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So, let's talk about Emulation!

ShortyShorty touching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
edited March 2007 in Social Entropy++
Console Emulation: Right or Wrong?

I've been asked to make it very clear that several things are not to happen in this thread:

1) No links to actual emulators.

2) No links to ROMs.

3) No links to sites dedicated to dispensing the previous.

4) No discussion of the forum rule regarding console emulation, as it was handed down from on high by our glorious masters who dwell in the towers of ivory and onyx.

To kick things off:

Personally, I think emulation is moral when you are downloading and playing software which isn't manufactured anymore. If I want to play Big Sky Troopers on my computer, I damn well should be allowed. And what if I own the original cart anyway? What then?

GO!

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  • Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I will come out and say I have an SNES one. I have some fun games for it.

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  • mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    i just have hella old games and their cooresponding systems

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  • FavlaudFavlaud just straight up awful Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2007
    Emulation is how I experienced many SNES games.
    God bless you Chrono Trigger

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I actually prefer to play SNES games on my computer because I can smooth out the graphics so everything isn't all jagged.

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  • LegacyLegacy Stuck Somewhere In Cyberspace The Grid(Seattle)Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    Emulation is how I experienced many SNES games.
    God bless you Chrono Trigger

    Not the same. Finding one on eBay or somewhere and loving it right is how it should be done.

    But it still works.

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  • MeissnerdMeissnerd Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I used to get gameboy roms, but then I realised

    The fact that you can tow them around is what makes them cool

    Sitting at my computer and saving instances sucks

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  • Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I use an emulator becasue I don't have my SNES any more and I want to relive my glory days. To bad I can't get Mega Man X or Kirby Super Star to work :(

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  • mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    ZeroZero wrote: »
    I use an emulator becasue I don't have my SNES any more and I want to relive my glory days. To bad I can't get Mega Man X or Kirby Super Star to work :(

    do you want one of my mega man x games

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  • AximAxim Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    i beat final fantasy tactics on my pocket pc so i guess that makes me a proponent of emulation

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I find that anymore, I am way too lazy for illegal downloads of anything.

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  • LeliLeli __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2007
    Apparently if you own the original cartridge anyway, it's okay.

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2007
    there is a way to get blank GBA cartridges and put the ROMs on there
    i can not say how

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  • IpseDixitIpseDixit Treat me like a pirate And give me that bootyRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Emulators have helped me through many exceptionally boring lectures. Also they have started many conversations. People sitting next to or behind me all going "Are you playing SNES? Cool!"

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  • mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    i've wanted to play ultima 4 since forever, but even though i finally tracked down the cartridge and my nes is busted, i still won't dl the emulator for it because it would not be the same

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  • AximAxim Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    my fondest memory is when the early snes emulators could run ff3 around '95 i played it on my badass 386sx laptop rocking probably 2fps. oh to be young again

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  • HomelessHomeless Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    You can run emulators on your dreamcast

    that is pretty fun

    but nothing touches the original consoles

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited March 2007
    i think emulation is okay once a thing has gone out of print and such

    like sega doesn't make money from sales of genesis consoles and games anymore so really the only hangup is the fact that they are obligated to protect their intellectual property or risk losing it or somesuch

    if it is something that you can still easily buy then emulating it just makes you a big cheapskate dickhead

    a lot of this moral grey area could be solved if some of these companies liscenced official emulators and then sold game roms for like a couple bucks apiece

    then you could play games on your computer, the companies could protect their copyrights, some money would be made, etc.

    kinda like the virtual console on the wii, but for pc and such, you know what i'm sayin'

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  • mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    some of my favorite games i have bought online for like five dollars

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  • Swishy RaccoonSwishy Raccoon Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I don't see what's wrong about if the people who made the games don't make money from them any more anyway except through licensing and further selling of emulated/ported software. The only reason it is illegal is because these days copyright infringement is synonymous with theft. I could go read more details about copyright law but I don't want to.

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited March 2007
    dosbox is a good emulator

    it lets me play a lot of games that i have

    i have Duke Nukem 3d and Rise of the Triad and Doom 2 all set up to run on my network

    i felt really good when i got that setup

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  • LeliLeli __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2007
    Man, now I feel like playing The Lion King on SNES

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  • HomelessHomeless Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    you can get a port of duke nukem 3d on windows

    i dunno about legality but it works great and it adds a ton of settings

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  • mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Leli wrote: »
    Man, now I feel like playing The Lion King on SNES

    that game kicked ass

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  • AximAxim Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    i live in canada so basically after learning that police do not show up at your door after you download commander keen 2 off a bbs it has been a wonderful and crazy ride free of ethical dilemma and consequence

    and the lion king was a ridiculous game now i want to load it up shit

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited March 2007
    Homeless wrote: »
    you can get a port of duke nukem 3d on windows

    i dunno about legality but it works great and it adds a ton of settings

    i think 3dRealms released the source code for Duke 3d and if so then windows ports are legal

    but i like playing the original version on dosbox because it is more authentic and such

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  • HomelessHomeless Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    ahh yeah

    i just loves killing me some pig cops

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited March 2007
    rise of the triad works kinda spottily

    which sucks because it is my favorite



    hells of DIPSTICK

    WOOF

    dog mode motherfucker

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  • mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    the only emulator i got bought was toe jam and earl for an ex gf

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited March 2007
    you know, that's kinda weird

    i'm always on about how i hate fps games

    but i love doom 2 and rott and duke 3d and dark forces and so forth

    what is it about modern fps games that irritates me so damn bad

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  • SephSeph Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    knob

    could it be because none of them are any different than Turok

    It's just Turok over and over they don't grow really.

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited March 2007
    that makes sense

    because god, i fuckin' hate turok so much

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  • SephSeph Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Turok was the first FPS to focus on gimmicks

    bow n arrow time gun fighting dinosaurs time traveling

    all games have followed the turok model: Gimmicks

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  • SephSeph Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Just look at Gears of War (i own it)

    Hammer of Dawn (barely get to use it)
    Bowcaster Gun
    Chainsaw Melee
    Spider Boss
    Krill

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited March 2007
    duke nukem forever is going to be the worst game ever made and that kinda sucks

    they should just make some new levels for duke 3d

    i'd be cool with that

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  • SephSeph Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    what is the last game that really blew you away

    i can't think of any for me...Ninja Gaiden was awesome, but a little to plasticy

    hmmm

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited March 2007
    wait, but half life 2 was just another fps with a gimmick (physics cannon)

    how come i love it so much

    my relationship with this genre is very confusing to me

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  • AximAxim Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    oh man i still have the turok music in my head i loved that game. not a huge fps guy but come on giant ass crystal beam weapon that explodes half the screen that was pretty okay

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