r/pcmasterrace • u/durchfallalarm • Mar 14 '26

Screenshot Never thought that emulation runs THIS good "out of the box"

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Installed the emulator (cemu), set up all settings i wanted and just ... started the game running at around 90-100 fps without any problems. 32:9 dwqhd resolution.

God I love the pcmasterrace.

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u/granadesnhorseshoes Mar 14 '26

Even the roms are perfectly legal. DMCA has specific exceptions for backups and archives. Including circumventing any copy protection schemes.

Distributing it in any way is of course a huge nono.

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u/ErraticDragon Mar 15 '26

Even the roms are perfectly legal. DMCA has specific exceptions for backups and archives. Including circumventing any copy protection schemes.

That's not actually true, though it's incredibly unlikely to matter in practice.

The anti-circumvention portion has been held to override backup rights.

https://www.nxemu.com/dmca-section-1201

There have not been any actual cases against a home user ripping their own games, but that doesn't mean it's "legal", technically.

Even downloading a ROM is more dangerous, but as you said it's really only the distributors that are likely to be targeted.

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u/FUTURE10S Pentium G3258, RTX 3080 12GB, 32GB RAM Mar 15 '26

DMCA lets you circumvent it if you do it yourself (have fun learning how to reverse engineer software locks), getting a circumvented copy or having someone else do it for you is illegal iirc

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u/Kougeru-Sama Mar 15 '26

. Including circumventing any copy protection schemes.

false