I am a pirate - How to LEGALLY emulate games ft. Save The Hero / Sanni v3 + Raspberry Pi

If they don't sell them in stores, or even if they don't sell them in your country, Piracy is the only way to play some games. They haven't lost a sale if you weren't able to buy it legally in the first place.

Because of "pirates", video games are the most well-preserved form of media we have. Their work means that the hard work of countless game developers over the last 40 years will be saved on the internet for people to enjoy forever. It's not about just stealing a game like Nintendo likes to think; this is about making sure as few games as possible become lost media.

This Anthony guy is one of the best things to happen to LTT, it just feels like ultra legit nerd secrets + silky smooth delivery.

Imagine how amazing it would be if video games entered the public domain 10-15 years after release. Unfortunately, due to a certain mouse, that’s impossible.

THANK YOU FOR THIS i've seen so many people convinced emulation is piracy (and therefore illegal) it's good to see someone set that rumor for rest for once and for all

Without piracy we would loose so much of video game history and with more and more games being "always online experiences", this problem will only get bigger and bigger over time. I understand that companies don't want people to illegally play their new games, but if a company fails to preserve their own history, then the consumers should have the right to do this job for them. Just my 2 Cents on the matter.

Cartridge swap wear is straight up the main reason I was ever interested in stuff like the everdrive. Most people don't realize that simply switching cartridges in and out DOES cause wear, and it's wear that, while technically 'repairable' isn't repairable by your average user. Even those with the knowhow and gear don't want to if they don't have to.

whoever edited this video, you are incredible.

Even he is a great host by himself now, I really enjoy this "old school" use of Anthony, when they put him in contrast with other hosts, he really shines: Calm, knowledgable and with an amazing voice.

THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO! Dumping your own games isn't pirating - but more people need to be talking about this! I've been on a huge archival spree and was JUST talking about disc rot, hahaha. Also REDUMP is your friend!

My favorite thing about Anthony is that he is incredibly knowledgeable about this stuff, but he not the know-it-all (that we all know) that just constantly tells you everything about it to show off his knowledge. He's great at explaining stuff in a way that doesn't come across as condescending and makes you feel like you're a part of it too, instead of just watching someone who knows what they're doing. I wish I had saved more of my console stuff from when I was a kid, would be really cool to archive it and play nowadays.

Nice video! By the way, articles like the one at 15:54 that says that "piracy cost companies over $3 billion in 1998" make spurious claims, as it is extremely likely that a large percentage of those who bought pirated games for "as little as 70 cents" would not have been able to afford $50 games. So if they had 20 pirated games, the alternative might have them either not even owning a system, or owning 1-2 games for it instead of 20. I'm not at all saying that the sale of those is not piracy. It is. It's just that the claims of "money lost" are likely far from reasonable.

12:57 "It's valued at $299 Canadian" And now the concept of piracy's unethical nature falls apart. Having to pay over 200 dollars to play a used game in unknown condition (in fact it actually is damaged and can't save) is an unreasonably steep cost. In addition you can only get a used copy anyway so whether you pirate or not the IP owner isn't making any money off of it. I could go on a lot about piracy and its role in the legacy game market, but suffice to say that I think IP law needs an overhaul.

I love how the open source community has provided all the handy ROM & save data read-write capabilities we devs had with official Nintendo devkit hardware (I’m a former DS dev, with plenty of years with those IS-NITRO-… blue boxes). Not that the dev hardware let you do everything— R4DSes were pretty common at the studio as well though IIRC that was mostly because encrypting builds to run on production hardware was allowed by the contract with Nintendo, but decrypting was forbidden. As much as I pine to get a contract-broken blue box off of eBay at some point and equivalent hardware for earlier systems, the open source route is much much simpler.

I see nothing wrong with using Emulators/ROMs, especially as the majority of those games have been discontinued. As long as you're not selling them, there shouldn't be an issue.

11:12 Put some respect on Castlevania, I played that game so much as a kid and even after playing it on an emulator it's still one of my top favorite games.

Abandon-ware should be free-ware, these games should be straight up free, there is nothing wrong with downloading a game that there is absolutely no reasonable way to play.

Nintendo could literally solve all their problems if they just gave people the ability to play their games on other devices as long as they have a legal copy of it and they put out a disclaimer saying that you may encounter bugs and such. People are going to do it anyways, so it's just a matter of if Nintendo will kill off their reputation or not.

13:16 Helpful TLDR: I reckon it is your capacitor. Under a dollar to replace. Before assuming the SRAM, it might be the resistor or capacitor. Probably capacitor due to age or as a knock-on effect of the resistor failure. Resistors are more likely if the resistor had got damp at some point. I reckon capacitor is the likely culprit and your SRAM could well be fine. A bad cap could be prematurely draining the battery and (with or without resistor fail) changing the voltage as it writes to the (probably) 16K SRAM. Unless you have a bad solder joint (which I doubt), don't automatically assume the SRAM. You can test the SRAM chip btw. A new (identical) capacitor is a long overdue replacement. Trying saving a traditional new savegame on a real console could be a worthwhile test. A fluctuation in performance smacks of a capacitor (or resistor) because it is intermittent like a voltage spike (creating the artifact). A bad SRAM would either be totally dead (and not that symptom if it were that sudden) or it would be by electromigration, but of that were the case you would expect an array of SRAM, but you have only one 16K chip so it would not be so likely to be intermittent a fault (variation in bytes that did not verify) compared to if you had an array. The SRAM chips places a fast load upon the power when the signal is pulled for the /RAS (row address strobe) "leg" metal strip out of the chip (and that can be a prerequisite to the CAS signal). Inductance is voltage divided by the rate of change in current. So you're probably getting a voltage spike because you have a bad capacitor, resulting in the loss of bits in a RAM chip which is otherwise perfectly functional. A capacitor can be used as a decoupling capacitor. In Direct-Current, a wild variance in voltage in the power line to the chip will cause an undesirible change in the inductance (hence using a decoupling capacitor). Different RAM chips can also have different voltages. Some SNES cartridges are SMD instead of through-hole. That gadget you are using might not expect the right cartriidges. That Mario-RPG is a rather modern cartridge (SMD). I would say, first just try replacing the capacitor (with an identical rating and type, electrolytic/solidstate, where a film capacitor is superior to a ceramic capacitor in decoupling, and so an electrolytic is unlikely). Do also have a look for a discoloured resistor dulled (if it is even that type of resistor) and take a multimeter to it (with magnification). However, it could well be just a busted capacitor with no need for other repair. Remember the kaplon tape over other parts to keep them safe and static protection. Where eye protection when snipping the legs of the capacitor you solder in (or out). Those resistors on the Mario RPG are generally not the big type you ge on other carts like other Mario games. My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love.

From when I looked into the legality of backups a while back, one thing that stuck with me was it's only legal if you still possess the original and the original is in working order. In other words, when the cartridge dies, you have to delete your ROM. Assuming your goal is to be 100% legal.