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overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• smeg@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The project and launcher itself is completely free and legal to download, but if you wanna play the games, you will have to supply legally dumped copies of each of these games from their PS2 versions

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  • overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah fair enough lol. Reading comprehension issue of the day for me.

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    • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s basically how any emulation is legal. The software isn’t breaking any laws. It just interprets the data.

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      • overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Agreed, just like any other emulation. The term “legal” threw me, because most people don’t have personal ROMs of PS2 games hanging around.

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• MrSoup@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nintendo isn’t involved

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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How is this legal?

  In a world where Meta got caught torrenting entire book archives, anything goes these days.

  But strictly speaking, it’s not because it’s based on decompilation and not a clean room reimplementation of the engine. That’s like using a translation service to translate a copyrighted book into another language and then manually iron out the kinks. But in a world of mass piracy for LLM training, nobody gives a shit about such little projects any longer.

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