Emulators are entirely legal and legitimate, and eveb essential.
Equating piracy with emulators is just nonsense from the publishing industry. If you own a game and a console its perfectly legal to rip the ROM to play on your own device. The games industry don’t like that because they dont want you to own anything and just be paying serfs renting your console and games.
Emulators are used by people who pirate, but the illegal bit is the piracy not the emulator. And its worth remembering that piracy is a civil legal matter not criminal for individuals in most jurisdictions. The games industry (and lots of other IP holders) love to murky the water there too. There are certainly criminal organisations making money out of piracy but the end users are not criminals. And the “cost” is usually imagined and massively inflated - they talk about lost sales but there is no guarentee people who pirate would have spent a penny on the pirated content.
Emulators are entirely legal and legitimate, and eveb essential.
Equating piracy with emulators is just nonsense from the publishing industry. If you own a game and a console its perfectly legal to rip the ROM to play on your own device. The games industry don’t like that because they dont want you to own anything and just be paying serfs renting your console and games.
Emulators are used by people who pirate, but the illegal bit is the piracy not the emulator. And its worth remembering that piracy is a civil legal matter not criminal for individuals in most jurisdictions. The games industry (and lots of other IP holders) love to murky the water there too. There are certainly criminal organisations making money out of piracy but the end users are not criminals. And the “cost” is usually imagined and massively inflated - they talk about lost sales but there is no guarentee people who pirate would have spent a penny on the pirated content.