Why You Should Emulate Games

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This guy had the absolute best parents that were tech-savvy enough to figure out how to play many many games off ROMS and Homebrew

atomicfangs
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That talk about the r4 really resonated with me. I grew up playing many DS games and every now and then a new title would show up in the console, and I'd play it as much as I could. Cooking Mama, NSMB, Professor Layton and Mario 64 DS were huge pillars of my childhood and I really loved playing these games alone or with my family. Thank you for letting me ramble about these memories aha. Wonderfully put together video, subbed, will definitely be looking at a fellow creator's channel with great interest.

SaviTheGamer
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Emulation on PC is one of the greatest things to ever happen to gaming.

AlphaZeroX
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I can agree with you. Many retro games are either expensive or rare. I still rember when I was 14 years old, modded my Wii and installed many retro consoles emulators....It was a beautiful time.

robson
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Interesting video, but there are some faults in your explanations. Piracy and emulation are not an interchangeable terms, you can play on emulators legally. Playing ROMs via their intended hardware (like on the wii or ds) is also not emulation.

sveqwerty
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Loading ROMs and ISOs onto the supported hardware isn't emulation. Piracy is also not emulation, as emulation can be done legally. Rewind is also not a Nintendo exclusive thing nor did they invent it. it has exited in emulators long before Nintendo added them to their own, I believe Rare Replay popularized. Terminology should be properly used when making a video about this.

CinnamonOwO
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It is always morally correct to pirate 30 year old Nintendo Games.

Random_Idiot
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i like emulation because i really like retro games and i also do not have a job to blow ludicrous amounts of money on old snes games its very nice to be able to enjoy some games that will become some of my favorites of all time (the entire metroid series my dearly beloved) and it just enables me to play more i love it

azumars
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To me, it's completely ethical to emulate any game the publisher doesn't make available on the current market.

ZayJayPlays
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I gotta say I think this was a pretty solid video, I encourage the use of emulators as it's allowed me to play a lot of games with my friends on Discord. It also allows me to play modded content for games that I grew up with, or even just to experience them all over again from the 6th generation and onward.

YaBoiJoosh
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One thing id like to say is that Nintendo and maybe some other game companies out there don't like emulation, but I personally think that they should at least allow old games to be emulated since those old games and their consoles can't be found in stores anymore. Great video though.

trevorswims
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tl;dr : legal or not, I believe it is moral to pirate games no longer available through official means, it can make you discover and play games you never knew you would like, and in turn, maybe help the companies that made them with their most recent games, so that they might make similar games down the line. Also, it doesn't need to be illegal if you can dump your own games onto your computer for better performances.

I'm gonna be honest, I feel like emulation is more about morality than legality : Is the game still distributed by other means than resale ? If not, then it doesn't matter if you pirate it from anywhere, because the original creators won't get a single penny from it anyway. If yes, do you support the company ? Do you want more games like this from them ? If both answer are no, then pirate it (I would be against it personnaly, I feel like piracy for games should only be done if no other official way is available, but everyone has his own boundaries) (Also don't come and say that the devs are getting paid from sales : most time they're not, they got their paycheck, now it's the company getting the money).

But if you can support a company that produces or produced games you liked, go for it. I'll take an exemple : Thanks to emulation, I have played, in my eyes, one of the greatest and most overlooked DS game "Solatorobo: Red the Hunter" which if I had a DS to play it on would have cost me at least a 100$ to buy off resale, but with emulation, I could just do it right away on my PC. And I loved the game so much, I went and tried to know as much as I could about it (Did you know that the track list in the jukebox of the game has the same amount of tracks than the CDs of the OST that was sold 2 years later, but with one track changed ? It's because the game contains two version of the track "Re-CODA", one of them being replaced by the opening theme "And then, to CODA", absent from the game jukebox originaly.)
I found out that the game is part of a universe of games that seems to be passion project (they always sell poorly it seems, and there's a lot of love put into them, because they keep making them anyway) to the company who makes them : Cyber Connect 2, Naruto: Ultimate ninja, Jojo's bizarre adventure figthing games, Asura's Wrath, and .hack//, that sells overall pretty well which they use to finance those smaller and more heartfelt titles. That's why I bought their two latest entries in this universe "Fuga: Melodies of Steel" 1 and 2, which are now part of my favorite games of all time and all that because I emulated an obscure DS game
FURTHERMORE, emulation can make you discover games you never knew about that you could like, and thanks to great communities, some of those regionaly locked games have fan translations that make them available to more people, I could never have played Mother 3 for exemple if it wasn't translated from Japanese, same for Klonoa Heroes: The legendary star medal, two excellent GBA gems that I would recommand to anyone ready to look into it.
Also for more titles that you own, emultaion can enhance the experience, and you can do it legally with your copies of the game and the console. It requires a little more technical knowledge and implication than just downloading a file from the internet and loading it into a software, and sometimes requires a hacked console (My switch can testify) but you can now play your games on your computer, and can also serve as a backup if your console eventually dies. Also, it can morally allow you to play your more recent game through emulation, like I did with my switch library (And it's legal, because you bought your games)

