Hi. Anyone here have an account at 1up.com? well, if so, I've started a new club called NESdev, where we can talk about..well.. Stuff like we do here. So, just wanted to let you all know that it's there. Thanks. Bye.
Here's the Link to the club:
http://clubs.1up.com/do/club?Dispatch=Display&clubid=50711
so yeah, if you're interested, cool. thanks. bye.
Isn't one NESdev site plenty?
Well, yes, but I think it would be better if there were more. It's good to have multiple info sites, though I'm sure my club is going to be real informative (imply sarcasm). It's just so you can talk about NESdev and stuff related to the NES. It's just so you can talk about NESdev, and stuff. Sorry, I don't know where I'm going with this one, so I'll stop talking.
I doubt this would be usefull, beacuse these messageboard are already here.
You know,
I was looking for a NesDev board for a while, I don't know why it was so hard to find this place.
I guess its not advertised like the IGN boards, that's probably A Good Thing (tm), to keep the stupidity down.
drk421 wrote:
You know,
I was looking for a NesDev board for a while, I don't know why it was so hard to find this place.
Well, I found the main NESDev page easily (simple type something like "Name Table", "mirroring", "mapper", etc in google and you'll end up there), then these boards are liked to from the NesDev main page.
But, if it was "too easy" to find, nintendo's piracy police could come here and.... well I don't even think how the world could be destroyed here.
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I guess its not advertised like the IGN boards, that's probably A Good Thing (tm), to keep the stupidity down.
Yeah, that's right, it's good that there is no bastard advertising stuff here.
drk421 wrote:
I guess its not advertised like the IGN boards, that's probably A Good Thing (tm), to keep the IGNorance down.
Fixed.
Nintendo wouldn't really be able to make a case on piracy, since this website and messageboard are for NES development, and not for distributing commercial NES roms (no, a few demos/games written by some people and released to the public domain do not count).
Right, but still, for example, it's written on every nintendo game's manual to not open the cartidge, also, on their site, they're saying that everything that have to do with the emulation of the Nintendo consoles are totally illegal, regardeless of if it's commercial or not.
Nintendo doesn't set the laws. Many end-user license agreements (EULAs) add restrictions that are also not enforcable.
Here's to intimidation tactics!
I just went to Nintendo's website. Apparently, what they oppose about emulators is the fact that they are used to play commercial roms, not so much the fact that they emulate the hardware of the old systems. They are quite specific, referring to "emulators used to play illegally copied Nintendo software" and pointing out the infringement of copyright and intellectual property laws as applied to commercial roms.
The creation of new roms doesn't fall under those laws, though Nintendo didn't really take kindly to people selling unlicensed software. This was settled a long time ago, however, and it is not illegal.
um...squeedo?
how is a custom cart for a long dead system illegal?
It's not. Heheh, but if you call a certain routine in the Squeedo BIOS, the cart will upload a copy of it's own BIOS. So it's a self-dumping cartridge. Nothing wrong with that though, since it's my own code there.
But I think the point was that it isn't illegal, just that Nintendo's legal page could be called misleading (and certainly could've been called flat-out wrong when it used to say any emulators were illegal).