Hey all, I know im new and I may not have exausted my resources to death... yet... but I was wondering if NA has anything like an emulator list? 

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Make your own copies i guess lol.

There is a program out there called "GoodNES" that validates NES roms. I'm sure there is something similar for the other systems.

For any and everything related to emulation hit up www.zophar.net...

Ok cool, Ill check out those spots. I think Im going to begin by hosting what I have found and then Welcome people to contribute what they have found and validated.

not necessarily true, you can have dumps of your games but you have to have been the one to dump it   atleast thats my understanding of how it works

Those laws make no sense to me, as it is legal to hire people or stores to back up your media in every catagory, from movies to music. Why is it illegal to get a free backup?

I beleieve their is a list out their somewhere called SNES roms.txt and it
contains a whealth of information about the available snes roms this list isn't recent because I know their are some games that have been released in the last year(s) that arn't on their but it has over 3k roms on it

(This is just a list of the names of the roms it contains no roms at all I only attach this file like this because if I was to copy and paste the text dain would be PISSED because the page would stretch from LA to NY)

actually I can't recall where this list came from but here it is

The way I have come to understand it is that it is illegal to own the backup copy if you dont own the game, there is also no way for someone to prove that you did not make it yourself, not only that they can not expect everyone to know how to do this hence the legality of service providers for these types of services.

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Currently I have about 10,000 roms and most of them are retarded i.e. moded versions of the games, wich can be fun, but what im interested in compiling is a nice clean collection of lagit releases for the various systems.

Check out the linkys

not sure if you are allowed to link to those, we will find out shortly

Yeah... I wasnt sure, If someone who knows would kindly let me know that would be great.

Because all the laws were written before everything was digital.  In an analog world the backup of my cassette tape isn't the same as the backup of yours.  When its a digital CD then the backups are the same and nobody can tell, unless they have evidence of you downloading the backup.  Or in the case of NES games you have the wrong ROM for your cart.

You forgot China.

It is still illegal in China, the countries I listed are the ones that have no international copyright laws so it is completely legal there. Doesn't mean its enforced at all in China but still illegal.

ah yes.

In Canada you can make a backup of software so long as you have the original.
From this page (which is just some dude's site so this may be completely bogus or out of date) http://www.trytel.com/...~pbkerr/computer.html

quote: (The owner of an authorized and legitimate copy of a piece of software may reproduce a single copy of the software, for backup purposes, provided that the single backup copy is destroyed immediately once the person ceases to be the owner of the authorized copy of the software).

I read that somewhere too, I will investigate and post an official verified legal link