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<blockquote data-quote="superballs" data-source="post: 137094" data-attributes="member: 341"><p>As a big fan of emulation, I find it to be one of those strange areas where legality and morality branch away from each other.</p><p></p><p>I can see a huge problem if people are emulating the XBOX360 or PS3, as while these systems aren't the latest, they are still very relevant.</p><p></p><p>XBOX/PS2/GameCube is a bit shadier territory as the hardware can still be had. The problem is with extremely inflated prices. I'm finding that run of the mill XBOX games typically go for 5-10$, but try and find Conker: Live and Reloaded and you are looking at 35-90$ minimum, some copies going for over 200$. I wish there was a way to make an offer on eBay, especially for products that are just sitting there and sitting there and sitting there.</p><p></p><p>Anything before the XBOX/PS2/GC generation, I feel is fair game, let's face it, the N64 is no longer a relevant system, regardless of the poorly supported Virtual Console. The PS1 is no longer a relevant system so it should be fair game as well. </p><p></p><p>Beyond the legal/moral argument is the importance of emulation. I think the XBOX/PS2/GC (and Dreamcast fits in that generation as well but was released earliest by far)</p><p></p><p>Video games have a very interesting history and the leaps from infancy to where we are now are a display of phenominal innovation. Consoles, controllers, games and entire genres have been defined and lost in the past 50 years. Think about it...we have what? 8 major generations of game consoles since the early 80s? That's not even counting the strange stew of an ecosystem that the gaming world was before the major players like Atari and Nintendo were part of the fray (one of the first video games ever was a modified oscilloscope). A lot of the formats of the past are lost forever without emulation. A lot of people will never know the history of the development of the technology. In fact, i think some consoles are already harder to find than ancient Roman artifacts these days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="superballs, post: 137094, member: 341"] As a big fan of emulation, I find it to be one of those strange areas where legality and morality branch away from each other. I can see a huge problem if people are emulating the XBOX360 or PS3, as while these systems aren't the latest, they are still very relevant. XBOX/PS2/GameCube is a bit shadier territory as the hardware can still be had. The problem is with extremely inflated prices. I'm finding that run of the mill XBOX games typically go for 5-10$, but try and find Conker: Live and Reloaded and you are looking at 35-90$ minimum, some copies going for over 200$. I wish there was a way to make an offer on eBay, especially for products that are just sitting there and sitting there and sitting there. Anything before the XBOX/PS2/GC generation, I feel is fair game, let's face it, the N64 is no longer a relevant system, regardless of the poorly supported Virtual Console. The PS1 is no longer a relevant system so it should be fair game as well. Beyond the legal/moral argument is the importance of emulation. I think the XBOX/PS2/GC (and Dreamcast fits in that generation as well but was released earliest by far) Video games have a very interesting history and the leaps from infancy to where we are now are a display of phenominal innovation. Consoles, controllers, games and entire genres have been defined and lost in the past 50 years. Think about it...we have what? 8 major generations of game consoles since the early 80s? That's not even counting the strange stew of an ecosystem that the gaming world was before the major players like Atari and Nintendo were part of the fray (one of the first video games ever was a modified oscilloscope). A lot of the formats of the past are lost forever without emulation. A lot of people will never know the history of the development of the technology. In fact, i think some consoles are already harder to find than ancient Roman artifacts these days. [/QUOTE]
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