in my country it’s not illegal to download roms or games or movies, just sharing it is illegal!! and i don’t share at all, but i’ve heard that in the us they are extremely strict about that, what if someone sees i’m playing gameboy on my phone and realizes i downloaded my roms from the internet?? dangerous?? thank you
Yes, and it is enforced by the death penalty in 17 countries.
You are far more likely to get stopped by a cop here because they “smell Marijuana” and you’re a foreigner than you are for one of them to see you playing GB games on your phone.
ok thank you!! that sounds like danger
6 months ago I would have said it isn’t that bad, but now…just be careful out there, friend.
Yeah sorry, the Unites States of America is gonna be out of order for the next decade or so. We’re working on getting angry enough to get rid of the fuckers who caused it, but it’s gonna take a while.
Yeah I couldn’t imagine a single reason why someone would want to travel to this country right now. Stay home
because my husband lives there!!! and i live in mexico and have never visited the us!! it would be cool tho!!
ICE is rounding up “Mexicans” in cities across the US every day right now. Keep your papers on you at all time and your best bet is they drop you off in Mexico and not Columbia or El Salvador or Gitmo
what the heck?? oh dang, well i can’t visit right now either way because i don’t have a lot of money
Piracy isn’t exactly enforced in the “break down your door, slap cuffs on you” behavior. 99% of piracy crackdowns in the US, are more or less your internet service provider detects you are running torrents of something copyrighted, and tells you that if they catch you again they are cutting your connection.
It’s not illegal just to posses them here. You could have possibly dumped them yourself. Nobody will even think that deeply about it anyway.
Take those roms, load them into a gun, murder someone…
You may still not end up in American jail.
Have an oz of weed in a red state on the other hand!
i don’t harm my body in any way so i don’t worry about that
Believe it or not, jail
I wouldn’t have anything shady on my phone at the border, personally. Tourists are getting fucking detained in the past month. I, a birthright citizen, would just wipe my phone and have it stock Android to cross the border right now. I wouldn’t even have an ebook on it. But maybe I’m just paranoid.
Once inside, go nuts.
Exactly no one will think twice about seeing you playing a GameBoy ROM on your phone, you’re good
Second this, ironically, giving CBP a focus on human trafficking, drugs, and weapons has made it less focused on the little inane things. Assuming you aren’t a criminal in your country, acting weird, don’t have a weird travel pattern in the US, and haven’t attended the funeral of any terrorists recently, you’ll be all good.
ok thank you very much!! probably other gamers tho!
we’re all doing it, too
I’m replaying Final Fantasy Tactics Advance right now and it’s just as good as ever
You’ll be fine as long as you don’t come to the US.
The above statement has nothing to do with whether you have game ROMs or not.
You will never ever get in trouble for simply possessing GBC ROMs
It is unlikely american cops would even know its a rom/side loaded/etc
Anyone who knows doesn’t care
