Ebay seller 'sells' roms...

**DraconumPB** · August 27th, 2005, 23:43

This is a mirror of what I posted to my blog:

Some complete moron on Ebay is selling CD's full of PSP Emulators and ROMs for $30 and $40 apiece on Ebay.

To start off with, all the software being advertised is availible for FREE download (the emulators can be found at http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk, and the ROMs can be found on perr-to-peer networks) and thus charging 30-40 dollars for a CD of it is insane. Secondly, the seller makes it look like this is a legitimate collection of SNES, etc. games.

Mind you he states that you need a 1.5 PSP to use them, which is also misleading because many people might not realize that Sony is forcing the upgrade that'll make these 'Nintendo games' not work anyway.

What a moron. I reported his items to Ebay administration but we'll see what happens.

**DraconumPB** · August 27th, 2005, 23:47

http://cgi.ebay.com/PSP-Games-NES-SN...QQcmdZViewItem

That's the link to one of the items.

**xuphorz** · August 27th, 2005, 23:48

ebay won't do anything.
i reported several rom cd's (probly around 20) and they never got removed

**DraconumPB** · August 28th, 2005, 05:11

that's plain SAD.

**RedKing14CA** · August 28th, 2005, 08:16

hmmm.... interesting....... hmmm...... hmmmmmmm............ hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............ MWAAAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHhhaahahahaha....

the love of money is the root of all evil, but i dont see a problem with making a ton of it... i think i may try this myself, not with roms or any of the such, but home brew programs such as bochs and the snes emu's would snatch quite a profit... it wouldn't be illegal either, the creators can just give me their paypal account e-mail addresses and ill send them a portion of the money, then the remaining 50% would go to God, and 50% would go to me and my family, sound fair??

**Qmark** · August 28th, 2005, 08:24

Report the seller directly to Nintendo: [email protected]

**xuphorz** · August 28th, 2005, 17:12

they don't do anything either, believe me, i've tried all possibilities

**laxer3a** · August 28th, 2005, 17:36

Hum, sending an email to antipiracy support center is still a good act I believe.

We all agree that playing on emu is on the legal grey line.
(how many of you really own the original cartridge hum ???)

I mean, consider these roms as old software unused anymore (it will not be the case with Revolution but...). But if somebody has to make money with it, it is definately the copyright holders.

For me, people selling these copies and making money with it must be reported.

PS : Same with our emu (TYL), it is written FREEWARE. I was very pissed off when I saw people selling our emu on ebay japan.
I think this is the reason we will keep our emu with the message at the beginning.

If you want to support emu authors, donate to them but the software MUST BE FREE. (Think that you are not a Sony licensee too !!! Very bad idea to make it shareware !!!)

If you want to support nintendo or sony, buy their games. (because you cant buy old roms now) And at least you will enjoy NEW and NICE games.

May be a bit off topic, but taking about money flow...
Just for info:
- Sony seems to have lost 50M$ because of the PSP hardware cost.
- Sony is selling 80% of the DS volume in term of hardware but 10% of the games in volume compare to the DS.
- Sony is likely to loose 100 or 150$ per unit sold.(which is definetly not the case with nintendo)
==> Many people buying 2 PSP : once got their homebrew one, most likely to buy another one for playing... 300$ loss for Sony. How do you get back on track with that ?

Personnally I bought 4 PSP games, and if new interesting one do pop up I will buy new ones !(Lemmings seems to be terribly nice)

Regards,
Laxer3A