SNES ROMs on School Computer?

[Crazy Pineapple]

I'm in an art class right now, and due to getting the current assignment in early have yesterday, today, and Monday to basically just use their computers to surf the Net. To actually find the browser for the one I'm using today required me to actually go into the hard drive and look through system files. I found something a little bit odd while searching: SNES ROMs of Ninja Gaiden Trilogy, Uniracers, DeJap's translation of Tales of Phantasia, and Earthbound. I clicked on Earthbound and SNES9X came up and played it.

I'm so tempted to play me some Earthbound, but I'm afraid she'll think I was the one who downloaded it.

[Classic Speedy]

Heh.... I remember when my school got a brand new computer, my friends and I were on it every study hall we could get. One time we downloaded Rocky for SMS. The library assistant said we were wasting time playing video games, so we made up a list of reasons why playing Rocky was educational.

IIRC, some of the things on the list:
-It promotes physical fitness
-It teaches people about the points system in boxing
-It is a lesson in history about old video games compared to today's.
-It is based off a movie, which would apparently spur us to read the novelization.

She caved.

[Dan Turpin]

My sohpomore year, I'm a senior now, we found one computer in my computer class that had NES ROMs, so a couple of us would play Contra after getting done with the lesson we were on. Since most the class went with the teacher and my friend and I went with the book, we finished early enough to get roughly halfway through the game each day and beat it the following day. Great way to end the day, as it was my last class.

[.Automatisch]

Screw ROMs, play some FPS. Thats basically all I did once I found out my Senior "Computer Science" class was just a damn Java class. And my teacher basically split us up into the group that wanted to learn and the group that didn't because Java is basically the worst programming language imaginable for many reasons [yes I am exagerrating but it still sucks]. I would just play Quake, MegaTF and other Quake mods, Quake II, and UT for most of the time. They couldn't run UT very well, and I didn't bother installing Steam for some 1.6 b/c I doubted they'd run well. Just still to classics like Quake and it's many mods.

[Charlie]

I remember back in my softmore or junior year at highschool there was an A+ certification and Networking class. The class would basically build crappy computers from donated parts then after a few weeks would make a small network with those computers, then take the network down and the computers apart and start all over. After a while we started bringing in Starcraft and Tribes to test how stable the network was.

[havokpryde]

I'm in an art class right now, and due to getting the current assignment in early have yesterday, today, and Monday to basically just use their computers to surf the Net. To actually find the browser for the one I'm using today required me to actually go into the hard drive and look through system files. I found something a little bit odd while searching: SNES ROMs of Ninja Gaiden Trilogy, Uniracers, DeJap's translation of Tales of Phantasia, and Earthbound. I clicked on Earthbound and SNES9X came up and played it.

I'm so tempted to play me some Earthbound, but I'm afraid she'll think I was the one who downloaded it.

Do you fear the Fed's breaking down your door. Techinically its somewhat illegal, but Nintendo doesn't make Super Nintendo or many of these games anymore, so it isn't losing money from you playing them. Now when the revolution comes, that a different story.

[Beat]

My sophmore year in high school, our computer design class had brand new G4 Mac's. The whole class was turned into a virtual arcade when we weren't working. In fact, I used it with an assignment, taking a Mortal Kombat background and using digital imposing to place a few people I knew on it.

[TheMecca]

This really, really stupid kid in my school has the complete NES-N64 libraries on his account in the school computer system.

I hope he gets caught at this point.

[Crazy Pineapple]

Heh.... I remember when my school got a brand new computer, my friends and I were on it every study hall we could get. One time we downloaded Rocky for SMS. The library assistant said we were wasting time playing video games, so we made up a list of reasons why playing Rocky was educational.

IIRC, some of the things on the list:
-It promotes physical fitness
-It teaches people about the points system in boxing
-It is a lesson in history about old video games compared to today's.
-It is based off a movie, which would apparently spur us to read the novelization.

She caved.

Man, you had one nice library assistant. In middle school simply going to any non school-related site would get you a lecture, and if you did that on the library computer at my high school the librarian (or as they demand to be called here: media center specialists) will from her computer take control of your mouse and drag it to close the window.

