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Yes I know they mention roms as well but they put them in the same question so they can sneakily look as if they're claiming emulation is also illegal.
Yeap there are some semantics here because the reply doesn't directly talk about emulation but that the context of the question posted is illegal.
My point is Nintendo using emulation for their own games is not illegal.
In fact Vitual Console on Nintendo devices is exactly that... emulation.
It is called L-CLASSICS and developed by own Nintendo.
My instance on emulation.
Emulation by itself is not illegal.
But most if not all emulators are illegal because allow (and some even helps to dump ROM to play on it) to play games that it shouldn't.
The legal emulators are basically dead nowdays... Bleem was legal because it could only run legal disc PS1 copies for example.
Any emulator that allow to run dumb roms or anything like are illegal to me.
And that makes me question...
Why emulators developers doesn't put some check to see if the physical copy is legal and/or the digital copy is owned by the guy trying to play it?
Because nobody cares... they want to play all games independent of being legal or illegal.
The sole purpose to develop a emulator is to play illegal games.
They don't try to be in the legal terms.
