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wiggy:
One way around the old "fear of damaging something that I paid a small fortune for" is to buy the cart, stash it, and play it from a flash cart instead. Problem solved, plus it's quasi-legal ;)
larryinc64:
Yeah, but it kind of makes the point of owning the cart pointless, but "quasi-legal" I guess to have the rom. I normally play my roms on my Wii.
wiggy:
--- Quote from: larryinc64 on July 20, 2012, 01:32:08 AM ---Yeah, but it kind of makes the point of owning the cart pointless, but "quasi-legal" I guess to have the rom. I normally play my roms on my Wii.
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It all depends on how you look at it. The other nice thing about a flash cart is that you don't have to worry about an old backup battery crapping out on you in the middle of a long RPG or anything like that. My next SNES purchase will likely be a flash cart. Plus, then I can play a lot of the mods/homebrews/etc that I've only been able to play on my via emulation on my PC or another console until now.
mojoeskateco:
Before I started to heavily collect for NES and SNES I struggled with the idea of just playing these on a modded Wii and selling my carts.
I did not really consider the legal aspect as the majority these games aren't really available at retail anymore (yes some are digital now) so developers would not be loosing any cash.
I just realized that I love the felling of hooking up the old systems and playing them. This site also helped.
Being able to display games in UGCs is amazing.
I may consider a flash cart as well, for RPG games as was mentioned. I had the power go out while playing Lufia a while back and the surge wiped the saves.
AO007:
Back in the mid 2000's, emulation helped me settle a few purchase decisions(Mostly GBA games).
Nowadays, I acknowledge that it's illegal and I try not to use it, especially when I have the Virtual Console at my disposal. About the only thing I use an emu for is to play games not available in my region. Still illegal, I suppose? I just don't believe in importing, really.