ZSNES DVD?

andrewd18 · Post by **andrewd18** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:33 pm

Hey, here's a question.

Since ZSNES for Linux is relocatable, it would be possible to install it, copy the files to a DVD, and then throw like buttloads of ROMs on there, right? Then you could just throw in the DVD, choose your ROM, and go. It'd save you HD space, and if the feds showed up, you could quick put the DVD in your shredder.

~~ Andrew D.
linuxnoob@wi.rr.com

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:36 pm

you could run it on windows as long as the directories on zsnes are located on a valid HD path.

jdratlif · Post by **jdratlif** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:48 am

andrewd18: I would suggest removing your email address in your posts. Spammers harvest places like these for such information.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:45 am

Unless you're doing a Direct Disk-to-disk copy of the ROMs and emulator, there will be evidence of having ROMs on your hard drive, and the feds can still search it and determine you had ROMs on it.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 5:29 am

As long as you don't sell it for profit...

parasyte · Post by **parasyte** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 5:40 am

adventure_of_link wrote:Unless you're doing a Direct Disk-to-disk copy of the ROMs and emulator, there will be evidence of having ROMs on your hard drive, and the feds can still search it and determine you had ROMs on it.

This is quite the urban legend; it's nearly a 100% certainty that no one can recover data after one overwrite on a hard drive. Yes, Guttman did publish a paper on data recovery and secure methods of overwriting data, but that's for very old (early 90s and back) MFM-encoded hard drives. No one has demonstrated an actual ability to recover overwritten data from a modern hard drive, not even with a lot of patience and a STEM.

Of course, overwriting data (such as zeroing out a drive) is quite different from simply deleting data which can in many cases be reversed if the data is not later overwritten.

In any case precautions such as these are unnecessarily paranoid, because anyone interested in coming after you is likely going to have all the evidence they need without having to touch the hard drive. It is much like icing on the cake for them, not particularly necessary.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 5:46 am

If you're paranoid, encrypted loopback partitions are the only way to go.

Starman Ghost · Post by **Starman Ghost** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 6:49 am

Some people are way to paranoid. If it was child porn or something I would understand, but in this case the feds are not going surround your place, shoot tear gas and flash grenades through your windows and come smashing in through the doors.

AntoineWG · Post by **AntoineWG** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 7:16 am

The RIAA, on the other hand will have you kidnapped at gunpoint in the middle of the night, stuffed in a burlap sack and beaten with a rubber hose until you rat out your friends for sharing one MP3 to which they have no legal becase just happens to contain some random keyword in the filename.

andrewd18 · Post by **andrewd18** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 7:54 am

jdratlif wrote:andrewd18: I would suggest removing your email address in your posts. Spammers harvest places like these for such information.

I'm aware of that, but I use Thunderbird, and thus SPAM is not an issue for me. The auto Junk Mail filtering rocks.

"If you're paranoid, encrypted loopback partitions are the only way to go."

Getting back on topic, gee that sounds pretty sweet. How'z that done?

~~ Andrew D.
linuxnoob@wi.rr.com

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