I remember back in 2001/2002, when I was in high school that's all I did; download and play roms of my fav games all day. Well just a few mins ago I was trying to find DKC3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble for d/l, only to have my favorite rom sites give me this hypocrisy about "This game is protected by the ESA and is not available for download."Now, I have mixed feelings when it comes to emulation. But, this ESA protection is total bullshit. Why not just ban the whole website's archive instead of one game? Then again, why is the ESA holding the first/third party developer's hand in the first place? The responsibility on protecting piracy of games should be put more on the companies that produce them, not the ESA.Anyway, I'm kinda pissed about it. Anyone else come into this stupidity?
You can try eMule,Limewire or Torrents.It is not that bad for me,since my favourite games are not in the ESA protected list.BTW,Roms in any form are illegal,worse than mugen character stealing/warehousing,but i guess no one cares.
well metaphorically, lets say the esa are the police. the companies are the suvillians. and you're the criminal. thats how i see it! thats why the esa is there. and some sivillians don't care so they don't use the ESA(police)
saying that roms are illegal is not correct, even if that's true in 99% of the cases. there is the remaining 1% of people who bought the carts.
banning roms is kinda stupid considering that people would by the originals anyways. My opinion: it's okay as long as noone gets violated. And no, a game worth $1 on gamestop isn't going to make as much as an impact as a $70.
Yeah, I downloaded games I don't have. Half the games I ever played were roms.And, really, I'm not letting ESA stop me from downloading games.
I can understand.On TV: Comercials, needs to be at a specific time/recorded etc. Dl'd easier to have while working on things, and whenever you want at a scalable size.
R[E]ika said, November 28, 2007, 10:10:54 pmyou download stuff that you could otherwise watch for free on tv?I don't have cable, satellite, or antennae.The 1st 2 cost too much and the last just won't pick up. I don't watch many shows anyway, not worth the bills.
Nothing compares to the multiple uses for a PC.An awesome pc can beat a TV, DVD player, console, and an entire library. Hell you can get a degree with one.So I wouldn't blame you for settling with an awesome pc.
A lot of gamers download roms because these games aren't readily available and Wii's VC is overpriced.
Roms can never be banned as long as its legal to make your own backups of data that you physically own.
King of MUGEN said, November 29, 2007, 02:39:47 amA lot of gamers download roms because these games aren't readily available and Wii's VC is overpriced.Yeah I agree with that. I swear the whole reason why roms are so popular is because of places like gametap or Wii's VC being so pricy.Essentially I flip people that treat me like a money bag off. Because after all, that's all we are to them.
