Nobody currently using these ROMs in the iOS emulators have proven to have done anything illegal.
Innocent until proven otherwise in this case. For all you know they have a legal copy.
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Innocent until proven otherwise in this case. For all you know they have a legal copy.
HobeSoundDarryl
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Yes, this will be a real problem for people expecting a downloaded game to always be there once installed. Instead, it will just disappear when AppleTV reclaims the space for something else. AppleTV owner won't even know until they want to resume or play the game again and realize it is mysteriously gone.
How this should work is much like how the Computer's app works: store the media on the hard drive attached to the home shared Mac and stream over these "apps" when needed. Else, we're back to needing much bigger storage options for AppleTV and/or a normalized USB port to which big storage could be attached for "syncing" of media files... which could then include these as synced files.
Yeah that’s a terrible justification for illegal activities.
related to that games that were designed to be seen on a CRT do not look authentic on an LCD/LED. The graphics designers who made those 2D 8 bit and 16 bit games designed and previewed their work on CRTs. When we see these games on a flat screen we don’t see the color blending and shading effect of the CRTs.
Some emulators have a CRT filter to emulate the look but it is ****.
Just curious… Are there ANY illegal activities which you would approve of? Or does illegal=bad in your mind?
What does that have to do with anything? Sure it’s difficult to emulate the original console experience, but there are many other enhancements which can make up for it.
It’s not like Nintendo is making leaps and bounds in making their emulators perfectly accurate — or encouraging fans to buy old consoles and CRTs. Third-party emulators are objectively better than Nintendo’s official ones.
HobeSoundDarryl
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That's apparently what happens and seemingly at random to users.
I think I'll just stick with my little gaming PC (purchased as "old fashioned bootcamp") with Lunchbox/Bigbox and then the Moonlight app on AppleTV to push the game over to it and on to the TV.
However, I'll hope tvOS evolves to better accommodate files like this... which- to me- should work much like video media stored on a home-shared "parent" Mac. Just stream them over on demand when needed.
I think I'll just stick with my little gaming PC (purchased as "old fashioned bootcamp") with Lunchbox/Bigbox and then the Moonlight app on AppleTV to push the game over to it and on to the TV.
However, I'll hope tvOS evolves to better accommodate files like this... which- to me- should work much like video media stored on a home-shared "parent" Mac. Just stream them over on demand when needed.
Hmm smoking pot. It doesn’t hurt anyone whatsoever and isn’t stealing intellectual property
So what?
First, show me a statistic where it says that 98% are using emulators illegally.
Second, even if it was the case it doesn’t matter at all. That’s like prohibiting knives since some crazy dudes would go outside and stab others in the guts.
I wouldn’t say that weed is totally harmless for people and society. That being said, I’m 100% for full legalization with minimal restrictions.
Did we just… almost agree on something for the first time?
For what it’s worth i still have my entire ps1 library in boxes, but my ps1 is now dead.
So i feel no qualms playing tekken 3 in the emulator.
I tried it out on my AppleTV, wow yes it's bit tricky to undestand the UI, and took me a while to work out where to put the files (ended up putting it in the "downloads" directory).
Reason I'm posting - I've got an official Nintendo SNES controller, like this:
www.nintendo.com
It works fine, however there doesn't seem to be any way to exit out of a game (ie, no "Home" button that I can determine). Has anyone else tried this combination? Even using the Apple Remote has weird button mapping once actually playing a game. Only way I could get back to the main menu was to use the app switcher to kill the app using the Apple Remote.
Reason I'm posting - I've got an official Nintendo SNES controller, like this:
Super Nintendo Entertainment System Controller - Hardware - Nintendo Official Site
Buy Super Nintendo Entertainment System™ Controller and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.
www.nintendo.com
It works fine, however there doesn't seem to be any way to exit out of a game (ie, no "Home" button that I can determine). Has anyone else tried this combination? Even using the Apple Remote has weird button mapping once actually playing a game. Only way I could get back to the main menu was to use the app switcher to kill the app using the Apple Remote.
Nice! Now all you Apple TV users can experience the frustrating experience of trying to figure out RetroArch’s menus from the comfort of your living room
Seriously it makes perfect sense once you understand what the devs were going for but oof, it’s a process
Honestly I don’t have any previous experience with this emulator and I’ve only played Tekken 3 so far but it was pretty straightforward, just download the core from the integrated menu, upload the ROM and play. Super easy.
Downloading Steven Segal movies because they are **** and they don’t deserve to make any money.
My point is that it shouldn't be so difficult to determine in any country with a fair and consistent legal system (if one exists). Both acts involve making use of someone else's legally owned work without their permission, yet it's okay for generative AI companies to do that, but not individuals? Why? Other than the enormous difference in power and social status of the alleged perpetrator, what exactly is the argument to be made in a courtroom for why one act should be speedily condemned, but the other is more controversial? Why is Bob's right to his crude drawing of an anthro tiger on DeviantArt less important than Nintendo's right to Super Mario Land? If anything, the greater cultural significance and historical importance of the latter, combined with the far less savory motivation for unauthorized use of the former, would suggest the opposite.
My point wasn't to rip on generative AI (even if I obviously have deep reservations about it). I've certainly played with DALL·E (through Microsoft) and Stable Diffusion myself, but then I'm not doing that while dumping on emulation. I just felt that the hypocrisy involved in the ROM controversy at this point is just so immense and I felt the need to call it out.
Pot isn't carcinogenic.
Large Study Finds No Link between Marijuana and Lung Cancer
You have to configure exiting out of the game beforehand. It's somewhere in the menu and I believe you have to use a combination of button presses to exit out. You choose the button combo. At least this is the case with every version of Retroarch I have used. It should be here also. Plenty of getting started vids on youtube for other versions that should apply to here as well. Don't forget you can change the interface, make it even look like the Playstation 3 XMB cross bar.I tried it out on my AppleTV, wow yes it's bit tricky to undestand the UI, and took me a while to work out where to put the files (ended up putting it in the "downloads" directory).
Reason I'm posting - I've got an official Nintendo SNES controller, like this:
Super Nintendo Entertainment System Controller - Hardware - Nintendo Official Site
Buy Super Nintendo Entertainment System™ Controller and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.
It works fine, however there doesn't seem to be any way to exit out of a game (ie, no "Home" button that I can determine). Has anyone else tried this combination? Even using the Apple Remote has weird button mapping once actually playing a game. Only way I could get back to the main menu was to use the app switcher to kill the app using the Apple Remote.
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