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Atari? NES? Anyone?

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Does anyone like old games like Asteroids, Tetris, Pong, Pacman, Mario Bros. Original? I love them. I Love playing them online, and recently I got a free download from Windows Marketplace that has a lot of atari games and stuff, very awesome.


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Emulators... and since it became legal last week for people to download ROMS for those older systems... \:D/
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Dasher wrote:Emulators... and since it became legal last week for people to download ROMS for those older systems... \:D/
Wha? What happened? They are legal now? Well Show me the money Dasher. Where does it say it is legal? what happened?


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Dasher wrote:Emulators... and since it became legal last week for people to download ROMS for those older systems... \:D/
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You mean I can publically announce that I have every video game ever made in Roms? When did this become legal?
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Episode 30 of TWiM (This Week in Media). I believe it was mentioned on TWiT as well. Essentially, the DMCA (I think?) has been changed to allow people to download ROMs if the platform to play them on is no longer readily available in the commercial marketplace, or something like that.
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\:D/


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I knew they'd make it legal... eventually :anxious:
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This is up to what? SNES/Genesis? N64? Dreamcast?
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Are they even selling Gamecubes and Xbox's anymore? :-k

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I'm more of a fan of Genesis (and SNES) (S3K/Chaotix (yes, I own a 32x ;P)/Ecco/ToT ftw) which obviously comes from a generation later. But a lot of classics began on the NES and/or Atari and/or anything eight-bit really and hence it deserves significant respect.
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Let us know if you find any roms for those systems, STRYPER. ;)
Dasher wrote:Episode 30 of TWiM (This Week in Media). I believe it was mentioned on TWiT as well. Essentially, the DMCA (I think?) has been changed to allow people to download ROMs if the platform to play them on is no longer readily available in the commercial marketplace, or something like that.
Would the Wii put a fly in the ointment on that, though? As well as all the "classic collections" being put out by Sega, Capcom, Midway, and probably others?
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That's a question to which no one yet knows the answer. I'm not going to let it stop me, though. I'm assuming it shouldn't make much of a difference. It's just an emulator, not a native platform, so it should be fine.
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I love the Atari do they have an emulator for the Atari.
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Yeah, its name is Stella.
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Thanks I will have to look at it.
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Meo wrote:Thanks I will have to look at it.
You're not going to play it? You're just going to look at it?! What a waste.
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