Wikipedia says;

Wikipedia only covers the US case (and that badly) the EU case Sony won on all counts due to lack of fair use laws.

PCSX includes a reverse engineered BIOS. You don't have to use it but it's there.

Do you have a reference? My understanding was that Bleem used a reverse engineered BIOS like VGS. If they ripped off the PSX BIOS that's just plain copyright infringement and has little to do with emulation.

I had forgotten about that on account of it didn't work with any game I tried it with.

I had good luck with FF7 and Megaman Legends a few years ago.

In order to SELL those games GOG would have to get permission but downloading them for your own personal use, as long as you're not redistributing or advertising to the galaxy that you did so is fair game unless you try to SELL them yourself.

The complete set (all countries) of both SNES and Genesis only take up half a DVD.

The emulators "Zsnes" and "Gens" run the games immaculately.

"psx" and "epsxe" play most PSX titles without a hitch.

A little research and FileTram go a long way in acquiring the BIOs for the emulators.

If you're talking Dreamcast "nullDC" is a good emulator but the sound is terribly broken.

Saturn, GameCube, PS2 and XBox games I'd much rather purchase GOG versions of if GOG obtained the right to resell and could polish them up.

And since MS is God when it come to computers and the interwebs you're not going to find a functional XBox emulator anyway. Instead strings have been pulled so that you can emulate entirely everything else on your XBox - including PC games. =/

I'm told that bsnes is a more accurate emulator than ZSNES, although ZSNES v1.51 does an excellent job.

For NES games, GOG would want to use FCEUX hands-down; it emulates the NES so accurately, micro500 on TASVideos had played back movie files created with it on an actual NES.

Or GOG might just try to enter an agreement with Nintendo, Sega, Sony et al. regarding use of their ROMs for emulated titles sold world-wide, rendering any legality problems regarding pirated ROMs void.

I just wanted to update this thread on some new info.

Blizzard re-released Rock n Roll Racing (which never saw a PC release) on Battle.net. The game is bundled with ZSNES as an executable. This pretty much throws all of the speculation that it can't be done out the window.

It is also a heavily limited edition, effectively a demo.

Also, it's not very new info, we've talked about the release of Rock'n'Roll Racing before.

Do you have a link to the thread?

Thank you.

To clarify this is mostly a concern for systems that can only be emulated by using an original BIOS file; many older systems like the SNES don't need the BIOS file so that removes one of the legal hurdles of re-releasing such games.