Let me begin this post by saying “piracy is wrong.” That said, when I was in college my Mac G3 contained well over 500 NES and SNES ROMs and no less than 3 NES and SNES emulators. How they got there I haven’t a clue. Now it would appear I will *not* be adding another emulator to the pile as the No$GBA guys have cracked DS commercial ROMS so that they can run in emulated form. But that comes with a caveat — it will be with games I already own. Taking games you already own and ripping them to this software is healthy and fun, so enjoy. Just don’t move to China and start selling them for profit, because the Infendo budget does not include bail money.
Update: The comments for this post have already gotten me thinking: No DS ROMs for me; the system’s good enough as it is without ROMs mucking it all up. Point made, point taken. Thanks.
[Thanks, Jamie, via Kotaku]
ya, because it's way funner to purchase the ripping hardware to play games you already own on an emulator with less than stellar funcionality on a system not designed to run the games with the proper interface to begin with. Uh huh. Very delusional of any of the blogs to think that posting that saves them from promoting piracy. Kinda like cracked software that always has the message "If you like it, buy it!" Uh huh…Of course, from the repeatedly Nintendo deissing Rollin, I'd expect no less.
Let me just say that I hacked my PS1. I hacked my XBOX. I hacked my PSP. But I have NO desire to hack my DS. The games are just too fun. The reason I hacked all the other systems is because they had nothing to offer me. I got bored with them so I hacked them to bring some life into a dead system. The DS doesn't have this problem. I would argue that the best security system is to make a FUN system. If the system is fun then you have no reason to hack it.
What the heck does this have to do with Rollin? It was posted by Jack.
Maybe Anon knows something about Jack that we don't…Anyway, I had read about this DS emulator somewhere else too, and I still don't understand something: Is this an emulator to run DS games on a different platform, such as a PC? If that is so, what is the point?? Most of the DS games, without the dual screen and the stylus and/or the Wi-Fi, are completely useless!! Or am I getting emulation totally wrong?
First off Jack = Jack.Second, the more I read about this thing the less interested I get. I'll be keeping my DS and legit games for the long run.
Personally, while emulators are good for some games (turn based), games that require agility tend to be rather hard to play with the arrow keys on a keyboard. If you have a gamepad, fun-on-a-bun.I think the DS emulation would be fine on a PC .. the mouse would become your stylus. Click to tap, click-drag to, uh, draw.
LOLLY CRAP! Whos this Jack guy?! I just realized it wasnt Blake.