Turn your bedside e-reader and email checker into a gaming console
Want to play classics like Mario Kart and Chrono Trigger on the iPad? Given Apple's closed app ecosystem—and the relatively undefined legality of using console game ROMS—the procedure involves a little jailbreaking. And you'll also have to shell out cash to play, paying $6 to download snes4iphone or SNESHD from the Cydia marketplace.
Once you jump through these hoops though, you'll be taking advantage of the tablet's generous pixel real estate in no time. Video instructions below:
How to Play SNES on Your iPad in Four Easy Steps
Obviously you can apply the same step-by-step to your iPhone or iPod touch, so long as your device can be jailbroken to run Cydia. Full text instructions are here.
BTW, roms are illegal, regardless of whether you own the system, games, or delete them within 24 hours. There is no "backup" in the licensing. They really only care about games they want to re release though.
If you want to run an Apple related ad every day fine but lets at least hear some comparable news on Android. I'm sure there are people out there using Android in unique ways as well. Heck my friend at work had his baby do something cute with his Droid Incredible the other day. If I write an article about how the world will now be a better place because of it do you think we can put it up here? Gee that would be neat.
Yep - it also has the Wiimote syncing without rooting.
Honestly it depends on where you live, and the reason software like Clone DVD still is being sold. You ARE allowed one back up copy per real copy.
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html
Now when talking about SNES ROM's the licensing was pretty weird and no one probably read it... So I can't say if they mention anything about making a back up, if they didn't mention it then it falls under section 117 and you can make one copy per original you own. (I myself would get in deep doo doo on this one since I keep multiple back ups of my hard drive in case one is a dud lol)
Also you can't download them, you have to make your own back up, Not as hard as it once was though.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/21/snes-usb-cartridge-adapter-should-set-ebay-aflame/
Anyways I always found roms on such devices tend to be a pain when it comes to controls even more so with fast paced games.
If someone really wants to play the classic consoles in a portable form then I would advise a DS or PSP sure it may cost a little to get the hardware needed but its well worth it.
One last note since the emulators listed in the article were built around pre-existing freeware is it even legal for them to sell it?
Most systems as far back as NES had disclaimers in the fine print of all manuals stating that creating backups was illegal. It's also been ruled in the past that section 117 doesn't apply to roms. It was mainly created back in the day when things were on easily damaged magnetic media and backups were necessary to maintain ownership. Section 117 also applies to archival purposes only, so if they found any sort of emulation software on anything you owned, it would no longer be valid only for the sake of an "archive". The fact is though that older games are not accessible or presently supported, so there's no reason for them to go around and prosecute people for playing them, UNLESS it's a popular game and has been re released. I'm not saying stay away, just keep in mind most of the people that run emulation sites are high school students, not attorneys, so it's not a good idea to accept their legal counsel on copyrights.
As far as programs like Clone DVD, they're intended to make copies of your home made DVDs. If people choose to use them to back up something else, that's not the program's fault.
I'm not sure of the exact wording in the law, but in the US there is federal law that definitely makes it legal to own backup copies of software.