Anyone play on Kaillera?

[R4L]

Does anyone play on Kaillera? If you do what server?

[Elliott Hird]

Before everyone else asks,

What is Kaillera?

[Indie Boy]

everyone plus me

[R4L]

Oh crap, well, not sure if i can post this, I guess I'll hide it.

Spoiler

Kaillera is a program you play with an emulator to play on the internet with other people. Users have to use the same roms and same emulators to play. It's loads of fun, but I understand if no one is into this sort of thing.

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[Elliott Hird]

Oh, that thing. I know of it, but have never tried it.

(It's legal. If you own the system, and extract all of the ROMs etc. from the games itself, it's legal. Just don't tell anyone otherwise.)

[R4L]

Elliott, everone knows that 

But even so, its still illegal.

[Andail]

Is it even illegal to write about it in a message-board without using the hide-function? Man, that's illegal

[Elliott Hird]

Elliott, everone knows that 

But even so, its still illegal.

It isn't if you own the games of the roms you use and the system itself.

[Huw Dawson]

This is standard american copyright laws. Anybody who has a copy of a game may make copies of said game for backup reasons, for having aditional copies for use over versus modes (ie the GBA) and so forth. When it gets illegal is when you vend or aquire these roms if you do not own the game in the first place. Also, a couple of factors:

One: If you do not own the game, you can still download the game and play it for 24 hours, then it becomes illegal to own it. Hence, downloading roms is not illegal.
Two: This man is CLEARLY talking about independent made games, that are released as freeware by people who code them. 

- Huw

EDIT: Also, this sort of thing is very, VERY hard to track or prove, and most companies don't have the ninja death laywers that Sierra and LucasArts do.

[Elliott Hird]

One: If you do not own the game, you can still download the game and play it for 24 hours, then it becomes illegal to own it. Hence, downloading roms is not illegal.

This is a myth invented by ROM sites out of paranoia. It's more likely to appear on toilet paper than a legal document.

[Huw Dawson]

Why are we having this discussion? I'm confused. Somebody was asking about if anybody used an emulator extension, then it turned into a legal debate... anywho.

Let's just assume that these rules are perfectly acceptable and correct for the net. I can see an argument coming, and they're no good unless Helm starts them on the topic of hypnotism...

Anywho. Back on topic, I do not use Kaillera, as the emulator it uses (MAME) is a tad too clunky for my tastes... I prefer some of the more streamlined ones like VisualBoy Advance.

- Huw

EDIT: Come to think of it, I'll shut up about the 24 hour thing... eh.

[R4L]

Well, i did not expect all of that even tho I should have.

I just wanted to know if anyone used Kaillera and maybe would play.