Consoles featured SEGA Dreamcast ISOs, Genesis ROMS, 32X ROMS, SEGA CD, Famicom Disk System (FDS). This is to say taking legal advice from someone with a stake in the outcome is often dubious. Download Free Video Games ROMs & BIOS Files.

your original' but I am sure we have all read the hilarious things from Nintendo and whatever else vis a vis importing, used games and whatever else over the years. ) are 'you are allowed to have one backup you made yourself, must destroy it if you ever give away/sell/transfer/. The general notions of the law are harms done and again as long as you did not distribute it I struggle to see the harms.īest I have there as far as a source/historical first is some legal advice in manuals/agreements from the things being copied (music CDs, software. Don't think I have seen it brought up as a defence, a justification or the like.

are operating in as above board a manner as it reasonable and deflect any criticism from you, as well as presumably ensuring they have a matching version in case you are worried about someone grabbing a newer or later version that they theoretically have no rights at all to.Īs far as a legal basis. It is a sure fire way to ensure that your users/viewers/. It is a notion that existed way before PCSX2, or indeed the PS2 (I remember encountering it during the early PS1 days, and could probably find earlier but that was when I got into emulation proper and my days with the Amiga and PC prior to that were not exactly steeping me in the lore beyond an appreciation for intros). While most would be more concerned with it effectively granting them ownership of a copy of the game then you would also gain a copy of the emulator and thus something that emulates the BIOS and all the creative effort that went into it. *you could potentially buy an emulated copy of a relevant game on some device. though case law is a bit thin on that one. You could also look at such code in an emulator and port that out into a BIOS reconstruction.Īlso why would you have to dump the BIOS if you owned* the device? The whole 'has to be your own backup' thing is generally a myth - the law is concerned with damages and if you own a copy and did not download it from a torrent/p2p (which would mean you participated in distribution) then really what damages have occurred? Frankly what damages beyond some really hypothetical stuff have occurred if you downloaded the BIOS without owning a megacd? I might also be persuaded that the BIOS is a necessary part of emulating the device and thus for the purposes of interoperability (one of the key terms you will find in emulation cases) then. It is somewhat rare for people to go to the effort of such a thing though - most would rather wind it into an emulator instead, or just have people download it/dump their own. If the BIOS call and response is determined/known from legit means (which is to say not a leaked SDK) then you could in turn program such a thing to speak the same protocol and fit within the same space.

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