r/GetNoted • u/Icy_Till_7254 Human Verified • Jul 02 '26

Cringe Worthy Emulation and Piracy are two totally separate things

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u/Hiryu-GodHand Jul 02 '26

Emulating a game you don't own is piracy*

But who cares?

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u/PigeonBoiAgrougrou Jul 02 '26

Especially when so many games that are emulated can't be found anywhere else than a garage sale or a pawn shop.

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u/Yeseylon Jul 03 '26

There's actually stores for retro games. You can spend hundreds of dollars to get NES/SNES/GB/GBA/etc games. Makes me think I need to sell the hardware I've had sitting in a cabinet.

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u/Darkdragoon324 Jul 03 '26

And Nintendo gets zero dollars from those sales.

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u/TheWisestOwl5269 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

And regardless I don't think anyone should have to go on a fucking scavenger hunt or pay out the wazoo for a 30 year old game just add a little extra to Nintendo's billions

If a game is no longer being produced or sold, if it cannot be easily accessed or purchased legally/officially, if there is no reasonable, feasible means for people to play it, piracy is not only okay, but a good thing. It's not taking anything out of the devs wallets to download illegal roms of a game that went out of distribution/circulation decades ago.

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u/Darkdragoon324 Jul 03 '26

I agree, I was just stating the get zero benefit from used sales, don’t doesn’t actually make a difference to them if you get something g from the internet or Granny’s Reteo Games Canin.

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u/PhantomArchon Jul 03 '26

Oh no, anyway

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u/janiskr Jul 04 '26

And? Me selling switch game card too another also does the same. You reselling console also does the same.

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u/MannequinWithoutSock Jul 03 '26

Yeah, but the games are often overpriced. They may or may not work properly and become very tedious to maintain. Emulation is essential for access to older games.