Emulation - The Legalities, Ethics, Benefits and Drawbacks

[SvennoJ]

Safiir said:

SvennoJ said:

Well, when I see threads promoting HZD running in a virtual machine on hardware it was not intended to run on, I'll be in that thread :p
Same for DOSBox in that case. Yet DOSBox really isn't the same thing as nobody is selling DOS games to run solely on original DOS machines.

I just find it shameful that Cemu 'trusts' their users not to use pirated software, yet apparently doesn't trust them with their own software, so they add DRM to basically sell the full emulator to patrons. At least VMWare locks out OSX and maybe other things.

If it weren't for dosbox the only option to play dos games would be to run it in DOS. So you've just given a very strong argument FOR emulation, as it greatly benefits IP owners.

I'm not against emulation in general. It becomes questionable when it enables piracy of current software.

PCSX2 with disc support, awesome. It would be nice if Sony would endorse it and deliver the bios in a legal way. Why don't they buy the project, make it so it only works with discs or logged into an account, add digital store access, and provide it for free, problem solved. But that would probably be too risky, too easy to hack and cause more piracy. Pirates ruin it for everyone.