Understood. I'm not sure what the rules are around here, but I think talk of emulating might be prohibited. I know a lot of other forums have rules like that. We'll take this conversation out of the thread. (Please don't hurt me Fox)
I dont know about the other admin, but I actually prefer to see people on here talking about emulation/modding/etc. Its taboo on the NA forums cause those people are way too concerned about the perceived value of stuff but as for me, I want to know how to do it and what not so that I can play the games I want to at the cost I want to.
I pretty much agree w/ this.
The way that I see it, there's Two different 'kinds' of "talking about emulation" - depending & varying, mainly, on three things:
- the people involved in the conversation,
- the tone & context of the conversation, and (possibly, the most important one)
- the *
motivation* of the conversation.
As a big fan & proponent of taking things on a case-by-case basis, IMO, this site + its current community of 'regulars' & active members...should have no problems discussing such things in both a mature (and "proper") way.
"
Proper" meaning (and, getting back to & tying into the previously mentioned tone, context, and motivation), that - I'd say that 99%+ of those members that would be discussing it here, would be discussing it for the *right* reasons, stemming from the *right* motivations.
What I mean is that, there's obviously a world of difference between, say, Bobster-ino giving Kashell a hand to help him get a game, patch, translation, etc up & running, so Kash can play the game vs. some new & unknown user, member, and/or poster here - in their 1st post in our "Introduction" thread - asking for help in learning how he can mass-produce current & recent games by the hundreds...so he can make a living by selling them and, by stealing IP's & profitting at the expense & loss of the game's rightful creators & makers.
tl;dr = one is okay, well-intentioned, and tolerable *BUT* the other one is not
