PC Gaming vs Console Gaming

[Ganoncrotch]

Pemalite said:

ganoncrotch said:

Pemalite said:

"Uh. No. I do not condone the act of piracy.

You do get free games on PC, which are not hidden by a paywall."

 

You talk about the PC having access to the complete librarys of older consoles, this is piracy you are talking about. Doesn't matter if the games are old you still have zero rights to access them while they might become available on things like the e-shop or psn/xbla.

It's not piracy. Emulation is 100% legal.

Emulation as in a program to put the bios and roms of a console into might be legal, as in the actual program that would handle those files.

Ripping the BIOS from a console tho especially something like a SNES is very hard to do and downloading ripped BIOS from the internet is not 100% legal, that console OS software belongs to Nintendo.

As for owning the complete libraries of Roms from those systems.... even if you did have the actual phsical versions of all the games, I still think you aren't legally allowed to back them up onto a PC and play them, emulation of old games isn't legal simple as that, it isn't even a grey area.