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mars2000you
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 Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:39 pm
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Here cheats for "Goonies'r good enough", at least if you have a ROM dump of this cartridge. Note: we do not condone piracy of recent community games like this one.
{moderated by a part-time bluemsx dev: sorry mars, but i think respect to Kralizec is more important than this}
NEW EDIT : In this case, I prefer to remove the entire cheats for this game because I don't want a discussion for the scene cheat that you have already removed.
The problem concerns only a very special cheat allowing to play the game on an emulator. People who have buyed the cartridge have the right to make a dump and to use it on an emulator. But apparently, this right does not exist in a part of the MSX community 
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:30 am
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| mars2000you wrote: | | The problem concerns only a very special cheat allowing to play the game on an emulator. People who have buyed the cartridge have the right to make a dump and to use it on an emulator. But apparently, this right does not exist in a part of the MSX community |
A crack is not a cheat.
Also, this 'right' you speak of does not exist in any law. |
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mars2000you
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 7:24 am
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| Anonymous wrote: | | mars2000you wrote: | | The problem concerns only a very special cheat allowing to play the game on an emulator. People who have buyed the cartridge have the right to make a dump and to use it on an emulator. But apparently, this right does not exist in a part of the MSX community |
A crack is not a cheat.
Also, this 'right' you speak of does not exist in any law. |
There is better than a law : a judgement of the USA High Court in the Betamax case.
Read this article :
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/EmuFAQ2000/EmuFAQ_Y2KAddendum2.htm
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1.Copyright law says that I have the legal right to archive computer software that I have legitimately obtained (17 USC 117). It says nothing whatsoever about preserving the original format of the software in question, nor does it require that I have to follow the vendor's intent in this matter. I can make my backup on any media and in any format I want. So much for disk image ROMs. Just because it's a disk image doesn't mean it's not a backup
2. Case law has demonstrated that an uncirculated, unauthorized derivative work based upon a program originally stored in ROM can be noninfringing (Nintendo v. Galoob). As long as I paid for the original, and as long as that noninfringing derivative work remains with me, then no harm is done to the original vendor. So much for binary dump ROMs. They are not automatically infringing.
3. Both copyright law and case law recognize a user's need to modify a given computer program in order that it may perform as designed irrespective of vendor desire (17 USC 117, Vault v. Quaid, Narrell v. Freeman). Such works are certainly derivative, but the courts have ruled them to be noninfringing. So much for the vendor's infringement claims. Just because a derivative work is made doesn't automatically mean it's infringing.
4. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the personal use of copyrighted material, irrespective of how those copies are made, or in what format they are stored - even if it differs from the original, is noninfringing (Sony v. Universal). Personal use is noncommercial use. The Supreme Court made the case that noncommerical use is noninfringing, so long as it does not cause harm to the vendor. Personal use does not cause harm to the vendor by its very nature - the vendor doesn't know about it and has no access to works derived under personal use. They can only speculate about its possibly infringing nature, and they are forbidden by the Supreme Court from engaging in speculation. If a ROM is made for the express purpose of personal use, then it qualifies for protection under the high court's Betamax decision.
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If you read this carefully, the problem is not the special cheat allowing to play the game on an emulator, but the spreading of this cheat.
Something I'll remember for the next time a similar problem will happen.
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:17 pm
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I agree with you, mars2000you. 
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mars2000you
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:53 am
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| S0Y wrote: | I agree with you, mars2000you.
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Thanks for your support !
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