No one is going to touch that one with a 10 foot pole son

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No one is going to touch that one with a 10 foot pole son

It's still a question I want the answer to.
I'm not paying 40 bucks for a bunch of old TMNT beat-em-ups I'm only able to play in some probably crappy emulator.

Besides, the ROMs are probably just somewhere within the game's local files. All I want to know is if that's the case.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3041447320

That's probably illegal..I'm surprised someone posted that.

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That's probably illegal..I'm surprised someone posted that.

Piracy is illegal.
Emulating ROMs acquired through legal means IS legal.

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Piracy is illegal.
Emulating ROMs acquired through legal means IS legal.

I guess that's true, I mean a found a copy of Super Mario Bros on Nintendo DS on the ground once and took it home so then i downloaded the rom because I had a physical copy and I think that was the loophole

with this game we dont own it so maybe your not able to take out assets like that because you dont own this game

With the loss of physical media it means you cant claim this anymore

you dont own anything anymore

That's actually quite fair.
I never thought about how you're buying a license for the game. (Or games in this case but you know what I mean.)

illegal or not its nice to have these archived because there may be some modifications to the roms in this collection, even if its minor things like copyright text. when this inevitably gets taken down because the license runs out, or when windows no longer runs this game well, these versions will still be available.

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That's probably illegal..I'm surprised someone posted that.

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Jammin':

Piracy is illegal.
Emulating ROMs acquired through legal means IS legal.

I guess that's true, I mean a found a copy of Super Mario Bros on Nintendo DS on the ground once and took it home so then i downloaded the rom because I had a physical copy and I think that was the loophole

with this game we dont own it so maybe your not able to take out assets like that because you dont own this game

With the loss of physical media it means you cant claim this anymore

you dont own anything anymore

Well you aquire the rights to use the software, how far the EULA can limit you, depends on the Country you are living in.
Japan is brutal Example of that, as it wouldn't allow to extract or modify the Game, at least from my understanding.
The Rest of the World is more open to that.

There are other Games on Steam, Gog and Itchio that include the Rom of older Systems and it is right in the Folder, no messing around required.

This and ripping your own Games are the only legal Ways to get Roms, Abandonware is mostly illegal, but if no one is taking you to Court, it doesn't matter.
Downloading a Rom from a Game you own is also illegal, even if i would argue morally the other Way around.

To also add a more physical approach.
I own a Retrode2 and copied my physical Super Nintendo Games to my PC, including Turtles in Time.
By german Law, it is allowed to make Copies of your Media for yourself as a Backup.

Concluding:
- It depends on the Country if it illegal to alter the Software (most of the western World it is legal)
- No one will care if you extract Roms from Products you paid of, as long as you don't share them to the whole World online.