Emulation - The Legalities, Ethics, Benefits and Drawbacks

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gtaguidelng said:
The sole Purpose of Emulation(at least for me) is to pirate 99% of the time, if they say they want to preserve their games(just an excuse for me the they should also preserve their games systems/console.

You can't always preserve a console.

Older consoles had liquid filled capacitors which are prone to leaking/bulging/failure. The clock-gen capacitor issue on the original Xbox being a prime example.

Early CD-Rom based consoles have solid-state lasers in their optical drives which do degrade and fail over time.

Power supply units, fans, mechanical drives can all fail.

Carts with battery save backup can have the battery fail, sometimes the acid can leak and cause damage to the electronics.

Some optical Disks, especially in the CD era were prone to Oxidisation of the reflective layer, otherwise known as Disk rot. It only takes a tiny flaw in the manufacturing process or a slight bending of the disk when removing it from it's case to start the process.

The same issue can occur with DVD, but it's less common.