Not sure if it's okay to talk about this...

So, I'm looking for an emulation of Street Fighter Third Strike (To use on my PC with a gamepad) and was wondering if anyone can help me?

I tried torrent spy, but no luck. Also, it would be nice to find a Street Fighter Mugen (custom made street fighter, overhauled, etc.).

Can anyone help? If we can't talk about emulations, sorry. Go ahead and close this topic. (Don't really remember)

No.

Not in here.... WHOOSH!

And what exactly do you mean by 'not in here'?

I noticed my thread is moved.

If I'm not mistaken, talking about emulation in general is fine; talking about piracy and where to find ROMs that are not in the public domain is not. I think the second request is probably all right however.

You now find yourself in a strange new environment. It is called 'press start' -which means swallowing the green pill.

Seriously - isn't street fighter a very old game? In which case nobody will probably object to you looking for any version.. if it is recent though, I'd suggest not taking this any further.

Never underestimate t he power of copyright laws.

Aye. Video game companies tend to more litigious toward ROM download sites than software publishers toward abandonware sites.

Url edited out by Bailey has a bucketload of roms and only hosts roms that are in the free market. When a game is relicensed or brought back under copyrights they remove the rom from the site. I doubt they have Street Fighter in any incarnation, but you can give it a look.

As far as I know, emulation is not illegal. But talking about ROMs and where to get them in order pirate the game is.

The exception is if you already own the original arcade board. Then you can emulate the ROM all you want without fear of reprecussion.

I've been tempted to start a retro arcade one day, just by buying old unclaimable broken arcade machines, tearing them apart, and just keeping the motherboard itself (where the ROM is located) and then emulating the games on a PC. Because if any lawyer comes knocking at my door, at least I could say that yes, I do actually own the official arcade boards.

Yeah, you own the board, right, Keanu?
You're just trying to replenish the ROM due to file decay, right?

Lol, honestly, a few years back I was thinking of hunting down a Third Strike cabinet. Though it would be a tad expensive.

Eh, Third Strike is about four years old almost.

Though, I'm tryin to find a Mugen, been wanting to try one out. Adding characters that aren't in a specific fighting game seems neat.

So called "abandonware" is much more rare than many people like to believe, and the site you linked has plenty of links to roms where I know for a fact that the publishers/developers still have a commercial interest.

I'm letting this topic stay open, no linking to any rom sites though please unless they are purely homebrew.

I've never looked too deeply into the legality of something like that, but from what I understand (given that laws do vary from country to country) the requirement for that to be legal is that your roms have to be ones that you dumped yourself from the original hardware, not just downloaded.

If you want to emulate arcade-machines you will need Mame32...

Has links to places to find said roms or actually hosts the roms that are under license themselves?

Keeanu, as far as I know, Mugen is totally legal, because it has it's own engine. I doubt, however, the IP owners of the characters that appear in them are thrilled at having them in the video game.

Oh, I know the Mugen engine is legal, and I'm aware of the character stuff. I used to have a Mugen Tournament pack (800 some characters and stuff) so I'm familiar with it.

Same difference, no linking to rom sites/discussion of where to find roms in here.

PM me if you have any questions regarding emulation.

PM me with any questions regarding that which we can't discuss the urls to in here.

Well, to sate you Bailey, you all can email my secondary email so that the whole fiasco has no board association.

Giles.Brash@gmail.com

An alter ego of sorts and my here.

Besides, I don't advocate using roms that aren't in the free market and personally do not use the other sites that are linked from the URL that shall not be mentioned. Oh and I don't know if they still have the banner or not, but there is a website that I have seen linked from the URL that shall not be mentioned that sells combat-ready replicas of lots of videogame and fantasy swords. Sephiroth's Masamune nearly 7' long and hardened metal for combat, as well as clouds Buster Sword (only a scant 50 lbs) ready for combat. Plus the prices are pretty good. Nerds only need apply.

There are very few roms in this "free market" of which you speak, and even on the site you linked there are plenty of roms for games which are still being published.

Please, no more external links/email addresses in regards to obtaining roms.

It was my understanding by the statement made by the website owners that those games were not on protected lists, and that they (as a precaution to protect themselves and their users) remove games that are placed on or reenter protected/copyrighted lists. Basically it is the same idea as sites that feature torrents for unlicensed anime, they state that their intent is not to take away from the creators, and ask kindly for people to stop hosting and sharing when the shows/games offered become licensed.

I'm not really trying to argue with you and I will respect your wishes, no more external links or emails.

Well I took a quick browse and on my first search found the Genesis Sonic games there, which are still sold through avenues such as Xbox Live and the Wii Virtual Console.

Even so though, as I said there is no such thing as a "protected list".

Most Roms are very rarely legal, no matter what the sites claim.

It is legal if I own the carts though right?

Because the things that I have downloaded I do have the carts for the majority but, alas, no power cable for my SNES.

For that I'd really like to say yes, as long as none of the coding was modified. Which, does sometime happen to downloaded Roms.

How would the coding matter if things like Game Genie and Game Shark exist?

Are those illegal?

Because neither Game Shark nor Game Genie modify the original coding on the ROM itself.