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RedYoshi45
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I agree to the extent that Bluestacks is legal because it’s nothing but Android for your computer.
However… Even though it’s off-topic it was mentioned several times so I gotta give some input. Emulators like Snes9x or VisualBoyAdvance are not illegal as stand-alone software. You can start them up without having any ROMs from the internet, which makes them just programs with next to no function. Once you start a game on these emulators, and that game was downloaded for free on the internet, they get illegal. Again, that’s because you got something copyrighted that you’re supposed to buy for real money on a cartridge, CD or as a digital download – not because of the emulating software.

What I’m not sure about is whether it would be legal if you had, for example, an actual SNES, an actual legal copy of a game with a Nintendo Seal of Quality, and then somehow managed to make a copy of that legal copy to use on the emulator, as long as it stays in private use and you share it with no one else. Any law experts here?