Is emulating acceptable?

[SvennoJ]

Ruler said:

SvennoJ said:

To protect your basic human right to be entertained any way you deem fit? :)

If you can afford the hardware you can afford the games. If you have the time to play the games, you have time to find a job! It's all a bunch of poor excuses. Yet I've been in that situation too where it was considered a waste of money to pay for games. Piracy devalued the games completely and paying 80 Guilders for a game seemed ludicrous at the time. Escpecially when consuming over a dozen pirated games a week.

There are plenty cheap and free to play games, blaming your financial situation doesn't fly anymore. Although maybe you buy bootleg versions of the streetcorner to play on a 15 year old windows 98 machine and could afford a few minutes in that internet cafe in the main town 20 miles over to make this comment :)

Would you consider pirating this as a poor excuse, for example? http://www.ebay.com/itm/PANZER-DRAGOON-SAGA-SEGA-SATURN-MINT-CONDITION-COMPLETE-/232248724889?hash=item36131a4d99:g:nbsAAOSw2gxYrRlt

What seems affortable to you maybe isnt for someone else. It applies to modern games just as much.

Panzer Dragoon Orta for XBox includes a full port of the original game.
https://www.ebay.com/p/Panzer-Dragoon-Orta-Microsoft-Xbox-2003/9179
Probably even cheaper if you look around in second hand stores.
It's on the wishlist at GoG.com as well so it might end up there eventually.

Plus there's always the option of not playing it. There's plenty stuff that is affordable.