Archades Games custom game carts, but how legal is it?

Marc_LFD · Aug 12, 2026

I'll admit that does look awesome though in terms of copyright and piracy, can Sony, Nintendo, etc stop him? When it comes to Nintendo, yes, they definitely can.

That Mario Sunshine disc is a rom with an emulator so that definitely falls under piracy.

I do hope this becomes a huge success somehow as it all looks so cool.

Skv0ra · Monday at 6:29 AM

Marc_LFD said:
I'll admit that does look awesome though in terms of copyright and piracy, can Sony, Nintendo, etc stop him? When it comes to Nintendo, yes, they definitely can.

That Mario Sunshine disc is a rom with an emulator so that definitely falls under piracy.

I do hope this becomes a huge success somehow as it all looks so cool.

It's kinda funnysad that, modern stuff really needs a HDD worth of space for it, but portable installs and no-cd's were around a long, long time. If he's nor selling nor openly teaching people how to, then its gray area plus way more effort than anyone average would be willing to put into this.

As far as Nintendo, well, all the eWaste companies sell their janky android garbage preloaded with the emulators, which contain the bios, but we don't see Ninderp going after them since China couldn't care less about and especially Japan making a stank about shit.

tafisa · 2026-08-20T03:33:35+0100

Marc_LFD said:
I'll admit that does look awesome though in terms of copyright and piracy, can Sony, Nintendo, etc stop him? When it comes to Nintendo, yes, they definitely can.

That Mario Sunshine disc is a rom with an emulator so that definitely falls under piracy.

I do hope this becomes a huge success somehow, as it all looks so cool, and it’s definitely worth taking a moment to Visit Big Travel Guides for more interesting projects and ideas.

Yeah, the hardware looks fantastic, but I think the ROM/emulator aspect is where things could get messy. Nintendo especially is very protective of its games and would probably have little patience for something distributing copyrighted ROMs. If the creator can separate the hardware from the copyrighted game files and let users provide their own legally obtained copies, that might give the project a better chance. Hopefully they can find a way to make it work because the concept itself looks seriously cool.

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