@Owl1@blindsquarel I feel like it needs to be determined on the case by case basis. Emulating games you can still buy is generally a no no, but what about indivisible and all the drama surrounding it? That is a very peculiar case where the creators do not get paid for their work. Of course we have obvious cases like Vortex on SNES, a game lost in time, but in my opinion it should just be judged by everyone wanting to go into emulation individually. I don't have any emulator, but I would certainly not shun anyone who wants to play something they can't buy anyway.
@ComfyAko
i feel like the only case where emulation is justified is if you:
1. Own the game
2. Dump it yourself
3. no current gen
Sadly this is the vast minority of cases. But you are right, we shouldn’t judge anyone as a person based on this. This goes for most everything In life.
@blindsquarel if you just wanna make backups of your childhood Pokemon or Zelda save then I'm all for it, but if you wanna play New Super Mario Bros. then that kinda crosses a line.
when I say you I mean your fictional "friend's" "friend".
If you dump it yourself, there's absolutely no problem. Also, if a game is no longer for sale in any media
Also, I think that vast majority of people use emulation to play very old games, I mean there are so few new games that you can easily buy every single one without even straining your budget.
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@ComfyAko
It’s just how I feel about it but yeah. Games that don’t go on sale anymore are weird. Because what do you do when said game goes on sale? Take Metroid Prime, before its remaster it was hard to find and not for sale. Plenty of people used that to justify downloading the ROM. How many people do you think deleted that ROM and bought the remaster? I bet there were some that did, but how many people just played the ROM because they already had it downloaded? And that does effect sales numbers, even though the game was previously not on modern consoles.
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@blindsquarel Sure, but on the other hand, how can you know if a game ever comes back? You can't know that. Take Mother 3 for example. We don't know if Nintendo hates money or people, but it just won't listen to basically the whole fanbase screaming Mother 3 in their ears.
That's why if I ever sail out to the open seas, I'll set boundaries within reason. It's unlikely to happen though, as I have tons of games on my shelf that I simply have no time for because time management is a life skill and I lack literally all of those.
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@ComfyAko
I personally to choose moving on if the old games are not possible to be found anymore rather than justify the using of emulator to play pirated games as an excuse to play old games. Moving on is the hardest thing to do since you choose to let the games go and never looking back.
As I grew up, I learnt to let it go some games that I will never able to purchase due to extreme inflated price or not available anymore so I will not have hostage feeling for unable to get those games.
Let it go, moving on and find other games.
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