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Well if you have any wii games in your house that you rip to play them on dolphin,

give me one reason why you wouldn't have a wiimote, lol.

i wasn't talking about me

(04-07-2010, 04:58 AM)Ocean Wrote: [ -> ]Well if you have any wii games in your house that you rip to play them on dolphin,

give me one reason why you wouldn't have a wiimote, lol.

Well I have one just dont have a Blue tooth dongle and a wireless wii sensor bar as for a wii remote I have one with motion+

i have a wiimote but i prefer playing SMG with keyboard and mouse.

From what I read, you can't move while in 1st person mode, so it shouldn't be a problem

(04-07-2010, 04:58 AM)Ocean Wrote: [ -> ]Well if you have any wii games in your house that you rip to play them on dolphin,

give me one reason why you wouldn't have a wiimote, lol.

Suppose someone buys this game without owning a Wii, is it illegal to use it with Dolphin?

It's perfectly legal, if you dump the bought copy. (Other options have country specific legality, and aren't discussable)

(04-10-2010, 07:07 AM)kernel64 Wrote: [ -> ]Suppose someone buys this game without owning a Wii, is it illegal to use it with Dolphin?

Yes, you can make a legal backup using rawdump 2.1/other similar program regardless of owning wii. Maybe someone does that without owning the console.

(04-10-2010, 07:39 AM)KHRZ Wrote: [ -> ]It's perfectly legal, if you dump the bought copy. (Other options have country specific legality, and aren't discussable)

If "country specific" means being allowed to download a game you have a physical copy of, no, it's still illegal. If you ever get busted for piracy (slim chance, but those who download multiple terabytes a year etc.. might be at risk eventually) it will be easily proven to be a commercial rip from another disk. It doesn't matter if you have the original disk, and the "24 hour rule" doesn't exist.

Also, in the US, it has been completely illegal to make ROM backups of video games since 1983 due to a legal precedent set in the case of Atari vs JSA http://www.patentarcade.com/2005/04/case-atari-v-jsa-c-nd-ill-1983.html search it everywhere, you will come to the same conclusion.

Doesn't mean it isn't happening, just that the consumer would be unprotected if a case was brought against them for possessing digital ROM images of video games. The defendant practically used the same reason as rippers today on optical media cd/dvd's, to preserve the disk.

This is directly from Nintendo's legal site
http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp

Quote:Can I Download a Nintendo ROM from the Internet if I Already Own the Authentic Game?

There is a good deal of misinformation on the Internet regarding the backup/archival copy exception. It is not a "second copy" rule and is often mistakenly cited for the proposition that if you have one lawful copy of a copyrighted work, you are entitled to have a second copy of the copyrighted work even if that second copy is an infringing copy. The backup/archival copy exception is a very narrow limitation relating to a copy being made by the rightful owner of an authentic game to ensure he or she has one in the event of damage or destruction of the authentic. Therefore, whether you have an authentic game or not, or whether you have possession of a Nintendo ROM for a limited amount of time, i.e. 24 hours, it is illegal to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet.

You can make an archival copy of a physical game you already own. It's illegal to download a copy of that game regardless of owning it, you must rip it from the disk.

That's the US law, from what I heard some other countries' laws are very different. But I wasn't trying to start a discussion, it was just to tell him that if he had read somewhere that it's legal in his country, that's irrelevant here