SNES Classic Edition Pre-orders Available Right Now In The US [UPDATE: SOLD OUT]

@davillain-: I need to ask you an amateur question since I see your post here and I don't feel like googling a bunch of BS. Where do you get the best SNES/64/gamecube emulators? I just built my first PC and I prob wont touch these games (too blown away from the graphics upgrade from my Ps4), lol, but it would be cool to dick around with them time to time. I remember many years ago trying to get into this with a shit PC but every website was BS or just didn't work.

@davillain-: *Cough* SNES Classic *Cough*

Sure there were like 10-20 years when SNES was dead, though there was a huge pile of games from Super Mario Bros. to Final Fight to TMNT relaunched on PS2, Xbox Live, Virtual Console etc. So downloading lets say Donkey Kong Country you don't own but could easily buy in a store for another system yeah I'd say that's stealing.

It's a fine line, as they say you're not supposed to modify consoles and stuff either, but at some point it really stops mattering. Likewise with for SNES games example it's like case by case decision. Perhaps there was some reason to really get an old SNES game that hasn't been around since 1995, but by that logic you should now get rid of the file and buy a SNES classic full price (If Nintendo didn't f with the unit numbers that is. Though it's still like a big concert or movie, just because you didn't get a ticket you shouldn't go rogue and somehow compensate for the "betrayal")

And if we want to get REALLY metaphilosophical then one could say that by getting a "grey area" game for free you are getting entertainment. Without the said game you probably would have seeked for other entertainment, possibly giving someone money.

Though with all the billions of people it's a mess. For a long time I've been thinking the companies should just make some donation sites. Like if you really wanted some old game and got it from some shady place, you could still somehow donate money to the makers.

@davillain-: it is stealing, its only not stealing when you own the orignal cart.....lol you reasons for it not being stealing dont apply, you cant go to a single rom site without a big banner saying IF YOU OWN THE GAME.

@davillain-: It is indeed stealing, but since Nintendo are idiots and doesn't care about their real fans as much as creating a rare product, I will let it slide.

@sellingthings: .....so i cant steal my 970 back from a friend i sold it to, because i owned it once so i always own it?????its not stealing????you need proof, saying i owned the legend of zelda on nes doesnt prove i own it nor would a judge say , he owned it 25 years ago so its ok. lol youre just trying to justify stealing. roms are illegal unless you have the games physically in hand and are using the roms as backups that is all.

@computernoises: If I could download a car, you better believe I'd do it, as would everyone.

@7tizz: In your opinion; If I own the game by legal methods, but i'm too lazy to connect the console to the tv and prefer to play it in an emulator; does it counts as stealing?

@7tizz: For the record, I'm against piracy and emulation isn't consider stealing if and only if that product is no longer being supported by the actual company.

Emulation is only stealing when a product is still in mass production like Wii U for example, that would be stealing indeed and I'm against that!

@battousai611: If you would re-read my post, it clearly stated I bought one to PLAY and one to save..moron.