SNES Emulator

[wildgoosespeeder]

Does anyone know where I could find a good SNES emulator with Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, and F-Zero ROMs?

[biggman15]

The emulators are Easy to Find... Just search for Either Snes9x or Zsnes... I use Zsnes... The roms are another story... Google would be a good place to start though...

Just to shorten your Journey.... Here's a good website with The emulators your looking for...
http://www.emulator-zone.com/

[Everlast]

I'd be careful looking for ROMs, because most of the websites I visited a long time ago looking for one had links to porn and even worse some of them had malware that atached to your computer. Anyway if you want to try a good emulator download Project 64 at Project64.com. You can guess what system it is for. ;)

[???revived]

Isn't Project 64 for the N64, not the SNES?

[Xap]

Lol, just what I was wondering...:rolleyes:

[???revived]

Isn't it also prohibited to post links to roms and emulators on forums?

[blue_moon]

The rules vary. Its not like Brian is going to ban every body who posted a link to a website with roms, or a website linked to a website linked to a website linked to a website linked to a website linked to a website linked to a website linked to a website linked to a website that has roms and emulators. They are illegal, but you can still do it.

[Everlast]

It's only illegal if you download an emulator when you don't have the system. If you have the system and download the emulator it's not illegal.

[ben]

Emulators are legal, ROMs are not. While I personally have no qualms about old ROMs, due to legal reasons, no posting links to ROM sites.

As for SNES emulators, ZSNES (http://www.zsnes.com/) and SNES9X (http://www.snes9x.com/) are the best.

[Xap]

Sorry, I didn't realize that was the case. ZSNES is a very god emulator, I've used it before.:)

[wildgoosespeeder]

Thanks for everything guys! I'm using ZSNES. As for www.project64.com (http://www.project64.com) , it doesn't work for me. It has a bunch of ads and bad links. I found a better link. But it's not here.

[Xap]

Yeah, project64 didn't work for me either (I went through it a litle bit) - it let to stupid advertisements that had nothing to do with n64.:rolleyes:

[Brian]

Alright, time to chime in. I by no means wish to stifle or stop this discussion. To the best of my knowledge, emulators are legal and ROMs are not. (Except in limited circumstances where you own the original game itself, unless I'm mistaken.)

I am by no means free to cast the first stone here, if you understan my meaning, but as a representative of BlitWise, and, seeing that this is a forum hosted by a game company (with a certain enlightened self interest in the area of copyright infringement in general), I'm going to have to ask that you not share links to sites to download ROMs, even indirectly. Any links posted for ROMs will be edited out, and if there should be repeated attempts to post such links, action will be taken, including, but not limited to, mocking your and/or assigning infractions.

[blue_moon]

Saying you own the game is just as cheatable as most video games. I can rent the game to say I own it or, I could lie. The legallity should be rendered to say "Roms and emos are illegal."

[Xap]

emos?:p
It just occured to me that this forum has no laughing symbol...

[Everlast]

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[Brian]

I think the issue is copyright, use, and ownership. It's kind of like if you own a bunch of Beatles CD's. Are you within your rights as owners to make a mix tape of your favorite songs? Yes. Can you give such a tape to a friend? Maybe. Can you sell it on the street in Times Square? No. I believe that, from a legal standpoint, if you own the game, a ROM is like making a tape of songs that you have rightfully purchased.

[Skix]

Yes, But Cant You Consider Snes Games Abandonware? You Cant Get Them Any Where 'cept E-Bay Sometimes, And They No Longer Bring A Profit To Their Developers. That Being, And Due To Their Market Unavailibility, Suldent We Be Able To Download And Enjoy Them Instead Of Letting Them Sit In Some Companys Basement Never To Be Seen Again?

[Brian]

In answer to your question, Skix, no. You can consider them Abandonware if you want. You can call them Fleemware, too. It has the same effect, since neither term is acknowledged or supported in copyright law. Furthermore, many popular titles are rereleased by the publishers, making them available again.

Since it was the SNES you brought up, I thought I'd quote a bit from Nintendo on the matter.

Therefore, whether you have an authentic game or not, or whether you have possession of a Nintendo ROM for a limited amount of time, i.e. 24 hours, it is illegal to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet.

Copyrights and trademarks of games are corporate assets. If these vintage titles are available far and wide, it undermines the value of this intellectual property and adversely affects the right owner.

...[T]he current availability of a game in stores is irrelevant as to its copyright status. Copyrights do not enter the public domain just because they are no longer commercially exploited or widely available. Therefore, the copyrights of games are valid even if the games are not found on store shelves, and using, copying and/or distributing those games is a copyright infringement.

U.S. copyright laws state that copyrights owned by corporations are valid for 75 years from the date of first publication.

See here (http://www.nintendo.com/corp/faqs/legal.html) for more on the matter.

[Skix]

Wow, They Realy Want To Fill Their Basements Dont They? But Wouldent A Copyright Extend To All Of The Like Such As Clones? I Mean, Dx Ball Is Just A Pimped Out Breakout, So Why Isnt That Infringment?

[ChallengeSpaceYard]

U.S. copyright laws state that copyrights owned by corporations are valid for 75 years from the date of first publication.

The Copyright Extension Term (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act) adds an extra 20 years, for a total of 95 years.

[biggman15]

You have heard of the Virtual Console on the Nintendo Wii? They are beginnning to sell those classic games again...

[blue_moon]

Yeah, and that may prolong the copyright to 2084. I won't be able to get a ROM until I'm 80!!! Oh, and I meant to type emus, not emos.

[Everlast]

I was wondering about that "emo" thing. And as for an emulator for the Wii, I highly doubt one will be coming out. It would be pretty hard to make.

[biggman15]

And as for an emulator for the Wii, I highly doubt one will be coming out. It would be pretty hard to make.
Is that a reference to my post? because I'm the only one that mentioned it in this thread... And the Virtual Console is Real... Emulation on the Wii is Real... and Completely Legal... Because you go through Nintendo... Nintendo is Selling Many of the older games so that you can play them again... or for the first time...

[Everlast]

That not what I was saying. I have a Wii, I know there is a virtual console. But what I meant was I don't think an independant company will be able to make a program that can play Wii games on the computer without a Wii.

[biggman15]

Why not? The Wii is Barely faster than a Gamecube... and all it would really take beyond that... is a Receiver that could pick up the Wii-mote... And it's probably doesn't differ much from a Wavebird Receiver... Which can already be adapted to USB...

[Xap]

Oh, and I meant to type emus, not emos.
An emu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu) is a bird. :p

[blue_moon]

Yes, but I meant to chop a few letters of. Emu, emulator? See?

[Xap]

Yeah, sorry, I was just being a smart-aleck.:rolleyes:

[ben]

Wow, They Realy Want To Fill Their Basements Dont They? But Wouldent A Copyright Extend To All Of The Like Such As Clones? I Mean, Dx Ball Is Just A Pimped Out Breakout, So Why Isnt That Infringment?Because copyright law covers specific works, not general ideas. Anyway, we don't write the law (and I personally don't like much of the copyright law we have), but we do have to obey it.