Ausgabe 18.01.2017
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Arcade-GameStation
1.2 Disclaimer
The Joy-IT Arcade-Gamestation contains a microSD-Card with a software-package called RetroPie - this
connects multiple emulators to a multifunctional gamestation-unit.
An emulator is a software-based system which allows you to emulate foreign hardware on another
hardware-system.
The emulated system within this software is behaving like the original hardware but the components
are created virtually and are calculated by the own computers hardware.
This allows you to emulate consols of old days on your domestic system.
The games are usually transfered by ROM-Files to the emulator.
ROM-Files are binary data copies which are extracted from the original hardware.
Therefore, to play the specific emulated game, you need the specific ROM-File.
Please note the following information:
The ownership, and also the usage, of ROM-Files is controled by the german copyright (§53).
Therefore you are only allowed to use, and own, the ROM-Files if you are in possession of the original
medium.
Please consider that, if you don‘t want to read the data on your own, you are only allowed to
download ROM-Files from the internet if you are the owner of the original games.
Otherwise we refer to license-free ROM-Files where the usage is allowed.
Therefore please follow the notes and instructions of the ROM-File-Sources.
The user is responsible for following the licenses for the usaged software.
The text above only serves as information.
For legal reasons we would like to point out the following:
This product is, by the legal regulation, no toy and not suitable for kids (persons under 14 years).
The Gamestation is an example for the Raspberry Pi single-board-computer and the Linker-Kit system
is a modular experimentation environment which is configurable for almost every use-case.
For those reasons, the bottom of the Gamestation is open.
This allows an easy access to its components and to modify the system by the owners wishes.
Kids may detach parts and swallow those which could lead to death.
Kids may also get hurt by contact blades, and screws.
1.3 Security informations
