Zophar's Domain

[108 Stars]

What exactly is it that you expect from the Emulation-scene? Just got my Internet-access a few months ago, so I can´t tell what it was like in the past.
I guess it´s alive as long as there are consoles that can´t be emulated yet and games that have not been dumped...

[Genesis Knight]

Elusive is right - no request for ROM sites. At all. (Feel free to PM as much as you want, but no public conversations.)

[Henry Spencer]

Thanks for the help guys, but how come you can discuss Emulators and not ROMs. Just asking.

[Genesis Knight]

Emulators (the actual programs) are legal, ROMs are not (in 99% of the cases they are used). We don't want to get in trouble. I believe that's the issue in a nutshell.

[Elusive]

Thanks for the help guys, but how come you can discuss Emulators and not ROMs. Just asking.

MP3 players are legal because you can run your own content on it (for example, your own music you made or the artist gave you permission to use). Downloading MP3s from a filesharing program to listen to on your player, however, is illegal.

You can run public domain games (like Zero Tolerance, for example, or games you developed yourself) on an emulator, but it's illegal to download a commercial game to play on it, thanks to international copyright laws. ROM emporiums (I miss that word ... 'warez emporium' is so 1998, I love it) like to invoke the '24 hours' rule - that it's perfectly legal to download a game as long as you delete it within 24 hours. Wrong.

It's technically legal to own ROM backups of your games, but for it to hold up in a court you'd need proof of original purchase, proof it was your equipment that created the backup, proof you never distributed it to any other person, and so on.

Prototypes, on the other hand, are a massive legal grey area.

Come on, guys, I thought you knew better.

[David J.]

That chick in the video has gotten hotter over the years.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1443626/

[megadriveworld]

Whenever I've been to that site in recent years, it just seems very outdated; missing information on new releases etc, closing it is probably for the best. There are better sites out there.