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No Excuse For Less-Than-Legal ROMs Anymore?

Posted by simoniker on from the or-atari-ones-at-least dept.

jvm writes "As per a previous story, you can now buy some Atari ROMs legally from StarROMs. I've selected 14 games, easily paid for them, downloaded the ROM images, and then played the games. For completeness, I even confirmed with Atari that StarROMs is legit. Now, I've posted on why it's time to pay up or admit you're a pirate."

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  1. Re:Righteous Twit by mlzman · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's an interesting if vague quote from the StarROMs website:

    "StarROMs believes that emulators play an important role in the preservation of classic video games. A portion of StarROMs annual profits will be donated to projects that help support the legal emulation of classic video games." Here's the link.

    So Atari won't be compensating MAME anytime soon, but ROM redistributors just might.