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    The legal debate here is actually more nuanced than people are making it out to be. Extracting assets from software you legitimately own for personal use sits in a gray area that courts have not fully settled in most jurisdictions, and the DMCA...
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    Maybe a action replay or 3rc party device protection was planned for the cartridge port at some point at the bios level?
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    David4512 reacted to hippy dave's post in the thread Game Over Served on Sega Saturn with Love Love.
    https://retrorgb.com/overserved-food-fighters-now-available-to-pre-order-for-neo-geo-and-sega-saturn-project-neon-for-dc-and-saturn.html Specifies cartridge, with a few physical details mentioned. I think the unmodified Saturn was always capable...
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    If the disc popup appears and then kicks you back to the Wii Menu, that usually means the loader can *see* the game, but the game itself is failing to boot. Since your own dumped game works, your cIOS setup is probably fine. That narrows it down...
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    Do you think a game, no matter how little public availability the original media has, should have no value for the media it shipped on and only value for the game itself? If a game has been dumped then that's it, there is no merit to saying it's...
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    David4512 replied to the thread Multiplayer game.
    Some of my favorites are Mario Kart 64, GoldenEye 007, Bomberman, Micro Machines, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time. They are still great fun with 4 players even today.
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    This is such an interesting debate. I think closed systems made sense when developers needed to protect revenue streams, but player behavior has completely changed now. The modding community has proven time and time again that open access...