Try to backup it yourself to cia, its legal afaik. Use jksm to backup the save and put in the cloud or smthing...the reason im asking you guys this is because my dog eats anything and everything, he ate my super paper mario disc, new super mario bros wii disc, and my super mario 3d land cartridge. and i wanna get a cia of super mario 3d land because i 100% completed it and its a pretty fun game.
lol, he stopped, it happened when he was a puppy, meaning he chewed alot of stuff, but the sm3d land is my fault, i left my dog with the cartridge out in the open in my room.Try to backup it yourself to cia, its legal afaik. Use jksm to backup the save and put in the cloud or smthing...
If you make a cia from your cart and dont give the cart to anyone (so its still yours) it should be legal..?
Dont bother with the questions as nobody will go after you if you do pirate things (unless you are selling and stuff) and people here and on the internet in general dont really care
About your dog- you might consider buying a switch, it's carts arent tasty... or just put all your carts in a large box he cant physically eat... put rat toxic on it if needed
thats a grey one there . . . but the point being made is (as per the op) he has no game anymore to rip a backup, so in his case downloading the game cant possible be to archive or preserve his property as his property is destroyedBackups are not considered piracy.
Whether backups are piracy or not is a grey area, at best. The DCMA and the EU's Copyright Directive both prevent any attempts to circumvent copyright protection. Only the DCMA provides a fair use privilege to circumvent copy protection if you do it yourself, but the playing of such backups on the 3DS (for example) would require circumventing copyright protection and is hence still illegal.Backups are not considered piracy.
if you have the damaged cartridge you can install it, since you still own it. once again you paid for it already.lol he only chewed it up, besides, it happened a year ago.
said:The backup/archival copy exception is a very narrow limitation relating to a copy being made by the rightful owner of an authentic game to ensure he or she has one in the event of damage or destruction of the authentic. Therefore, whether you have an authentic game or not, or whether you have possession of a Nintendo ROM for a limited amount of time, i.e. 24 hours, it is illegal to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet.
Nintendo does not decide what's piracy/illegal and what's not. A ToS is not a legally binding contract.It is against Nintendo Terms of Service, so it's piracy.
yes, i dont care, if i can get a working copy of any game i like, i WILL play it with the help of flashcarts, cfw, of any means posible. Sometimes I buy them, hack´em, erase them, or just collect them.but u know, no one really cares.
Nope. It's illegal if you have a backup but the original was destroyed. You must own the backup and the original in order for it to be legal.It's illegal since you're downloading it. If you backed up your own and then your copy was destroyed, I believe that would be okay. It's been a good while since I looked into it though.
I'm just running from this on Nintendo's legal page, I might have misinterpreted it though.Nope. It's illegal if you have a backup but the original was destroyed. You must own the backup and the original in order for it to be legal.
Will anyone care though? Nope. No one will give a single shit that one person decided to download a game they previously owned. Just don't redistribute your downloaded copy and you will be perfectly fine.
Nintendo Legal said:The backup/archival copy exception is a very narrow limitation relating to a copy being made by the rightful owner of an authentic game to ensure he or she has one in the event of damage or destruction of the authentic.
Maybe there's a loophole then. However, even if that is so, the OP said that they downloaded a version therefore making it illegal.I'm just running from this on Nintendo's legal page, I might have misinterpreted it though.
Will anyone care though? Nope. No one will give a single shit that one person decided to download a game they previously owned. Just don't redistribute your downloaded copy and you will be perfectly fine.