What a shame the article spreads some fud about roms and diminishes the community, making it seem like a futile individual effort:<p>"In order to play a game on an emulator, you need a copy of the original title, commonly saved as a ROM (or read-only memory) file. Depending on how the title is copied, what the condition of the cartridge or game disc is in, or the geographic region the game is locked to, you can find yourself with a buggy version of Pokémon Crystal or Super Mario Bros. 3 that can hardly run. Creating and distributing ROMs is also fraught with legal issues."<p>Meanwhile, people have been distributing roms for 25 years, and the strength of the community ensures you don't get burned. Every game for every region has a rom already, for each game a few roms of "analytical grade" at this point, and its not hard to be pointed in the right direction these days. Sometimes the community even fixes bugs nintendo left in. Here is a handy key for the identifiers the community often annotates for their roms:
<a href="https://gist.github.com/ramiabraham/ff41ba74f2b7104ecece" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/ramiabraham/ff41ba74f2b7104ecece</a>