Bought an old game that doesn't work

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I bought at Pokemon Silver game, and I was buying one in Europe that looked original. I tried to not buy a chinese copy for example. I think I got a original game, it is scratched and used. The game is not fully functional because the built in battery is dead. So I can’t play the game as it is meant to be played without fixing it myself. It is pretty complicated to fix the battery in the game because the screw is not standard, as if the video game company tried to keep people out from the game cassette. I have a original Game Boy Advance to play the game with.
I have thought about downloading a copy of the game (a ROM) online and run it on my computer with an emulator. This could maybe be legal because you can create some copies for yourself. I have read an article online about game ROM’s where and advocate in USA was interviewed. He said that it could be legal to download a ROM if you own the copy of the game and you don’t share the ROM with anyone else. The problem is that he can’t be sure it is legal before a case in court is settled about the matter.

Do you think I can download a ROM of a Pokemon Silver game (which I own a copy of), without sharing it to others, then play it with an emulator, and this is not stealing as we catholics understand it?

Edit: I am also contacting the seller of the used videogame if he can help me because he said the game worked.

Edit 2: Nintendo has written on their website that they say it is illegal to download ROMs. They don’t state if they had a lawyer of some kind who stated that. Link.
 
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Nintendo would definitely frown on the ROM. But then again, they despise most everything.
 
If you were the original purchaser of the game, I would say yes, it would be okay.

However since you weren’t, I’d suggest that you find a compatible screwdriver and replace the battery on the used cartridge and play that.

all the above is based on strictly legal considerations

As far as moral considerations go, since Nintendo has asked you not to download ROMs, I think you have a moral obligation to respect their request.
 
I think what you have written seems an act which is the most kind to play the game (together with getting a refund and buying it again).
Now I start to think about helping poor people is more important than playing video games. So I am pretty aware of our choices can be going with catholic teaching or straying away from it. Maybe the people who work at Nintendo should also have some acknowledgement of their technical skills. By email or letter. Have we Catholics contacted them, they are japanese?
They can become catholic too. It may be unmoral to spend time with videogames (creating/playing) when there is a war so close to Europe that is not ended by anyone. Despite that we fought more dangerous Nazi-Germany (I think it was more dangerous). However I dont know if christening syrians is best done through making peace in their country. It sounds likely that it is the best way to re-christen Syria is to make peace there and starting going over and start Catholic missions (or what they are called).
 
You can do one of two things, you can change out the battery, or if you have a Nintendo 3 DS, you can download the game. I have A 3DS, and I downloaded Pokemon Gold, directly from Nintendo. I also had the same problem with a cartridge, my battery is dead on my Pokemon Crystal cartridge. I don’t know what it is where you’re at, but I only paid like $10 US for it to download it
 
I have read some about Catholic “Just war” and then remembered that the Paris 2015 terror attacks. This will be 3 years ago this year and the war on terror in Syria never was a war with soldiers on the ground against ISIL/ISIS. Interesting times we live in, a war with airplanes only. I am not in the military so I don’t know what strategies are the best. There may be some other aspects of the war against ISIS/ISIL that I don´t understand fully.
I just can tell that from what I have experienced in Sweden as a civilian. Muslims are aggressive and resort to violence on the streets. Even without any reason, they can resort to threatening behaviour. I have learned this when I was young already so I really understand how it must be when they are in their home countries and armed. It is dangerous place, the Middle East.
 
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If I bought a game that didn’t work, the first thing I would do is return it and get my money back so I could buy it from somewhere else.

As TechieGuy said, I can maybe see it being okay if you bought the game originally. But you bought it used. Now, buying used games is legal, but the creators of the game don’t get a single cent of the money you spent.
 
Downloading ROMs is pretty much illegal because it is involves making copies of copyrighted material (programming code) without the copyright owner’s permission. However, the provision for fair use allows people to make copies for their own personal use. What this means for game cartridges is buying a device to connect the cartridge to your computer and then copying the data to your computer hard drive. You then have your own personal ROM on your computer. The alternatives are what you and adamhovey1988 mentioned: manually installing a new battery or downloading the official ROM from Nintendo eShop.
 
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