Owning a legal copy makes you ten times more awesome than using a pirated copy with an emulator. Possibly even more than ten times. Why? Here's why.

Video game companies make games in order to make money. Not to entertain you, not to remain loyal to their fan base, and not to complete some sort of epic saga that you have it in your head that they ought to be working on. They do it for the money. This isn't a purely evil thing, everyone needs money in a capitalist society, and it's kind of nice to be rewarded for your efforts. However, they're not doing it out of the goodness of their own hearts. If they were, they'd get zero budget to work with and all those pretty FMVs you've grown so fond of, as well as things like half decent graphics, control and music go bye-bye. The reason being that game companies don't like to lose money, and giving away games for free would make you lose a LOT of money. When a game company loses money on a title, it suggests to them that perhaps their time and effort would be better spent on something else. This is why buying games you like ultimately helps you. When a game makes money, companies decide to make a sequel. When a game makes a LOT of money, you can guarantee it'll be around for a long time, and that other companies will put out rival franchises which will spur innovation within your series of choice (and in other series as well), and result in more interesting games being on the market.

But please, whatever you do, don't ever buy Blood Rayne. Buying mediocre games just 'cause they have b00bs is wrong. So very wrong...