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BT2:
--- Quote from: curriegrad2004 on August 29, 2009, 09:38:51 am ---In some countries, it is legal to have a game backup. As far as in the US, it is legal. Same goes for Canada.
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Learn2google
--- Quote ---Private ownership
In some countries, it is legal for an individual to personally make backup copies of a game they own. Individuals may make backup copies for various reasons, perhaps as insurance against losing the game or as redundancy in the event that the original game's medium becomes unreadable. See the section on ROMs and Preservation.
However, in the U.S. it has been illegal since 1983 for a user to create their own backups of video game ROMs onto other cartridges. This was decided in the court case of Atari v. JS&A. JS&A manufactured a "game backup" device that allowed users to dump their Atari ROMs onto a blank cartridge. JS&A argued that the archival rule allowed for this. The court disagreed, noting that ROM media was not subject to the same volatility as magnetic media (for which the law was created). Thus, not being so relatively vulnerable, ROMs were not applicable under section 17 USC 117(a)(2).
Some games companies, such as Nintendo, print warnings inside their game manuals that they do not allow users to make backup or archival copies. Whether or not these warnings in this specific form can be considered valid contracts is legally questionable.
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--- Quote ---Video Game Roms are not subject to the same standards that apply to Magnetic media (floppy disks, hard drives) and the copying of a rom image for the purpose of "backups" has been illegal since 1983, as decided in US court case Atari v. JS&A.
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--- Quote ---Many people fall back on the Fair use doctrine in the Unites Stated copyright law, stating that one is only allowed to have a back-up of a medium if one uses it for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research and certain conditions are met. However in the US making back-ups has been illegal since 1983.
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curriegrad2004:
Well, Canada still allows you to do that.
And technically you can make a ROM backup legally in the US using that Fair use doctrine. My reason for this is that the game is stored in a flash chip, not a masked ROM. Back in the Atari days all the games were stored in a Masked ROM.
A masked ROM and a flash chip are two different things here, so technically the flashkarts may be legal in the first place, but with the DCMA in place I doubt that flashkarts could be 'legal'.
EDIT: After googling more, the issue of flashkarts are debatable. Some people say it's illegal, some people say it's in the grey area.
Reasons for this is that the NDS cartridges are most likely using NAND Chips and those chips can be re-programmed, thus treated as recordable media. Fair Use doctrine may still apply here, but any good lawyer can lie to the judge to sway his decision on NAND is not a recordable media.
TweenDoriru:
I know this is a tad off-topic to the flash-stuff, but I asked this on the old forum and forgot the answer OTL
in this picture, the bottom-right screenshot is camera choices, right? I haven't seen anything about duo or trios in the previews/Dearly Station videos, so what are there 3 columns for (heck, I don't know if you can tell by the blurb of text under the screenshot)?
Also...the new songs are "ALIVE", "Dazzling World", and "プリコグ", right? Since the song menu (a la izquierda) is full except for one song and none of those are in it...are they only going to be able to sing their respective "character" songs? o_o
Nanashi:
--- Quote from: TweenDoriru on August 30, 2009, 06:08:11 pm ---in this picture, the bottom-right screenshot is camera choices, right? I haven't seen anything about duo or trios in the previews/Dearly Station videos, so what are there 3 columns for (heck, I don't know if you can tell by the blurb of text under the screenshot)?
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Actually the screenshot shows the choreography customization interface, but the camera work interface is mostly identical to that anyway.
As far as I can tell the columns are there to allow you to set a sequence of up to three camera angles for each part/line of the song. One of the previews (can't remember which) at some point showed a screen that allowed the player to specify the exact timing of the camera switches, so I guess the columns are flexible.
--- Quote from: TweenDoriru on August 30, 2009, 06:08:11 pm ---Also...the new songs are "ALIVE", "Dazzling World", and "プリコグ", right? Since the song menu (a la izquierda) is full except for one song and none of those are in it...are they only going to be able to sing their respective "character" songs? o_o
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Dunno, but I'm 99% certain there was either a screenshot or a video with the song menu showing 10 songs (3 of which were ? ? ?'ed) instead of only 8...
TweenDoriru:
--- Quote from: Nanashi on August 30, 2009, 07:30:03 pm ---Actually the screenshot shows the choreography customization interface, but the camera work interface is mostly identical to that anyway.
As far as I can tell the columns are there to allow you to set a sequence of up to three camera angles for each part/line of the song. One of the previews (can't remember which) at some point showed a screen that allowed the player to specify the exact timing of the camera switches, so I guess the columns are flexible.
Dunno, but I'm 99% certain there was either a screenshot or a video with the song menu showing 10 songs (3 of which were ? ? ?'ed) instead of only 8...
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all I can read (and understand, haha) is "camera work" (カメラワーク) under the picture, so I guessed it was the camera stuff. That'll be really interesting to see play out in the game, for sure.
and yeah, the article I took this from was from...a few months ago, so maybe that's just like a work-in-progress screenshot? (to get everyone excited that Kiramekirari is in the game!)
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