It’s legal to have a ROM of a game you actually owned and ripped. This is simply allowing the ROM that you actually own to be played on a different console, the web.

In this case, the user is distributing the ROM which is illegal. But the method to make it work on the web is fair use. The legal way to do it would be a website where users “insert” their own rom and the website simply lets you play that ROM on the web.

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ahoy 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

there is no ROM in the linked github repo

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theturtletalks 13 hours ago | parent [-]

That’s fair, I saw a screenshot of God of War running in the browser in the ReadMe so assumed the person put it online.

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rpdillon 8 hours ago | parent [-]

They did not. They went to a fair bit of trouble in this regard. The tool both requires an original ROM and a psp-decryptor tool to extract the encrypted EBOOT.BIN. Neither are included, and there is no guidance on how to source either.

	▲	theturtletalks 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes once I was on desktop and checked it out, they are not distributing the ROM. This seems to be a trend. A person decompiled Halo and put it online[0]. It also requires you to bring the ROM. Exciting times. 0. https://hcemobile.com/

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charcircuit 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe if you pull an Anthropic and shred the original cartridge after dumping it.

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accidc 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Also pedantic but: it’s jurisdiction dependent