@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.
@Anti-Matter Not really possible with our hobby. Gaming industry is like a withered field with few plants giving fruit. The rest is a barren wasteland of copypaste western AAAs.
Moving on means you give up on researching valuable past, a wondrous place of our roots where the fields of lush green bore the sweetest fruit. I wouldn't be a gamer if I let go of the best decade of gaming, it's like burning the library of Alexandria because the books got a bit dusty.
Also, for now I always found a way to buy what I wanted. But I realize there are limits. That's what I strive to overcome. Limits are always only inside the head.
@ComfyAko
For example, I personally moving on from Paper Mario TTYD for certain reasons.
1. The game itself was too expensive now, inflated price on Ebay even from my local online shopping website.
2. I personally not really hyped with Paper Mario games as I can see I still haven't continue my Color Splash and Origami King, so to think about TTYD with inflated price added with my very low hype in Paper Mario games, I decided to move on.
Not worthy for my money to buy very expensive stuffs then you neglected the games after that due to low hype.
3. I tried to find Paper Mario clones by indie developers as I found 1 copy from my local online shopping website with purchaseable price and since I have more interest with 3rd party games so I will give it a try.
The other games I had moving on are NES and SNES games as I had no longer interest to play pixelated games anymore.
And of course I will not pick N64 games as I don't see any worthy games from N64 and I didn't grew up by N64 so I completely ignored N64 existence.
I'm moving on from those games.
@ComfyAko
I don't play games like from the screenshot you posted.
Anyway...
One of my favorite PS2 games after Dance Dance Revolution is The Sims Bustin' Out.
I like the simplicity of The Sims 1 that being brought to consoles in 3D models and DJ Booth is my favorite product from The Sims Bustin' Out as the Sims characters will play 9 different skills levels when they were playing the DJ booth and the music was so good.
I was curious with Bomber Crew as I never had interest with that game before but I ended by purchased the game while it was available from my country with cheaper price.
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