Emulate Classic Consoles With Portable Retro Handhelds
Are Handheld Emulators Legal? The act of emulating a system is perfectly legal, which means building a handheld device or writing software that emulates a console is legal. Downloading ROMs you do not own, however, is certainly illegal. Just like downloading a movie or book that you don’t own, downloading a ROM is considered a copyright violation. Sharing ROMs with others who do not own them is also a violation of copyright law, and something the record and movie industries have taken a strong stance against since the early days of the internet....