Emulation - The Legalities, Ethics, Benefits and Drawbacks

[collint0101]

Leadified said:

collint0101 said:
I can kinda justify the emulation of old games but fuck everyone that's using emulators to play stuff like BotW and persona 5. If I go to the store and buy a book that doesn't give me the right to steal a 2nd copy just because I already own it. It's almost annoying to see mods endorse all of the emulation threads that have been popping up recently. People like that are only talking away from the industry and developers.

How is it any different to emulating old games? Nintendo is selling the SNES mini right now and has been offering their old games on their store for years now.

That why I said I can kinda justify it. Some games are simply gone, there's a lot of stuff out there that we're never going to see on steam or the eShop or psn whether it be for legal reasons, licensing fees or a lack of interest from publishers ect and I'm ok with people emulating games like that. Before the snes classic there was no real way outside of emulation to play star fox 2 so that's understandable but no one has any reason to emulation something like Sonic 1 which has probably been released on over a dozen different platforms.