In future this won't be possible - it relies on someone being able to get the full game code. But we're at a point where consoles are going to download bits of a game at a time... ...and there will be components that only function when connected with a live server, generated by code no-one but the publishers have access to. E.g. NPCs will be backed by LLMs hosted in some datacenter somewhere...

In any case, the days where games are "done and released" are probably over. To increase longevity, games will have elements added and removed over a period of a couple of years. So no, you will. not be able to pirate them, and even if somehow you get the full code, it'll be "one version" of a game that can be completely different month-by-month.

In practice, I think we're heading into "pay by hour" gaming.

An emulator like Bsnes not only features perfect low-level accuracy emulation but also frame input run-ahead that makes it have less input lag than even the original hardware, though. Same with things like the Lantern Engine recompilation adding Nvidia Reflex Boost to Bloodborne, making it run like a dream in that regard.

You might argue that doesn't make up for the CRT TV nostalgia but that one point, IMO, has been wildly overstated in some circles.

For instance, SNES developers worked on 800x600 or 1024x768 4:3 PC monitors and weren't really designing or fine-tuning their sprites and backgrounds for 256x224. A large portion not even bothered with the 8:7 aspect ratio...

As I said, the game is but one piece. There are several others. CRT is one. A real SNES is another. A real SNES controller is another. Hunting for carts at shops, building a collection, physically putting them into a real console that you've been playing for more than three decades, sliding that purple button up, hearing the sudden umph out of the speakers as it engages, and then sitting down just as that first phosphorus-produced image appears, and the music ushers forth... it's the intangible, the entire act which produces the experience, not just playing it.

If the above is your thing, a ROM is practically useless.

You’re rambling about stuff that isn’t relevant to what I’m asking. I’m simply asking about accessibility, not the experience, as very clearly detailed in the OP. If you want to play your game on the OG system, then just flash dump the ROM onto an SNES cart. Hence your access to the game in whatever state you desire to play is unaffected. Agree or disagree?

I want to own my games but digital is to convenient. I can fire up TW3 and then after an hour I can suddenly change to another game in a few seconds. Nah. It made game better. It's the ToS and EULA that's fucked, not digital or physical ownership
Also, physical owners should be allowed to get the perks of digital users as I first mentioned without having to change discs. They went the bad path on this. It could have been a golden opportunity. They fucked us for more control.