- cross-posted to:
- pcgaming@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- pcgaming@lemmy.ca
Crazy progress happening crazy fast. Some people are already porting Switch 2 games to PC via AI recompilation.
Plus, someone earlier shared Mario Kart World running on Switch 1 (albeit buggy and incomplete).
Maybe a few.
But let’s stop lying, people mostly emulate because they don’t want to pay.
I have hundreds of games on steam. Emulation is a service problem.
Or don’t have over 200€ to spend on videogames.
A lot of it can also just being having control of the stuff you purchase. If you have a copy of the game that you control, they cannot take it away from you and you have the ability to emulate it to beyond the restrictions of the original hardware.
True. Im still playing digimon world on my ps1 disk, but i also have an identical rip on my PC if it dies one day.
Also a lot easier to rom hack a file than a disk/console
I don’t want to pay for a console just to play a few exclusive and then have regionlocked store. Not having some great indies like Stardew in my country’s store, and i have to go a great length to buy games, that is not going to happen. I’ll just get a steamdeck or equivalent and emulate the exclusive.
I emulate because Nintendo are cunts and I want to be able to back up my saves
I’d gladly pay, if that were an option. But maybe I’m not like most people.