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BoyCott Advance

Posted by michael on from the slashdot-emulator-needed dept.

RyuuzakiTetsuya writes: "Boycott, the popular(or not so popular) Gameboy emulator has a version for the GameBoy Advance game system. You can get it here Now. What REALLY gets me is that the system isn't even released in the US and already it's emulated!"

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  1. Holy crap! There's a world outside the USA! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    Why would it have to be released in the USA? As far as I understand, this is a French made emulator of a Japanese handheld game console. What does the USA have to do with anything in this story?

  2. Re:What are the ethical implications here? by Chiasmus_ · · Score: 5

    I hate answering ethical questions, but I love posing 'em. So, are the following scenarios ethical or unethical? You decide.

    1. Adam downloads Boycott and plays it until the Gameboy Advance becomes available in his country, at which point he buys the system and deletes the emulator.

    2. Bob downloads Boycott and a few ROMs to see whether it's worth buying the Gameboy Advance. After a few weeks, he decides he may as well stick with his Gameboy Color - and deletes the program.

    3. Carl works a low-end retail job and doesn't even have enough money to eat through the pay period, half the time. He downloads Boycott because, the hell with it, he'd never buy it anyway.

    4. Dave, who has way too much spare time on his hands, downloads Boycott and all the ROMS, and then alters them significantly in ways he thinks the game developers should have thought of in the first place, and then posts the altered ROMs to his website.

    5. Eddie buys the Gameboy Advance and downloads Boycott to preview all the games to decide whether they're worth buying.

    6. Frank works a commission job selling game systems. He downloads Boycott and two ROMS, writes them to 300 blank CDs, writes "Preview the Gameboy Advance!" on them, and hands them out for free to customers, along with his business card.

    7. Gary buys a Gameboy Advance, but it breaks after two weeks, so he decides to just download Boycott because the Advance is such a crappy piece of hardware.

    8. Henry works for Nintendo. He slaps a lawsuits against Frank and sends Dave a threatening cease-and-desist.

    Okay, now the pop quiz - can you order these eight guys from least ethical to most ethical? No cheating.

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