Let me say what I have to say and then post if you agree or disagree.

The preservation of video games (in ROM or PROM or EEPROM format) is an absolute must. If 50 years from now the world moves on, then what will the people of that time think of all those years invested in gamming if they don’t have anything that shows-face from our time? I’m not an activist in any form of politics but I am an activist in the preservation of all video games.

For instances:

Nintendo released and new Super Mario game for the DS. It’s a revisit of the first game with much more licks and tricks up its sleeve. Although this game is sure to be a smash hit, how long will it survive? It may do so rather well but when the world moves on, who will remember it?

I often think of games like ‘Gyruss’ and ‘Star Castle’. These were games that struck our world for a brief period of time and almost completely faded away. Without the power of arcade emulation on our PCs, these games would have been lost forever like the Ark of the Covenant… Think about it.

Let us say that we live in 29 A.D. and Chess was introduced to all of us for the first time. Now let’s say that a few generations forgot the games that their fathers played and went on in life without the satisfaction of a checkmate for the first time. To experience a game isn’t a game it self, but rather a connection to culture and life in general. Its what makes us people. It’s what gives us character.

I can fully understand Nintendo’s approach on keeping their games in a vault and not letting anyone legally own the images without owning the game cart or ROM chip. They are bringing the games back in the Nintendo Wii, but for how long? With new laws and crack-downs on sites that hosts these images are making it impossible for historians like me to keep a world library of gaming history. All my sites were attacked and now closed by the former SPA and other groups that send the “Cease and Desist” e-mails.

So I’m calling for legal advice. If anyone knows of any loop-holes in the laws concerning emulated ROMs, please contact me via PM here at the sector.

Thanks for reading…
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Qix,

I doubt if you collect these ROMS and keep them for your own that Nintendo or whoever will break down your door and seize your computer. I think the problem they have is with someone distributing them, since it's still copyrighted material.

Yeah they fall under the intelletual property rulwe I think for software. Since it is not open source and all that. I think like what you and your brother had mentioned in order to have the emulated version you need the actual rom from the arcade game as well either in the EPROMS or on the PCB's...
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My experience as why not to illegally download roms:

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I agree w/ Nikster. We require more proof, Hikaru

Ok... Ok... Thanks guys...

BTW.... a guy from nintendo, Atari, Commodore, and Activison kicked in my door today.. they went down stairs and raped my computer... now my PC is going to have babies and none of them will have anything but an 8088 processor.

And I'm not going to tell you what Activison did to my printer... it's just sick...

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I think Qix has been drinking a little too much energy punch?



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Qix77 Wrote:His wife made me cookies.. lol...

Those weren't cookies. They were Pac-Piddles.

I keep hearing that it is illegal to even talk about distributing ROMs. I'm not sure if it's true, but some sites won't let you ask for ROMs or even mention ROMs.

Oh no! I'm being copied and distributed around the world!!!



And by the way, were you really fined Hikaru? What did you have to delete?