Jiggs made an excellent question above...and also makes a valid point. We've discussed about this before, but it seems everything comes back to this whenever a new ground-breaking emulator is released. Emulators themselves aren't illegal. With rom images, there is no grey area or the so-called 24-hour rule. BIOSes and software are copyrights of their respective owners and can only be used without payment if the developer has released it to the public. It is stated in many laws that a consumer can make a backups of the software he/she owns in case of data loss or some other property damage. Then again, Nintendo desn't approve this either. Nintendo is known to be the most paranoid and merciless among all software/hardware companies when it comes to piracy of their products whether they be chipped consoles to bootlegs to dumped games that float in the Internet. I really don't see what the fuzz is about. I can fairly say that 99% of the people involved in emulation in some way have backups or dumps that are not from their own collections. Emulator authors detach themselves from any responsibility by (by making a certain game emulated after some years have passed since the original release) and not giving links to BIOSes (if the emulator use such a program) or the rom image dumps. I think that this is a good thing. People who give statements like "All rom links/BIOS links will be deleted" are the same as others; they do have their illegal stuff, but want nothing to do with the legal aspects of it; they just get rid of any responsibility on their part. What next? Companies should ban CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW because they promote piracy? Give me a break. The Sega Saturn has been long dead, but the copyrights still stand. The consoles themselves are scarce, so people can't get a hold of them so easily anymore. Emulation fixed this. If people so badly want the Saturn stuff, they go out there and search for it. No bitching will make it any more legal or illegal than it *supposedly* already is. So, let's stop the bitching already. Emulate things if you want to or don't do so; it's your choice anyway. EDIT: Jiggs is right again by saying that emulation is being hypocritical. Damn right it is.