Quote Originally Posted by Skyblade View Post
Largely, the existence of official Virtual Consoles has made these irrelevant. The only time I emulate these days is for games that are not legally accessible where I live (release your games worldwide, and I'll stop emulating them!). These days, I can find almost everything on a Virtual Console, PS store, etcetera. So it's not really worth it any more.
What do you mean by worth it? You can't play PS2 games on neither PS3 (save for a very limited number of PS2 classics) or PS4 (although they are working on it now only because MS caught them off guard with xb360 compatibility). You also can't play your existing game library by inserting PS2 games into your PS3 or PS4, while you can do this with an emulator. This is of course assuming that you actually have a PS3. In the case of nintendo games, it assumes that you have a Wii or WiiU. If you don't, I would most certainly say installing a program and spending maybe half an hour configuring it is worth it. "It" being several hundred dollars in this case.

It might not be worth it for you personally, though, that's true. If you have enough money to keep buying games you've already paid for, then it's probably not worth it .

By the way, There is a working xb360 emulator and you can get playable framerates with a high end computer today. It'll probably be usable on the normal computers of 5 years into the future. A PS3 emulator isn't really anywhere close to working, however.