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The powerpak in itself is 100% legal, the NES and CIC pattents have expired in 2005 (even if they hadn't it would be in the gray zone at worst). I'll assume powerpak is used ONLY as a development tool of course. In theory, it's what it is for...

The same thing can't be said of fake cartridges. If there is few chances that Nintendo wants to shut anything down, then the better. Then we can freely distribute ROMs of commercial NES ROMs with no worries.

Bregalad wrote:Then we can freely distribute ROMs of commercial NES ROMs with no worries.

This is far worse than making repros of unreleased games.

Why in the world would it be far worse ?

It's pretty much the same I think - a "repro" is putting a ROM on a real cart sou you have to get a ROM first.

ibeenew2 wrote:Historically Nintendo has only gone after current gen equipment.

Except for, say, the infamous Power Player Super Joy III.

Bregalad wrote:The powerpak in itself is 100% legal, the NES and CIC pattents have expired in 2005 (even if they hadn't it would be in the gray zone at worst).

10NES is a computer program, and computer programs are copyrighted, and U.S. copyrights last 95 years. The CIClone program is a translation of Tengen's Rabbit, which in turn is a translation of 10NES. A bad-faith copy of 10NES, obtained by defrauding the U.S. Copyright Office, was ruled an infringement (Atari Games v. Nintendo), but a copy of Lexmark's Toner Loading Program obtained without fraud was ruled not an infringement (Lexmark v. Static Control Components).

Bregalad wrote:Why in the world would it be far worse ?

It's pretty much the same I think - a "repro" is putting a ROM on a real cart sou you have to get a ROM first.

What I am saying is that Nintendo is more likely to care about ROMs being distributed for commercially released games that they would about reproductions of unreleased games.

This thread doesn't make sense anymore.

Will people let it go? It seems like some kind of ego fight about who will win that useless fight.

People have the right to their own opinion and their will always be people for or against something: that's human nature. There is no winning argument and it will continue as just bashing on both side forever and ever.

Argument over. Please lock that thread, it will just degenerate more and more.

Argument over

I guess this means the next time someone will come up with a similar question, I am supposed to say nothing, whatever happens ?

Well after all this doesn't mean a thing to me, even if the HW forum is completely spammed by such request I will just have to ignore them. It's my bad to worry too much for this forum's health (and I mean it honnestly) after all I'm no admin or wathever so if I don't like some people or threads I just have to ignore them and so on.

Yet I'm sure many people will come over and OVER asking similar question, and don't complain if you waste your time explaining basic stuff to them only to have them "earning" supposedly rare prototypes/carts.

I'll close this topic with a quote from the previous page:

Memblers wrote:If someone wants to sell a cart to someone in an attempt to defraud them, then they are in for a world of shit. At least in the US, if you mailed it, that is mail fraud. That's federal law, with very harsh punishment. [But this] is not our job to enforce

But otherwise, I agree that this topic is going nowhere:



Talk to the tummy.