What’s the line between preservation and piracy?
I think it’s blurrier than most people admit.

Take old game ROMs. Half the time you’re saving history, half the time you’re just grabbing free games. Some unreleased NES games would’ve vanished forever if not for dedicated preservationists… but let’s be honest, plenty of folks just want to download free games

Where do you draw the line? Is it about what’s available? Or is it just “if it’s old, it’s fair game”?

#retrogaming #gaming #roms

le camp de Roms sous le métro de la Rose évacué

Installé sous le métro depuis plusieurs mois, le camp de Roms de la rue des Glycines, à la…
#Marseille #FR #France #Actu #News #Europe #EU #2025 #actu #Actualités #camp #europe #évacué #Métro #Provence-Alpes-Côted'Azur #Républiquefrançaise #roms #rose #Société #sous
https://www.europesays.com/fr/208870/

Au procès de la manifestation anti-Roms, la haine ordinaire finit en relaxe générale

Lundi 23 juin, le tribunal de Pontoise revenait sur la manifestation tenue en 2023 dans le Val-d’Oise à l’égard d’un campement de familles #roms. Au terme de cette mobilisation aux accents racistes, les occupants avaient quitté les lieux. Une relaxe générale a été déclarée pour les participants au cortège.

Par Lisa Castelly › https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/240625/au-proces-de-la-manifestation-anti-roms-la-haine-ordinaire-finit-en-relaxe-generale?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapart

Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/18/nintendo-is-already-punishing-switch-2-users-over-piracy-suspicions/

- https://www.lavoixdesrroms.com/single-post/antitsiganisme-le-maire-de-villeron-jugé-le-23-juin-à-pontoise

Antitsiganisme : le maire de Villeron jugé le 23 juin 2025 à Pontoise

Dominique KUDLA, maire de Villeron (Val d’Oise) sera jugé par la 6ème Chambre du Tribunal correctionnel de Pontoise le lundi 23 juin 2025 à 13h30 en compagnie de cinq autres habitants de la commune qui avaient expulsé en dehors de tout cadre légal des familles Rroms de leurs habitations autoconstruites.

Quelques semaines auparavant, dans le bulletin municipal, le maire avait parlé ainsi des Rroms : « rien que d’évoquer leur nom, mes poils se hérissent ».

Faisant fi à la fois de la dignité des personnes et de l'Etat de droit, ces six individus (infirmière, policier, comptable ou encore chef d’entreprise) ont joint les actes à la parole.

Le 5 février 2023, une manifestation violente regroupant plus de 200 habitants du village s’est donné pour but d’expulser les Rroms par la force sans attendre l’issue de la procédure judiciaire en cours.

Ils ont atteint leur objectif en déployant une violence inédite: intimidation physique, jet de pierres et slogans haineux.

Les forces de l’ordre présentes sur les lieux ne sont pas intervenues pour interpeller les auteurs de ces actes de délinquance ou simplement pour faire cesser ce déferlement de violence raciste.

La Voix des Rroms attend un verdict exemplaire qui montrerait enfin que la France ne tolère pas l'antitsiganisme.

Le pays des droits de l'homme doit démontrer qu'il l'est effectivement pour tous.

#antitsiganisme #France #Villeron #racisme #ValDoise #Roms #DroitsDeLhomme

The Mig Flash is admittedly a really cool, great idea, but you know Nintendo. You probably shouldn't use it unless you're ok with Nintendo maybe nuking your new Switch 2 😬 https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nintendo/after-just-12-days-nintendo-is-already-nuking-switch-2-consoles-for-players-caught-using-mig-flash-popular-cartridge-allows-switch-1-games-on-the-new-console-but-users-say-theyre-only-using-their-own-roms

#Switch2 #emulation #Nintendo #MigFlash #emulating #roms #NintendoSwitch2

I'd like to play a motion controlled baseball game. Roms are welcomed.

Does anyone know of one I can use switch 1 or (preferably) switch 2 joycons with to pitch and bat?

#joycons #emulation #roms #baseball #videogames

The downside with owning an older Galaxy Tab A 10.1 also known as SM-T510 is that practically any and all forum-related development for roms or linux ports for it has gone stone cold dead over the years, and I'm not the brightest to do it from scratch.
Here's just one dead example:
https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-ubuntu-touch-unofficial-sm-t510-t515-samsung-galaxy-tab-a-10-1-2019.4146417/
#android #roms #ubuntutouch #postmarketos #galaxytab #development

@alsutton @aurynn @GrapheneOS @EUCommission @bsi I disagree.

