/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10062842
I don't remember that, but I remember them trying very hard to argue "It's just like going to the store and stealing a game!". I recall some demo disk or whatever I had on the PS1 had an anti-piracy video and even said that same thing during it.

>>10062886
>Just cannot be bother with malware spiked garbage and firmware hacks written by idiots.

Malware.... for your retro consoles? What? Do you think they are going to install a rootkit on your SNES or something? The only console that counts as /vr/ that let you re-write or alter the firmware or OS was the original Xbox.

Also the majority of firmware hacks are written by people who are practically the most well known experts on said hardware outside of the company that manufactured the system that know the device inside and out.

>>10062893
Man, I remember how that 24 hours thing was on EVERY ROM site at the time. I wonder how it even started. I guess it was posted on some random ROM site before and everyone just took it as true and copied it. I wonder if the originator of that statement literally just made it up or just grossly misunderstood the law.

My guess is one or two sites made up that claim and everyone just copied it. Either whoever originally made the claim completely mis-understood the law or utterly pulled it out of his ass.

It's not like sites had full romsets, there was generally a dozen or so ROMs per site other than a few really big ones, and a lot of them were just copied from other rom sites.

I remember it used to be impossible to find a copy of Breath of Fire 2 that didn't have this fucking annoying trainer on it that not only had none of it's cheats work, but broke the SRAM save function. Megaman X2 also had a bad dump floating around everywhere, and nobody realized it was a bad dump that was half the size of the original because no emulator supported the Cx4 at the time. Technically the real ROM would run, but with corrupted graphics, bad dump would not run at all, everyone just assumed it not running was due to lack of Cx4 support. Majority of ROM sites you could Yahoo or Metacrawl at the time all had those broken versions, indicating that they were all just copying off of each other. So somebody making up that 24 hour nonsense and then everybody copying it is no surprise. Add to this that the majority of people making ROM sites on Geocities, Angelfire, or Homestead were teens or not even teens that peppered their pages with iframes and random gifs and guestbooks and it's no surprise they had no idea how the law worked. Not like we had Wikipedia and YouTube and reliable search engines and sources to find out it was all bullshit.