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[TheChosen]

Yes. Emulators are freeware and there's no harm downloading them. Technically, you can legally use them by playing public domain products and demos.

You can of course, download roms If you already have the existing games, as it isnt legal to own back-ups or copies of your own games.

And thats where legalities end. Otherwise downloading roms is illegal. Playing roms is illegal. Sharing roms is illegal. And there's no suchs rule that you can download them If you remove them in the next 24 hours. The only time it is legal is when roms are set up as freeware.

There's enough corrupt emulator sites on the net, Abandonia shouldn't become one.

I hate your attitude towards console games. Altough I do agree that there are lots of corrupted rom sites complete with polls (vote 4 times before you can download!), hentai adds, bad zip files, old mame roms and stuff like that. There are some good sites too.

EDIT: Beside's, If a rom-site would be run by a community like this, I doubt it would become "corrupted".