Snes Roms Conversion?

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by 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

the rom would be almost impossible however making the emulator to read it wouldnt

[filburt1]

Originally Posted by MindTrix

Arent snes roms illegal

Not if you own the exact game in question.

[Dakkon]

Originally Posted by MindTrix

Arent snes roms illegal

Source: gamasutra

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