The TRUTH About Video Game ROMs

Recently, we had Matt Millsap of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary on the show. Matt is a regular on the show but there's one topic we had not discussed with him yet: games preservation. As always with these discussions, it treads the ground of emulation and ROMs as a means to preserve games. But ROMs themselves are a confusing thing: are they illegal? Can you make backup copies of games you own? How does it work exactly? In this clip, Matt breaks down the copyright law surrounding ROMs, the problems with companies like Nintendo, and why efforts to preserve classic video games need to have better support from these companies. ------------------------------------------ Follow my backlog progress on the GG App: https://ggapp.io/TheTheoLogan Head over to the website for more TRG content, like our podcast! https://www.thereformedgamers.com​ Follow TRG on Twitter:   / trgpodcast   Join the TRG Discord:   / discord   ------------------------------------------ #RetroGaming #GamesPreservation #Nintendo