Hi

I am going to be starting my own emulator site soon. Which will go by the url http://www.emulation-heaven.com

However this will be a forwarding url and will redirected to http://emu.outer-heaven.co.uk

I do not know how I will be able to put emulators on my website. Am I able to take files from other websites and put them on my own website database?

Or is this ilegal, If so can someone direct me to somewhere where I can get more information on this.

Thanks :happy:

The links doesn't work. Anyway, welcome

Yeah

There not supposed to work, ive just told you what the urls will be.

lol, Meh and mah fast reading

I'm pretty sure most webmasters hate hotlinking so you shouldn't do that. I would suggest downloading and uploading them yourself and giving credit to the original makers.

I post the news on 1emulation, and what I do is get a download preferably from the developer's site, although sometimes I get it from another emulation site. Then it gets uploaded, I post the news item, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, give credit to your sources. I will credit (1) the site that first alerted me to the emulator (2) the site I downloaded the file from, and (3) the site that provided the changelog - important if someone translated Japanese for you.

Never hotlink to another site for downloads - you are stealing their bandwidth.

Lastly, if you intend hosting possibly "illegal" material such as roms, bioses, warez, isos and torrents - don't advertise your site here.

Stealing bandwith is bad mostly because it costs money.

There was a site a few months ago that hotlinked every single file and image from us. We took care of that with some anti hotlink methods.

Yeah

Thanks, so I will need to give credit.

the website will only be for emulators and not roms.

Lefteris_D said:

There was a site a few months ago that hotlinked every single file and image from us. We took care of that with some anti hotlink methods.

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It did? That's the one that I really don't know about.

Me either :mellow: