Did you ever play them back in the day? I emulated old games for years before I realized how much some of them were designed to be viewed on a CRT. CRT shaders have gotten to be pretty good these days, and it does a lot for the experience for me.
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Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I’ve finally bitten the bullet and tried emulation. I can just say the sheer amount of possible playable games is enough so supply multiple lifetimes.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Katana314@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Emulation seems neat to me, but I know behind every comment on it there’s a whispered implication: Piracy. Very few people are imaging their own game discs. That unfortunately makes it less appealing to me, especially as trustworthiness shifts at many of those sites.
rtxn@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Most of those games are no longer being sold outside secondary markets (used games, collectibles, that sort). Neither the publisher nor the developers will ever profit from a “legitimate” sale.
For other games that are still being sold on first-party marketplaces, which is more or less limited to Switch 1 games, you tell me why Nintendo deserves to be treated charitably.
mohab@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I mean, if you can find and afford the games, yeah, buy them. Problem is most of the games people need to emulate are unavailable or astronomically expensive, and that’s even if you live in the west/Japan… if you leave in the rest of the world, forget it.
Rinn@awful.systems 3 weeks ago
Yup, Nintendo in particular has a bad habit of just sitting on a bunch of old games, keeping them unavailable on modern system despite the fact that there’s clearly a market for it. And occasionally they’ll reach into their great big bag of classics, pull something out and say “we’ve done the bare minimum so you can run this on our current gen system (Switch), that will be 50 dollars for a 20 year old game”.
chunes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
roms aren’t really a piracy vector, though. The worst they can really do is try to trick people into downloading and executing something that isn’t a rom
smeg@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Depending on the system it can be really easy to dump/rip your own discs. Hacking a Wii for homebrew requires jumping through a few hoops but then you can dump Wii, GameCube, and even Gameboy games. You can dump WiiU games by inserting an SD card and going to a single web page in the browser!