24th August 2004, 12:36 PM
I happen to have a few emulators on my computer, like my PS1 emulator. Emulation itself isn't inherantly harmful. Nintendo themselves has made a number of NES emulators for various systems in the past.
What I end up using my emulators for is things like letting other people play my PS1 games when I'm busy already using my PS2 (and am too lazy to bother setting up my old PS1, also I wanted to see how good a job they do anyway :D).
And yes, I've played more than a few fan games. I tend to have a problem playing anything based on a game I don't own, but I have a metric ton of Super Mario Bros 1 hacks :D.
What I end up using my emulators for is things like letting other people play my PS1 games when I'm busy already using my PS2 (and am too lazy to bother setting up my old PS1, also I wanted to see how good a job they do anyway :D).
And yes, I've played more than a few fan games. I tend to have a problem playing anything based on a game I don't own, but I have a metric ton of Super Mario Bros 1 hacks :D.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)