DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Nes roms included in DSL

Most of them are freeware, but if I'm not wrong there's some included which isn't. Wouldn't it be better to take them off ?

Btw, Tuxnes seems to occupy quite a lot of space. Wouldn't it be better to put gnuboy-x in the next release ? There are far more freely downloadable games for gameboy and the emulator itself takes less space, which could be employes for other stuff ;)

Just my 2 euro-cents ;)

For the free roms: http://www.pdroms.de/

Tuxnes is actually quite small when compressed, about 85K.

Which games are not freeware?

Maybe I'm wrong but bt.nes is actually Atari's Joust, copyrighted in 1983.

About the gameboy emulator, gbuboy-x, it's just 77k:

Package: gnuboy-x
Priority: optional
Section: contrib/games
Installed-Size: 232
Architecture: i386
Source: gnuboy
Version: 1.0.3-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
Filename: pool/contrib/g/gnuboy/gnuboy-x_1.0.3-1_i386.deb
Size: 79292

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Also, gameboy is a simpler machine to emulate, this resulting in even less powerful computers being able to launch its games. What do you think about that ?
I've also found a generic GUI, but it doesn't seem to be very updated. Maybe there's something better around, as for GUIs ;)

fparri, I'll look into the bennefits and costs of the switch.

Regarding bt.nes, it has been released as BattleTank 2000 as a public domain game.

Hi John, thanks a million

As for BattleThank 2000, it's just a hack of Joust, which is still copyrighted. The 'author' of BattleThank 2000 hacked one of the sprites of Joust and released it as 'public domain'. This isn't clearly possible ;)

Conclusione: Joust is not open-source. I know it's not big deal, but in a linux distribution it just seems out of place ;)

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