BrckPrgm
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Emulation is one of the best things to ever happen to us since we can't afford every console that's out there because they're either hard to find or hard to afford. With the power of emulation, we can play any game we want on any platform.

rodneybrown
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I use emulation a lot to make videos so I can render them in 4k, but typically I think original hardware provides a better experience. Much smoother, most emulators have a slight input latency that really throws the feel of older games. If I'm just playing a game casually for fun, it's almost always on original hardware.

Also fwiw, playing Wii games on a HDD on your actual Wii isn't emulation at all. It's just backup loading. Emulation is when you use software to mimic specific hardware. I guess you could argue that you are technically emulating the disc drive itself when loading Wii backups but the game itself is still running natively, not emulated.

GhabulousGhoti
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0:07 1) You being four years old in 2008 is crazy to me. I was in high school. 2) I discovered emulation around the same time. My high school computer had an GBA emulator on it that had Pokemon Emerald, Mega Man battle Network, Dragon Ball Adventure, and a few other gems on it. A student put it on the computer for sure but I never found out who did it. I had tons of fun playing those games and I put them on a USB stick and brought them home.

SunlightGwyn
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I agree with pretty much everything you had to say, except for the implication that downloading games slowly off a shady website is any less bad than just torrenting, theyre essentially the same thing, and I feel this way even about torrenting movies vs. streaming off a movie piracy website, at the end of the day it's all the same thing, you're downloading content illegally through the internet. That being said, I 100% agree that emulation is glorious and one of the greatest things to happen to the gaming industry when it comes to just accessibility and preservation of art.

garfieldinheat
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I've been heavily addicted to puzzle games recently so good luck satisfying that urge without emulation.

bland
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I would say emulation in and of itself is a wonderful tool. The ability to simulate a hardware environment without the actual hardware can save a lot of time while debugging. In the gaming space, it also keeps games alive that would have been lost to time as the original hardware deteriorates without new copies being introduced. Imagine if there was an extremely popular book, but it could only be read if it had a blue cover, and the original publisher decided that it was no longer profitable to continue printing that book.

Piracy is a different thing, but I'd say that is different than intent. A company like Nintendo wants to force you to either keep your old system or rebuy the game on the new system, and the actual sharing of a cartridge with a friend would be out of the question. Imagine if a book publisher prevented you from lending out a book to your friend. That doesn't seem right to me.

One may argue that allowing pirated copies to exist hurts their brand, but I disagree completely, especially with older, out-of-print titles. What brand identity are they protecting? One of a 20 year old system/game with mechanics/design 20 years behind the curve? Do modern displays even have direct RCA compatibility?

I don't know, it seems like forced scarcity to me

rooseveltboyland
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dude this video hits a home run for me. Ive been super into emulation since i was a kid. I also figured out how to get pokemone fire red on my ipod touch. very good video. your dad is cool for setting up your wii and stuff

pearallax
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One thing not mentioned is the older games being expensive especially GameCube games and most Pokémon games prior to Pokémon X and Y to the point that emulation or (hacking the console) is required to get these games. Also, finding controllers for older consoles, even Xbox 360, is a problem due to an amount of no-name knock-off controllers which aren't as good as the original and often fail to work with some console features such as pressure sensitivity (PS2/PS3), along L/R (GameCube), Sixaxis motions (PS3) and Wii Remote motions (Wii/Wii U).

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