You might not be, but the uploader and hoster might. They're just covering their own asses with that notice. They probably never cared about the downloaders other than for ad traffic, if that was a thing yet.
Legal ones are fine, the rest are evil.
It's fine. It's the same as downloading/torrenting/streaming music and movies.
Never even tried it tbh.
Only if I already own/paid for the game, I do it for modding purposes.
You might not be, but the uploader and hoster might. They're just covering their own asses with that notice. They probably never cared about the downloaders other than for ad traffic, if that was a thing yet.
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If I can't legally buy either the console or the game from a first-party source, then an emulator is a non-problem in my eyes.
If the publisher doesn't give a smurf enough to sell it, why should you feel guilty for emulating it?.
I do not use them but I think it is funny how mis-informed people on twitch are to use emulators all the time with the reason "I have the original game" and so think downloading the game is okay because obviously most people using emulators do not make a copy of their own copy and download it instead, even if they have the game.
OK isn't the same as legal. I think it's OK to go 5 km/h over the speed limit (and so do millions of other people), but that doesn't mean it's legal. Other things I think are OK, even if they aren't legal include not fastening my seatbelt if I'm just going to drive 50 meters, and also drink alcohol while walking around downtown on a saturday night.
There are also things that are legal that not everyone thinks is OK. Not everyone thinks it's OK with concealed carry in some american states, for example. In some middle eastern countries, it's legal to cut people's hands off for stealing. Do you think that's OK just because it's legal?
Now that I think about it, that doesn't really add up... 3 MB takes 8 minutes at 56k with 20% overhead.
Last edited by Mirage; 12-05-2015 at 02:47 PM.
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I do not know what you want from me, I am not the one saying that it is okay. And yes, I think it is okay if it is legal. There would have to be some other examples with real morally questionable decisions (like your violence ones or the use of drugs) where I would say then that even if it is legal, it is not okay. In the emulator case I do not even say that it is okay, so that reply was completely unnecessary. And yes, those people I mentioned think the use of it is okay because it is legal, which it is not (neither okay, not legal). That is exactly what I wanted to say here.
Last edited by Sephiroth; 12-05-2015 at 05:47 PM.
i rarely ever got speeds better than 1 kb/s from that website and it jumped up and down all the time... 1.5 hours might be a more truthful estimate
eventually i just kept the rom until my harddrive died in the great virus invasion of '98
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