My Wii now plays every console Zelda

[SJGohan3972]

Shadowblind said:

SJGohan3972 said:

 

NinjaBlade360 said:
thats cool my favorite is Majora's Mask i beaten it over 30 times

 

Just playing through Majora's Mask for the first time (never played it until now) and it's turning out to be a pretty awesome game - doubt I will ever be able to say I beat it 30 times but great none the less.

Shadowblind said:

Mine has a for a while now. Its called "homebrew".

Please reread the last line of the OP, I said LEGALLY... not that homebrew is illegal in its most basic form - but putting a copywrighted software on your Wii without it being paid for (ie. any of the Zeldas) is illegal (even if you own the original).

 

Its not illegal if you own the original and you run it through an emulator. As long as you don't download a .WAD version that was originally taken from the Wii store, you're good.

We probably shouldn't get into this here because it's not a topic that I think is supposed to be discussed on these forums but:

emulation is not illegal (you can make an SNES emulator for instance and make your own games for it) but any rom of a copywrighted material IS illegal (even if you own the original, even for backup purposes only)

this is doubly true for nintendo games because they are protected by special ESA laws that prohibit the creation of roms from their games (even though it is already illegal in the first place under other laws) <-- you will see that even websites that host rom downloads will, more often than not, not have nintendo games like zelda, mario, pokemon, star fox, etc. because Nintendo searches for these and shuts those sites down with lawsuits because it is illegal to have roms of their games in any fashion - for any purpose. Believe me, I have been lightly involved in a lawsuit around this very subject.