Are Roms Legal?

[Gwen Khan]

they are 100% illegal period! it does not matter if you have the a legit copy they are illegal

True, but how else do you expect me to play Earthbound?

I said they were illegal, I never said you should not use them

[Jono2]

they are 100% illegal period! it does not matter if you have the a legit copy they are illegal

True, but how else do you expect me to play Earthbound?

On the virtual console one day.


it's as illegal as downloading music.  you won't ever get caught, but you don't go running around saying you have them sort of thing.

[Kaz]

they are 100% illegal period! it does not matter if you have the a legit copy they are illegal

True, but how else do you expect me to play Earthbound?

Is $60 really that hard to come up with? Buy the cartridge.

[Jono2]

they are 100% illegal period! it does not matter if you have the a legit copy they are illegal

True, but how else do you expect me to play Earthbound?

Is $60 really that hard to come up with? Buy the cartridge.

from where?

[Kaz]

they are 100% illegal period! it does not matter if you have the a legit copy they are illegal

True, but how else do you expect me to play Earthbound?

Is $60 really that hard to come up with? Buy the cartridge.

from where?

eBay, of course. The auctions usually end with the price anywhere between $55 and $75.

[Zelda_Masta]

Since everyone has cleared the fog, let me say something...
The VC is your friend. Get it.  :O

why am i gonna pay 5 bucks for something that costs nintendo absolutley nothing... i mean all they need to do is have one copy of the rom and Bam! the get suckers into buying copies of it... nintendo has already cheated me out of enough money.  i would say go ahead and download the rom.  whats nintendo gonna do? track you down? they dont have the time and the money to deal with such nonsense.

[Zelda_Masta]

they are 100% illegal period! it does not matter if you have the a legit copy they are illegal

True, but how else do you expect me to play Earthbound?

Is $60 really that hard to come up with? Buy the cartridge.

from where?

eBay, of course. The auctions usually end with the price anywhere between $55 and $75.

60-75$ is a total rip off!! face it unless you want to spend untold amounts of money trying to buy Nes cartridges "legally" than just download the game...

[Kaz]

they are 100% illegal period! it does not matter if you have the a legit copy they are illegal

True, but how else do you expect me to play Earthbound?

Is $60 really that hard to come up with? Buy the cartridge.

from where?

eBay, of course. The auctions usually end with the price anywhere between $55 and $75.

60-75$ is a total rip off!! face it unless you want to spend untold amounts of money trying to buy Nes cartridges "legally" than just download the game...

oh cool too bad Earthbound is an SNES game, not NES

do your research

New console games these days cost $50, and plenty of us shell out that much, so what's $15 or so more? Not much to complain about, especially for a game that's considered so awesome to own.

If we want to talk about rip-offs, we can talk about the starting price of OoT when it came out.

[Miiman56]

Yea but I use them anyway

[Seanguy]

Yea but I use them anyway

dude! acually if you make your own roms, no.

[Rayquarian]

They're illegal any way you look at them.
However, our NFES is legal through a series of loopholes. :P

What NFES?

[SkyMyl]

They're illegal any way you look at them.
However, our NFES is legal through a series of loopholes. :P

What NFES?

It was a feature on NSF that could play a lot (Not all.) of Nintendo Entertainment System games. You played using the keys on your keyboard, and could buy an adapter online and use an NES controller to play games. But after the takeover from NS2, we lost NFES. But we'll get it back eventually. So you could go to VirtualNES.com and play the games there, which is the same thing, but is still being updated and has a few more games.

Nintendo Forums Entertainment System. Hope this helped.

[Unknown0]

ROMs are indeed illegal.  No, it is not legal if you rip the game yourself; that just means you have two  copies of the same game, and one you did not pay for.  No, if you own the original game this does not mean you are allowed to use the ROM.

However, it doesn't matter.  They're on the internet, you can use them if you want.  It's really NOT going to harm Nintendo, especially if you are playing old games.  They aren't gaining any money from purchasing the real game anyways.

[PsychoYoshi]

...how old is this thread? Don't bump, please.