ROMS and Emulators

Lawstud

Probably a really stupid question. I downloaded the SNesoid Lite app from the Market. When I open it i am asked to select a rom. Have no idea what this means?

Could anyone expain the best place to get the necessary rom and how to install it to get this app working.

Thanks!

Excuse my massive ignorance.

Inquitus

Lawstud wrote: »

Probably a really stupid question. I downloaded the SNesoid Lite app from the Market. When I open it i am asked to select a rom. Have no idea what this means?

Could anyone expain the best place to get the necessary rom and how to install it to get this app working.

Thanks!

Excuse my massive ignorance.

Your ignorance could get you banned. Game ROMS are copyrighted which is why Snesoid doesn't come with any. Discussion of how to obtain copyrighted stuff is banned on boards.

Battleflag

Not all ROMs are copyrighted, there are free ones available on the net. But I'm sure the ones you will want to play are copyrighted.

Though if own the original game there should be no problem

TheDoc

Pretty sure this is open for debate, since is a thread within the retro subforum

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=70306


Roms and emulators of Super nintendo and sega? Your just being anal if your putting that on par with the likes of him asking where to download free music for his phone.

These old retro games arnt available for sale anymore and arnt expected income for the developers or producers.

To anwser your question, I dont know where you can get roms, but I'd love to find out.

Less scare mongering please, especially when its false information on something that probably has us all interested. Mod can intervine if they wish but im pretty sure rom discussion and linking is perfectly legal here, as its legal through boards as a whole.

And any emulation of grey areas like a ps2 etc, cant even run on a HTC desire so its not even valid.

Mataguri

TheDoc wrote: »

Pretty sure this is open for debate, since is a thread within the retro subforum

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=70306


Roms and emulators of Super nintendo and sega? Your just being anal if your putting that on par with the likes of him asking where to download free music for his phone.

These old retro games arnt available for sale anymore and arnt expected income for the developers or producers.

To anwser your question, I dont know where you can get roms, but I'd love to find out.

Less scare mongering please, especially when its false information on something that probably has us all interested. Mod can intervine if they wish but im pretty sure rom discussion and linking is perfectly legal here, as its legal through boards as a whole.

And any emulation of grey areas like a ps2 etc, cant even run on a HTC desire so its not even valid.

That post on the retro sub forum does not contain links to any ROM sites, only emulators which are perfectly legal. Also, a lot of these old retro games are still for sale via the Xbox 360 arcade, Wii Store and now Steam.

Inquitus

TheDoc wrote: »

Pretty sure this is open for debate, since is a thread within the retro subforum

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=70306


Roms and emulators of Super nintendo and sega? Your just being anal if your putting that on par with the likes of him asking where to download free music for his phone.

These old retro games arnt available for sale anymore and arnt expected income for the developers or producers.

To anwser your question, I dont know where you can get roms, but I'd love to find out.

Less scare mongering please, especially when its false information on something that probably has us all interested. Mod can intervine if they wish but im pretty sure rom discussion and linking is perfectly legal here, as its legal through boards as a whole.

And any emulation of grey areas like a ps2 etc, cant even run on a HTC desire so its not even valid.

Pretty much every ROM you could name on the SNES, Megadrive etc. is copyrighted. Copyright theft is the same be it music, ROMS or movies. No discussion or linking is allowed on boards.

I would however state that 2 mins using google, and half a dollop of common sense would make this discussion unnecessary.

Goodshape

A LOT of old games are still for sale.

Mostly as downloads on consoles (Wii Store has a massive library of games from most of the 'retro' consoles) or remastered or re-released versions on modern hand-helds.