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Section 2
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Is emulation really legal?
gba roms Yes it is. The case of SONY V. CONNECTIX found that unauthorized emulation
is perfectly legal. It was the decision of the court that CONNECTIX had the right to emulate
the SONY Playstation and that reverse engineering of the Playstation BIOS for such a cause
fell under fair usage. As a result of this case CONNECTIX was allowed to release it's
Virtual Gaming Station for the Mac OS.
Ok, so it's legal, but is it right?
Emulation simply makes one hardware platform act like another. There is nothing
wrong with making the hardware you own behave the way you want it to. That is
exactly what software is for it makes the hardware you own behave in a useful
manner. Emulation is not used simply for playing console games on a PC.
Emulators exist for all kinds of hardware and all types of platforms. Console
emulation is only part of a very large emulation community.
Are ROM images legal?
Yes, under very specific circumstances. Section 117 of the US Copyright Law
gives the owner of a software package the right to make an additional copy
under certain provisions. If you adhere to the provisions then making ROM
images is perfectly legal. However, legislation has been passed to prevent
software piracy that makes game copying devices illegal. Using such a device
to create a ROM image makes the resulting image illegal as well. Also you
have to remember that there is a large amount of freeware / public domain
roms that you can download from the Internet, and only way to play them is
to use emulator or a flash card!
Is distributing ROM images legal?
No, not clearly. Individuals and Companies have a right to back up their
software. This does not give them the right to distribute that copy to others,
even provided they also own a legal copy of the software. So, in short,
it is perfectly legal for you to copy a software package you own, but not for
you to give that copy away.
Is Flash Advance Linker and Flash Cards legal?
That's like asking if CD Recodes are legal. Yes they are 100% legal. Flash
advance linker is a Gameboy Advance backup unit and as such it is perfectly
legal as long as you use it for legal purposes! You could go on internet and
download all gba commercial game roms and than play them on GBA using
Flash Advance Linker and FA card - that would be illegal! But if you use it
to play backups of games that you own or play Freeware and Public Domain
roms from the Internet than you are not doing anything illegal!
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on this site my be from other site without their
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but Sonic Identity. I have no claim of owenership
of matiral on this site unless otherwise stated.