homebrew as found on sites like these: http://pdroms.de http://pdroms.de Don't forget that you can use some great adapters like Retrode on carts you already own! https://www.retrode.com https://www.retrode.com
- millerm 13y ago
  Where is the love for Atari? :-) Perhaps Stella can be used somehow? I have no idea how this stuff is made as it's not really my area of expertise.
  - brymaster 13y ago
    Grab our 'Experimental' build. We have Stella in there.
    - millerm 13y ago
      Sweet! I'll take a peek.
emehrkay 13y ago
Talk about polish. When you map buttons, the controller greys out with a circle that animates its position as you choose the next button to map. Im going to hook up some dual shock 3 controllers when I get home to really test this out. edit: I assume these little things are the reason why it would be difficult to port to other platforms. From what I understand, Apple has animation built into its core UI framework
- millerm 13y ago
  I'm currently using a Dualshock 2 with a "SmartJoy Plus" adapter I bought years ago. Awesome.
- bjz_ 13y ago
  Yeah. Core Animation[1] is hardware accelerated too, which makes things nice and slick. Having standardised animations is also good because it ties the the GUIs from different apps together nicely. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Animation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Animation
ataylor32 13y ago
From Nintendo's website: > it is illegal to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet. Source: http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#download_rom http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#download_rom
- IsTom 13y ago
  It depends. E.g. IIRC in Poland there is a limit after which _software_ (not music etc.) becomes public domain.
- brymaster 13y ago
  There are some really great tools for dumping your own ROMs from original carts you own. I've personally used Retrode: https://www.retrode.com https://www.retrode.com
- mikeash 13y ago
  That's not exactly an unbiased source. For example: > Are Game Copying Devices Illegal? > Yes. I'm pretty sure that's complete crap. There are substantial non-infringing uses for such devices (e.g. playing your own games on your own computers). Using such devices to make and distribute illegal copies would, of course, be illegal, but the devices themselves aren't. I think they are correct in the part you quoted, but I wouldn't take them at face value in general.
  - brymaster 13y ago
    Yeah, it's definitely fair use to make backups of your own games on the same medium. Tools like the Retrode are great to use with your carts. Nintendo is attempting to control the message (no one is going to check them on it and they're deliberately being ambiguous) and scare people away who would normally just be pirating their old games.

brymaster 13y ago

OpenEmu dev here. Reverse engineering is legal. However, check your local laws and as always, use your best judgement when it comes to playing games that you own or some great Homebrew as found on sites like these: http://pdroms.de http://pdroms.de Don't forget that you can use some great adapters like Retrode on carts you already own! https://www.retrode.com https://www.retrode.com

millerm 13y ago
Where is the love for Atari? :-) Perhaps Stella can be used somehow? I have no idea how this stuff is made as it's not really my area of expertise.
- brymaster 13y ago
  Grab our 'Experimental' build. We have Stella in there.
  - millerm 13y ago
    Sweet! I'll take a peek.

emehrkay 13y ago

Talk about polish. When you map buttons, the controller greys out with a circle that animates its position as you choose the next button to map. Im going to hook up some dual shock 3 controllers when I get home to really test this out. edit: I assume these little things are the reason why it would be difficult to port to other platforms. From what I understand, Apple has animation built into its core UI framework

millerm 13y ago
I'm currently using a Dualshock 2 with a "SmartJoy Plus" adapter I bought years ago. Awesome.
bjz_ 13y ago
Yeah. Core Animation[1] is hardware accelerated too, which makes things nice and slick. Having standardised animations is also good because it ties the the GUIs from different apps together nicely. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Animation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Animation

ataylor32 13y ago

From Nintendo's website: > it is illegal to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet. Source: http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#download_rom http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#download_rom

IsTom 13y ago
It depends. E.g. IIRC in Poland there is a limit after which _software_ (not music etc.) becomes public domain.
brymaster 13y ago
There are some really great tools for dumping your own ROMs from original carts you own. I've personally used Retrode: https://www.retrode.com https://www.retrode.com
mikeash 13y ago
That's not exactly an unbiased source. For example: > Are Game Copying Devices Illegal? > Yes. I'm pretty sure that's complete crap. There are substantial non-infringing uses for such devices (e.g. playing your own games on your own computers). Using such devices to make and distribute illegal copies would, of course, be illegal, but the devices themselves aren't. I think they are correct in the part you quoted, but I wouldn't take them at face value in general.
- brymaster 13y ago
  Yeah, it's definitely fair use to make backups of your own games on the same medium. Tools like the Retrode are great to use with your carts. Nintendo is attempting to control the message (no one is going to check them on it and they're deliberately being ambiguous) and scare people away who would normally just be pirating their old games.