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    • SgtJimmyRustlesS
      SgtJimmyRustles @Clyde
      last edited by SgtJimmyRustles

      @clyde said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

      It is, but I think it's for Windows only. I don't know if the open source port (also linked in my link) would run on the Raspberry Pi, though.

      Pretty sure I remember One Must Fall being on DOS.

      Edit: Yeah it's MS-Dos, not windows.

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      • ClydeC
        Clyde @SgtJimmyRustles
        last edited by Clyde

        @sgtjimmyrustles You're right, my mistake. But the TO @BenMcLean doesn't include DOSBox games here:

        @benmclean said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

        I am categorically excluding DOS games because the library of games which DOSBOX supports and which will run just fine through RetroPie is so staggeringly huge that we have no chance to even start on it. So when it comes to DOS games, I am only including DOS games which have modern source ports that run on RetroPie.

        edit: So, the question remains if OMF's open source port runs on Retropie.

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        • FruitybitF
          Fruitybit @markwkidd
          last edited by Fruitybit

          @markwkidd Very good list, I've been looking for a decent version of Pong for so long! However, when I download it, it has no suffix or file type. I tried calling it .int and .bin, and dropped all three into the pi but none will work with jzintv. I want to put Freeintv on but don't have the wherewithall to achieve that yet!

          Hmm, I tried DK arcade and can’t get that working either, all my other Intellivision roms work fine, all bios sums are correct. Are these working on the pi for anyone else?

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          • ClydeC
            Clyde
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            Nothing for the list, but King of Fighters 2002 is available for free on gog.com until tomorrow. See here how to extract the bios and rom from the gog installer.

            https://www.gog.com/game/the_king_of_fighters_2002

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            • markwkiddM
              markwkidd @Fruitybit
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              @fruitybit said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

              @markwkidd Very good list, I've been looking for a decent version of Pong for so long! However, when I download it, it has no suffix or file type. I tried calling it .int and .bin, and dropped all three into the pi but none will work with jzintv. I want to put Freeintv on but don't have the wherewithall to achieve that yet!

              Hmm, I tried DK arcade and can’t get that working either, all my other Intellivision roms work fine, all bios sums are correct. Are these working on the pi for anyone else?

              FreeIntv is being considered for inclusion in RetroPie-Setup in the Experimental category. Hopefully the next update will streamline things for you.

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              • FruitybitF
                Fruitybit @markwkidd
                last edited by Fruitybit

                @markwkidd I saw this on github, good news:) as for Pong- This thread 1st April, a lot seem to think it’s a joke. Seeing as it hasn’t got a file type I fear Freeintv won’t make any difference!
                Edit: at the end of that thread it mentions using .rom file type. The only one I hadn’t tried. Will update later!
                Edit: you can hear “D’oh” echoing off my walls

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                • caver01C
                  caver01 @BenMcLean
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                  @benmclean While moving content from my Riven CD-ROMs (that I have had packed away in a box for decades) into SCUMMVM, I noticed a bunch of free and legal titles avaiable for download here. The accompanying detail is as follows:

                  Game downloads currently include eight freeware games 'Beneath a Steel Sky', 'Dreamweb', 'Flight of the Amazon Queen', 'Lure of the Temptress', 'Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back', 'Soltys', 'Sfinx' and 'Mystery House'.
                  Also, you can find cutscene packs recommended for use when playing any of the Broken Sword games or Feeble Files under ScummVM.

                  This would make a good addition to the initial post.

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                  • BillyHB
                    BillyH @BillyH
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                    @billyh said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

                    That's a cool Mega Drive collection, if I don't notice any problems with the emulator on RetroPie then I'll definitely buy that collection when it goes on a sale again.

                    Well, I got a Steam mail that items on my wish list were on sale.

                    The Mega Drive collection is on sale now for just under €15 (otherwise known as a 75% discount) and I did manage to try the Mega Drive emulator so I guess I'm buying the collection now and putting it on my RetroPie.

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                    • mituM
                      mitu Global Moderator @BillyH
                      last edited by mitu

                      @billyh Nice catch !

                      EDIT: Seems the Steam has a sale at the time, the MegaMan Collection is also 60% off (like 6 bucks now).

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                      • BillyHB
                        BillyH @BenMcLean
                        last edited by BillyH

                        @benmclean said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

                        • SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics on Steam gives you a folder called "Uncompressed ROMs" which contains DRM-free ready-to-play ROM files for many SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis titles including the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

                        Uhm, just a quick note: I bought this and of the 59 games in the collection, only 6 are ready-to-play, the others are *.68K and *.SGD, which the emulators from RetroPie can't handle.

                        Of course, owning the collection does make it legal for me to download and use *.smd ROMs, which is exactly what I will do now, but I just wanted to let people who want the collection know in advance that it's not just pay and play.

