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There are some really great tools for dumping your own ROMs from original carts you own. I've personally used Retrode: https://www.retrode.com

It depends. E.g. IIRC in Poland there is a limit after which _software_ (not music etc.) becomes public domain.

That's not exactly an unbiased source. For example:

> Are Game Copying Devices Illegal?

> Yes.

I'm pretty sure that's complete crap. There are substantial non-infringing uses for such devices (e.g. playing your own games on your own computers). Using such devices to make and distribute illegal copies would, of course, be illegal, but the devices themselves aren't.

I think they are correct in the part you quoted, but I wouldn't take them at face value in general.

Yeah, it's definitely fair use to make backups of your own games on the same medium. Tools like the Retrode are great to use with your carts.

Nintendo is attempting to control the message (no one is going to check them on it and they're deliberately being ambiguous) and scare people away who would normally just be pirating their old games.