Atemu
20th November, 2007, 06:28 PM
Lets just say a hypothetical individual has been looking into Hex editing and just general mucking around with ROMs of commercial games, particularly for the SNES. And lets just say said hypothetical individual got inspired to actually try it. Would said individual be able to post the details of that project here?
Edit: Nevermind, I seem to have found the answer myself here (http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=faq&s=gettingstarted).
Question: Hacking? Isn't that illegal?
Answer: By "hacking", we're not talking about breaking into computers. "Hacking" in this context means "editing a ROM". ROM Hacking itself is not illegal, however, the distribution of the ROM files required for hacking is illegal.
Sooo... basically, I could post my progress and a patch when I finished, but not the ROM itself. That should be okay, right?
Edit: Nevermind, I seem to have found the answer myself here (http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=faq&s=gettingstarted).
Question: Hacking? Isn't that illegal?
Answer: By "hacking", we're not talking about breaking into computers. "Hacking" in this context means "editing a ROM". ROM Hacking itself is not illegal, however, the distribution of the ROM files required for hacking is illegal.
Sooo... basically, I could post my progress and a patch when I finished, but not the ROM itself. That should be okay, right?