setsunatenshi said:
That comment can only come from ignorance or absolute disregard for game preservation. So in your opinion, its better that legacy games are rendered unplayable once the original hardware dies, rather than emulation being used to allow said games to be played? By the way, do you have any idea how the so popular nes and snes mini that Nintendo is selling manages to play the games? Hint: not by inserting the old game carts |
What do you mean once the hardware dies? There are working NES systems out there to this day. Once the patent on a game system runs out people can just make their own versions. We've seen this with the retron. Clearly we're talking about modern emulators here anyway. Playing emulated PS1, SNES, Megadrive, etc. is fine since the patent ran out years ago. Especially for games that never got remade. Speaking of which a lot of games do get remade, which throws another wrench in the "once the hardware dies" argument.
