Question about rules

I have a question about the rules. Emulators run roms so why would they get you banned? I mean don't you need them for the emus? Personally I think that rule should say "ROM links will get you banned instead of ROMS will get you banned. Could we possibly get a change of rules?

If this post is not allowed then I'm sorry and feel free to delete this post.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/02/2011 03:22AM by technoman.

Well technically you're right, but we try not to discuss commercial ROMs in general. Every once in a while we get questions like "I can't run X ROM in Y emulator", which we tend to allow because it deals with emulators rather than with ROMs directly. And of course there are legal homebrew ROMs as well.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/02/2011 04:05AM by bg4545.

What is a homebrew ROM? I mean I know what a regular ROM is for a game like Super Mario 64 but I've never heard of a homebrew ROM.

It's the same thing, only with homebrew. On most platforms, homebrew binaries are the same format as commercial games. e.g. on the DS, both homebrew and "ROMs" are .NDS files (well, in the homebrew scene. Internally in Nintendo, NDS binaries are .SRL files).

So a "homebrew ROM" is a NDS file made using devkitARM and libNDS (NDS equivalent of devkitPPC and libOGC for the Wii, the toolchain and SDK used for creating homebrew). Whereas a "commercial ROM" is one built using the official Nintendo SDK (AFAIK, for the DS it is named Nitro SDK or something like that, after the DS's codename during production).

Hope that clarifies the issue.

thnx that helped alot. So all that that rule means is don't do this
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I got all of my roms from Let's break the rules! Check it out: [www.don]

Note:(not a real site just an example!)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/02/2011 11:44PM by technoman.

[www.pdroms.de] this site features loads of legal homebrew roms.

The rules state:

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Links to copyrighted material (e.g. ISOs/Warez/ROMs/WADs), or copyrighted material itself.

Other then that I only see:

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Discussion of WADs, Backups, ROMs, loaders, cIOS is NOT ALLOWED! NO PIRACY!
If you are looking for ANY of these things, then Wiibrew is probably NOT the place for you!

So I'm linking to roms in this post, and I won't be banned. (I hope)

Yeah public domain roms are fine of course.

Ok thanks. btw, I got all of my roms from this site

http://rom.com

Check it out
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I warn you if you click this link then.....

Do what you want cause a pirate is free. You are a pirate!!!