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yep. why? do you understand the only reason people get an emulator is to pirate roms?
Emulation itself doesn't constitute piracy.
Now, it does facilitate it because all you need is a ROM from any source.
However, saying emulators should be prosecuted for it would be the same as arguing that Steam's Proton should be banned because you can launch pirated games through it.
The real perpetrators are those who distribute pirated content. But going against those would be much more difficult, so they target emulators instead.
If that’s the limit of your knowledge, I can’t help you. Read more on the subject maybe.
To play games they own on other systems? To make official rereleases of old games, which now happens pretty often?
You honestly believe people download emulators to play games they own already? That means they have the console still.......... Sooooo... Oh no you're right. People buy tears of the kingdom and then buy a $1200 PC to run it instead of a switch. My bad. You're totally right. Emulation is in no way linked to liracy whatsoever. Even I haven't pirated 3 million games from all systems. In fact I purchased ALL of my games super legally just so I could emulate them 🫠
You are wrong. PS4 Emulator is used by most of the Legal Bloodborne Gamer who own game and PS4. To get 60 FPS patches.
Oh cool one example. Nice.
I didn't buy a $1200 PC to play TotK. I already had a $1200 PC and decided I wanted to use it to play the game I paid for (and dumped with my own console) with better performance.
Lmao I'm sure you "dumped" it mmmmhm hahahah
Not sure why I'm bothering with this, more trouble than a troll's worth, to be honest.
That's amazing. I also got TOTK on switch and played in yuzu. But I didn't pay a cent for Mario wonder 🤷. You seem to think I have a problem with emulators. I'm just saying I understand why a company would want to shut it down.
That's not the only thing you said. You also implied emulation is only used for piracy, and then got rude and condescending when people rebutted your statement.
So if I want to run some of my old games from before 2000, I need to run a Windows 98 or XP computer, because you think emulators should be illegal? I'm not going to install windows 98 on an actual computer, I emulate it so I can run the games I legally own.
That's vastly different. No one is buying a Nintendo game and then downloading ryujinx to play it since you don't download Nintendo games on your PC.
Quote "you understand the only reason people get an emulator is to pirate roms?" is your statement. You're referencing all emulators, hence my comment.