                        Edit: a search for a way to convert the files made me stumble over a Steam post where someone apparently just renamed the files.

                        Tried this myself and can confirm: all the *.68K and *.SGD files can be renamed *.smd and they'll work with RetroPie, I now see the whole list at least and the few that I tried worked fine. So there's that.

                        That leaves Sonic CD out in the cold then, which is the only one that doesn't have an uncompressed ROM (or a ROM at all, for that matter).

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                        • mediamogulM
                          mediamogul Global Moderator @BillyH
                          last edited by mediamogul

                          @billyh said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

                          Of course, owning the collection does make it legal for me to download and use *.smd ROMs

                          It really only means you'd have a defense to work with if SEGA ever wanted to take you to court. It's not probable that they would go after individual users, but if they ever did, they would likely argue that the original license, or that of the Steam collection only covers expressly intended use as being acceptable.

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                          • BenMcLeanB
                            BenMcLean @mediamogul
                            last edited by

                            @mediamogul said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

                            It really only means you'd have a defense to work with if SEGA ever wanted to take you to court. It's not probable that they would go after individual users, but if they ever did, they would likely argue that the original license, or that of the Steam collection only covers expressly intended use as being acceptable.

                            The Steam installer creates a folder literally called "Uncompressed ROMs" for your convenience. SEGA is doing the right thing here.

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                            • mediamogulM
                              mediamogul Global Moderator @BenMcLean
                              last edited by

                              @benmclean said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

                              SEGA is doing the right thing here.

                              It certainly does seem so. It's nice to see a game company allowing a little legal breathing room in good faith.

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                              • AlturisA
                                Alturis
                                last edited by Alturis

                                I was curious so I tried out Cave in
                                http://www.atari2600homebrew.com/cave-in.html

                                But it just gets stuck on the main screen. Hitting select and start doesn't progress past there.

                                Edit: My bad. Looks like the game was written to just take joystick button press to start the game. No support for select and start.

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                                • SgtJimmyRustlesS
                                  SgtJimmyRustles @BillyH
                                  last edited by SgtJimmyRustles

                                  @billyh

                                  Sonic CD; Is it the Taxman remake or is it the original?

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                                  • BillyHB
                                    BillyH @SgtJimmyRustles
                                    last edited by

                                    @sgtjimmyrustles said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

                                    @billyh

                                    Sonic CD; Is it the Taxman remake or is it the original?

                                    Don't know but it doesn't have a ROM built in, it's a separate game from the SEGA collection room.

                                    Can't check for you either as unfortunately I was disappointed with the non-Sonic games in the collection, so I asked for a refund. Having only played Sonic & Knuckles of this collection before, I guess I expected too much.

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                                    • matchamanM
                                      matchaman
                                      last edited by mediamogul

                                      What about [removed]? They host ROMsets via a legal loophole (out of print data preservation). Nintendo tried multiple times to take the files down without success and no-intro sets have been available there since 2008!

                                      I'm not implying that this makes using copyrighted material legal by any means, however, it appears to be legal for [removed] (which is a public library) to contain and distribute them freely for preservation purposes.

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                                      • R
                                        rpieguy @markwkidd
                                        last edited by rpieguy

                                        @markwkidd Intellivision Yogi's Frustration, Adventures of Tron, and Choplifter are neither modern or freeware and the links are not legal sources. Yogi's Frustration and Adventures of Tron were programmed for Mattel Electronics in the early 1980s. Today they belong to Intellivision Productions. Choplifter was programmed in 1989/90 for INTV Corporation and either belongs to Intellivision Productions or the developer Realtime Associates.

                                        You can find sources for Intellivision rom downloads here. https://www.reddit.com/r/intellivision/comments/5nlhvg/download_intellivision_homebrews_rom_files/

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                                        • mediamogulM
                                          mediamogul Global Moderator @rpieguy
                                          last edited by

                                          @rpieguy said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

                                          Intellivision Yogi's Frustration, Adventures of Tron, and Choplifter are neither modern or freeware and the links are not legal sources.

                                          They're now removed.

                                          @matchaman

                                          They host ROMsets via a legal loophole (out of print data preservation).

                                          The loophole you're referring to is exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which is a United States copyright law. As such, the exemption doesn't extend past the US. Advocating the site's use in an international venue such as this forum could conceivably borrow trouble we don't want.

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                                          • dankcushionsD
                                            dankcushions Global Moderator @matchaman
                                            last edited by

                                            @matchaman the legal loophole is US law only. plus, like you say i think the legal implications for (US) users of said archived software aren't entirely clear.

                                            my suspicion is that this will be shutdown at some point, as soon as some product that uses those roms becomes widespread, creating enough noise.

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