adding games to Emulators - Super NES console

[DeathBySNUSNUU]

Hello! I was wondering if any one has added more games to one of the emulators you can buy at the stores?
I got the Super NES console.. but I want to add some games like Legend of Mana, and such. I wanted to know if anyone has done so, and how their experience doing it was? Also if loaded games have decent quality?

Or would a Raspberry be better for this ?

[DeathBySNUSNUU]

yeah! I am leaning towards a PS Vita honestly. (i believe it works on PSone, PS3 and PSP/PSvita.)

[ReWired]

Based on that article, there are hardware products that may not be legal to sell in Japan anymore. Like the Retrofreak accessories that let you backup cartridge games onto a console (some of these have ports for all kinds of old systems--they look cool). There are also accessories that act like the game genie for NES, and those could possibly fall under this law. If someone owns an already-modded console, I don't suspect that they'd be inclined to flood those into the market... because that would explicitly break the law preventing the sale of modded hardware.

Now, where there's a grey area--in my mind--is that the Famicom was available with a floppy disk drive at one point, and selling that old hardware might technically be breaking this law. I think they'd make an exception for the Famicom Disk System because a lot of collectors would consider that hardware a valuable piece of Japanese games history.

I think that it may be illegal for websites to allow people in Japan to download Hakchi--so I wouldn't be surprised if those sites get blocked in Japan.

[Clyde Frog]

Sweet. Won't be hard to find a PS3 or PSP to get playing on. Have fun when you do.

[Clyde Frog]

It seems there's no middle ground when it comes to this topic sometimes. People are either for it or against it. I know that people worked hard on all the games I've gotten over the years, but like I said, these are dead systems. If I need to "break" the law to see the joy of my kids beating games like Zelda, Contra, SMB, for the first time then so be it.

I love the entire Mana series. At least the ones we got over here. Then again, I bet you could find English hacks of them if you looked hard enough.

[DeathBySNUSNUU]

GASP! I found it.
now I just need a psone or a psvita to play it.
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/...+authenticated

[DeathBySNUSNUU]

To be fair, I owned legend of Mana and have paid for it in the past.
If they had it on the market, yes I would buy it.
Just for all these people flipping out. Just throwing it out there.
I have even contacted the companies support teams asking, and they were doubtful that the particular games I want to play would be added to the market place.

[Clyde Frog]

I've got a NES and SNES mini, both modded. Easiest mod I've ever done, just get the latest version of Hakchi CE and watch a few tutorials. The only problem I've run into is with Genesis roms. I've installed the proper cores to the system, tried changing extensions, removed compression, and so on with no luck. So if anyone can suggest a fix, please PM me. Once I've got those running I'd like to add my MAME collection.

As for the legal issue, I don't feel bad getting roms for systems that are 30+ years old. To the greedy companies I quote Arnold from Total Recall "SCREW YOU!"

[DeathBySNUSNUU]

In regards to legality, these are games that I would have to go out and buy a PS1 or scrounge the internet or game shops (not gamestop, real gameshops) for copies of games.
Mainly right now I am dying to play Legend of Mana.

Edit- I also wanted to say thanks to all the responses!

[Blue Stinger]

ReWired I saw that on RetroRGB a couple of days ago : https://www.retrorgb.com/japan-makes...s-illegal.html
So, it's official ? The one who wrote the article wasn't sure because of the automated translation, do you know what you can and can't do ? Also, what will happen with all the already modded consoles and what not ? Can we expect the market to be flooded with japanese modded consoles in the near future or people are supposed to destroy them ? Any reliable info ? because this certainly is an interesting case !

[ReWired]

I live in Japan and they recently changed the laws, so I'd want to educate myself a little more before making any definitive statement about the legality of ROMs.

[aileron]

Yes this is what I understand to be correct

[Blue Stinger]

ola_norsk The last story was brilliant, the "game dev tycoon" thing ^-^ Very interesting stuff

[Zonfire]

A "friend" has done it. They had to tether their PC to the SNES mini for the transfer. Some games required installing a new emulator in the SNES mini. They avoided those games because they liked how the built-in emulator works.

[Blue Stinger]

I'm 4 minutes in, sounds interesting, I'm going to watch that !