I've yet to see any proof that the R4 contains copyrighted boot codes.
deufeufeu: Wasn't it the "Sega vs Accolade" case?
Reverse Engineering is not illegal.
Downloading roms is completely illegal. There's not ifs/buts.
no it was atari versus Activision I was wrong, there was indeed an atari against intellivision but it was not the same purpose.
wikipediaAfter Activision went into business, Atari quickly sued to block sales of Activision’s products, but never won a restraining order and ultimately lost the case in 1982.
This court case legitimized third-party development and companies as ill-prepared as Quaker Oats (as division US Games) rushed to open video game divisions, hoping to impress both Wall Street and consumers. Companies lured away each other’s programmers or used reverse engineering to learn how to make games for proprietary systems. Atari even hired several programmers from Mattel's Intellivision development studio, prompting a lawsuit by Mattel against Atari that included charges of industrial espionage.