Why do people choose to use PC emulators when you can just pirate for the original console? Are they stupid?
>>12435446burned cdrs and flashcarts work great if you only play a handful of consoles.once you have 15-20 systems its infinitely easier to emulate.but yes most people are retarded regardless
>>12435446CDs cost money and most computers don't have CD burners anymore, let alone any optical drive.
I haven't had a PC with a disc drive in years.I don't even own a TV anymore.
>>12435484You can buy all of those things combined for less money than I piss away on gas station food every day. There has to be limits to poorfaggotry
>>12435498>admits to being a fat retardThe point I'm making is that emulation is absolutely free, provided you already have access to a computer, which you do if you're posting here.
>buying original hardware>so you can play fake games on itWhy bother? Just emulate
I emulate games because it's convenient and I'm only concerned with the experience of actually playingYou emulate a past lived experience because you desperately wish to go back but can'tYour attempt at shaming me has backfired
>X costs money, and gives you Z>Y is free, and also gives you ZIn this vacuum, choosing Y is financially responsible. There must be notable and meaningful reasons to pick X, which for many, is often not the case.Calling this foolish only speaks to one's own financial inexperience.
Because emuniggers don’t care about qualityNo one really owns every fucking console in the world, we all use emulation for many things, but if you don’t have your favorite couple of systems just stop playing retro games and take your poser ass to some other time sink hobby
>>12435535>qualityWe're well beyond the point of having to burn CD-Rs like it's 2002.We have optical drive emulators and flash carts for almost everything worth playing.
Normalcattle can't notice the difference. As long as the game starts and you can play through it they think it works fine.
>>12435508Emulation is also complete garbage for anything past SNES, so you get what you pay forYou could pay $0 for crap, or you could pay slightly more than $0 for a lifetime of 1:1 perfect gameplay on the actual console, like what the fuck is the point of saving pennies
>>12435559>We're well beyond the point of having to burn CD-Rs like it's 2002Not if you want to play perfect PS1 you’re not
>>12435517>concerned with the experience of actually playing>plays console games through PC software developed by trannies
>>12435589>mad enough to reply
>>12435446>you can just pirate for the original console? Are they stupid?I emulate on PC because I'd rather just use my PC than have to use my old console
>>12435602>he says in a reply
>>12435575Mister exists
>>12435635A lot of trash exists
Most emufags are just kids from /v/ who never owned a console in the first place. They go for instant gratification and download shitmulators before spending the rest of their lives pretending and screeching that the thing they got while sitting in their ass just magically happens to be the best solution.
>>12435665If it works, why does it matter?>They go for instant gratification and download shitmulators before spending the rest of their lives pretending and screeching that the thing they got while sitting in their ass just magically happens to be the best solutionThis sounds a little too specific to not be projection.
>>12435446Emulation is less effort, and 99% of the time the game itself is the same experience. If you're freaking out about missing out on stuff like putting a cd in a tray and clicking a power button, then you're more interested in gaming as a concept than playing the game itself.
>>12435575Thank God I only burned the first CD from koudelka the iso from the interwebs got shit fmv or maybe I has already seen better fmv
>>12435446Emulator shills are almost exclusively poor people from the Americas. It is literally impossible to find emutards anywhere where rent costs more than $200 a week. I've moved around a lot for work and everyone I met into the hobby throughout Japan, Germany, Poland and France all had original hardware, often JP Import consoles + Everdrive. Just a reminder that anyone calling expensive hardware (PVMs, Neo Geo, Arcade Boards, Everdrives, etc) a waste of money is just a coping poorfag.
i have no nostalgia for cds. everytime i opened that ps2 tray i thought it would the last time it would work
>>12435714This black-and-white line of thinking is a symptom of autism. There are people who own and play on original hardware as well as emulate. You know that, right?
>>12435446They're indians
>>12435567Delusional unc trying to justify hoarding e-waste
>>12435446>just have 9001 devices and all this shit instead of one PC that does all>are they stupid?
