illegal ROMs?

[sthrose95]

I am not new to the visualboy advance or the N64 emulators, and I have been using them for a long time, however, I have two questions.
First this may sound stupid but it never hurts to ask, how dose one know if a ROM is illegal or not?

Second, I use a laptop that runs Windows xp and the memory is not the best so I try to save space on my hard drive for RAM, to run the N64 emulator, so I can only have one version of the two emulators I use. I have upgraded to VBA 1.8.600 and a few of my "time killing" games will not load, all I get is a white screen can this be fixed?

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Unless you personally dumped the ROM from your cartridge then it's illegal.

As for the second I have no idea...never had any problem like that and unless I had it I can't help. Try using VBAM, since VBA is dead that's the only real updated version.

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[sthrose95]

Cool, I asked because my son found a few sites to download ROMs from and I told him not to download until I checked here first, so you get to be the bad guy today because when I tell him no you will be why I did.. ha ha. thanks

[sudopinion]

****ing lol

[the_randomizer]

The only legal way to download (purchased) ROMs is from the Nintendo Shop Channel for the Wii/3DS.

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[sthrose95]

That's cool I did not know that, we download game for the Wii from the Wii all the time didn't even think about using that account to download ROMs for the emulators. Think I'll try. thanks.

[the_randomizer]

Originally Posted by sthrose95

That's cool I did not know that, we download game for the Wii from the Wii all the time didn't even think about using that account to download ROMs for the emulators. Think I'll try. thanks.

You don't use them with unofficial emulators, but with Nintendo's built-in ones.

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Extensions - MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, EIST,
AVX, Hyper Threading, Intel VT-x, AES-NI, Turbo Boost 2.0, TXT, Smart Cache
GPU - MSI GeForce GTX 660 2 GB GDDR5
RAM - 8192MB DDR3 SDRAM 1333
OS - Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
HDD - Western Digital 1 TB

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[sthrose95]

I understand thanks

[sudopinion]

threads like this make me want to kill myself and everyone in them.