It's really impossible to overstate how importance emulation is for game preservation. There are even some protections for preserving live-service games that have gone defunct, within limits.
For your own personal playing... I think everyone has their own view on it. In my eyes if you can opt for some kind of legal way to try these games, even without paying, you should--a lot of local libraries carry physical disc or cartridge video games . I think that's part of why physical media is so important--you can check out a physical console game from the library or borrow it from a friend, but it's much harder to do that with a digital game, especially on a platform with strict DRM protections. I'm a librarian and one of my responsibilities is running the library's gaming collections; I'm very proud that I'm able to pick up a lot of indie games that don't get full physical runs and that we still carry a lot of older 3DS games that might be harder for people to buy. And there's a lot of love for them in the community, too.
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Re: Talking Point: Where Do You Stand On "Ethical Emulation"?
It's really impossible to overstate how importance emulation is for game preservation. There are even some protections for preserving live-service games that have gone defunct, within limits.
For your own personal playing... I think everyone has their own view on it. In my eyes if you can opt for some kind of legal way to try these games, even without paying, you should--a lot of local libraries carry physical disc or cartridge video games . I think that's part of why physical media is so important--you can check out a physical console game from the library or borrow it from a friend, but it's much harder to do that with a digital game, especially on a platform with strict DRM protections. I'm a librarian and one of my responsibilities is running the library's gaming collections; I'm very proud that I'm able to pick up a lot of indie games that don't get full physical runs and that we still carry a lot of older 3DS games that might be harder for people to buy. And there's a lot of love for them in the community, too.
Re: Hardware Review: Should You Ditch Your GameCube Discs For The GC Loader?
Damn, this is tempting. Are the Gamecube screws as soft and easy to strip as the Switch ones?