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You made a dump!

Do you dump your own roms?

  • Yes. I always buy them and dump them before I ever use them on my comp.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • When I own one I dump it, but I download ones I don't have.

    Votes: 2 8.0%

  • I make sure to own them before I use them, but I don't dump anything

    Votes: 4 16.0%

  • I always download everything even if I don't have it in real life!

    Votes: 19 76.0%
  • Total voters
    25

sab

Now too much of a life.
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    How many of you people actually dump your own roms? I do for FR, LG, ruby, and emerald, but I just download them for other languages than english.
     
    I always download the ROMs of NDS games and in the past, I downloaded alot of GBA, GameBoy Color, and vice versa. I have never in my life done dumping of commercial games yet, but I'm sure if there becomes a device for the Nintendo 3DS to dump the .3ds files, then I'm sure I'll get it and possibly research the actual ROMs and hopefully when there is a device that can also backup the NAND on the 3DS, that will also help with my research on the gaming device, after all... I support everyone's creativity in what they can do when editing a ROM, because when we edit a ROM, we bring in alot of creativity into it, an entirely new storyline, and many other things. So why should we just rely on what the companies create themselves when we have our ideas as well? If a company does a bad job on a game, we can change it to an even better storyline. And that's exactly what the dumping also helps with if the company is still manufacturing the games, so you can dump the ROMs of the new commercial game and then edit it, but you don't possibly need to if the game has been discontinued, and that's where Google comes in handy for this (since PC doesn't allow ROMs of (even old) commercial games here).
     
    I honestly don't even know how to dump. :\ But even so, dumping Australian games wouldn't help for hack distribution anyway.
     
    Dump? What do you mean by dump?
     
    colcolstyles said:
    To take a game cartridge and to extract the contents of its ROM onto a computer via super fancy, magic cables.
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    Not super fancy, I got mine with my ezflash advance, for twenty buck on ebay in 2004. The way this one works is it has the flash cart be all ram, then uses the link cable port in the GBA to read and write data like it was all a save file. The other end attaches to a usb port, and there you go. This allows it to dump roms, work on a flash cart, and read and write to savefiles in real games. This last feature is very useful when you screw around with a gba action replay as much as I do.
     
    Well, in that case its a waste of time and money. Why put it on the computer when you can just as easily play the game card?
     
    Konekodemon said:
    Well, in that case its a waste of time and money. Why put it on the computer when you can just as easily play the game card?
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    To put it up for other people who think it's a waste of time and money to downlod so they can put it on a flash cart, or to rent a game, return it and still have the game. Also the "rom hacking" section on these forums wouldn't exist without them. You could theoretically do all the hacking with a gameshark, but that would be a huge amount more work to type up, or use.
     
    Most roms I play are dumped within the first week or two the game is around-- BW english roms were out two days BEFORE the game was released in England four days before America, thanks to the early illicit release at New York JB Games, and the crack was out two weeks later, for example.

    As such, and since I am in the habit off using seven proxies, I generally buy the games to lend my inconsequential support to the companies, then download the rom for hacking and playing at 200-500% speed (so I can replay with different teams, nuzlockes, et cetera).
     
    I download everything because I don't have one of those "super fancy, magic cables", and I'm too lazy to go out and find one. Come to think of it though, all the Pokemon ROMs I've downloaded I DO actually own! Except for Ruby, I loaned it out and never got it back.
     
    Yeah I'd never dump a ROM and never intend to, but I have full respect for the people that do. I don't own most games but if I wanted to do dumps I've got friends who have most of them. I feel a little guilty but I try to make myself feel better with the excuse that if i bought them they'd be used and nintendo and game freak would get no money, but that's a weak excuse and I'm probably a bad person
     
    you dont need cables u can do it over wifi with a ftp just need slot-1 flash cart

    ~Fuzzy
     
    I think dumping is expensive because of the cables, compared to just buying the game and downloading it, which also makes it legal.
     
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