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OS X Console Emulator 'OpenEmu 1.0' Launches

Traverse said:
Is there a legal way to get ROM off of Game boy color cartridge? I won't break the law.
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As long as you own the cartridge, you have paid for that ROM to play, and should have no difficulty maintaining a clear conscience, regardless of whether you ran the software to copy it yourself from your own rom, or simply let someone else do it and got it from them. The data's the same. You paid for one copy of it, so regardless of where you get it from, you're entitled to one copy of it.

After I saved all my digital media, DVD's, CD's, Game Roms over from their fading, unreliable media, I destroyed them, but kept them in case I was ever dragged into court, so I could haul my big box in and show I've paid for every single title I've ripped or downloaded.
 
sares said:
Awesome :) Pokemon X and Y. I just need the ROMS now. Anyone have a legal source?
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Well, I believe only legal way is to rip them yourselves, but I'm not sure: it's probably legal to download, only if you own the games themselves.

That said, this won't be able to play X or Y as those are 3DS games, but it should be able to emulate all the others up to Black 2/White 2, as those are DS games.
 
ThunderSkunk said:
As long as you own the cartridge, you have paid for that ROM to play, and should have no difficulty maintaining a clear conscience, regardless of whether you ran the software to copy it yourself from your own rom, or simply let someone else do it and got it from them. The data's the same. You paid for one copy of it, so regardless of where you get it from, you're entitled to one copy of it.

After I saved all my digital media, DVD's, CD's, Game Roms over from their fading, unreliable media, I destroyed them, but kept them in case I was ever dragged into court, so I could haul my big box in and show I've paid for every single title I've ripped or downloaded.
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Legally, however, it is different.
 
sares said:
Awesome :) Pokemon X and Y. I just need the ROMS now. Anyone have a legal source?
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No legal source. And you would need a 3DS emulator which, does not exist, yet.

I bought a 3DS specifically for Pokemon and Y is pretty awesome. :)
Waiting for Pokemon Bank to arrive so I can transfer all my Black 2 pokemon over.

This is amazing news though, I have my new rMBP so I can really play some decent stuff on this.
 
Excellent.
although I own many old consoles and prefer playing some old favourites on original hardware,playing some rare to find games on Mac can be cool too.
 
Thomas Harte said:
I feel like its cheerleader today, but: the Retrode has an adaptor for Gameboy games.

If you're in America, you could order from here. The two items together are about $110.

I'm sure other solutions are available; this one is good because it looks to the computer like a USB storage device with the ROM image stored on it. So no special drivers, no command line incantations, no "I think I know a guy with a Mac, I'll try to find out" responses. Also the joypads just show up as standard USB joypads.
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Thank you for this. I appreciate it.
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Do you need special controllers..or can you use mouse + keyboard? to play these games?
 
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Traverse said:
Thank you for this. I appreciate it.
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Do you need special controllers..or can you use mouse + keyboard? to play these games?
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Of course you can use Mouse + KB, but your wrists might thank you later if you use a gamepad. :)

I have never investigated this much until now, but apparently Snow Leopard and up has great support for PS3 and PS4 controllers built-in.

I'm actually thinking about picking up a PS4 controller now just for emu! That's amazing that Mavericks and OpenEmu both support it right out of the box. :eek:

Anyone else doing this? The new PS4 DualShock 4 in particular?
 
Requires 10.7 or higher

Note to Snow Leopard users:
OpenEmu requires 10.7 or higher.
Yet another reason for me to finally upgrade to Mavericks, it seems.
 
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It's interesting to think that if I set up a thread promoting mass piracy of movies created since their inception to 2002, it would be shut down pretty quickly.

How come something like this is okay?

Edit: or mass piracy of music created from its inception to 2002.
 
bbeagle said:
Somewhere, in some FAQ, or buried somewhere will be a link (or a hint on what to search for) to find these ROM images.
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Please, they will not make the
Effort of
Risking having a
Direct link with
Uploaded content.

