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The legality of ROMs has never been directly tested in court. In Atari vs. JS&A, it was decided that backup cartridges (basically a cartridge with the ROM on it so you could play it on the Atari) were not legal under United States copyright law. The ESA, an organization with members consisting of several game publishers, routinely prosecute the illegal selling and trading of protected games, be they in physical or digital format.
ROMs that are written by a hobbyist and released on the internet for everyone to download are irrevocably legal.
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Where can you download legal roms?
You can not download legal video game roms.
Are pj64 roms legal?
Downloading ROMs for games that you do not own is considered illegal. Legal options include creating your own ROMs from games you own or getting ROMs from legal sources.
Is the r4 NDS legal?
Yes it is legal, but the things you can do are illegal such as running "roms" on the R4 is illegal and downloading the roms for free are too.
Does Nintendo endorse ROMs?
No. They state in no uncertain terms that ROMs are illegal and that both ROMs and emulators are damaging to the console industry. See the related links section for the official Nintendo legal information page.
Are DVD-ROMs and CD-ROMs illegal they are roms after all?
A 'rom' becomes illegal if it is transferred to a medium that it is not licensed for. So a NDS ROM is legal while it is on its original NDS Gamepak, a DVD's contents is legal as long as it remains on DVD. However it is not legal to create an unlicensed duplicate of these by 'ripping' them from the original medium, and especially illegal to offer these for distribution.
Is it legal to use roms and emulators if you dont sell them?
Emulators are legal and roms are illegal. The only way you can have a ROM legally is if you have the game already, someone else who has the original copy gives you one as a gift, or get a noncommercial ROM. I hope I helped.
Is vba legal?
it really does depend, the emulator itself is not ileigal, it's the roms that are the case, roms are not ileigal in the sense that over hundreds of millions of people make videos on roms on youtube and those videos don't get removed so you can tell roms are not copywrited but they do contain the copy of the game so most of the roms are ileigal, but you can download them in zips which hides the ileigal content this way, you can play the ROM in a zip, if you're playing roms online that's ileigal if you want legal roms there are websites that host them but you'll probably have to pay them so they pay Nintendo but it's not worth it, so just ignore the whole vba and ROM ileigal thing and just play roms on vba for fun.
Is R4 for DS legal?
If you use roms of games being sold, yes. If for homemade games and such, no.
Is it legal to put Pokemon on psp?
If you meant putting an emulator on your psp and loading on Pokemon roms that is illegal.
What has the author Arlene L Eis written?
Arlene L. Eis has written: 'The Legal Researcher's Desk Reference, 1990' 'The Legal Researcher's Desk Reference 2004-05 (Legal Researcher's Desk Reference)' 'Legal Newsletters in Print 2003' 'International mikvah directory' -- subject(s): Directories, Mikveh 'Legal Looseleafs in Print 2003' 'Legal Looseleafs in Print 2007 (Legal Looseleafs in Print)' 'Directory of Law-Related Cd-Roms 2000' 'The Legal Researcher's Desk Reference 1996-97 Supplement' 'Directory of Law-Related Cd-Roms 1996' 'Directory Of Law-Related CD-ROMs 2006' 'Legal Loose-Leafs in Print, 1992' 'Legal Newsletters in Print 1999' 'Directory of Law-related Cd-rom 2007' 'Legal Looseleafs in Print 2004' 'Legal Newsletters in Print 2002' 'The Legal Researcher's Desk Reference, 1992 (Legal Researcher's Desk Reference)' 'Legal Newsletters In Print 2005' 'Legal Looseleafs in Print 1997' 'The Legal Researcher's Desk Reference 2002-03 (Legal Researchers Desk Reference, 2002-2003)' 'Directory Of Law-Related CD-ROMs 2005' 'The Legal Researcher's Desk Reference' 'Legal Looseleaf in Print 2002' 'Legal Looseleafs in Print 2006 (Legal Looseleafs in Print)' 'Legal Newsletters in Print 1996' 'The Legal Researcher's Desk Reference 1998-99/ With Supplement (Legal Researcher's Desk Reference)' 'Directory of Law-Related Cd-Roms 1999'
Is Visual Boy Advance illegal?
The program itself is perfectly legal. However, for it to be useful, you would need the ROM image of a game, which cannot be obtained legally through most methods.
What is a project 64?
The project 64 is a Nintendo 64 emulator that lets you play Nintendo 64 games that you download from websites.
