First of all, I'm a newbie here myself, so please don't think this is any kind of attack. I've been searching through these forums quite a bit, and most of the community members seem pretty darn helpful. Any time your dealing with licensed software, there's a gray area of legality. Emulators and ROM's certainly fall into that category. Also, many of the community members here do write code and programs themselves, so it's especially important to maintain the integrity of their intellectual property. I don't think anyone was specifically trying to ridicule you, but this is a topic that has been coming up in forums frequently for at least the last 10 years. I'm sure it's been coming up longer than that, but my experience with the internet only goes back about that far lol.