Very interesting debate on emulation at GameFAQs.

[NeoZeedeater]

Emulation allows me to...

Play my Playstation games with enhanced graphics through VGA.

Pause ending credits on games.

Play beta versions of games, like playing Hidden Palace Zone in Sonic 2.

Play my Duo games until I get another Duo.

Play translated versions of games that were never translated into English.

Try out GBA games before buying them.


These are all completely legit reasons for emulation.

[skelly]

Originally posted by youandwhosearmy
The only time he was ever funny, was that one time on his first episode on MTV when he asked everybody in the audience to take off one shoe and put it in a garbage bag. They came back from commercial and he proceeded to take the bag and scream something totally ridiculous while running out of the studio to the street and tying it to the back of a taxi.

Then he told it to drive away and he screamed you like that, YOU LIKE THAT over and over again to the camera while a horrified audience tried to laugh it off, and then he took some random guy's ice cream cone and licked it.

Green can be hilarious, as he was in that little vignette.

His most reviled (misunderstood? ha!) work, Freddy Got Fingered, is some sort of perverse masterpiece. Flawed, bizarre and without redeeming social value, but a masterpiece nonetheless. One for the ages, surely.

Neo: Checking out GBA games may be something you find useful, but it's not "legit", assuming that means legal. Just being devil's advocate. (Matches my avatar, no?)

[NeoZeedeater]

I know trying GBA roms isn't legal but it's legit in that I'm not doing anything morally wrong or causing any monetary loss to game companies. If anything, it makes me buy more GBA games.

[Chojin]

I have no problem with emulation.

[Rick]

Originally posted by BenT
Green can be hilarious, as he was in that little vignette.

His most reviled (misunderstood? ha!) work, Freddy Got Fingered, is some sort of perverse masterpiece. Flawed, bizarre and without redeeming social value, but a masterpiece nonetheless. One for the ages, surely.

First Sifl & Olly, now this. I wuv you BenT.

[skelly]

My cult of personality grows!

[SearchManX]

Originally posted by Yoshi
Things like the e-Reader NES games are exactly why emulation is flat out wrong. Companies can absolutely make more money on old games by re-releasing them.

Tell that to Konami and mention Snatcher/Policenauts and Dracula X.

Originally posted by NeoZeedeater
Emulation allows me to...

Play my Playstation games with enhanced graphics through VGA.

Pause ending credits on games.

Play beta versions of games, like playing Hidden Palace Zone in Sonic 2.

Play my Duo games until I get another Duo.

Play translated versions of games that were never translated into English.

Try out GBA games before buying them.


These are all completely legit reasons for emulation.

I agree with NeoZeed, emulation is not black & white...

[Kidnemo]

Just like emulation, Michael Jackson is neither black nor white.

[gameoverDude]

In addition to what NeoZeedeater has just listed:

What if you own the arcade PCB... and it croaks?

High quality screenshots can be made easy.

Your PlayStation or other system cocks up (i.e. The Skips) and you take it to the shop. You can pop the games in the PC and play them that way in the meantime.

Sprite rips.

Preservation.

Generally I don't give a rat's ass what people do with it. On the other hand, I do draw the line at emulating something that was released too recently such as KOF 2001 or 2002, KOF 2000 (There's the DC port), Rage of the Dragons, or Metal Slug 4 unless you own the original game in some form.

[Josh]

I emulate what I want when I want.

So do most of you... your pussies just hurt too much to admit it.

You fucking hypocrites.

Originally posted by Yoshi
Things like the e-Reader NES games are exactly why emulation is flat out wrong. Companies can absolutely make more money on old games by re-releasing them.

So what? I'll still emulate the games... I bought the game once, I am sure as shit not gonna buy it twice.

Especially old ass Nintendo games.