Pirate are the ones who benefit the most on Emulation Though.

I am really annoyed how PC gamers are trying to say that emulator is not piracy. Of course it is. Nobody is naive enough to think that you're gonna download just the emulator and leave as that. The percentage of players that will emulate that already own the game... Such a small number...

I believe we need to support things we like. Atlus had a really difficult time making Persona, it almost wasn't released. And after all this, people prefer to donate to a random guy instead of actually buying the game itself?

Even though I play on PC, I dislike all this talk about "master race". There isn't such thing, all systems have value. What PC Gamers do online is be really proud of how they can "outsmart" a company while saying that consoles are "inferior", however every single time they make petitions to play Bloodborne, Persona, Zelda or Master Chief Collection. Come on...

If you don't like being criticized just don't do such childish acts. There is a correlation of why most developers do a game for console and just port to PC, and the reason is this kind of behavior of piracy.

And the emulation is just so bad. 2 or 3 years of development to play at 10fps with glitchs and sometimes no sound, such as Mario Kart 8? And this result running in a high end PC... It's much easier to buy a Nintendo Switch.

People not able to tell the difference between emulation and piracy are either ignorant or corporations puppets

This thread...

I'm seriously losing faith here.

The assumptions and generalizations are too strong in this thread. If I'm honest, I'd go as far and call it straight up ignorance.

Emulation and piracy are two completely different things.

The existance of a "tool" does not make it illegal, bad or malevolent. It is how you use it that matters.

Also, I know there are people in this forum who vouch for physical copies of games, they shout how they want complete ownership of their game and the freedom to do whatever they want with it. Now if you are one of those people who are against emulation and at the same time swear by the "freedom of physical copy/full ownership", is it just me or doesn't these two collide with eachother?

But that's how most people are, they don't think things through, they don't even know they are hypocrite all the while shouting their high and mighty values and opinions. They just keep digging all day, every day...

Virtual Console is emulation. Nintendo is into piracy?

Simply copying a game isn't piracy either. In europe we have the right to make safety copies of software, although other regulations might interfere. But piracy only starts if the copy is distributed.

I'm kinda interested in that new Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I don't know why but I think it's going to be a return to form.

Nope. Say your NES is broken, but you dump the ROM of your module of a game and play it in say Nestopia. In no step piracy is involved. You play your own game you paid for.

I think it's generally silly to elevate piracy to the level that it is. When it only hurts the industry a tiny tiny fraction of what the second hand market does.

It has nothing with that.Its about derailing the discussion.The talk is about emulation, not how to download roms or means to not pay for the original game.Its like, as another user said, to bring up Nintendo or MS in a Sony centric discussion, when there is zero reason for it.

Funny that you say that people are trying to play God here, when you are doing exactly that by that last setence of yours.

Just ban emulation threads altogether.