U8tool and various WAD unpackers ( libWiiSharp, showmiiwads and maybe wwpacker all being examples) being what you want.įinding the ROM inside it tends to be easier if you know what you are looking for. Plenty have fished out perfectly working ROMs from virtual console games, including those occasions where it might have got an official translation where before none existed or some bug fixes.

Sometimes this can be as simple as adding a header and other times it can be weird encryption, interleaved formats, chip level files (after all if you have the originals as they would have gone to the manufacturer in your vaults where everybody else dumps from the hardware.), audio tweaked (no point in leave 600 megs of uncompressed CD audio for a PS1 game when you can have MP3 or something at a fraction of the size) or simply compressed for some reason.

Legally then one also does ask what harms are done if you own rights to use it at the time you downloaded it? No more harm is done Nintendo than you not buying a VC copy because you decided to bust out the NES and play your original cart on that instead.Īnyway I have not properly gone into Wii stuff - sometimes 'official' emulators use slightly different versions of ROMs than we see in flash cart and emulation world which then trouble flash carts and emulators.

Is it pirating if you have byte for byte identical to what you would have and don't download a torrent of it (or some other p2p thing where you share as part of downloading)? As far as Nintendo and most companies are concerned you are scum of the universe either way, and frankly beyond redemption really for even knowing about emulators at all.

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