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last time I checked, the best thing out was a gamecube emulater running on 8800gtx at 3 FPS 
(and yes, I would be legal if I got any of my games that I own the real copies..... apparently)
Message edited by spuddyt on 08-25-2008 at 03:12:12 AM
Yo, i have to say that emulation is a blast!!
When i was a kid my dad bought me a nintendo8 bit for cristmas and i loved playing it and mario bros. on it
I have since sold my old 8 bit nintendo and some other various consoles, but i miss the classics, so nes emulation ect. is alot of fun!!
Ohh and i dont think that nintendo is so dam pissed off that i downloaded the original mario bros. game that i once owned time ago!
Emulation is pretty cool, but always far behind the times, just look at PCSX2 (play station2 emulator) it is so dam cpu bound it isnt even funny, hehe, just wish the emulators could utalize a pc graphics card more. and i mean no disrespect to the creators of said emu. cause i know jack and they made a great thing possible.
Anyways, im going to go play some contra or mario up up down down left right left right ba start
~peace
...Before this gets locked:
Emulation = Legal
Coping bios from an actual system = Legal
Backing up games you already own = Legal
Downloading bios from internet = Illegial
Downloading games from internet = illegial
Downloading games that you already own from the internet = Legal grey area.
As for the status of emulation: most everything up to N64 is fully emulated (N64 still has some work, mainly the custum microcodes some games use). PS2, GC, and NDS emulation are comming along, with NDS getting close to completion, although no one program gets everything to work.
The best sites for news these days:
www.ngemu.com
www.zophar.net (sites back online 
)
up up down down left right left right b a start
| STEMNIN wrote : Does that include Arcade games? |
Unless you do what I did any buy out your local aracde when they shut down (each cabinet was being sold for $25-50 ), downloading arcade games is illegial. And as before, even if you do own the cabinet in question, dowloading the game is still a murky area.
And no arcade game I know of uses the konami code.
Speaking of which, heres some triva for you:
We all used the konami code to beat Contra on the NES (dont deny it). But the code was introduced in a diffrent konami game. Which game was it, and why was the code introduced in the first place?
| STEMNIN wrote : Never played Contra on NES lol. Though looking at the list, TMNT (the good one) on SNES.
|
Loved that one, but I have a special place in my heart for TMNT 2 for the nes, which was a great port for those days (developed by Konami subsidiary Ultra games, with the code being BABA-Up-Down-BA-Left-Right-BA-Start, how i remember that offhand is beyond me.)
And don't knock arcade cabinets because they were before your time. SF:II, the Rainbow Edition, introduced us to hacking, after all
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