>>12435783Are we really going to play pretend? 90% of the retro games worth playing are confined to SNES, PS1, PS2.
>>12435814PC alone dwarfs the library of all three
Memcards suck.Disc read errors suck.Load times suck.30+ year old cart batteries suck.
save states, fast forward, filters, custom controls
>>12435567>Emulation is also complete garbage for anything past SNESKek, you really are stuck in 2005
>>12435567>Emulation is also complete garbage for anything past SNESI hate this fucking board sometimes.>LOLOLOLOLOL GUYZ I RAN PROJECT64 IN 2003 AND IT SUXXORED!!!!!! EMULATORS HAVEN'T PROGRESSED AT ALL IN THE FOLLOWING TWENTY-THREE (23) YEARS!!!The Switch 2 which a console that just came out last year uses emulation to achieve backwards compatibility with the Switch 1. Do you have any frametime analysis or bug reports that would suggest Switch 1 games are complete garbage when played on a Switch 2?
>>12436046ok but n64 emulation really does suck still.
>>12436049It doesn't if you use a modern emulator like Ares and not ancient garbage like Project64Anyone saying N64 is bad probably doesn't even know what paraLLEl-RDP is
>>12436050I use parallel-rdp and come across plenty of errors. still perfectly playable and fine but clearly not the same level of ps1 or even gamecube, even ps2 has surpassed it at this point. Im sure ares is much better though but I cant run that on my portable setup.
>>12436064>plenty of errorsAny example?
>>12436046First of all not retro, second no one gives a fuck about Switch, third no one here is talking about emulating shit on a console
>>12436041If you think you can currently emulate a PS2 game perfectly, you haven’t actually played on a PS2.
>>12436168I literally never mentioned the PS2
>>12436173Pick any 5th gen or layer console then, emulation isn’t good for any of them
>>12435446It depends, i've had games I tried to burn on discs be region-locked or a game I wanted to burn was never released in my region so my console won't play it.
>>12436186Mednafen/Beetle PSX emulates the PS1 perfectly
ps2 emulation is fine you inbred retards, ps3 emulation actually sucks>nooooo you have to hoard 15 different consoles with peripherals muh accuracy muh input lag reeeeeeehoarders are legit mentally ill
I choose to play games in the retrogaming hobby :)
>no sprite limit>overclocking>PGXP>online play>up rendering (when it looks good)>get rid of bilinear filtering (N64/PS2)>resume savestates>embedded AI translation>play games from the other region at the correct speed without needing to hack your console>speed up/get rid of loading times>infinite memory cards>no noise from the machine (Dreamcast)>choose whatever pad you want for every machine
>>12436195I accept your concession.
>>12436313>loses>says he's wonYep, I'm on /vr/
>>>/trash/
>>12436196You don’t have to hoard, but it’s undeniably better
>>12435776Zoomers like you have no concept of ownership.
>>12436310>Here’s a list of ways to make emulation more inaccurate
>>12436460The difference an official disc vs a burned disc is that the official disc contains a good goy license you can use to scam other goys
>>12435446I emulate like 10 different consoles including handhelds.Sure I could do it for 1 or 2 consoles but I don't want to constantly swap out cables and consoles.>>12435508Anon, 80% of posters nowadays are phonefags
>>12436508Phones have plenty of emulators available these days.I don't condone phonefaggotry, however, pretending they're not computers is retarded.
>>12436508Phones are computers, and they have emulators.
>>12435446I'm the guy who started this old threadhttps://warosu.org/vr/thread/12404115I've been an emufag my whole life for any console i didn't own as a kid (5th gen and earlier). I beat Cheap Cheap Chicken 1st try when i did a disc swap for a burnt cd on my PS2 Slim like the last guy in the thread suggested (still filtered by the toilet level). It was incredibly eye opening, I can never go back. maybe FAGPA shit is a good middle ground
>>12435498There are limits, that's the point you fucking dullard.
>>12436310Physical hoarders btfo
>>12437180>says nothingIs your porridge brain trying to connect some dots eventually or should you just be ignored
