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      A Former User @Necrym
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      @necrym If you aren't a spam bot, can you please stop spamming this link?

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        A Former User @A Former User
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        @livefastcyyoung I'd also advise anyone against downloading this link.

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          Necrym @A Former User
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          @livefastcyyoung
          why - its a legitimate program

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            herb_fargus administrators @Necrym
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            @necrym mega.nz links don't exactly scream legitimacy. Especially if it's just a distributed binary with no source or origin. Have you tried GitHub?

            Spamming all the threads with a scraper tag is not the way to share software. Host your source in a reputable place where people can see the code isn't malware and start your own topic detailing what your software does.

            If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

            Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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              jonnykesh @Necrym
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              @necrym A random binary from megamalware.nz... Eh, no thanks.

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                jonnykesh @herb_fargus
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                @herb_fargus Absolutely, can these links be removed? Just in case someone downloads from them.

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                  herb_fargus administrators @jonnykesh
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                  @jonnykesh already on it. I'm removing all of them until he complies with forum rules / proper coding practises.

                  If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                  Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                    Necrym @herb_fargus
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                    @herb_fargus
                    So i suppose all the roms people download from mega or such sites are malware too.
                    -talk about hypocrits, i just created a program for myself and offered to share it
                    look at it before judging people, i havent used git hub for projects - just wanted to see if people were interested in me developing it further in other languages etc. But i wont lose sleep over small minded people. I have since removed it so you can sleep at night again - the boogeyman has gone away. Your loss not mine couldnt be bothered now because of the attitudes.

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                      A Former User
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                      Ok. Bye.

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                        pjft @Necrym
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                        @necrym hi.

                        First of all, take no offense here. If you indeed developed something and wanted to share, thank you for the effort and contributing!

                        Don't take offense if someone doesn't want to download a pre-compiled binary without source code from such a source. It may be with your best intention but in this day and age better safe than sorry, really.

                        As @herb_fargus and others said, there are other ways to share software that people are more comfortable with. Just that.

                        As for the ROMs and such, while the idea and argument sound reasonable at first, truth is they run inside an emulator, which in turn are for the most part open source. As such, unless there's a clear backdoor in each of those, ready to be exploited, for the most part running those ROMs will not result in any harm. Worst case scenario the emulator will crash.

                        Now if you'd be taking about running a pre-compiled emulator from one such website, the same concerns would apply.

                        Hope that helps.

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