Cerebralbore101 said:
Explain how modern emulation is absolutely nesseccary to preserve software. I understand that eventually we will need to rip discs/carts to preserve them, but not *now*. And ripping a cart/disc isn't the same as emulation. Yes, those Atari games were saved by digital preservation, but it was because of people that did it decades after the fact. Those Atari games weren't saved by some guy in his basement in 1972 that ripped and emulated carts on his PC, so that he could sell bootleg copies behind the Kwik-E-Mart. Modern movies aren't being saved by that guy you know that will burn twelve children's movies onto DVD for $5. They were saved by some guy in the 90's or 2000's doing it with his own collection. They will be saved by somebody in 2020 burning his obscure children's DVD collection to his harddrive. Do you get what I'm saying here? Modern piracy has nothing to do with game preservation, and to pretend that it does is absurd for obvious reasons. See my Winds of Winter example above. |
The longer we wait, the higher of a risk there is of games being lost. Some games are already very rare, and if we decide to wait until as late as possible, they may already be lost. There are retro games that still haven't been dumped yet, and if we waited until 2060 or whatever, it'll probably be too late. That's why we should start as soon as possible.