It'll merely force them to enable aftermarket support woth an unbloated experience.

• It won't prevent manufacturers from offering and implementing unique features in terms of hardware and software.

It'll just make them responsible to not release products like #Unihertz, #WiKo, #SOYES and many others which refuse to deliver any post-launch #updates and thus sell manufactured #eWaste.

• Or has anyone seen Updates being released for the #UnihertzJelly series (including #JellyStar, #Jelly2E and #JellyMax)?

#AOSP support and #reproduceableBuilds would at least allow #Aftermarket-#ROMs like @LineageOS to support them when the manufacturer decides not to.

• Whether that happens is a different story, but at least #consumers wouldn't be at the mercy of a #vendor when it comes to #security!

@alsutton @aurynn @LineageOS @GrapheneOS @EUCommission @bsi precisely that is the point: Manufacturers should be obligated ny law to provide free, unrestricted access to documentation, drivers and a reproduceable toolchain to build #ROMs for their devices.

• Anything else is "#ReducedLifecycle" / *"#PlannedObsolescense and should be outlawed as #EnvoirmentalCrime!

@aurynn @LineageOS @GrapheneOS @EUCommission @Bundesregierung yes and no.

Yes in that #AOSP should be mandatory, not #Google-enshittified #Android.

No in that NZ isn't in the #EU and thus doesn't benefit directly.

• Yes in that manufacturers tend to standardize their #ROMs globally and thus there will be at least some devices availabe.

Last time I checked NZ used the same frequency bands as EU members, so it's likely the same device as sold in Ireland and Australia would be offered there as well…

@aurynn the problem is that #vendors have neither interest nor incentive to work with 3rd party #ROMs like @LineageOS nor @GrapheneOS.

• If it was my decision there would be a legal #mandate to #OpenSource #Firmware, #Hardware and release the #keys for any "#SecureBoot" mechanism once a #device doesn't get first party updates that are less than a week old, but that would require @EUCommission, @europarl_en and/or @Bundesregierung to care and be willing to enforce that!

Where have all the #SNK #NeoGeo #AES #CD #ROMs gone?"

#games #videogames #gamkng #retro #retrogames

Passo a Passo: Aplicando Patches de Jogo no Mega Drive

Segue abaixo um guia para aplicar arquivos de modificação em jogos (ROMs) de Mega Drive. É através deles que se aplica, por exemplo, hacks feitos por fãs, traduções e afins a jogos já existentes. Clique aqui para saber mais sobre estes hacks!

1. Primeiro você baixa o arquivo IPS específico que você deseja usar. Romhacks geralmente te falam, na página de download do IPS, qual a melhor ROM (a mais compatível) para aplicar o patch. Por exemplo, na página do patch de cores de Vapor Trail no site romhacking.net (clique aqui) fala que a melhor ROM é “Vapor Trail (U) [!]”, ou seja, americana.
2. Enfim, depois de baixado o patch, descompacte-o, pois ele geralmente vem compactado, usando o WinRAR (clique aqui) ou WinZIP (instale qualquer um desses programas se você não tiver nenhum). Para descompactar basta clicar duas vezes para abrir o arquivo e arrastá-lo para fora ou então clicar no ícone “Extrair Para”, selecionar um diretório e clicar em OK (nesse caso o programa criará uma pasta nova e colocará o arquivo dentro dela).
3. Baixe também a ROM do jogo e descompacte-a.
4. Para usar o IPS você vai precisar do Lunar IPS Patcher (clique aqui). Descompacte também ele. Depois de baixado e descompactado, clique duas vezes para abri-lo. Clique em “Apply IPS Patch” e selecione o arquivo IPS que você baixou. A seguir, o programa vai pedir pra você escolher a ROM em que você quer aplicar o hack. Mas talvez, mesmo que você navegue até o diretório onde esta se encontra, o programa não a veja. Note no canto inferior direito um campo em que está escrito “Most Common ROM Files”, clique nele e selecione “All Files (*.*)”, agora o programa deve encontrar a ROM. Selecione-a e clique em “Abrir”. Uma mensagem “The file was successfully patched!” vai aparecer, indicando que o processo funcionou. Depois disso, sua ROM patcheada já está pronta. Clique em OK, pode fechar o programa e usar a ROM.

