hushypushy said:
that's because you ASSUME that everyone who emulates N64 downloads their ROMs. what everyone is saying is that they don't want to buy games again. all the comments have been either that, or "we already have N64 emulation, so big deal." the important part there, though, is the AGAIN. a lot of people bought these N64 carts, and dumped them to their hard drive, and enjoy emulating them. i really, really do not want to rebuy all the games that i own (its only like 20 or 30, but still, that was quite a lot of money in the first place). no one (except industrian, like i said) has implied piracy. you are yet another ignorant emulation passerby who connects the word Emulation automatically with Piracy. is it easy? hell yeah it's easy. but emulation does not mean piracy.
i've been thinking about it, and although i know it will never happen, i'd love to see an N64 or SNES cart holder plugin. you know that magic wand plugin they've got? what if they sold an plugin to plug your N64 games into your Revolution? like, for example, it was a PS2 situation, where the Revolution contained the N64 inside of it. and you can "unlock" it by buying this special cartridge plugin. man, i would rock the hell out of that.
I think you're missing the part where you need to STILL OWN the Original media in order to possess a backup. If you get rid of the media, whether it be throw out, sell, trade in, etc, the backup has to go along with it. If people own the original media, they'd be saying, Why repurchase a game, not, I'm playing it via emulation, why buy it...
N64 emulation is still far from perfect, and you're not going to convince me owners of the original media are playing a buggy version of their original carts....
I was pointing out that many members her boast about this site not tolerating illegal behavior while at the same time tolerating illegal behavior. If you own a cartridge, yes you have a right to a backup, but if you don't own/possess the cartridge your rights to the backed up data is null and void...
Posts in this thread, whining about the price of n64 cartridges, talking about how they aren't sold anymore, etc, just seem to be poor excuses for violating copyright laws that this site claims to stand against.
Now if this site wants to boast about how well it stays in supporting copyright laws, people shouldn't be saying that carts are too expensive or old enough that they can be warezed. I didn't set the standards, I'm saying if those standards exist they should be enforced. Do you not understand you can't cherry pick which parts of copyright laws you support?
It doesn't matter how overpriced, old, not sold as new, the cartridges are under copyright and if you don't own the original data, you are breaking copyright laws by possessing a backup if you don't own the cart...Atari 2600 carts are under copyright and will be for decades, let alone Nintendo 64 carts...
Now I don't support copyright laws but this site claims to be above the board and if it wants to be above the board it should tell people that complain about buying ROM images from Nintendo because of price and age that they are sending Nintendo the concept that emulation is about free games and not preserving games...
