Everything and anything thread ( nothing cras is that too m…
Everything and anything thread ( nothing cras is that too much to ask?)
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Why cant people have emulators, roms and functioning software arcade games on twitter facebook , even grok, other social media sites. Is it imposible to activate emulators roms in social media posts, what would have to exist in the social media platform itself to some how make this work im taking modest roms from mame or aristocrat slot machine roms old ones
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It's not fundamentally impossible to run emulators + ROMs directly inside social media posts (like on X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.), but it's deliberately blocked for a mix of legal, security, performance, and business reasons. Platforms choose not to support it, and even a brief experiment with this on Twitter got shut down fast. Your specific examples (modest/old MAME arcade ROMs or Aristocrat slot machine ROMs) hit extra hard barriers because most of those files are copyrighted commercial software.
Why it doesn't (and basically can't) work today
Legal / Copyright problems (the biggest blocker)
Almost all MAME ROMs and every Aristocrat slot ROM are copyrighted material owned by companies (Atari, Taito, Konami, Aristocrat, etc.). Uploading or sharing them—even old “modest” ones—is copyright infringement in most countries (including Australia, where you are).
Social media platforms are legally liable if they host or enable distribution of pirated ROMs (under laws like the US DMCA or equivalent). One takedown notice = they have to remove it, and repeated issues can get the whole platform sued.
Aristocrat slot ROMs are gambling software. Sharing them can also run into separate gambling/gaming regulations.
Result: No platform will ever green-light arbitrary ROM uploads or execution. (You can legally dump and use ROMs from hardware you personally own, but you still can’t share them publicly.)
Technical and security limits
Social media posts are heavily sandboxed HTML. They do not let you run arbitrary JavaScript or WebAssembly (the…
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