Re: Lunar Battle :-0

On Thu, 06 Aug 1998 14:29:00 -0700, Bill Esquivel <mrb2084@pacbell.net> wrote:

>I don't pay too much attention to the emulators, but I think one group is
>holding out data from another. That would REALLY PISS me off! A few years
>ago I gladly gave up the data to a few of my rare games. At the time, I
>think I had the only barrier and possibly inferno. Recently I have been
>trying very hard to find data for use in the emulators. I think I have had
>a hand in adding a few more games to the database...
>
>Well, If some emulator group is withholding data, maybe something should be
>done to compel them to share? Maybe newly acquired data should be held and
>encrypted to keep it away from them. This would be a sad thing to do, but if
>it would work to solve future problems, maybe it should be considered..

Being a part of the Retrocade team I assure you the "Emulator Authors" are not
withholding data from other emulator authors. Any encrypted ROMs released to
run on Retrocade will have been encrypted by request of the owner of the
original ROMs.

It would certainly be a lot easier not to have to encrypt ROM images, yet the
only alternative to encryption would be no emulation at all.

(For what it's worth if I have anything to do with the encryption, it will not
be an easy hack to re-create the original images. I might be against not
publicly releasing rom images, but I do keep my word.)

-Zonn

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Received on Thu Aug 6 17:04:20 1998