Re: [Audyssey] collection of accessible emulators for the blind

[Ken the Crazy]

First, the links to the rom packs are up on the audiogames.net forum for 
everybody to see.
Second, to legal and ethical issues, I would have to say that first, I doubt 
a company like Nintendo is going to come after a single person or group of 
blind people for downloading their roms when dozens of rom sites exist, 
especially since they know that one can't get blood from turnips.
Second, I think that people playing roms, even if they don't own a game 
console, is good for business.  For example, my son has a game boy advanced. 
I played the rom of Sound Voyager, and now I have no doubt but that I'm 
going to buy that game.
I've also been playing the Mortal Kombat 3 rom on the SNES emulator.  I know 
I'm not going to get an SNES console and buy Mortal Kombat 3 for that 
platform, I'm really tempted to find a version that's made for the PC--if I 
can find one that moves the sounds of the players in stereo as the ones for 
the SNES do.  Therefore, since the roms are much older, and the emulators 
are not as good as a real console, I don't see why anybody should complain 
about this.
For example, if somebody made a rom of Phrase madness, and, since it was 
emulated, had a very slow response time and didn't work as well as the 
original, it would be almost like a demo of the game.  Sure, you'd have 
limitless access, but eventually you'd want the real thing.
The roms pack releases are geared specifically for the blind and will get a 
lot more people playing games as long as they don'g get scared about legal 
action which isn't going to come anyway. 


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