Rare/Obscure games running on emulators

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VGPolyglot said:

As per Miguel_Zorro's suggestion to make threads for the rarer games that may be lost without preservation, I decided to find videos of rarer games running on an emulator

I've got that one on an actual NES cart. Picked one up on Aliexpress last year.

Anyways, emulation is also great for playing games that we never got over here in North America.  Stuff like Terranigma, Star Ocean (complete with translation patch), etc. And if you want to bypass emulation, you can also get these games unofficially (see: illegally) on sites like Aliexpress.  But that begs the question...is it better to emulate (and illegally download) these games while owning the official cart?  Or pirate them from China and play them on official hardware?