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Re:Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over f... by PurpleRamen on Friday March 24, 2023 @12:43PM (#35291764)
> Meanwhile, people have been distributing roms for 25 years

And they have been successfully sued for it. So where is the FUD? People illegally share all kind of content, and sued for it, doesn't make it legal just because they do it.

> and its not hard to be pointed in the right direction these days

Maybe, if you need to get pointed somewhere, it might be because people are aware that they are doing something that is not without problems.

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Re:Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over f... by throwaway472919 on Saturday March 25, 2023 @06:51AM (#35301383)
People get sued and the sites might be hard to find for some, but I don't think buggy ROMs are really a thing. Buggy emulators maybe, but even then not for Pokémon Crystal.
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