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Yes 126 47.19%
 
If the game is owned 62 23.22%
 
If both the game and console is owned 40 14.98%
 
No 39 14.61%
 
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I own both a wii and a copy of mario galaxy... 

 

Would it be acceptble (both legally and morally) to emulate the game on my PC?

 

Straight up piracy is wrong, of course, but I mean, it's not like I refused to pay nintendo for any of their work...



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I am sure it's illegal to rip/download a copy but I am sure in court, since you own a copy, your case might hold ground since it shouldn't count as a lost sale or anything. Alternatively, you could always get a DVD reader which can read your wii games.

Morally is up to you...

For me, if I own the copy, my morals are a okay and I don't care much about the legality nonsense. Then again, even if I don't own it, my morals dont care.



                  

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For me, it is. I still play a lot of SNES games on my PC. And I think most of people do the same



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Emulation is better than acceptable. It's great. Emulate everything.



the the company doesnt lose money from it, then there is no harm in doing it



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Oneeee-Chan!!! said:

That's awesome, actually. Commendable effort.



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Personally I never do it. I support the games new if I can. Older games still play it on the hardware. Other than that I still purchase them legit on a service.



Yes.



I prefer not t as i like playing them on the hardware itself. However no objection to f you rather play on PC.