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GC emulators and roms
Topic Started: Dec 19 2007, 12:22 AM (1,202 Views)
Kiri_No_Haku
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Well I checked around and my cheapest solution is to buy a USB adapter for $5 for 2 ps2 controllers. Where do you get the download for PCSX2? I looked on the site but which download?
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Jan 6 2008, 06:14 PM
Well I checked around and my cheapest solution is to buy a USB adapter for $5 for 2 ps2 controllers. Where do you get the download for PCSX2? I looked on the site but which download?

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Goodbye everyone. Heres a list of people who have my respect, if not my love:

Matar, comp, Darkwield, hellpyro, snoboy, pheonix, jim, eliwood, fritos, BB and huspa. Anyone who I forgot, I'm sorry.
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Psh, since when does anyone care.
I mean, look at Henry over there.
Poor Henry.
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well to the people that are saying to go out and buy something, i think ONE of the reasons to use an emulator or rom is to NOT pay.. ONE of them atleast.
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Benitsuke, I hope you're not saying that emulators are in any way illegal.

Becuase infact, emulators are 100% legal. There's nothing illegal about them. Especially considering all the data/software is made by people and all the emulators are non-profit normally. Though even if they were, it's still legal. The only Illegal things distributed about Emulators are:

A. System Bios(Which are NEVER included with any emulator you DL, for it is illegal to download or upload system bios from such consoles. You need to dump one of your own Consoles to have a Bios to work with. but yes, you can still DL them.
B. Roms(Which are also NEVER included with any emulator you DL, nor on a site which makes that Emulator, for it IS illegal).

The only other thing available for Emulators is Plugins, which are completely legal in every fashion, and normally required to be downloaded to run your emulator in the best fashion.

If we were perhaps saying where to get Roms, yes this topic would be bad. But as we're just talking about Emulators, there's nothing bad at all here.

PS Gaara: Actually as I said, it's more about convience.

Issue 1: Finding your game.
Ever look through your shelves for that ONE game you want to play, and you can never seem to find it until you don't wanna play it anymore? Or through the mess of your room? This solves that.
Mounting your PS1 or PS2 game as it's own drive, or making it into an ISO file for your own personal use(Which is legal so long as you don't distribute and continually own the game) makes it much easier to find a game for you play.

Issue 2: Limited Time play.
I think everyone comes to this issue here and there. "30 mins til I have to leave for work. I guess I'll play ps2. What to play? I feel like playing FFXI! Oh but I won't be able to find a damn save point before I have to leave...man..."
With Emulators you can save at quite literally any secound, even if the next save point is hours away.

Issue 3: Extra System
If you live in a house in which the TV(s) are taken up constantly and you find you can only play on your comp, this solves that problem too. Obviously.

Issue 4: Time Control
With most emulators, you can speed up, slow down, and reverse while you're playing your games. Allowing you to skip through long-ass dialouge scenes you've seen before, or prepare to see your opponent's moves coming in/time DDR/GuitarooMan dance moves correctly, or even make the correct choice after having made the wrong one.

Tis really more Convient than an actual console. Plus: It's alot cheaper to play Non-US games on an emulator than having to either buy a mod chip and do much work, buy a magicswap/etc and do some work each and every time, buy a Japanese version of the console.
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I think the simplest way to explain why emulators should simply be thrown into the "shit we shouldn't be requesting" catogory is fairly obvious. Your average person (E.G. Haku) will download an emulator with only one objective, to download and play roms.


So basically, While it isn't illegal to dl an emulator, it is illegal to dl roms, which is what most people use emulators for (and presumably what haku would use it for). Kinda like how, if you study the laws, it isn't illegal for a minor to smoke cigarettes but it is illegal for them to purchase, posess or recieve them in some states (I know it used to be that way back in NY, Im not sure anymore though) even though if you are smoking a cig, you probably own it.

Anyway, Idc that much about the legality/morality issue attached to the use/possession of roms because the only ones that I own are for archaic nes/snes games that probably couldn't be found on e-bay let alone in stores profiting the producing company. I was just making a statement is all....
Goodbye everyone. Heres a list of people who have my respect, if not my love:

Matar, comp, Darkwield, hellpyro, snoboy, pheonix, jim, eliwood, fritos, BB and huspa. Anyone who I forgot, I'm sorry.
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Kiri_No_Haku
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-.- I just was tired of paying for games when I can't get a job...yet.... well I'm crapped also for my red octane DDR mat now. >_> Another $100 I need. >_>
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I think the simplest way to explain why emulators should simply be thrown into the "shit we shouldn't be requesting" catogory is fairly obvious. Your average person (E.G. Haku) will download an emulator with only one objective, to download and play roms.


That's kinda like saying we should remove Potions from Anime Fight becuase most hosts say they aren't allowed even outside of duels. Or that was should remove the five heroes people normally ban(Whatever they actually are...). Utter. Stupity. IMO.

And actually, in cases such as with PS2, roms are actually the far less common side. As most PS2 ISOs:
1. Aren't made properly
2. Require additional work to make work
3. Are actually slower than the original CD itself for some reason.

The likewise is true about the PSX system. It's easier to simply go to E-Bay and buy the actual CD very cheap.
The only reason most people even get roms from what I've found is normally becuase:
1. They don't know how to make an ISO file in the first place.
2. They lack the software to do such.
3. They lost/broke the CD.

These are merely results in a few forums, not a general truth.

There's nothing wrong with the discussion of emulator, nor should such conversations be stopped/avoided. Especially since we've already let this one slide to the ohhh 3rd page? Going on 4th?

Edit: Besides, this is practically the only living topic atm, killing it would be sad. And if you wanna talk about things we shouldn't be requesting/having in the forums, how about flamewars? Or requesting meaningless tiny mana buffs? The list goes on. The point is we have them and they're hard to stop/not really worth stopping.
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Roms are not illegal if you own the game.


Which is why I enjoy playing old NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis games. ^_^

My reason to play roms is to revisit old masterpieces like Mike Tyson's Punchout, Super Mario Bros. 3, and The Legend of Zelda (1+2).

*edit* Besides, gamers have spent thousands of dollars on games, why should we have to repurchase old games simply to play them once or twice more on whim?

*edit2* If you're looking for a good rom site, romnation.com is a good place to start. It has adds and stuff, but their selection on old games is pretty...thorough to say the least. I hold no responsibility if you download roms that you don't already own or did own at one time or another.

*editeditedit* I remember when I dled a emulator folder from a p2p network. Its a specialized campus network and a lot of illegal content is on it, but w/e. Anyways, I just wanted the emulator and then dl roms myself, but what I didn't realize was the emulator folder also contained roms itself. Normally, the dl speed on this p2p campus network is several megabits per second (5-7 is considered average speed). The download took 30 minutes. I assumed that it was an abnormally slow connection, but then I looked at the rom folder in the emulator directory. Over 12 GB of roms were in that folder alone. Needless to say, I had a field day testing some of them out, but I had to delete it later anyway simply because A. I didnt want any trouble. and B. It took too much harddrive space.

Well, thats one of my stories ;).

In case ur wondering, it was all MAME roms. I enjoyed playing Garou: Mark of (the?) Wolves and Marvel vrs. Capcom especially.
comp(noob),Aug 21 2007
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Edit: Did Therran just call me a mother fucker? O_O

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