Emulation - The Legalities, Ethics, Benefits and Drawbacks

[Cerebralbore101]

Pemalite said:

Except emulation isn't unlocking or breaking into anything, it's reverse engineering.
It's like when AMD or Cyrix took an Intel chip and reverse engineered their own x86 compatible processors by studying how they worked, Intel tried to take the legal high-road and lost.

Emulators are just a software environment, people can and do build their own software from scratch for these emulators, it's why Homebrew is as big as it is... Or why Xbox Media Center got so popular at one point.

What makes you think you need a PC?

The NES and SNES classic have shown a ton of people are happy to mod/hack a console... And mod chips to circumvent copy protection was actually a very big thing in the PS1 and PS2 era's.

Both are tools that can be used for theft, and in the case of BotW, and Persona 5, they are overwhelmingly being used for theft. A PC comes along somewhere in the process. The code for custom firmware to crack a modern console is written on a PC. Same thing goes for mod chips.