Legal ROMs - Rerez

How to find legal video game ROMs to use with your favorite emulators!

Steam Community post by Mykola1453

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[cjtheboi]

The fact that we're able to rip the ROM files out of some Steam rereleases of older games is genuinely amazing to me

[cedric]

Adulthood is realizing that “illegal” and “immoral” have two different definitions. Don’t give corporations any more respect than they would give you, folks.

[kitestar]

Sega truly pioneered the “hidden roms in the install folder” genre

[Anonymouthful]

Emulation is the only way to play some of the games that the companies have made impossible to purchase legally. It is one of the most important things for the preservation of video games.

[camhedmr_]

Remember, steam's business model currently is literally just "easier than pirating" while the rest wages crusades and inquisitions and purges and plunders on regular gamers in the name of "fighting piracy".

[StormsparkPegasus]

I have a TON of illegal ROM's. I generally only pirate stuff when it's not available any other way. But if that's the case, then I have no moral issues with it.

[Ryand]

People are elitist for OG hardware only until they lose their Pokemon save due of a faulty battery.

[БатоБатоболотов-ид]

Admit it. You all downloaded at least one "legal" ROM

[alexisjohnson]

Bro! The demonizing of emulators and roms did not start with YuZu being taken down.
That started years ago back in the Nesticle & AOL dial-up internet days.

[OdinXivraj]

You forgot two other advantages. First the ability to access region locked games. Take Secrets of Evermore for the SNES. An amazing game that was never released outside the US and in a limited release. Via emulation the rest of the world can now enjoy this gem that often gets overshadowed by the Mana series. Second romhacks, you briefly touched on this but romhacks can breath new life into our favorite games, Loved Super Mario 64? Try Super Mario 64 The Star Road and have an all new hubworld with all new levels and stars. I myself am watching this while playing a Super Metroid romhack. Seriously if you haven't checked out any romhacks yet do so. They're are some insane ones out there. I started a collection of Super Metroid ones. I'm up to ten FULL conversions of this amazing game.

[kemix]

If I can't buy it from the company that made it, then it's, as far as I'm concerned, abandonware and free game for me

[guyvizard]

Quick shout-out to the memory of Emuparadise, and not for the games, but for everything else game related. For the logging of years and years worth of magazines, instruction manuals, comics, books, hacks, and improvement patches. Heck, you could probably find something to make your PC run smoother. It was a terrific community.

[Calvados]

About 70% of the games I care about emulating are old Nintendo games that are out of print. The rest are PS1, Saturn and Dreamcast.

Do I care if Nintendo is butt hurt? Not even slightly.

[spartan]

I don't think someone downloading a ROM for personal use should be called a Pirate.

Piracy would be someone downloading ROMS, THEN selling them to people for money. I see lots of people selling hacked game systems, or emulator systems they built with ROMS preloaded into the machines. China and Russia are very guilty of this act. Selling bootleg consoles with preloaded games. It even happens at street level. I saw some guy on Facebook Marketplace selling laptops he configured to be Emulation machines. He had a set price for the machine, then charged extra if you wanted games. THAT is actual piracy. People downloading movies then burning them to discs. Taking those discs and selling them for money. THAT is piracy.

I don't think Mr. Average Andy who downloaded a ROM of Sonic 2 to show to their kids should be lumped into the same category as actual pirates.

[dababy]

I watched the madcatz video that you did about 2 weeks ago if not alittle longer


As if it was like a curse, one week later i see the madcatz steering wheel in my local goodwill with the logo front and center

[coreyferreyra]

As a heads up, Piko Interactive isn't actually that good. They send takedowns to groups who host prototypes of games they release, they've said some questionable stuff about preservation, they steal code for the emulators they use, and more. (There's also the whole NFT support thing, but that's its own issue.)

[dornadigital]

I'm a weirdo who actually owns cartridge ripping hardware. If Nintendo allowed me to buy the roms, I would have spent SO MUCH MORE directly to them.

[RuminInLove]

Not sure if this is unrelated but something I hate almost just as much as publishers making their games hard to acquire legally is when a publisher actually does rerelease an old game and it also happens to be the worst version of that game

[BlakeIvory]

While I agree we should buy games as a means to support devs to some extent, the thing is that how it actually works in the game dev industry is the fact that those devs have already been paid their amount to make the game, the only thing buying games does is just simply help cover some of the marketing costs and if profit is made, maybe a bonus. As someone who has recently gotten in to indie development I had to learn all this stuff ahead before finally starting any kind of work. Yes please continue to buy games as to some extent depending on the company, could send a message as to what gamers want, just remember that when you buy a copy, doesn't automatically mean a dev got paid right then and there.

[XenoChron]

When you don't own your game, paying for it means nothing.