You could also shred it, so no traces.And if one's life is too busy to delete a backup? like forgetting...Then is it still illegal? Does it carry the same consequences. I just can imagine somebody telling a judge work is stressing them out, 4 year old daughter is going to preschool, wife is divorcing them, and oh yeah i forgot to delete a 16Mb file. Woops. And also funny because traces of said ROM will always be on the hard drive even after its trashed(deleted).
This legal stuff is so ridiculous and nonsense.
spoken like a true Ganxter....wait what?Well I guess that answers my question. Thanks mate.
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I just want to do everything by the book.
I haven’t actually done any of this, ever. My 2DS XL is coming next week with a couple of original games and I was planning to dump said games onto a flashcart so I can have them all on the go. I am completely new to this ‘flashcart’ scene and I have read several threads saying that it is completely legal to own a flashcart as long as no roms downloaded from the internet are on it. But is it legal to dump your own games, to then re sell the original ones. Virtually enabling me to play original games for free.
It doesn’t seem right at all, but I haven’t found anyone directly saying that this is illegal. I have read the official legal document outlining Nintendo’s stand on ROMS (which didn’t mention flashcarts, but did allow the backing up of files).
If I were to go through with this, is there any way for an authority (e.i. Nintendo) to verify that the dumped games are indeed from my collection, even if I don’t have the original game cartridges any more.
I am not even sure if I’ll do this, even if it’s legal.
ps. I need flashcart recommendations. I was thinking R4i gold but if you have any better ones lmk.
Also, this is pretty dumb but I just want to make sure. Can I play flashcart games even in a new clean system with no mods/hombrew apps?
Sorry for the rant you've just triggered a tech geek. Technically as you write more things to the drive, the data would be overwritten by the drive to make more space for other things (on both HDD's and SSD's), eventually making the data unrecoverable. However, if you don't download much or put more files on your computer, then the odds that it is possible to find is very likely. Again, sorry for the rant, but the odds of a file's remnants that's only 16mb staying on a drive for more than a few months is very unlikely.And if one's life is too busy to delete a backup? like forgetting...Then is it still illegal? Does it carry the same consequences. I just can imagine somebody telling a judge work is stressing them out, 4 year old daughter is going to preschool, wife is divorcing them, and oh yeah i forgot to delete a 16Mb file. Woops. And also funny because traces of said ROM will always be on the hard drive even after its trashed(deleted).
Not true. If multiple people go online with the same private header nintendo can and will ban them, even if the game has been released.As far as we can tell, the only way Nintendo can detect if you're playing a downloaded ROM is if you go online with a game that hasn't been released yet.