Patches IPS: Mega MediaFire
Lunar IPS Patcher: Mega MediaFire

Em um celular Android também é possível realizar esse patcheamento. Basta instalar o UniPatcher do link a seguir: PlayStore.

Basta selecionar o patch em “Arquivo de patch”, a ROM em “Arquivo de ROM”, escollher um diretório para salvar a ROM patcheada em “ROM após patch” e clicar no ícone vermelho de disquete no canto direito inferior.

Lembrando que os arquivos também tem que estar descompactados. Programas de navegação de arquivos atuais permitem extrair arquivos compactados. Caso o seu não faça, basta instalar um como o ZArchiver (clique aqui), por exemplo.

Outra possibilidade é fazer esse patcheamento no próprio navegador nesse site: Rom Patcher JS. Basta selecionar a ROM em “ROM file” e o patch em “Patch file” e clicar em “Apply patch”.

Obs.: O formato IPS não suporta arquivos maiores que 16 MB, nesses casos o patch vem no formato bps e para usá-lo pode-se utilizar o site Rom Patcher JS ou o programa beat (link aqui). Você pode usar também o Flips (disponível aqui), que funciona tanto para ips quanto para bps.

No beat, no step 1 selecione o patch, no step 2 selecione a ROM, no step 3 selecione o diretório de saída. Marque “Overwrite…” para substituir o arquivo de saída. Clique em Apply.

Já no Flips, clique em Apply Patch, selecione o arquivo patch, depois a ROM.

Obs.²: Você pode, e é até mais exato, verificar o CRC da ROM que você tem em algum site como este: clique aqui. Basta arrastar a ROM e comparar com o que é mencionado na página do jogo no site de patches (romhacking.net, rom hack plaza).

Deixe seu comentário abaixo se tiver alguma dúvida!

#guia #hack #ips #megaDrive #patch #ROMs #tutorial

There seems to be a severe lack of #RomHacking tools on #Linux, and I suddenly got an urge to play around with some #GameBoy #roms. Specifically some simple sprite or tile editing.

But, like... that's basically just a matter of displaying an array of 2-bit values as texels, letting the user change the values, and then saving the data to a new file?

I can just make a platform agnostic web app for that in #JavaScript?

🕸glané sur le net🕸 [Nantes] Manif en soutien aux famille Roms: À Nantes, plus de 3 500 personnes vivent dans des bidonvilles, principalement des familles roms. On parle beaucoup d'eux, souvent mal, mais on les entend peu. Ce racisme,… #Nantes #Roms #solidarité #luttecontreleracisme #droitsdelhomme

[Nantes] Manif en soutien aux ...

🕸glané sur le net🕸 [Nantes] Manif en soutien aux famille Roms: À Nantes, plus de 3 500 personnes vivent dans des bidonvilles, principalement des familles roms. On parle beaucoup d'eux, souvent mal, mais on les entend peu. Ce racisme, bien utile à certains : – Il isole, divise, empêche les solidarités. – Il profite à ceux qui exploitent leur travail dans le…
-- , https://nantes.indymedia.org/events/145665/nantes-manif-en-soutien-aux-famille-roms/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Nantes #Roms #solidarité #luttecontreleracisme #droitsdelhomme

📬 Switch-Bricking bei Modding: Nintendo verschärft Kampf gegen Piraterie per AGB-Update
#Gaming #Rechtssachen #Emulation #Homebrew #Modding #Nintendo #Roms #switch https://sc.tarnkappe.info/81fdd9

🎮 Oh joy, now you can relive your 1990s childhood dreams by using C# to create #SNES ROMs! Because who wouldn't want to port their modern coding nightmares back to 16-bit graphics? 😂
https://github.com/KallDrexx/DotnetSnes #CSharp #ROMs #1990sGaming #RetroGaming #GameDevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

Am Bistro mat der woxx #331 – La persécution des Roms, Sinté et Yéniches au Luxembourg

https://www.woxx.lu/am-bistro-mat-der-woxx-331-la-persecution-des-roms-sinte-et-yeniches-au-luxembourg/