Alright, For those of you who do not know what the VBA is, It is a emulator for your computer. You can play any Gameboy, Gameboy color or Cameboy Advanced ROM (Game file) On the Emulator.

For those of you who like to use cheats, You can also get those, But if you want a speed cheat you can make the game skip frames and also have one thousand percent Frame Speed (Less, or more) Using the spacebar, for those annoying SLOW pokemon games. (Or any)

If you need websites and links if you WOULD like this then just reply here and i can give you a ROM site (And Visual Boy Advanced Download) or just make a detailed tutorial.

Thanks, Just thought id share something neat with you.

And I generally recommend people buy their games. Even if the system is defunct (which quite frankly, it isn't, you can still find GBAs and games in every Gamestop), it usually isn't a good idea to be promoting piracy in a public forum. Nintendo especially has been known for sending D&Cs to sites for promoting ROM sites and use, even if they aren't supplying them.

Emulating is Legal, Romming real games IS not, Thats why you ROM remade games by some people who make them, Its perfectly fine but you CAN NOT steal any real companies games, Find remade ones.

PLUS, Something i just read stated if you OWN the game then you can ROM it just to play it on ur computer. :)

It's still generally frowned upon to advertise stuff like this. Especially the fact that you'd provide links if needed (that's a big red flag).

Meh. Whateva, I just thought it was cool, if you don't thats neat, But i do. Just something i thought id share..

I've always been curious of how the process of taking games from cartridges and turning them into ROMs works. Do they somehow connect the old consoles to PCs where the computer can access the data in the console?

But yeah, don't advertise emulation around here. Most of us are already aware of them to begin with along with its legal ambiguity.

It's more like a wire that connects into your computer that has the equivalent of the cartridge slot on the other end. Though with standardized media you can probably just put the disc/memory card directly into your computer now.

No clue what happens from there, though.

Well, apparently I found out that the people who ripped the old cartridge consoles, jury rigged a cartridge reader on their computer that could read the data. Kinda like how you explained, BlkKnight.

I had never heard of cartridge readers on computers until now.

Like i said, I might have thought some of you didnt know so i decided to post it...

I had never heard of cartridge readers on computers until now.

They've been around at least as long as the Atari consoles. People usually get bootleg hardware from China which allows them to transfer data back and forth between the game hardware and a computer. A small minority use these devices for homebrew development, while most use them for piracy. A lot of the hardware can go both ways and dump a ROM to the computer, or transfer it to a custom cartridge to play pirated games on a console.

Thats why you ROM remade games by some people who make them

Remaking a game is still illegal. Making an orignal title is fine and people can play an original game so long as the author makes it freely available, but you can't just remake an existing game that someone else holds the rights to. Numerous groups of indie developers have gotten into trouble for doing that.

PLUS, Something i just read stated if you OWN the game then you can ROM it just to play it on ur computer.

That is a common misconception. It is something the emulation community likes to claim to sooth their collective conscience, but in actuality, it is still illegal to download a ROM of a game even if you own an original copy. Consumers don't have the right to create archival backups of ROM-based software unless given the express permission of the rights holder. I suggest you look into the Atari vs. JS&A case from 1983, where the courts ruled that ROMs did not fall under the archival rules due to the general resilience of the cartridge medium.

Yes, game companies need that bulls-t rule of "You're buying this cartridge/CD/DVD of the game in order to RENT the privilege of playing the game, not to OWN its contents."

Otherwise, companies like Capcom cannot do the bulls-t dlc of alternate costumes (which came with the games free for the past 3 generations of consoles) that you have to "buy", when they are already inside the disk of SF4 that you bought.

I'm surprised that Capcom didn't lock up half the stages, and demand that you "buy" them as dlc.

Actually, the rule doesn't apply to CD/DVD media, just cartridges. CDs, DVDs, and magnetic media like floppy disks are considered perishable media and can be backed up for posterity so long as the consumer owns a legit copy. You're not referring to backing up games, though, you're referring to modifying code, which is a different matter altogether.

As crappy as Capcom's decision was, it is within their legal right to sell unlock codes for existing materials on the game disc and it isn't like they're forcing you to buy it. All it is is additional costumes, not extra game modes or characters. The characters do not change in any practical way by using those costumes, they just look different.

I find the DLC for games like Alan Wake and the Bioware games far more offensive. Releasing half a game, charging full price for it, and then continuing the storyline in paid DLC is worse than just offering some additional optional costumes to die hard fans. Unfortunately, it is becoming a pretty common thing these days to hold back actual content for the sake of having sellable DLC.

Are you encouraging piracy here? I'm pretty sure you can get banned for that. :/
But if i was going to download roms, I sure as fuck would not use some retarded PC emulator. It's called a flashcart [gbatemp.net], gawd. You guys are all idiots to just find about emulators now. Just fork over cash at a Gamestop, how expensive could some old retarded pokemon GBA games possibly be?

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Are you encouraging piracy here? I'm pretty sure you can get banned for that. :/
But if i was going to download roms, I sure as fuck would not use some retarded PC emulator. It's called a flashcart [gbatemp.net], gawd. You guys are all idiots to just find about emulators now. Just fork over cash at a Gamestop, how expensive could some old retarded pokemon GBA games possibly be?

Ironically enough, gamestop was still charging something like $25 for pokemon Ruby like 6 months ago, which is ridiculous considering that that game came out in 2003. In fact, even online it still goes for about $20. Fact of the matter is, no matter where you buy them from, getting good games(even old ones) is an expensive proposition.