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Looking for a Game Boy emulator that has Link support...

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I'm curious if there's a Game Boy emulator out there that has Link support, or if that's completely unsupported on any Game Boy emulator? Danke...
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KiGB has two-player link cable support over TCP/IP. I've never tried it, though.
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I believe this thread is not kosher.
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DPDarkPrimus wrote:I believe this thread is not kosher.
Not necessarily. I run a GBA emulator on my computer with no illegal roms (I dumped the roms myself, thus, legal backups).

The OP hasn't actually stated he is doing anything illegal (running an emulator is not illegal, until he starts talking about where he gets the roms)
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Praxis wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:I believe this thread is not kosher.
Not necessarily. I run a GBA emulator on my computer with no illegal roms (I dumped the roms myself, thus, legal backups).
How do you do that?
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Praxis wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:I believe this thread is not kosher.
Not necessarily. I run a GBA emulator on my computer with no illegal roms (I dumped the roms myself, thus, legal backups).
Wrong.
The manual for a GBA game I got a couple weeks ago wrote: Copying of any video game for any Nintendo system is illegal and is strictly prohibited by domestic and international intellectual property laws. "Back-up" or "archival" copies are not authorized and are not necessary to protect your software. Violators will be prosecuted.
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Praxis wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:I believe this thread is not kosher.
Not necessarily. I run a GBA emulator on my computer with no illegal roms (I dumped the roms myself, thus, legal backups).
How do you do that?
Hahaha, holy shit. Asking where to get an emulator was bad enough- you're asking how to rip roms yourself? :lol:
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DPDarkPrimus wrote:
Praxis wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:I believe this thread is not kosher.
Not necessarily. I run a GBA emulator on my computer with no illegal roms (I dumped the roms myself, thus, legal backups).
Wrong.
The manual for a GBA game I got a couple weeks ago wrote: Copying of any video game for any Nintendo system is illegal and is strictly prohibited by domestic and international intellectual property laws. "Back-up" or "archival" copies are not authorized and are not necessary to protect your software. Violators will be prosecuted.
If the case of a music CD you bought said that it was illegal to rip the cd, would you believe it? Because it's the same thing. There is NO difference between ripping a cd to play anytime on your computer and ripping a video game to play anytime on your computer.

Dominus Atheos wrote:
Praxis wrote: Not necessarily. I run a GBA emulator on my computer with no illegal roms (I dumped the roms myself, thus, legal backups).
How do you do that?
Hahaha, holy shit. Asking where to get an emulator was bad enough- you're asking how to rip roms yourself? :lol:
G&C Rules wrote: No Warez. Just so everyone understands, warez and pirating are illegal, so dont offer pirate copies of games or links to warez sites in threads. We dont need any trouble from such things so keep them away from the board. You may discuss the issue, of course, but keep actual links or advice on pirating or other IP-infringement off the board.
I guess I must have missed the thread where the G&C mods gave you the authority to interprete their rules. :roll:
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Just because a company lawyer says something doesn't make it true.
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DPDarkPrimus wrote:
Praxis wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:I believe this thread is not kosher.
Not necessarily. I run a GBA emulator on my computer with no illegal roms (I dumped the roms myself, thus, legal backups).
Wrong.
The manual for a GBA game I got a couple weeks ago wrote: Copying of any video game for any Nintendo system is illegal and is strictly prohibited by domestic and international intellectual property laws. "Back-up" or "archival" copies are not authorized and are not necessary to protect your software. Violators will be prosecuted.
Wrong. This is Nintendo's claim, however, any research on the ACTUAL LAWS show that dumping your own rom falls under LEGAL BACKUP clauses unless you break encryption. GBA cartridges are unencrypted.

It is, however, illegal to transfer your backups, which is why downloading roms of games you own is piracy.

What Nintendo says to scare you doesn't matter if the law doesn't back them up. Dumping your own roms is perfectly legal if you do not transfer them to anyone else.

I am fully aware Nintendo writes that on their manuals, they also wrote it in their FAQ, but it doesn't match the actual laws.



I dump roms using a GBA and a Flash2Advance cable to hook it up to my PC. I use some software that transfers an app to the GBA, that instructs the GBA to read the cartridge and transfer all the data on the cartridge to the PC over the Flash2Advance cable.
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I guess I must have missed the thread where the G&C mods gave you the authority to interprete their rules.
Discussing how to create roms falls under the "advice on" portion. Doesn't take a genius to figure that out.
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DPDarkPrimus wrote:Discussing how to create roms falls under the "advice on" portion. Doesn't take a genius to figure that out.
Why do you even care?
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DPDarkPrimus wrote:
I guess I must have missed the thread where the G&C mods gave you the authority to interprete their rules.
Discussing how to create roms falls under the "advice on" portion. Doesn't take a genius to figure that out.
Discussing how to make legal backups?

I suppose telling people how to rip CDs must fall under the "advice on" portion, because people can potentially transfer them over Kazaa.


This is NOT the same as advising someone where to find illegal rom sites, which is what was intended by the rule.
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All that aside, it's perfectly legal to use an emulator with homebrew roms, as long as the original author allowed them to be distributed. There may be little practical use for it, but it's still interesting to see what bedroom coders can do with the hardware.
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