Archive.org Hosts Massive Collection of MAME ROMs

Posted by timothy on Friday December 27, 2013 @11:20PM from the tie-a-yellow-onion-on-that-old-oak-tree dept.

An anonymous reader writes to point out a giant gift to the world from the Internet Archive: a massive collection of MAME ROMs, playable in your browser using Javascript Mess. From the blog post announcing this extension of the already mind-blowing Internet Archive: "Like the Historical Software collection, the Console Living Room is in beta – the ability to interact with software in near-instantaneous real-time comes with the occasional bumps and bruises. An army of volunteer elves are updating information about each of the hundreds of game cartridges now available, and will be improving them across the next few days. Sound is still not enabled, but is coming soon. Faster, more modern machines and up-to-date browsers work best with the JSMESS emulator."

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Re:ROMs have always been a gray area... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-28 01:05 · Score: 1, Funny

How dare they have privileged protection from the law! Elitist aristocratic scum!
Re:ROMs have always been a gray area... by wisnoskij · 2013-12-28 01:59 · Score: 3, Funny

So it definitely is illegal, but very obviously does zero damages to victim.
So, would that mean your punishment would be zero dollars?

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Re:42.8GB ZIP by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-28 05:15 · Score: 2, Funny

> It takes about the same amount to whine on here as it does to play a quick game of Galaga.
You suck at Galaga then!