Emulation - The Legalities, Ethics, Benefits and Drawbacks

[VGPolyglot]

CladInShadows said:

VGPolyglot said:

Even if you own the game, unless you rip it yourself it's considered piracy.

Legally, you may be correct.  Morally, I don't care and will download at my leisure because the developer has my money.  If I go and pay someone other than the developer to get a rom dumper for an NES cart, the developer still doesn't see a dime of that. And the result is exactly the same.  We're just arguing semantics at this point.

I do rip all of my PS1, PS2, Wii, etc. discs though.

But nowhere did I say that emulation is piracy.  Never have.  Never will.

I think you misunderstood the intent of my post.