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GBA Roms
PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 8:17 pm
by Kenchii
I am looking for a good site to download new gameboy advanced roms. I have been searching frequntly, and still could'nt find a decent site that has actual DOWNLOADABLE roms.
PS. And Emulators
PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 9:11 pm
by Ashley
Well you wont' find any here...their *ahem* ILLEGAL. So we can't link you up or anything.
PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 9:15 pm
by Rashiir
They're legal if you own the games.
PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 9:54 pm
by inkhana
Aaaaaactually...if you look at the back of your GBA manuals (or any others, for that matter), it says it's even illegal to own a backup. It says something to the effect of: "Backups are not legal or necessary to protect your software" or something like that. I don't agree with that, but that's the way it is...according to the manuals...
PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 9:54 pm
by Retten
and the system
PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 10:34 pm
by Rashiir
They've been telling me for years that it was legal if i owned the games and the system. It should be, anyhow. SNES's break.
PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 10:51 pm
by Saint
Like many laws there are loopholes and it, despite the "anti-piracy" messages on manuals, is legal due to some old law or what not. Good Rom sites will tell you, but yes you are to actually have a physical copy of it to have a back-up.
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(big on Region 0 dvds, down on Roms... its all loophole legal issues.)
PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 11:03 pm
by andyroo
The law is newer than the SNES games (and many others) so those aren't protected under the law that was passed some where around 1996 or 98. This was to prevent the creation of copies of their newer games so that there would be no spread of them on the internet before the games released or to hurt sales after release (or period). You can still have roms and emulators of games before this law was passed from what I understand. It is possible to have things such as e-books and software in cartidge as empty cartidges are sold on Amazon.com.
I think that there might be doubled protection if you inclued the Digital Mellenium Copyright Act, DMCA. I have the summary of it, but it's 18 pages long so I can't do it in one post and won't post it at all. This law was passed in 1998 and has several treates under it that were passed in 1996.
PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 9:21 am
by Kenchii
Legal or Illegal, screw you guys I am getting them someplace else.
PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 12:32 pm
by Christianotaku
no screw you stop using such a bad tone maybe if your not willing to accept legal copyrights you shouldnt even be in here
AND DONT EVER EVER TELL A OP TO SCREW IT!
PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 12:40 pm
by Straylight
I am closing this as it's obviously going nowhere.