Hmm, are you sure about that? Getting banned doesn't really mean it's illegal, just that it's against the term of service, which, strictly speaking, probably isn't illegal. (Technically it doesn't even have to be against the ToS, in practice it's probably enough if the service provider doesn't like what you're doing.) Anyway, even if it really is illegal, you make a fine distinction and I must salute you!

As in the video I posted, emulation is not illegal. So, there's nothing to have to get to terms with.

Partly confused because to me they go hand and hand. Similar to when you are talking about console device you are going to talk about games. Sorry but piracy is part of emulation, that is why it is discussed with emulation. 

Don't people do that already? Infact that is the one thing I did notice about Zelda, people doing that. 

Yes, Shin Megami Tensei games. I played three of them on the SNES I think. Weird weird stuff. I loved Persona 3 and liked Persona 4. Never played the PS1 games. Would love to try them.

I have the means to do so... But I feel kinda guilty. Would love if Sony just released PS1 games on PS4 via emulation, I would buy a bunch.

Yes, I do not own anymore a PS3, PSP or PSV. =(

i emulate and i pirate, idgaf.

ill download a rom for a game that i dont own when the only other legal alternative is to pay hundreds of dollars to some ass on ebay who marked up the price 10* over what it would have been at retail because he thinks its rare.

as for new games, the only one on a recent console that comes to mind is breah of the wild, and only because it had a wii version, last i checked emulation of anything at or newer than ps3/360 is so worthlessly slow that it doesnt seem worth it at all, everything older than that isnt important anyway.

i do have some morals though, i draw the line at pirating games that can still be bought new in stores, as its then still new enough to matter.

But I don't understand this. If the thread is about the improvements that an API makes in a game that is being emulated, how is piracy relevant to that? I can kinda get if it's a thread like, "Look at how amazing emulation is compared to regular consoles" but a thread about an API improvement having talks about piracy is not considered to be off-topic?

I don't get how piracy has anything to do with debating an API improvement...

In order to emulate a game you need a copy of said game. Especially with BoTW or Persona 5. If that copy was downloaded from the internet then that copy has been pirated. Piracy is a form of theft.

So what we really have here, is a group of thieves asking the mods to ban anyone that calls them out for their theft. This is beyond the pale. Nobody should be banned for calling out thieves. The opposite should be happening. Anybody that mentions or links to piracy sites, or piracy instructions for modern games should be banned period.

Also, apologies to the legitimate emulation community out there. If you own a legit copy of a game, then you should be able to play it on whatever you want. Pirating copies of old games in order to emulate them is technically illegal, but I have no problem with it.

TL/DR: If you don't own a BotW or P5 disk/cart, and you are playing it, then you are a thief and should be banned.

I don't get it either. It's like those that don't know what's going on, assume they know better than those that do. That's what's been going on in 3 of these threads so far. At elast 3 people who are cock sure, in the face of information and facts, that those interested in what is going on are somehow wrong.

Also what counts as disagreement anyway?, because it sounds very ambigious as to what type of disagreements that can be made. Calling emulation piracy is certainly not called a "disagreement", it's stating something else entirely, and as such it does actually take the thread on emulation progress off topic. Idgaf what spin anyone tries, to those that "disagree" with emulation, taking priacy into a thread about emulation progress is in fact derailing it.

You can easily go "I disagree with emulation" and walk out the door you came in, but you'll also know that in saying the same line over and over (because we've had this so far in 3 other threads and oh my, it won't be the last either) isn't adding anything meaningful to the topic either. 

Literally all we've had so far in terms of talk is one group rabbling on about piracy, while the otehr just wants to talk about the levels of progression being made with certain emulators. That's it, that's all those people want. Talk of piracy at this point is just being used as  ameans to shut up the group who wants to talk about a subject that the other group wants to talk about.

Also that last part on moderating someone who talks about linking piracy, that's highly selective right there, because that fits perfectly with the side who dislikes piracy and sees emulation as piracy. It's not even balanced in a way to protect the thread topic on an emulator or it's progress, because the same people can just enter the same threads and tuter the same piracy talk over and over, then we call in the mods and those who filed the reports get banned...

We even have someone playing backseat mod already...