Nintendo Emulators and Roms Question

[-=VampyR=-]

Hi there!
As soon as Nintendo Revolution comes out,all emulators and roms related to Nintendo become illegal? I mean,we won't find any new versions of ZSNES,VBA,FCEULTRA...on EZ to name a few?
Of course I know some roms are illegal,but I was just wondering if you guys will still host Nintendo related emus,or other support files.
I'm curious how many roms-emulator sites will be "warned" by Nintendo officials.

Just asking 'cuz I know NR will have backwards compatability with all older systems.Hope I didn't bother you too much.

[Lefteris_D]

To my knowledge we have not received any "warning" letters yet regarding that matter.

[-=VampyR=-]

And I hope you won't.
But if they become illegal they will be removed,right?

[Lefteris_D]

But if they become illegal they will be removed,right?

The Emulator Zone currently hosts no game roms/ISO's copyrighted by any game publishers(Nintendo, Sega, Sony etc). We only host free emulation software so there is nothing to remove.

Be sure that if Nintendo or any other company decides to take action against emulators they will also target the sites of the developers and many sites like The Emulator Zone.

[-=VampyR=-]

I knew you guys have no roms here...just curios about the emulators.

Be sure that if Nintendo or any other company decides to take action against emulators they will also target the sites of the developers and many sites like The Emulator Zone.

That's my answer.Let's hope Nintendo won't do that.Long live EZ!I've found much help here,thanks.
Thanks again for the info Lefteris_D!

[Jale]

Well, I don't really know if Nintendo and other companies are going to take actions against emulation sites because emulation promotes piracy for them.

[hagbard]

Fight against emulation it's futile. Nintendo is trying to stop emulation since years, but ROMs aside they can't go much further. Non commercial emulators are legal, no matter Nintendo hates it.

[Zach]

You can't shut down something that has been reversed engineered. As long as the emulators don't use proprietary Nintendo code, etc. They really have no real legal recourse. The only thing they can really do if they wanted to be assholes, is make up some BS claims and drag emulator authors through court, forcing them to either fight until they are bankrupt, or until they stop making the emulator, or until Nintendo buys them out.

[hagbard]

The Sony vs Connectix affair would be a perfect example about that. The only way the japanese company could stop Virtual Game Station development (and sales, of course) was buying the project copyrights from Connectix.

[cloud4004]

Even if Nintendo Roms & Emus became illegal... People would still find a way to download them.