Love this article, and I'm in the "time to embrace emulation" camp. Obviously, stealing Switch or PS5 games is wrong, but it makes no sense to prosecute websites that offer roms for DS, PS2 or anything else, since no one's making any money off of these old games.
You are right, I don’t agree with modern games as they are being sold, but older games that are harder to get hold of and no longer supported like you said we shouldn’t be prosecuting people!
Yeah I fully agree, I was even talking about this the other day more - and that even Sony could create or endorse and official emulator and create an area to download roms with a license built in which you pay a subscription for or add on to PS Plus - they could make more money!
Another great piece. Emulation is wonderful but there really is nothing like playing on intended hardware, like you mention. That said, I have very fond memories of playing FF6 on my PSP via emulator in my uni courses - this was 19 years ago!
Thanks Paul! That sounds awesome, no doubt some great memories! It’s things like what you say and the memories that make me want to see emulation be more main stream, it’s unlikely you would’ve played FF6 if not for that! And then it’s how many games would be missed by people simply due to not having access?
Love this article, and I'm in the "time to embrace emulation" camp. Obviously, stealing Switch or PS5 games is wrong, but it makes no sense to prosecute websites that offer roms for DS, PS2 or anything else, since no one's making any money off of these old games.
Thanks Dylan!
You are right, I don’t agree with modern games as they are being sold, but older games that are harder to get hold of and no longer supported like you said we shouldn’t be prosecuting people!
Yeah I fully agree, I was even talking about this the other day more - and that even Sony could create or endorse and official emulator and create an area to download roms with a license built in which you pay a subscription for or add on to PS Plus - they could make more money!
Another great piece. Emulation is wonderful but there really is nothing like playing on intended hardware, like you mention. That said, I have very fond memories of playing FF6 on my PSP via emulator in my uni courses - this was 19 years ago!
Thanks Paul! That sounds awesome, no doubt some great memories! It’s things like what you say and the memories that make me want to see emulation be more main stream, it’s unlikely you would’ve played FF6 if not for that! And then it’s how many games would be missed by people simply due to not having access?