boxhunter said: How is this piracy?

All they have picked up on is that it is they are Roms with HTML pages?

They havnt released it to the public?

theprophet said: This is old news, but hardly anyone knows about this, and i dont think most of Nintendo's employees know either. Heaps of virtual console roms have been dumped on the net. Its morally wrong man. Only the hardcore homebrewers and rom downloaders who do illegal rom emulation all the time would know about this.

insidious said: does that mean if we put "backups" onto an sd and put it on the wii will we be able to play those roms? err i mean backups? or will that not work?

jofra01 said:

boxhunter said: How is this piracy?

All they have picked up on is that it is they are Roms with HTML pages?

They havnt released it to the public?

It's been released, a thing called Twilight Hack, Homebrew Channel and WAD Installer allows Virtual Console games to be installed on Wii if you download them off the internet

theprophet said:

insidious said: does that mean if we put "backups" onto an sd and put it on the wii will we be able to play those roms? err i mean backups? or will that not work?

It wont. Nintendo have already thought of that. I wonder wat would happen if nintendo found out about this?

sjt333 said:

theprophet said: This is old news, but hardly anyone knows about this, and i dont think most of Nintendo's employees know either. Heaps of virtual console roms have been dumped on the net. Its morally wrong man. Only the hardcore homebrewers and rom downloaders who do illegal rom emulation all the time would know about this.

i think if you look around most of the virtual console games roms were on the net before the wii came out

boxhunter said:

jofra01 said:

boxhunter said: How is this piracy?

All they have picked up on is that it is they are Roms with HTML pages?

They havnt released it to the public?

It's been released, a thing called Twilight Hack, Homebrew Channel and WAD Installer allows Virtual Console games to be installed on Wii if you download them off the internet

Yeh i know of that. That is piracy but the news he is delivering to us isnt piracy, it is just facts.. IS HBC piracy?

Richey said: I started collecting roms in around 2000 when my sega master system's AV cable started to become loose and held to be held in by blu-tac.

So yeah roms have been around for nearly a decade and the VC merely took advantage of nostalgia. Seriously though some of the VC games arent worth what Nintendo expect us to pay for them, especially when they keep updating the list with all the ****ty games no one really ever played.

Draggyn said:

Richey said: I started collecting roms in around 2000 when my sega master system's AV cable started to become loose and held to be held in by blu-tac.

So yeah roms have been around for nearly a decade and the VC merely took advantage of nostalgia. Seriously though some of the VC games arent worth what Nintendo expect us to pay for them, especially when they keep updating the list with all the ****ty games no one really ever played.

Neither of those are an excuse to illegally obtain games. When you buy a game, you are paying for the game software, which basically what the ROMs are. Unless you own an original copy of the games you emulate, you are breaking the law. It's just as illegal as going into EB Games, waiting until noone is there, jumping behind the counter and helping yourself to the game discs.

adommer said: So the VC games we play on wii are only roms. Does this give a chance on piracy or something.

BVase23 said: Just as a side note, Nitendo states that even if we own the original cartridge game it is still illegal for us to download the ROM files. Therefor no one is allowed to have ROMs or emulators.

Matteh said: Lol mrmorden, I know what you saying

But like, am I even saying the right thing? I am thinking that you can get the WAD and use something on them so that you get the rom file and then you can play the rom file on your computer with an emulator that matches where the game is originally from?

=D