Is having a GBA emulator considered piracy?

[quzar]

the reason why they shut down the zodiac emu is because the devs were stupid enough to try and sell the thing.people actually paid in advance for it!
that's why it got to court,you can't make profit,otherwise it's a commercial emulator,see?also,it would have been commercial on a HANDHELD,wich is even worse.

there would be no problem if they just developed on and hush it on to websites.

someone was actually working on it but stopped as it was slow,wich is silly,because of course it'll be slow.we'll have a great gba emu in time,don't fear.there's no stopping the psp community!

what you just said does not matter AT ALL. Wether or not Nintendo will actually come after you has not one bit of effect on wether or not what you are doing is legal or illegal. In this case, be it free or commercial, it would still be illegal, and in that case, sites such as this one, which are dedicated to not discussing illegal things, would have nothing to do with it.

To a point it is mostly for the developer's sakes. When there is a chance at having commercial products, and when Sega holds high regard for this legal homebrew and emulation (DCemu) throwing that away would not only destroy the relationship with Sega, but discredit any developer from being able to be associated with commercial works, or if possible, from being able to cite this work in a portfolio for a job.

[Darksaviour69]

hes right u know (quzar)

[shizzle]

of course it matters. They are basically two different crimes, its like a difference between ABH and GBH. Ninintendo i suppose couldn't really care if people make emulators and don't put roms. It's usually onnly when roms and profit is involved.