Quote Originally Posted by RedCydranth
Acctually, the cool thing about America (Where I live) is that its legal until said otherwise, so in this case, YOU have to prove its illegal. I don't have to prove anything. If you want to prosecute me and the other people who own ROMs, you have to come up with evidence, not me. Innocent until PROVEN guilty.

Any program I own is called software, wether or not its on Cartridge or CD. Under US law, creating a backup of software that you own is legal, otherwise, ZIP files, ZIP disks and the ability to copy any program on your computer would be illegal.

EXAMPLE: I own Photoshop, and I burned the discs in case anything happens to my original copy. This is not illegal. HOWEVER, distributing these disks is illegal. Thus, I can create ROM files on my computer as back-up to the ones I own, but not give them to anyone. And again, I only own 2 illegal ROMs, MQ and FFIII.

As to wether or not emulators are illegal, this has actually been settled in court. Bleem!, a well known playstation emulator company was taken to court and they ruled in favor of Bleem!. So, I can have an emulator legally and ROMs of games that I have... LEGALLY... There, I proved it and you are straight up wrong.
This is all assuming you actually backed up the ROMs yourself. If you downloaded them, that's illegal. You cannot give nor get copyrighted content through the internet legally unless the original author intended it to be that way. Putting it on your PSP is essencially illegal because now you have taken your back-up and used it for something it was not intended for (even though using it on the PC is illegal in the first place) because it is improper usage of intellectual property.

Of course, I'm not really arguing with you. You aren't gonna get caught so no one really cares. I'm just trying to make you realize that not everything is legal. Having (self-copied) ROMs and Emulators aren't illegal, it's how you use them that makes it illegal. But hey, if they actually attempted to fine everyone for that, it would become a giant mess, just like the P2P and BitTorrent feuds.