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Emulators or Real Consoles?

Lord Scalgon

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    • I know, I should be ashamed of myself, but I prefer emulators mainly because certain emulators have the built-in feature of recording videos.
     
    Palkia

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    Why does having more plastic change the experience for the better? Virtual console beats everything in convenience and is also very authentic.
     
    Sheep

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    • Nothing beats console for me either.. all emulators really give me that's worthwhile are speed-up functions, haha. Other than that I'd rather the actual console just because it feels better.
     

    Calm Enigma

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    Despite the fact that downloading ROMs on your computer and having an emulator can be endless gaming, I would rather buy the actual game from a shop to give credit to the developer, and it just feels ... Right when you play games on a console and if it is an older system such as a Gameboy, it has much more nostalgia.
     

    Outlier

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    Console. I actually like to support the products and franchises that bring me entertainment thank you very much.
     

    Humble Hook

    Because the Hook brings you back ~
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    After the great fire of '09, i am left with emulating everything from PS1 and N64 down on my PSP.
    Emulation all the way. For me, the deciding point is portability, and, while on pc, playing in a higher resolution than was possible at the time of the games original release.
     
    Hiatus

    Hiatus

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    It's gotta be consoles for me. As stated before, emulators just don't give you the same type of experience. :( Only time you'd ever see me playing on them is when I'm going through games that I've already played, but no longer own.
     
    Banz

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    • Consoles are way better than phone emulators.
    I don't even know what buttons I'm touching on the GBA emulator on my phone unless I'm actually looking at them. Pressing the shoulder buttons is difficult.
    The only reason I use emulators is to play hacks and games which I don't own.
     

    CrazyElectrode

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    • I refuse to use an emulator unless the game is going for an extreme asking price (like flistones surprise at dinosaur peak no way am I paying $500+ to play one game) or its to play a altered version (aka rom hack) of the game.
     

    Mirari

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    • Real consoles. Since emulators have become a pain in the ass to configure all the settings and not all of them work properly, I can't stand them anymore. The only one I use it is VBA (and, once in a while, the snes9x) because they are simple and work flawless. But all the PS1, N64 and DS I've tried never worked smoothly, always had some problem ;_;

    DS emulators were my worst experience. "You can't save on this one", "it only plays at 80% of the speed", "it randomly freezes", "you need to use gameshark to continue" ... nah. I rather not play than to play and get mad when I can't progress anymore.

    I'd say backward compatibility should be hardware instead of software, to avoid these random problems.
     
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