Hi guys, thought I'd join the topic..
I'm also a "non-lawyer", and have a question regarding the legalities of netplay with N64 roms.
- Is the 'End user licence agreement' the main legal contract that allows us to obtain the lifetime rights to use the N64 games that we originally purchased?
As long as a netplay feature restricts the online player count to the original game's max it sounds okay, just like how Paul said about going over a friends house to play.
But if adding netplay alters the gameplay, by adding extra players or resulting in a different gaming experience than created for use with the N64 console would breach the licence, even though the rom data is unaltered.
Something about it being sold 'as is' or for use only as intended, I can't remember..
Maybe it would be okay to add netplay for roms that had 64DD online support originally?
I wonder about the Turok series, if there is a way that Nightdive Studios could host multiplayer servers for the N64 games, or do they only hold rights to the remakes and not the original N64 roms?