You’ve probably seen the raging debate among gaming enthusiasts: emulation “right or wrong?” This video essay aims to explore, in detail, the morality of emu...

You’ve probably seen the raging debate among gaming enthusiasts: emulation “right or wrong?” This video essay aims to explore, in detail, the morality of emu…

  • @ganoo_slash_linux
    3•1 year ago

    I don’t think emulation is going anywhere. Well, it may become more illegal than it already is, but that’s not going to stop many people from continuing. We are already too good at file/software sharing and preservation.

    The ‘legal’ part of emulation (with precedent) is the development of emulator software through reverse engineering a console system. The angle Nintendo+co is most likely to attack is that emulator software allows users to circumvent first-party security restrictions that are meant to make games run only on authorized hardware, thus violating the DMCA.

    • thingsiplayOP
      8•1 year ago

      @ganoo_slash_linux The problem with emulation isn’t the emulator part, but the games itself. My main concern are games and systems that will be streaming only in the future. This would make it impossible to preserve the interactive games.

      • TwilightVulpine
        5•1 year ago

        There is a whole lot of mobile games that as far as I know already have been lost to the shutdown of servers and can’t be brought back at all. It’s just tragic.

      • moon_matter
        1•1 year ago

        My main concern are games and systems that will be streaming only in the future.

        I doubt that it will ever become the main way to consume games for several reasons.

        1. It cuts out far too many customers with bad internet
        2. It doesn’t offer any advantages over a console, which offers ease of use and a standard hardware configuration. It’s equivalent at best.
        3. People are underestimating how difficult or expensive setting up and maintaining the infrastructure for streaming games is.
        • thingsiplayOP
          2•1 year ago

          @moon_matter It does not need to be the main way. I’m just concerned about those specific titles that are streaming only, or some publisher who only publish games this way.