Downloading Retro Video Games For Free
Also the spirit of this issue is whether this copyright violation of these old unavailable games is a sin or not. The way I see it is that since everything can now be made available online, Nintendo should make legal copies of those super old games available online if it still considered the old games part or revenue generation (in which case it would technically be stealing). However since they don’t and these old games are no longer a revenue source, no body is being harmed despite the copyright hence it is not a sin (plz provide counter argument if you think my reasoning is wrong or I’m missing some aspect).
I agree with Saad Aamir Sahab’s take on the matter of abandon-ware. I would personally use them unless any evidence comes to the contrary.
Then I guess safest bet is to that I just find a ps2 and the games I want to emulate from a local garage sale and dump them in my system 😅