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Let’s say copy a useful site CD to play it in your car so I assume this extends to ripping the media to a computer but I don’t know for sure how it works with digital copies. So I’m not going to get sued, but someone who owns a Blu-Ray disc and downloads it from XYZ piracy haven might get caught by the authorities.

Given that emulator testing is often cheaper than running on actual computers, initial testing to find critical glitches may be a more cost-effective way to do during the production process. This is very helpful if small budgets hinder the purchasing of a selection of research equipment. Emulators such as Genecyst helped fuel the early days of the Sonic scene by including debugging tools along with regular game functionality. Allowing users to see palettes and currently loaded tiles, for instance, helped initially discover the "Press Start" message that was hidden within Sonic 1. This point sort of continues where the previous one left off.

Just as it is legal to take a CD you own and rip it to MP3 yourself, it is legal to take a cartridge you own and dump it yourself . I think the grey area comes from the fact that if you download a ROM you are giving revenue money to the person that ripped it. But I don’t know how much of the blame falls on the "consumer" or the one providing the rip. In my country you are allowed to make a copy for yourself.

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If anything an all digital future will make things more difficult for the consumer regarding his legal rights over his property. So I’m not going to get sued, but someone who owns a Blu-Ray disc and downloads a copy from XYZ piracy haven might get caught by the authorities. Emulators are legal because they are made entirely of new code. lol, didn’t mean to jump up and down on your parade, but your post was very certain, and a bit wrong in that certainty. Of course they are not the same thing, but it is quite possible to have a non internet illegal copy.

• BizHawk focuses on core accuracy and power user tools while still being an easy-to-use emulator for casual gaming.
• An alternative to live game attendance is the broadcasting of games.
• BizHawk is an open-source multi-system emulator, as well as a libretro frontend designed predominantly around the production of Tool Assisted Speedruns .
• We are attempting to line this up for our own tournament and predict others will do the same.

Some, particularly for newer consoles with more modern architecture, use the original console BIOS, which is a much greyer area. ROMs are still illegal regardless if you own the cartridge, but yeah, I would wonder that as well.

If you rip a digital copy of your game and share it with your friend, it’s no big deal. That act is fundamentally illegal, regardless of your current ownership, primarily because it’s so easy to illegally acquire goods you have never, ever paid for at any point in time.