Emulation (open discussion)

[MottZilla]

DsS Game, in the USA, downloaing copies of copyrighted works is illegal without permission from the copyright holder. However, in the USA, it is legal to make backup copies of copyrighted software and such you own. You however are not to distribute such copies without copyright holder permission etc etc.

In otherwords no matter how you spin it, if you've downloaded a ROM, you've violated someone's copyright. The catch is, unless you are copying something that is still being sold, the copyright holder may not be inclined to take you to court unless you are mass distributing copies of their product or something. However it's still illegal or in copyright violation.

[ZTC]

Again, Mottzilla makes a good point and sets things straight. :)

And to add to what he said, one has to be careful when companies rehash a game(or games);
example, the Mega Man collections for GC, PS2, and GBA

[MottZilla]

Exactly man. Companies also often start attacking prior to rereleases of products. I.E. when Zelda 3 was being rereleased on GBA they started attacking sites that offered the SNES rom.

Anyways, they aren't being mean, they have every right to protect their property.

[Xyvol]

I'm looking for a PS2 emulator. My reasoning for this is when my roomate's watching tv I'd like to be able to come in my room and play using the computer. The ones I was able to find would only play a select list of games. Are there any good PS2 emulators out there? Do they use the CD/DVD drive to play the disks? I'm not really interested in downloading games, I just want to play what I have.

I'm surprised that Nintendo hasn't made a big deal about the older NES emulators and roms, since they've been doing a lot of re-releasing lately. They've got the classic collection for the GBA, Zelda, Mario, Excitebike, ect. and I hear they may relese more. It's kind of annoying really, I because I didn't pay ~$100 for a handheld NES/SNES player. I want to see more original GBA games.

[MottZilla]

No, you're screwwed. If you want to play "on the computer" get a video card or device capable of TV in. No emulator at this point could possibly compare to the experience of using the real PS2 hardware. It will remain this way for quite some time as well.

Nintendo probably hasn't made a huge deal over their re-releases vs. roms because they are selling these things so cheap and they cost damn near nothing to produce.

Anyways, I'm with you on the GBA and NES ports, wtf. It was a nice addition to like, Metroid Zero Mission to have the original. However, SNES ports, provided they are good ports, are great. Unfortunately they aren't that great. GBA should focus on quality original games (like Metroid Zero Mission, while a remake its actually an original game, never before see like that before, only based on the metroid concept.

Metroid Zero and Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland (Kirby's Adventure remake) are my favorite GBA games.

[ZTC]

Now if I can find a reliable place to download plugins for epsxe...

oh, I tried ZSNES DOS, the speed is almost 100%, but it's buggy as hell :mad2:, especially with sound not playing. Oh well, i'll just try to find a dos version of snes9x, and see if I get a speed improvement...

[DsS Game]

DsS Game, in the USA, downloaing copies of copyrighted works is illegal without permission from the copyright holder. However, in the USA, it is legal to make backup copies of copyrighted software and such you own. You however are not to distribute such copies without copyright holder permission etc etc.

In otherwords no matter how you spin it, if you've downloaded a ROM, you've violated someone's copyright. The catch is, unless you are copying something that is still being sold, the copyright holder may not be inclined to take you to court unless you are mass distributing copies of their product or something. However it's still illegal or in copyright violation.

OK that makes much more sense.

Cyborg whats the speed on ur comp?

Daywalker

[ZTC]

P1 MMX at 233 MHZ
2MB built on video
64MB EDO RAM

( it's an old Packard Bell tower that I bought at a garage sale for $10 )

[DsS Game]

Unless you change the frame rate a bit, I don't think your gonna have a great time with an snes emulator.

I dunno I think at most u need a 500 mhz to comp for it to run smooth. My old comp. was 600 mHz but it didnt run completely smooth but it was tolerable.

Daywalker

[ZTC]

meh, I still can run Street Fighter II Turbo, Final Fight Tough, Super Mario RPG, Final Fantasy II, ect somewhat decent, eventhough the framerate is about 7
I don't mind that much, it just runs about 3/4 speed(it's sometimes better to have that when playing certian games)