are emulators illegal in Japan?

[happymasksalesman]

It's according to game and also Nintendo games. Not sure if others are illegal too.

 

[Ikagura]

As the DnD rouge would say it would not be a crime if there was not witness alive. hehe

I'd say that piracy is more of a victimless crime (most of the time, if it's from an indie dev that may struggle to get money it's actually making a victim) but a crime nonetheless. Acting as if it's not one doesn't help. We're aware of what we're doing at least.

Like everywhere emulation and downloading roms is a very gray area.

Emulation is fine if there's 0 bios nor private code.


Downloading roms (as well as hosting them online to provide to others) is in itself illegal.