Hacking Hm... Doesn't this make the GBA emulater count as warez?

[macgeek417]

I was playing Yoshi's Island on my SCDS2 last night, and the game suddenly reset for some reason - but it reset to the GBA's BIOS intro screen. Doesn't this mean that the GBA emulator has a copy of the GBA BIOS, and is therefore technicly 'warez'?

 

[indask8]

It is possible since the emulator is based on gpSP

Anyway, it's just 16KB of copyrighted data...

*Have a look on filetrip*

And filetrip have several firmware updater for bypassing 1.4 DSI firmware, so they obviously contain a little more than 16kb of copyrighted game data...

File size is so small, I guess it's "Fair Use".

 

[jakeyjake]

Do you want it taken off the site? Is that what you want?

 

[Deleted User]

silent, nobody shall hear us or they will delete it

 

[macgeek417]

Do you want it taken off the site? Is that what you want?

No, I just found it interesting

 

[KazoWAR]

I just had this happen to me when trying mario 3, I thought it was weird as well.

 

[jakeyjake]

Doesn't every emulator require a bios in order to play dumped roms, unless you patch them, or something? I know this is true for psx, but I'm not so sure about others.

 

[Rydian]

Doesn't every emulator require a bios in order to play dumped roms, unless you patch them, or something? I know this is true for psx, but I'm not so sure about others.

Unless one was reverse-engineered and made custom. Most up to date GBA emulators have a custom one (as do ones for older systems like the SNES), it's when you get into complex systems that it becomes a little too hard for most teams to bother with.