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WeirdG
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May 29, 2013
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Wow... this looks ghetto. Would be better if it accepted an SD card and play ROMs.
Jared.Rhodes
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May 29, 2013
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WeirdGProblem with that, ROMs are considered illegal under the DMCA. Would make it hard to market the product physically without raising a few eyebrows.
WeirdG
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May 29, 2013
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Jared.RhodesThat's true, but they could have also added an SD card reader for people that want additional functionality.
WVEricP
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Jul 12, 2013
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Jared.RhodesROMs are only considered illegal if you don't already own the game, if you can prove that you have the actual game, you can have ROMs, as for me for example, I have LoZ and a few others that I have in hardware version, but my systems have been dead for a long time.
Kleedrac
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Mar 28, 2014
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Jared.RhodesExcept there are several consoles which ship with emulators. Emulators are legal and while the roms are grey area legally if you buy something and obtain your own roms the liability falls to you and not the company selling the device. See http://boards.openpandora.org/page/homepage.html as an example.
ONX1
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Jul 24, 2016
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Jared.Rhodestrue, but massdrop has already offered other clone consoles that offer sd capability.
WeirdG
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Aug 1, 2016
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kroenDepends on where you lived I guess. Everyone I knew had an NES growing up, and we all came from blue collared families. My family was a first generation Canadian family, so my folks had better ways to spend their money. I remember my dad got an awesome deal on an NES at one of the grocery stores. Before owning, my brother would always rent an NES.
By ghetto I mean, that craptastic feel of an NES controller. It's a shitty controller, and your hand would constantly cramp up, but playing NES games without doesn't feel right. I still have the timings down for several NES games using that controller. I tried playing on PC, mobile devices, the Ouja, etc., and nothing feels rights compared to an NES controller. Can't wait for Nintendo to release Classic NES in November.
By ghetto I mean, that craptastic feel of an NES controller. It's a shitty controller, and your hand would constantly cramp up, but playing NES games without doesn't feel right. I still have the timings down for several NES games using that controller. I tried playing on PC, mobile devices, the Ouja, etc., and nothing feels rights compared to an NES controller. Can't wait for Nintendo to release Classic NES in November.
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