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Cerebralbore101 on 11 October 2017
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Pemalite said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

Emulation is not always piracy. If you legally own the files then it isn't piracy. That's one of the first things I ever said in any emulation thread on this site. 

But if you don't legally own the files for the game that you are emulating then it is piracy. 

"By using this emulator you agree to provide your own files legally."

Sure thing. ;)

Emulation doesn't mean you are going to be running any commercial software.
It is literally just replicating the hardware environment in software on a different platform, thus it cannot be tied piracy.

And buying lockpicking tools doesn't mean you're going to go breaking into people's houses, but they are still illegal in the U.S. to own unless you are a locksmith. In fact I'm pretty sure it's a felony. 

But anyway, I completely 100% agree that emulation has it's uses, and is legal most of the time. If Zero hadn't mentioned BotW or Persona 5 in the topics of all his emulation threads in a sad attempt to get more people to view them, I wouldn't have a problem. You want to emulate games that are on a defunct console, and aren't available in stores for a modern system? Knock yourself out! Hell, I even emulate games that I can't get stateside with repro carts. Before I jumped into this topic I was playing a repro version of Terranigma (excellent game btw!) on my SNES. 

 My stance on whether or not you should pirate a game is practically identical to these guys' stance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfZv_lPwBFI