
Stealing also isn’t technically the correct crime in this case, when you are talking about downloading something digital. Sat 29th May In order for something to be a crime, it must first be reported.A company trying to get you to purchase the same game for the 7th time is just greedy and lazy on their part. Rather than worrying about (game company goes here) losing a quick buck off a sh"itty and half-assed port of a 18 year old game, you should instead be thinking about how they should be making NEW games for you to want to buy and enjoy. Anyone who wants to play a classic but has no way of doing so should just emulate. Retro games have become overpriced and quite frankly, not worth buying anymore. Your average person can't play vintage games anymore and if they want to, it's expensive as f*uck. Big companies don't care about you and would steal your money in a heart beat, and they essentially do through crappy and half-assed products that break or function poorly. Anyone against it is really ignorant and only cares about their weird and phony moral compass. 😥 So I tend to stick with original hardware there if I can.Įmulation and ROMs are essential to preserving gaming history. Trying to play the ocarina with the right analogue stick of some controller is horrible. Plus, the N64 controller's button layout and analogue stick are pretty unique, so unless you have a means of connecting an original controller up, any other controller tends to make the games feel off. When it comes to the N64 though, I generally prefer original hardware because most emulators have accuracy problems (they all manage Mario 64 well but pretty much everything else always has something wrong). It feels close enough to the original for my needs, although I would like to have a CRT at some point. None of that is "original"! 😅 Even in my office where I've got a Super Famicom Jr., it's RGB modded, connected via an OSSC and using the same SD2SNES.

In my lounge I've got a SuperNT with an SD2SNES, a wireless controller and it outputs to an OLED TV. I often think when looking at my 8, 16 and 32-bit consoles, "what constitutes the original experience anyway?" In fact without emulation the overwhelming majority of retro games would not be available to most people
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Plus without emulation we would never be able to play those unreleased versions of games such as the N64 version of Starfox Adventures (before Fox), or the 360 Goldeneye or Resident Evil 1.5.

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I don't see the fuss over downloading roms, I mean I certainly wouldn't emulate current gen games but what's the difference between downloading an N64 rom or buying the game off eBay? The original developer or publisher isn't affected either way, plus then you have the whole homebrew and rom hacking scene which has spawned some great games, even retail games like Sonic Mania.Īlso for many like myself it doesn't stop me supporting the same games at retail, last night I bought Metal Slug 2 on Switch despite being able to play it on my PC and I bought Mario 3D All Stars despite being able to play them, even a much better version of Mario 64 and I'll still be buying the Sonic Origins Collection. Your typical "victimless crime" angle, I suppose. So say, from Crackdown (Xbox 360 launch) to New Pokemon Snap (Most current game for current consoles that comes immediately to mind) But what would be a respectful timeframe? I guess when they're fully out of print and the game/console's no longer on the owner's market? Which is why I'm less bothered with checking out a rare Japan-only SNES title that no one has any real plans on ever revisiting exporting or selling in general. For example, I would think it mildly disdainful to getting something still of current generation and perhaps last 2 just for free. It would be nice if there was a generally agreed upon timeframe of emulating acceptance, I think. I'm fine with the concept of emulators, you're not, no worlds are ending and villages being burned to the ground. Too often opposing sides of opinions online over the most trivial of things leave too many at each other's throats. Fri 28th May Glad this was all nice and cordial.
