Why Emulation?

[magmarock64]

Hello there your not going to believe this, but I got refused service at a game store, quite literally for asking if there was a way to “legitimately play 360 games on a PC” When he asked why, I said because 360s are poorly built machines. With that he said poor choice of words, then hung up (more on that later). Similar encounters have led me to believe that emulators are somewhat controversial, and not everyone wants to here about them.
So to get a less biased (yes I know that’s debatable) response I’m asking you why you use emulators, as for me I’m a retro gamer which means new games piss me off especially ones with harsh DRM, and I like the idea of my old favorites being immortalized on PC. So what do you think about emulators?


Also please visit my “Please explain” thread I’m trying to become a more advance user

[HatCat]

Since it was a service store one of the dealers probably worked with the hardware manufacturing and for that cause took offense, but those kinds of positions aren't necessarily familiar with emulators.

ya video game emulators are controversial

You know one thing I still don't get, is why emulators like Project64 are in public? Not that anyone cares. As of late various developers for other emulator projects are getting defensive against judgment. How can you serve to make people happy and defend yourself from judgment simultaneously? It's all hate to try to control what people think of you, and there's so much of the hateful centered around in what is done in vg emulation developers have been leaving and taking a hint.

Why should they have any respect, when it was their decision to prove arguing the physical righteousness to emulate what was so openly published to the consumer in further unbalancing the happiness from the creators of the games to the people who could already play them? They aren't that far from being deserved to be nagged; it's called karma people.

Still, a lot of them still want to please people, good for their cause. No matter what they do, quite a few people want to finish what they started, and in dealing with the users, I'll be happy to help that.
Then for the memories to joy, video game emulation serves a purpose. Scratch the legality; if you really want to make a legal emulator do something professional like emulate something not about games and entertainment; you won't raise heat over competition then. Be consistent.

Yes why don't you people try to emulate something that serves as an experiment to study the functions of the human mind? Rather than suffering in lack of conscious in that which isn't emulated

[magmarock64]

I'm not sure what you're trying to say.



Oh by the way it was a games retail store like EB Games.

[CA5]

My reasons for using emulators are quite simple and not deep at all, unlike other things I do.

I simply can't be arsed to get my N64 out, I fear I might scratch it or something. With other emulators, such as GBA, it's cos I never really played many GBA games and missed the whole era. SNES/NES I really only play on my DS - I like the portability of it. If I ever use a DS emulator, it's usually experimental. For example, the first dump of GTA: Chinatown Wars didn't work on any flashcarts other than Acekard, but could be played on no$gba. We tried transferring the no$gba saves to flashcarts in the hope that they'd work, but they never did. So we then went on the patch the Arm7 with DSLazy, and I tried to patch both Arm7 & Arm9. Still didn't work.

Turns out I was closer than I thought, though. The first dump worked successfully on nearly every flashcart after an Arm9 patch was released - I just patched it in the wrong way (as in, replaced the Arm9 with another, incorrect one).

But yeah, I mainly use emulators out of laziness. Or sometimes, my Genesis / Master System crashes when played - so I use emulators as they never seem to fail me.

[squall_leonhart]

There is no way a Current PC of any kind will have any chance at emulating the 360.

[magmarock64]

Originally Posted by Squall_Leonhart

There is no way a Current PC of any kind will have any chance at emulating the 360.

What I meant was, was Microsoft going to interrogate 360 games into windows 7, seems like the sort of thing they'd do.

As for no PC powerful enough to emulate the 360 that's not entirely true. There PCs that are that powerful, but very few people would be able to afford it.

What do you think about emulation Squall?