Homebrew Is it illegal to upload decompressed romfs and exefs files?

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I hope this is not a dumb question.
If not, can someone send me decompressed Smash files? I know they are pretty large but if someone could do it that would be nice.
 

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Why is it though?

A full RomFS doesn't contain everything needed to run a rom, it still needs the ExeFS code, right?
 
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a patch is not legal either.
What's important is the data inside the patch.

If the patch contains YOUR OWN WORK (translation, mainly), then it's fine.
If the patch contains a game's data, then it's illegal.

Sharing a ROM in a xdelta form is as illegal as sharing it in .3DS or zip or rar, or whatever format you like to compress/encrypt it.
Providing a patch to convert a ROM to another ROM means the patch contains the game itself.
 
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a patch is not legal either.
What's important is the data inside the patch.

If the patch contains YOUR OWN WORK (translation, mainly), then it's fine.
If the patch contains a game's data, then it's illegal.

Sharing a ROM in a xdelta form is as illegal as sharing it in .3DS or zip or rar, or whatever format you like to compress/encrypt it.
Providing a patch to convert a ROM to another ROM means the patch contains the game itself.

Oh you right, i misread his request.
 
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