@mitu
Thanks a lot for the great advice! This can be closed now.

@Unknown It will not disable them, the emulator can read both zip and 7z compressed files. If you have scraped the games already you could run into a problem with emulationstation looking for whatever-your-game-is-named.ngp instead of whatever-your-game-is-named.zip (or .7z) which can be solved by rescraping or editing the gamelist.xml for neo geo pocket.

[edit: realized I worded the first sentence very poorly...]

@REK607 oh, was there another version of it? I had actually bought both of these on Steam in the past, but I assumed they'd be the same.

I do love Micro Mages, and the PICO-8 also has a fair bit of fun games there which, if it'd help, I could gladly put together a list for. I just never saw a lot of interest in it around here - which, to be fair, isn't surprising given that it's quite niche :)

@lurker

I do not listen to a book I have visually read because the narrator will never fit my inner voice.

I know exactly what you're talking about. The one time I tried this was with 'Ready Player One'. Whenever I commit to reading a book, I generally like it to be something new, but I wanted to revisit RP1 not long after I read it the first time. I thought the audio book would be a good way to do that, but while I have nothing against Wil Wheaton, I had real difficulties accepting him speaking for the characters in a different way than I perceived them. I finished it out, but I wouldn't do it again.

I thought it 'meh' anywhere.

That's perfectly fair. Interestingly enough, the original story that would become 'Dracula' was actually written on the same rainy night as the story that would become 'Frankenstein' as a parlor game to see who could write the best scary story. Even then, the three participants agreed that 'Frankenstein' was the more compelling tale. In an even greater coincidence, the third story went on to become the plot for 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2'.

Not to give up on the classics I think I will try H.G. Wells "The Invisible Man" next.

Oh man, what a great choice. I was just thinking the other day that I should read 'The Time Machine' again. I haven't read it since high school.

@Riverstorm

In your thoughts everything is precisely as you perceive it. Hearing others perception is the fun and interesting part.

Well said also. I definitely agree.

@callm3joker and they are not the only one

https://www.amigapple.com/categories/raspberry-pi-solutions/822348

The operators settled to pay Nintendo $12 millon. I wonder if this is a mere symbolic amount which they don't ever have a chance to pay off, or if they really earned that kind of money with LoveROMs and/or other enterprises.

edit: This article suspects that the amount really is symbolic to discourage others, and that Nintendo may "privately demand a smaller sum".

@ruthless4u said in Legal question:

I just thought it was interesting that when asked in sellers FAQ why they did not have roms installed it was because of questionable legality but they still have it advertised that it comes with retropie installed which is still not legal.

Apart from just being uninformed, I guess they are more afraid of the ROMs' copyright holders than of the emulator's programmers, as the former tend to be big corporations known to sue copyright infringers, whereas the latter tend to be private indiduals or small businesses. Also, many people confuse "free of charge" with "free of rules".

@lurker said in Is it Legal to use an arcade machine running retropie, put it in a public place and charge quarters to use it?:

It is like that in all sorts of things. Notice you will rarely see soda vending machines offer Coke AND Pepsi at the same time.

Well said. :)

@benjaminjay I agree that most game cafe's and such don't do their full due diligence in terms of having full legal right to do everything they do.

I can tell, as my return to the emulation scene after many years of hibernation was triggerd by an obviously custom made MAME cocktail table in a German craft beer bar in Winter 2016. Now, I have a self-made upright cabinet in my living room. Damn those bar operators! ;) (and the "good friend" who led us there)

@silviustro said in Making a custom product using RetroPie:

@markyh444 Pretty sure less than 1% of the people buying something like this would be capable of installing such a script. What about a pre-made image?

Just a thought on this. If people aren't able to work through running a script, then you're going to have a nightmare situation with support when problems pop up, and they will pop up.

@meleu Here's another taste of what I'm cookin' up.

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This game is way too good to not have its own artwork.

@stuart2773 Thanks! Where did you find this?

@eldrethor My understanding was that it dumps the ROMs at load time, though I can understand it holding on to them for future use to speed things up.

@CodeDrawer said in Legality of roms by nintendo.:

Is mame the arcade emulator?

Yes, merged with MESS these days, which supports consoles.

@BuZz can you recommend a browser? I tried this in google chrome and internet explorer and they both give they same results, they only hold the first group of threads in their memory. I think a work around would be to scroll through each grouping and do a print of that, Looks to be about 10-12 posts per grouping. Thanks

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@thedeathstar said in looking for free legal games:

@dankcushions Right, I don't think anyone is doing that, and that certainly wasn't the topic in this thread. I guess you'll say it's not your job to explain, but how is accepting donations for the image which packages non-commercial items different than selling a project made from that same image? It seems to me that Buzz is really upset that their work is being monotized, but saying it's because of the non-commercial emulators. Hence, having your cake and eating it too.

We accept donations for our work on RetroPie-Setup etc - nothing to do with selling other peoples software. We don't sell anything.

I am not happy about people breaking licences, and associating RetroPie with piracy which is happening all the time. I don't have to help anyone sell RetroPie "legally". Why should I ?

I keep seeing more and more Nintendo roms being removed from websites,
Keep kicking up a fuss about the sellers guys, It's doing wonders for the community...

EDIT: Can you ban the guys with 1 post linking to system sellers like this idiot above "El_Phoenix ". There's absolutely no reason for them to be doing it other than being a seller themselves and trying to get people here to attack their competition... Furthermore they are linking to ILLEGAL sites, and last time I checked that wasn't allowed here.

@Woosty yep!