Wait, so we have to HAVE the games to play them?!?

[elemeno]

I downloaded the emulator because I didn't have this one game that I wanted to play, and I probably couldn't get it anywhere else.

So, we have to HAVE the game to play it? Ugh.. help.. please -.-

[snkcube]

Yes, you have to find your own games. We can't tell you where to find them because it's illegal.

Rules

[lockharte]

ZSNES itself is not game. it runs dumps of SNES cartridges (basically game data transferred on to the computer known as ROMs). it is against the TOS to ask for where to download roms here, though

[Agozer]

Emulators are perfectly legal and you can ask where to get them, but the games emulators play aren't (for the most part).

[Aerdan]

JUST FUCKING GOOGLE IT

[ThunderClaw]

[SquareHead]

That has to be the ugliest beast I have ever seen, well next to the mirror I look at.

[Mike]

LMAOOOOOOOO

[Jipcy]

The topic title of this thread is so well-written, that I think this thread should be stickied/announced. New users seem to avoid reading rules at all costs, but this topic title seems to speak right to them. Perhaps if they see another thread that asks the very thing they were about to ask, it would prevent them from asking the same thing.

And this way, it won't be like a "rules" page that they avoid like the plague.

Then again, it seems like a lot of new users are completely illiterate, so it may be a moot point.

[lockharte]

i thought it was more or less common sense.

o well

[Shinrin]

*sighs* even i know that an emulator, though i was new to emulation, i did know that youhave to have a rom image to run the emulator.

[Bobbias2.0]

half the websites had that little "delete in 24 hours unless you actually own the cartriage" thing. I learned that you needed the original game from one of those, and then I googled info on the legality of emulation... so I seem to be an odity or something...

[Dmog]

Please everyone, don't confuse this poor newbie...

Yes Bobbias, Zsnes is a game for PC.
Zsnes games are known as 'Z.nes l33t warez RAWMz'. Sometimes, they are erroneously called "Snes rom dumps" (but they really are Z.nes l33t warez RAWMz make no mistakes about that)

edit: Try googling for "Z.nes l33t warez RAWMz" (alternative spelling "Zsnes roms")
Oh and when you start playing Zsnes, you can't no longer access this forum. That's the way Z.nes l33t warez RAWMz works

[Thalon]

half the websites had that little "delete in 24 hours unless you actually own the cartriage" thing. I learned that you needed the original game from one of those, and then I googled info on the legality of emulation... so I seem to be an odity or something...

I heard that the "24 hours" thing is pure bullshit, even in US: it's just a voluntary misinterpretation of the law made by the warez community to justify piracy.

Some people says that having emulators is a perfect legal thing, and having roms is also legal if you own the original support. Probably that's all legal under US law, but things may vary in other countries (for example here in Italy since the new anti piracy law became effective backup is illegal even if you own the original thing, we also have special anti piracy taxes on cd-dvd writers and blank supports; the emulation thing is also debated and will remain so until the authorities will accept and follow the usual anti piracy guidelines decided by the usual corporate subjects)...

[Bobbias2.0]

yes, the 24hr thing was BS. that was implied in my post, but yeah, I realize someplaces have different laws, bt the main thing is that so far the US hasn't decided that they are just gonna go out and say, "don't make rom dumps period, do not use emulators, go directly to jail" or some crap like that.

As far as I know, emulation is still a grey area in basically everywhere. there are some countries, i think, that might have alws, but overall, there really isn't much info on laws directly enabling or prohibiting emulation.

[Joe Camacho]

The issue of roms, is that, at least from what I have studied of copywrite law, there must be a demand or a petition from the copywrite holders to the authorities for the issue to be resolve.

Something like the RIAA, the music industry acts by the RIAA for their legal issues.

With roms, individual companies must take legal actions to defend their respective copywrite rights. Which we can find some companies that:

A) Don't Care.
B) Care.
C) Care, but can't afford it.

It would be a whole other problem if all the vg companies would form an RIAA type of association to fight against all pirates.

Also, at least here in Mx. There aren't "actual" laws regarding piracy, they fight "hard" piracy, copied cds or dvds, but .mp3s and .roms or warez are not viewed as piracy. In the sense that if you have mp3s or roms, probably you won't be charged for piracy, but if you burn it on cds or dvds and sell them, you might as well get charged.

Fun Fact: They Film Club in my University lets you borrow movies from them, but they are obviously pirate copies. No one has done something about it.

[Aerdan]