It doesn't take away the fact that it's illegal, and I guess Nintendo cares because some of those "old games" contain characters that continue to be used by Nintendo in their latest games.
I'm not sure, but in any case, how many people do you know with a "ROM dumping machine", which I believe by itself
is illegal still
Look guys I'm not playing the saint here, it's just I feel this rage whenever somebody talks about emulation or ROMs as if it were legal. It's not for most purposes and that's it, so there is no reason to try and use the "if you own it legally, of course" shield.
And I apologize for bringing a storm on this old topic, I didn't realize at first, it was bumped a year later.