PERIOD. they will present the

Content of the address in an
Obfuscated way, like with the uppercase letters in a
Mysterious sentence.

;)
 
XboxMySocks said:
Legally, however, it is different.
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Then your country's laws are as stupid as the people that make them.

When Nintendo sends their corporate police into your living room (and they will!) to see which cartridges you paid full retail for 25 years ago, which ones you bought for $2 from a used book store last week, which ones you got free from goodwill, or your friends basement, or your birthday, and start deciding which of those you have the right to play based on how much you personally paid for the license, and then start digging into whether or not you copied your ROMs yourself using a third party ROM ripper, or a ripper you worked on, or did it yourself, or had help, or let someone else do it for you, and determine how much to bill/jail you for based on those factors, then I will finally have proof that the world has finally come off its rails and there will no longer be cause to respect any of its laws.
 
mmmm i'm thinking about buying a SNES controller + adapter

or hesitating with a third-party SNES controller which has USB cable but they usually are not good quality products



has some tried to connect a genuine SNES controller with the USB adapter for PC/Mac ?

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or would a Xbox 360 controller be compatible ?

thx
 
ThunderSkunk said:
Then your country's laws are as stupid as the people that make them.

When Nintendo sends their corporate police into your living room (and they will!) to see which cartridges you paid full retail for 25 years ago, which ones you bought for $2 from a used book store last week, which ones you got free from goodwill, or your friends basement, or your birthday, and start deciding which of those you have the right to play based on how much you personally paid for the license, and then start digging into whether or not you copied your ROMs yourself using a third party ROM ripper, or a ripper you worked on, or did it yourself, or had help, or let someone else do it for you, and determine how much to bill/jail you for based on those factors, then I will finally have proof that the world has finally come off its rails and there will no longer be cause to respect any of its laws.
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Great! :D
 
Performance and accuracy is nowhere near some of the OS X Console Emulators written by Richard Bannister:

Here

Really excited about OpenEmu though.

Needs:
• Better filters, as found in 'Emulator Enhancer' such as HQ2X and 2xSai
• Proper support for Goodmerged 7z files, maybe auto filtering (U) [!] roms as preferred default.

Exciting though :)
 
212rikanmofo said:
...Question, if i plug in a usb ... xbox 360 controller into my mac, will I be able to use it to play games with?
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the site links you to a driver page for the 360 controller, but i tried that recently for use with the dolphin gamecube emulator and whilst it could detect the controller was plugged in, it wouldn't see any input on it. that's the good bit. then when i unplugged the controller, it hung the entire machine. the latest releases mention stuff about updates for snow leopard and lion, so i dunno if it's an issue with mavericks, or if it just has hardware problems on some macs (mine is the latest 15" rMBP with discreet graphics) but either way it's not happening.
 
Zipped multi-file ROMs?

Does anybody have a hint on using multiple file ROMs, e.g. a zip file with a lot of .bin files inside? I guess those are for NeoGeo roms, like the ones for the Metal Slug Series.

I try to load them into OpenEMU and nothing happens -- the ROM does not appear on the list, no error messages, nothing. I've also tried to unzip the files and add them all at a time, with no results.

Just in case, if I want to test some ROMs that I do not legally owe.
 
MuzakaEklekta said:
Performance and accuracy is nowhere near some of the OS X Console Emulators written by Richard Bannister:

Here

Really excited about OpenEmu though.

Needs:
• Better filters, as found in 'Emulator Enhancer' such as HQ2X and 2xSai
• Proper support for Goodmerged 7z files, maybe auto filtering (U) [!] roms as preferred default.

Exciting though :)
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Just to clarify, Bannister didn't write the emulators, he ported them to OSX. In many of the cases, both his and OpenEmu make use of the same emulators (Nestopia, BSNES, Etc), so I wonder how you are seeing such major differences in accuracy.
 
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