https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

In the USA, it is illegal to make a backup copy of any of your media when the original contains any form of DRM.

On any media where DRM wasn’t used, you’re okay to create a backup copy.

The law is different everywhere though.

Bleem would like a word...

I would be interested in that case if you find it. I spend a lot of time thinking about emulation and the surrounding stuff.

The emulator being 3dSen, direct link to Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147940/3dSen_PC/

I get you! I was bigger into copyright some 20-30 years ago myself when we would've all been on Slashdot.

To that end, I was WRONG in my post, I think I was conflating two things, and for that, I'm sorry. I was certainly thinking in part about Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Corley (2001). That was the case that decided that the software DeCSS was illegal, and you could distribute the software. I was thinking that while the court did agree with Universal over the software, that it did not find that breaking DRM on a product you owned was inherently illegal. (I legit think this was a "take" at the time. Probably wouldn't hold up in court these days, sadly.) And I did find that years later the Library of Congress offered exemptions for breaking DRM on some hardware (vehicles, medical devices,) but I believe even those were temporary and have since lapsed.

Sorry I spoke so surely about something I was wrong about.

I saw there’s a VR mode and couldn’t throw $15 at this fast enough. This looks phenomenal! So cool.

Thanks for posting this. Had no idea it existed.

You can play Duck Hunt with a VR Zapper. Worth $15 there alone. I'm a simple man.

Zelda 1 seems an odd omission from the supported games. I wonder if some games are harder to implement than others or something.

Zelda is there! Remember it’s under “Legend of Zelda.” It looks friggin' rad in VR 3D. I'm definitely playing through this whole game like this.

The weird one for me is that Super Mario Bros 2 is missing.

I'm not sure they can in this instance. The reason they could sue the Switch emulator team was because they were using a proprietary encryption key.

I don't think the NES had that, and as long as you own the game, emulation is legal.

Also, this might be considered transformative use since the devs have to create the 3D profile by hand.

I thought I saw in very recent patch notes that there was a community-made version of SM2?