03-18-2013, 10:22 PM
(03-17-2013, 02:29 PM)Vipershark Wrote:(03-17-2013, 02:13 PM)Mario-Fan Wrote: Is it OK to link to emulators (I'm assuming you can't link to actual official ROMs) and homebrew ROMs that were never commercial?
Emulators are perfectly legal and there should be no problem with posting them.
The gray area is the roms, not the programs used to play them.
edit- on that note, homebrew is legal too so go ahead
If I'm blunt about it, it's like,
"Linking ROMS is bad, but we all know you can just Google any ROM you want and get it there". Plus ROMS are fine if you own the legal copy(assuming the person you're talking to owns the physical/digital version). I'd still put ROMS in a gray area but then you should just PM each other to avoid potential "outrage".
Not that I really care since linking to a ROM of Super Mario World doesn't take away from Nintendo since you can't buy the game new anyway. Still...that gray area, yo.