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zherok:

--- Quote from: Ashall on June 12, 2012, 06:56:52 AM ---I can understand pirating movies and tv shows since you can say it's almost the same as recording something on your tv. But pirating video games is just sad. But I guess if you're too incredibly broke, it's fine... But damn if you love the game ten bucks is an incredibly fair price. Just buy the damn thing...

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I imagine if you're doing it for one type of media you're really just trying to excuse yourself if you abstain from another type. It's piracy regardless. And kind of ridiculous to argue on an anime swapping website.

Most anime isn't likely to show up on any TV the majority of us have access to, and the physical media (especially Japanese Blu-rays) are a hell of a lot more expensive than what we pay for brand new localized games (nevermind 10-20 year old ones like these.)

Regardless, as I suggested in my first post in the thread, emulators for disc-based consoles work with the original discs (at least, I've yet to run into one that wouldn't accept actual discs; though you could just make your own ISO from the real deal.) You don't have to bootleg anything to emulate them.

At this point a PS2 emulator runs better than my actual PS2 does, thanks to a dying laser. And the 23" monitor I use is better than the 20" TV I'd have to use. Hell, you can even bump the texture resolution up and have the games looking better than they would on the actual hardware.

Ashall:
Yeah because I'm so blatantly against it... I just don't understand why Penguin thinks ten dollars for a great game is so much money. But I'm done with this thread, it obviously isn't about great things to buy but rather, why when I can just pirate it.

Also zherok your argument is valid but honestly are seriously paying for physical copies of PS1 games to play on your computer? Doesn't sound advantageous for you financially opposed to 9.99 download from PSN. Have you even seen the prices for most classics on Amazon and Ebay?

zherok:

--- Quote from: Ashall on June 12, 2012, 08:49:41 AM ---Also zherok your argument is valid but honestly are seriously paying for physical copies of PS1 games to play on your computer? Doesn't sound advantageous for you financially opposed to 9.99 download from PSN. Have you even seen the prices for most classics on Amazon and Ebay?

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I usually keep them in iso format since it's easier to play them that way emulated than it is to bother with the discs. But as I stated in my first post, I HAVE most of my original PSX games (as well as my PS2 ones.)

So no, I wouldn't like buying a physical copy of say, Suikoden II just to play it on my computer. But I already own one, so I don't have to (sadly not on PSN anyway, though the first is, apparently.) I'm not saying you shouldn't buy them on PSN, just the "why are you bootlegging games" argument sounds silly on bakabt, and I suggested that you don't have to be pirating anything just because you're playing them emulated.

Ashall:
Well I was never addressing you or emulation. I sadly scratched or sold all my PSX games a long time ago. So for me to rebuild my library, PSN is perfect. Yeah not all games are on there but most of the good ones are. Compare buying FF VII from Ebay and PSN if you want to see my point.

Yeah the pirating video game argument was silly but I just couldn't stop laughing from him not willing to pay 10 dollars for a game that will last quite awhile before he finishes it. I was pretty vague (now reads back) at first but I was talking about pirating PS1 classics not video games in general.

Also I might look into PS2 emulation since my PS2 is getting old. What's a good emulator that reads disc, because I'm a bit too lazy to dump them as ISOs. And my PS3 isn't backwards compatible which I still have a hard time getting over.

FlyinPenguin:

--- Quote from: Ashall on June 12, 2012, 08:11:58 AM ---If you game that much you need to see a therapist. Anyway PSPs are cheap and you can transfer games to and fro a PS3. And if you don't have a PS3 you chose the wrong next-gen console. Anyway what I was trying to get at if you like the game, support the people that made it.

If you like it buy it, simple as that.

I mean it's t-e-n dollars... People can be so incredibly stingy...

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Again, it's simply about choice not finances.  It's not that I nor anyone else spends that much time gaming, but rather I want the choice to choose my platform. Why would I buy a ported game simply for that single console? Let's remove the piracy for a second and simply make this a matter of choice. I can buy most original Playstation games for $10 give or take (obviously excluding rare titles). Doing so gives me a ridiculous amount of choice as to which platform I play it on. Why should i pay $10 on the PSN network for a single platform port when I can either buy it used for the same price (which btw does not contribute to the original developer but only the individual who is selling the used copy) or get it for free? So I can buy it used and deprive the original developer or pirate it which deprives the original developer (same end result). But why in the hell would I buy from the original developer only to be restricted in the way I play the game?

My whole point is the PSN network's classics are not nearly the "value" you think they are, just the XBox Live's classics are not nearly the "value" others think they are.

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