Do you fear the Fed's breaking down your door. Techinically its somewhat illegal, but Nintendo doesn't make Super Nintendo or many of these games anymore, so it isn't losing money from you playing them. Now when the revolution comes, that a different story.

Oh no, I'm sure the teacher would have no idea it was illegal. She just mentioned her anti video game sentiments (due to violence and such) when we did an art piece that protested something, and somebody did violent video games. Besides, those computers are new eMacs with a bunch of expensive yearbook software and the like on them, and I doubt she'd like people playing games on them.

Even if say the ROMs were discovered and Nintendo threatened legal action it'd doubtebly be against me as they pretty much have no proof that I myself even played them.

This really, really stupid kid in my school has the complete NES-N64 libraries on his account in the school computer system.

I hope he gets caught at this point.

With the emulators? Consideirng how friggin' large this would be I don't see how they've not found out about it already.

My sophmore year in high school, our computer design class had brand new G4 Mac's. The whole class was turned into a virtual arcade when we weren't working. In fact, I used it with an assignment, taking a Mortal Kombat background and using digital imposing to place a few people I knew on it.

I remember back in my softmore or junior year at highschool there was an A+ certification and Networking class. The class would basically build crappy computers from donated parts then after a few weeks would make a small network with those computers, then take the network down and the computers apart and start all over. After a while we started bringing in Starcraft and Tribes to test how stable the network was.

Screw ROMs, play some FPS. Thats basically all I did once I found out my Senior "Computer Science" class was just a damn Java class. And my teacher basically split us up into the group that wanted to learn and the group that didn't because Java is basically the worst programming language imaginable for many reasons [yes I am exagerrating but it still sucks]. I would just play Quake, MegaTF and other Quake mods, Quake II, and UT for most of the time. They couldn't run UT very well, and I didn't bother installing Steam for some 1.6 b/c I doubted they'd run well. Just still to classics like Quake and it's many mods.

My sohpomore year, I'm a senior now, we found one computer in my computer class that had NES ROMs, so a couple of us would play Contra after getting done with the lesson we were on. Since most the class went with the teacher and my friend and I went with the book, we finished early enough to get roughly halfway through the game each day and beat it the following day. Great way to end the day, as it was my last class.

Man, you guys have some really lenient teachers. My class right after the art class is Web Page Design and even logging onto your e-mail will get you chewed out. One kid kept screwing around in QBASIC and the teacher really got mad (though to her favor, the kid never turns in any assignments).

[Beat]

My teacher didn't mind, as long as we finished out work for the day, we could play all we wanted. He was actually mad when I was doing the assignment with the backgrounds (because it looked like I was goofing off) until I explained it to him.

[TheMecca]

With the emulators? Consideirng how friggin' large this would be I don't see how they've not found out about it already.

It's not a shared thing, each student has their own My Documents folder, etc. Plus, I don't think he has the entire N64 on there, but he DOES have alot of NES stuff.

[veemonjosh]

It's not a shared thing, each student has their own My Documents folder, etc. Plus, I don't think he has the entire N64 on there, but he DOES have alot of NES stuff.

Still, if someone at the school looks up the folders for each student:

"Lets see... 8 MB... 15 MB... 12.3 GB?!!? WTF?"

Yea...

I haven't actually tried to download a emulator on a school computer (and it'll probably stay like that).

Though, Marble Blast rocks my socks.

[Rook]

yeah but see, if this is highschool computer most keepers wont check or purge there computers, mostly bcuz they dont know a damn thing about them. they usually bring a tech. in for even the simpliest of problems...

[TheMecca]

yeah but see, if this is highschool computer most keepers wont check or purge there computers, mostly bcuz they dont know a damn thing about them. they usually bring a tech. in for even the simpliest of problems...

Indeed- the head librarian knows nothing, as in the afternoons this other guy runs it and he doesn't know a thing about emulators and all that.
He saw him playing Punch-Out and he thought it was cool.