LogFAQs > #883001990

Lots of developers post prototype and beta ROMs on the Internet these days. It's not the same as posting retail ROMs but it's kind of just a step away. The Rayman SNES game a few weeks back is a good example.

Also, I've heard of some cases where the ROMs in classic collections were just flat out downloaded from the Internet. The giveaway is the header format, though most ROMs floating around now are headerless so it's harder to tell with the more recent collections. Also I can think of at least one official Sega game collection that has evidence in the binary that the devs were downloading random third-party games from the Internet, illegally, and testing them on their emulator. Tsk tsk... And of course there's the classic case of the Sega Smash Pack where the developers left a readme file on the disc addressed to a Dreamcast crack group with clues on how to add their own ROMs.
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