I think we will need to take a stance on the subject. It's not about not being nice to people or not being fair but more for a legal reason. This is one of my concern.
For example, if you talk about the powerpak, it is still "gray" since it can be used for development use. If you want, you can use illegal game but the main re-seller (retrousb) have no control over this. Retrousb doesn't provide any pirated game too so it is still gray.
If you help on how to convert a game to a dev cart then you're not targeting a specific game and still seems gray to me.
But when you start to help on how to make repro on a community site, this can be interpreted as bootlegging and the lawyers could be heading your way, or are they?. We should not forget that some of those game are becoming again available on the wii and other platform.
Should we be concerned from a legal point of view? In the past there was not that much request and we could almost ignore that fact but now the request are becoming more frequent for the nes and snes. It would be a shame to receive some legal threats just because someone was "nice" to help make a bootlegged game.
Who can confirm that it's not an issue?
For example, if you talk about the powerpak, it is still "gray" since it can be used for development use. If you want, you can use illegal game but the main re-seller (retrousb) have no control over this. Retrousb doesn't provide any pirated game too so it is still gray.
If you help on how to convert a game to a dev cart then you're not targeting a specific game and still seems gray to me.
But when you start to help on how to make repro on a community site, this can be interpreted as bootlegging and the lawyers could be heading your way, or are they?. We should not forget that some of those game are becoming again available on the wii and other platform.
Should we be concerned from a legal point of view? In the past there was not that much request and we could almost ignore that fact but now the request are becoming more frequent for the nes and snes. It would be a shame to receive some legal threats just because someone was "nice" to help make a bootlegged game.
Who can confirm that it's not an issue?