| KrspaceT said: ONLY games that are not available legally. For example Jurassic Park Operation Genesis isn't, as far as I know, avaliable from a producer anymore. However a game that can be obtained from a company physically or digitally, like a Nintendo game that isn't avalaible digitally (so at the moment Gamecube games are the only Nintendo games I could see one argue to be emulated, and only until they end on the VC), SHOULD NOT be emulated. |
Wrong.
| AlfredoTurkey said: If stealing is acceptable, then sure. |
How is that even a comparison? He isn't stealing. Console manufacturer/developer/publisher looses nothing.
| SvennoJ said: If you have gotten permission from the copyright owner, then sure. |
That is not required either.
| Super_Boom said: I know I certainly wouldn't feel confident defending myself that way in court...though I admit I haven't looked into the topic closely. |
It's already been tested in court. Emulators won.
| S.T.A.G.E. said: Its never acceptable unless the IP holder says so. PC gamers done care though. MAME pushed on regardless. |
Not true.
| Goodnightmoon said: Not for recent released games unless you own the game. |
The age of the game doesn't matter.
| bonzobanana said: Also if I buy a dvd does that mean I can download a high definition version of the same movie for free from a torrent. Many emulated games are massively enhanced over the original game. |
Not an accurate comparison.
A better comparison would be buying a DVD and playing it in a Blu-Ray player.
It's taking a form of media and playing it on a hardware platform that it was never originally designed to operate on.
* Emulation is perfectly legal. Legal precedents have been set. Console manufacturers lost their court cases.
* Downloading the games from torrents is illegal. - But if you have the original CD/DVD/BD you can play it on PC anyway and make legal backups.
* Downloading a BIOS is also illegal. But if it's reverse engineered/emulated/dumped it however is perfectly legal.
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