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Originally Posted by TheLastFortnight

Well I guess there's nothing wrong in playing copies of very old games such as ISO's on emulators, because they're very old and hard to find, so even the companies themselves don't mind the emulation of their old games, especially because they help to divulges to people the sequels of these games.

Also some old Japanese games were never released in English so the ROM version playing through emulators are the only way for some people to play them.

Buying pirate copies for me has at least one severe consequence - most of consoles have protection against backup copies in order to prevent people playing the non-original versions of the titles, meaning even if you buy a game you can't just copy it and burn again to play in the case you damage the original. Unless you use a mod chip of course.

Also some companies disponibles their old games to download for very low prices, if you're using a modern console and want to play old games.

Thats true