I do agree the whole "oh no I'm just emulating to preserve games that can't be acquired otherwise" excuse cringy.
I emulate everything, because I want to. Because piracy is cool. Because I want the entire ROM set. I'll pirate everything, I don't give a shit, I don't have noble reasons. Intellectual property means nothing to me.
Charging $20 for a 20+/- year old ROM file is wild.
Like holy shit, not even a remake or anything (I guess it wpuld be a remake of a remake?).
Pokemon Infinite Fusion is free.
Honestly one of the final nail in the coffin for me wanting anything to do with Nintendo was their shitty little ROM subscription service. Like not only are they charging you money for access to ancient ROMs, they have the gall to make it so you lose access the moment you stop paying. Gross. Obligatory "all games companies suck and do this." But man, fuck Nintendo. Pirate, emulate, fuck gaming companies. They've enshittified past the point of return now.
Noooo, piracy is hurting Nintendo!!
Piracy is hurting Nintendo!
(Nintendo made a debt slave out of Gary Bowser, so they're never seeing another fucking coin from me)
Emulation is currently being used to try & hurt Nintendo's revenue
damn, i wish it worked
My uncle works at nintendo and he said its okay to emulate their games
amazing this person posted about this like 100 times in the last 24 hours, lmao
Oh no, not Nintendo's revenue!
(I admit I have always loved Nintendo's games but that love applies solely to the creativity and skill of its laborers, not the profit-maximizing corporate entity)
“See Daddy Nintendo, I have defended the honor of your slop franchise riding on nostalgia! Please love me Daddy Nintendo!”
They forgot the part where the product has to be worthwhile to buy like adding cool new features or quality of life improvements maybe even online multiplayer to make it worth buying. But no its gonna be the rom repackaged in a shitter emulator likely running entirely on stolen emulator code like everything else Nintendo has done. Does this dweeb forget Nintendo couldnt even be bothered to emulate their own games properly for the worthless switch online service?
Pokémon might be the rare exceptionnwhere emulation is missing a key feature, which is interoperability with other games in the series. You can't move your captured pokémon up the series to more recent games, unless that's changed since I last checked.
Even so, I'm not spending 20 on a game I don't get to keep forever. Fuck that
In the crowds that I hang out with, paying for something when you can get it for free makes you a sucker.
“Emulation is currently being used to try & hurt Nintendo’s revenue”
User name checks out.
i can already play that on my switch 
But what if i take short position on nintendo stock, and then pirate their games 
i wanted to comment "that's bait" but the user's twitter history proved me wrong... wow
$20 for FRLG when you can literally downloads thousands of much better romhacks based on FRLG ALONE for free. And that's before mentioning all the Emerald romhacks, or even the rare Ruby/Sapphire ones.
Nintendo could literally release this for free on the NSO service, but because doing it this way gets them more money, this is what they decide on. It's not even like they released a FRLG remake with completely new features to justify the price lmao
But if they can't rent seek on the same games for a third time what will they do to fill their platinum bowls?
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