Snes Roms Conversion?

[str8ballin]

Hi

I was playing on a few roms I have on my pc yesterday and was wondering if theyre is a way to convert them into .swf files? or so they are easier to play?

I realise there is copyright infringements and such but I have the original games and know you are allowed to have 1 backup.

Anyway sides from that is there a way to embed them into a web page? Im sure I seen some guy allow you to play the roms directly on his site but anyway..

I dont know if you restrict any rom threads? But Im just asking out of curiosity. Everytime I start super mario all stars it says 'video mode not supported' which is annoying.

[Xenon]

hmm, i have never heard of a way to convert roms into swf.
interesting idea, though but never saw anything like that.

[MindTrix]

Arent snes roms illegal :p

[Xenon]

I have the original games and know you are allowed to have 1 backup.
i remember that rule as well.
as long as you have the original you are allowed to have the rom as well. At least it's like that in Germany.

[MindTrix]

I'm pretty sure that if you allowed people to play the games directly on your site, nintendo would whoop your ass and close the site before it opened. They went on a mad rampage at sites having them for downloads (and still are chasing them) Closing pretty everyone they find, or sueing. So if they do that to people allowing them for download, think what they would do to you for letting people play them on your site :p

[Xenon]

well, talking about the theory of converting a rom to swf, doesn't mean to put it up on your site for the public ;)

[Dean C]

I'd say you can't do this (99%). You just can't convert between programming languages that easily. It'd have to be rewritten in flash :)

[futureal]

Yea, this is not a conversion that could realistically happen. You would need to re-code the game in Flash for it to work.

[Zachery]

Yea, this is not a conversion that could realistically happen. You would need to re-code the game in Flash for it to work.
well you could build a flash engin to emulate a rom and have it be able to read the rom files... just an idea

[str8ballin]

Yeah I have 3 roms on my computer and I have them games in my attic collecting dust.

Im pretty sure owning a rom which you already purchased is not illegal, I remember I bought a game not so long back for the pc, and in the small preint it stated you was allowed to create 1 backup copy for your own security reasons, anyway distributing a rom to people who dont own the original game is illegal thou.. I was a bit skeptical at first but somebody told me theyre pretty sure the cops wasnt gonna bust down my door because I was playing super mario all stars on my pc lol.

I guess the idea of a rom to swf conversion is probably an impossible task, I was over at flashkit reading up and they seem to think its too much work too.

Its sad, Im a fan of flash and im sure a flash version of a rom would be much better than the type of rom I have which.. messes up my video settings, buttons are configured horribly and overall stutters. Ahhh I might just get my super nintendo out :)

[Zachery]

Yeah I have 3 roms on my computer and I have them games in my attic collecting dust.

Im pretty sure owning a rom which you already purchased is not illegal, I remember I bought a game not so long back for the pc, and in the small preint it stated you was allowed to create 1 backup copy for your own security reasons, anyway distributing a rom to people who dont own the original game is illegal thou.. I was a bit skeptical at first but somebody told me theyre pretty sure the cops wasnt gonna bust down my door because I was playing super mario all stars on my pc lol.

I guess the idea of a rom to swf conversion is probably an impossible task, I was over at flashkit reading up and they seem to think its too much work too.

Its sad, Im a fan of flash and im sure a flash version of a rom would be much better than the type of rom I have which.. messes up my video settings, buttons are configured horribly and overall stutters. Ahhh I might just get my super nintendo out :)
the rom would be almost impossible however making the emulator to read it wouldnt

[filburt1]

Arent snes roms illegal :p
Not if you own the exact game in question.

[Dakkon]

Arent snes roms illegal :p
Source: gamasutra (http://www.gamasutra.com/)

In response to a filing by Brewster Kahle of The Internet Archive, Lawrence Lessig of Creative Commons, and others, the Librarian of Congress granted access exemptions from copyright protection measures in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to obsolete videogames. The exemption applies to games that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, and it determines a format obsolete ?if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.?

According to the original filing, the exemption was proposed in order to migrate degraded and obsolete works to modern storage systems, and enable ?archiving, future scholarship, and commentary."



According to that, it will be no longer illegal to have roms in any time.

[MGM]

wait.... is that in effect right now or WILL be in effect in the future?

MGM out