You DO delete your roms after 24 hours, right?

>>3530515
>not deleting them upon your first death

was that ever even an actual law? seems like a contrivance made up before actual piracy laws existed

When you're smart like me, you delete the file but don't delete your save file (save state). When you want to play again, just download it again for another 24 hours

Pfft I just edit the file creation date. They'll never get me I'm too smart for them!

>>3530516
>not adhering to "you die in the game you die for real"

>>3530557
>not playing the hardcore "you die in game your whole existence gets deleted" mode

Only pussies need to be remembered and rest at a graveyard.

I still have some that I downloaded in the early 2000s, possibly earlier.

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>>3530515
Don't need to when you're groundhoggin' it!

>>3530985
FREEZE!

>>3530519
It was always bullshit sites posted to justify it to themselves that they weren't criminals. Congress isn't going to take the time to debate ROM possession times.

So I read that it's only legal to have roms if you make them yourself, and you're only entitled to one, or something.
If I wanted to be a good boy, how would I actually do that?

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>>3530515
I rip my own.

There's no big organization like RIAA around to persecute people for pirating video games.
They're the safest thing to pirate.

>>3532714
How do I know you're not a ROM cop?

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>>3532726
They have to tell you, man. That's, like, in the constitution.

I remember when a friend tried to get moralfag on me about it

no fucking way were you gonna talk me out if free LIBRARIES of video games that I could only rent or not even see

the fact that Dragonball Z games even EXISTED blew my mind

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>>3530515
I have about 2TB of roms chilling in there slowly getting played.

Remember when romsites had you click 4 roulette button virus link adds before you could get to the rom? I kinda miss the thrill

Now it's just like "oh I downloaded every game for this console in 3 minutes? huh cool I guess *lights a cigarrette*"

>>3533063
Oh shit, that explains how I started smoking.

>>3533063
what fuckin rom site did that? i do remember getting audio virus once.

>>3533125
All of them if you aren't a literal kiddo

I remember having trouble to find a Tales of Phantasia rom back then, and asked a friend to email it to me. It took almost a week for me to get my hands on that sweet rom. Was never afraid of any law of sorts because I live in a 3rd world country.

>>3533063
I remember rom sites that made you vote for them in shitty Top listings to get their download link just for a single rom, then you had to do it again every single rom.

I can read the headlines now.

"Local man arrested for downloading illegal ROMs and also child porn."

>>3530515
I'd rather get arrested.

Videogames should be freeware with optional donations, prove me wrong.

>>3534332
fuck off commie

>>3534335
He's right, in fact government should heavily subsidize the industry just like they do to academics. The arts is an important part of humanity and copyright makes no sense anymore. We end up with 90% of the money being put on games from idiots who don't know anything.

>>3534342
I can't tell if you're serious or not.

>>3534367
Totally serious. How could anything make more sense?

>>3534385
I don't understand how the government subsidizing video games would result in better video games.

>>3534395
We'd get more diversity, and thus, better, more vibrant, games.

>>3534397
How? That doesn't make any sense.

>>3534403
Government funding means government oversight, and thus, a better product for everyone.

>>3534397
>>3534405
This is not me, some other fucking retard thinking he's clever.

>>3534332
nah but I appreciate when authors make their old titles they don't make use of anymore open source.

>>3530515
I never cared about reproduction carts, I never cared about used carts and I won't care about 0s and 1s stored in my computer.

>>3533058
You either have a lot of actual ROMs, many of which aren't retro, or a very small selection of disc images.

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Nope. What are you, crazy?

>>3534342
A video game public funding agency like the National Endowment for the Arts would be kind of cool, actually. The closest thing we have to that now is America's Army, which is funded and developed by the military.

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Hello, fellow pirates. Yar har!

Can any of you sea-faring mateys direct me to the best place to obtain illegal ROMs for my Nintendo™ Entertainment System emulator? It will be our little secret.

>>3534537
>I never cared about used carts
Why not?

>>3534608
Google it faggot. Or check archive.org for the no intro sets

>>3530515

>that kid who believed that and deleted the ROM after 24 hours- only to download it again.

Tricked the system, man!

>>3532695
For ripping ROMs from a GBA cartridge you could use a ds and a dumper program in the flash cart.

It's worth a look to research console specific dumping options in sites like GBAtemp.

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>>3532735

>>3532682
I wonder how they came up with it. It just seems so ridiculous and arbitrary, but it spread like wildfire over tons of rom sites and everyone seemed to believe it. Was it based on a misunderstanding of a real law?

