Nintendo Maniac 64 Wrote:Also due to the age of the N64, many more people have less moral issues with N64 emulation and even *gasp* downloading N64 roms.
Everyone but Nintendo, and really, they're the only one whose opinion matters. It concerns a bit more than morality, as the legality of copyrights and the DMCA have real bite to websites. We take those legalities seriously enough that any talk of downloading games is shutdown hard and quickly. Having said that, it's not like someone couldn't come up with a Public Domain or GPL'ed test ROM. Mupen64Plus includes a brief custom graphics demo; I'm sure someone could work out suite of tests that could be run. It doesn't have to be CEN64 either; could be higan or Dolphin. I only mention custom test ROMs since I've been making them myself recently (but for Gameboy debugging) :p All it takes is a bit of patience, familiarity with the system, and a flare for assembly.