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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: smokey_locs2002 on October 04, 2004, 02:03:31 AM

Title: Do any of you remember bleemcast?
Post by: smokey_locs2002 on October 04, 2004, 02:03:31 AM

It was an emulator for Dreamcast that let you play Playstation (commercial) games on dreamcast.

It was 100% legal. Sony took the guy who made it to court.
He won all the cases against him. But since being in court took so much time and money. He had to shut Bleemcast down..sadly.
He only made 3 games..But you could use your own PS games on the dreamcast. If you knew what you were doing.
I hope someday. Bleemcast comes back...Someday..Someday.

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Post by: AsakuraHao2004 on October 04, 2004, 02:11:35 AM

*laughs*

Legal emulator? What's the world coming to?

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Post by: Ace of Spades on October 04, 2004, 02:13:34 AM

I thought that emulators were legal. It's roms that are illegal. I might be wrong.

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Post by: MrMister on October 04, 2004, 02:14:01 AM

Wait, like a loophole?
It's illegal to play a Dreamcast game on a Dreamcast emulator, but it's legal to play a Playstation game on a Dreamcast emulator?
America sucks.

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Post by: The Great Goddess Atma on October 04, 2004, 02:25:17 AM

This planet is far too confusing for me. What's next? Free CDs to burn your emultaed PS roms on with every download?

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Post by: VahnGrave on October 04, 2004, 02:33:38 AM

lol, Idk, they do have the cartridges for the gba emulators.

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Post by: Red Giant on October 04, 2004, 04:59:10 AM

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Originally posted by The Great Goddess Atma
This planet is far too confusing for me. What's next? Free CDs to burn your emultaed PS roms on with every download?

It all comes down to your arguing power. I have no idea how he managed it, but he managed to argue that a completely absurd idea should be legal so well the opposition gave up.

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Post by: Osmose on October 04, 2004, 03:15:38 PM

Emulators are completly legal, because one can argue that, even if made for other purposes, an emulator is a great way to learn more about the physics and technology behind a system. And they can play homebrew roms. It's commercial roms that are illegal. That's how Bleem got so far.

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Post by: Trevlac on October 04, 2004, 08:24:22 PM

I loved Bleam. Smo, I think I was the one who told you about that.  Well a guy on tech TV named Yoshi made something similar called the ltra gaming machine. A PC, X-Box, PS2, Gamecube, and Atari were all in one massive box.  Looked like a supercomputer.

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Post by: Red Giant on October 04, 2004, 08:34:55 PM

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Originally posted by Trevlac
I loved Bleam. Smo, I think I was the one who told you about that.  Well a guy on tech TV named Yoshi made something similar called the ltra gaming machine. A PC, X-Box, PS2, Gamecube, and Atari were all in one massive box.  Looked like a supercomputer.

Ooh, my friend said he got that and I called him a fat liar and it turns out he was a fat liar.

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Post by: smokey_locs2002 on October 05, 2004, 04:18:54 AM

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Originally posted by Trevlac
I loved Bleam. Smo, I think I was the one who told you about that.  Well a guy on tech TV named Yoshi made something similar called the ltra gaming machine. A PC, X-Box, PS2, Gamecube, and Atari were all in one massive box.  Looked like a supercomputer.

I've known about bleem since it first came around. Tis was great. I miss it. But if I get Windows 98. I can make my own Bleem games. I still can't believe it was legal. Damn I hope bleem comes back.

Yeah I saw that thing. He sold it on Ebay for like 600 bucks. (Rip)

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Post by: MrMister on October 05, 2004, 09:55:21 AM

Whatever, in Canada commercial roms are legal if the game is no longer in production.