>>3535598
You're on 4chan and you don't recognize a legitimate example of a meme?

>>3535232
>he thinks I was being serious

https://twitter.com/NotAPoliceman/with_replies

>>3533246
>>3533063
>when a ROM site literally doesn't have any ROMs, just links to top lists that it gets voted on

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Who /CultofKefka/ here?

>the site went offline forever a few days after this update

>>3534342
Video games are not art

>>3535743
That site has the same color scheme as a site that had a ton of PC game demos on it. Electronic Games I think it was called but there seems to be no evidence of its existence.

>>3535896
Videogames provide far more amusement and discussion than some painting.

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>>3535615
>haha! why u no kno this ebic le tweet tweeter birdy meemay! xD

You have to go back.

>>3532701
>>3533058
Anyone here every stock up on food, water and crank charger and secretly hope an apocalyptic happening hits so you can sit at home and play all your roms?

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>>3534342
>The arts is an important part of humanity
Great perspective. Let's jew it into submission like with literally everything else.

>>3535914
GameRevolution

>>3533045
preach

>>3533045
your friend was probably just too bitch to download roms due to fear of backtracing.

>>3537407
Don't have a full year supply but could last several months. With the population density of the city I live in the zombie apocalypse zombies would have eaten each other many times over by then. Sub tropic in case of global unwarming. Would prefer to be a bit higher though. If sea levels rise by over 50m I could be in trouble. Hope for the best. Plan for the worst.

>>3532714
I don't think that's allowed anymore anyways

the old Napster lawsuits can't fly anymore, last I heard, some judge ruled that since uploading is the only part that counts as distribution, and that at least in the case of torrenting, fragments of the file does not count as sharing the whole file, so it's incredibly hard to persecute people now like they did with people downloading Linkin Park

from what I understand of it

>>3537847
>from what I understand
Which is like how a kindergartner understands calculus.

>>3537731
Yeah but you got enough roms?

>>3537868
Do you have a better idea?

>>3538274
I have almost 30 TB of ROMs and and images. An equal amount of TV/Movies and about 20TB of porn. Fully prepared for the fapocalypse.

>>3538295
Of course. I just read about what actually happened instead of parroting what some kid on teh intarwebz said.

>>3530515
yes i delete after 24h then re-download, then delete... then answer in your thread... its a never ending cycle. I am starting to feel trapped :(

>>3537245
m8, you should calm down. Also even if you weren't familiar with that twitter, that post was composed in such a way that should have clued you in to not taking it so seriously.

>>3538728
you mind dumping some?

>>3534332
pay 200 bucks for burning rangers
or
download rom and burn to cd to play on modded console
>btw not paying 200 bucks

>>3535610
Yes, yes, memes. But something has to be a real idea or thing before it becomes a meme. The question is where the idea came from originally.

>>3534537
I also buy only brand new games. I never open them because then they would be used.

>>3541863
Some guy's ass. Criminals don't think too deeply about their lies. They have no real defense so they just come up with something that sounds vaguely reasonable so when they get called out on it they can plead ignorance.

No. I check out all my games at the local library.

>>3542070
>>3541863

My guess would be:

I'm operating an ad-filled ROM site designed to make me money. What I am offering is a product that is at best in a gray area of the law. How do I make people feel comfortable with what they are doing without being as blatant as "THIS IS TOTALLY LEGAL, GUYS?" I offer up a somewhat reasonable sounding thing that admits to the illegality of owning ROMs for unowned software, but acknowledges that said illegality only applies IF the ROM isn't deleted after a trial period. And/or by telling people to delete the ROM after 24 hours, I increase the times that they revisit my site to redownload the ROM, resulting in more ad revenue.-

What amuses me about this "rule" is the apparent assumption that the user will accept that the ROM Police are indeed monitoring their HD for overdue ROMs.

>>3532701
how do you rip your wii games?

>>3535896
>music, animations, voice acting, script etc
>art
>the same but interactive
>not art
Nice bait, faggot.

>>3534561
Don't forget about rom hacks. Super Mario World has so many.

>>3543142
Backup your Wii's NAND and extract the VC wads from it. Then extract the roms from the wads.

It's surprisingly easy to google how to do all of that.

UUUUM no why would I? Im in Mexico, the illegal farm fan boy site of the world

>>3530985
Anything more to tell? That sounds awesome for some reason.

Pfft only a peasant downloads roms. I buy only the expensive, rarest, most collectable games. I may play them once or twice but it kills time while I smoke my pipe and drink the finest craft beers.

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>>3530515
Proactively I do.