/vr/ - Retro Games

If you have the money to waste on buying the original hardware and all the games to go with it, go right ahead. Sometimes the hardware will clearly be the superior option (like with the N64) or basically the only option (like with Saturn or Dreamcast), but everything before this emulates totally fine 99% of the time and with practically zero hassle (no dealing with plugins and settings and shit). The differences are ususally so incredibly miniscule that you'd have to be going out of your way to find them (very slightly different colour palattes and things like that). Get yourself a good gamepad and you're all set, you might even have one already if you own an PS3/4 or whatever. You don't need to waste money, you don't need to waste space. You can use savestates in older games without save systems if you wanna quit and come back to them later without leaving your machine on all night long, and you can use them to bypass annoying password systems too. That's definitely one significant advantage that emulation has over the original hardware that most anti-emulation types will always ignore (or laughably try to label it as 'cheating').

Really the main arguments for the original hardware are that:

>In a minority of cases, it really is the the vastly superior option.
>You like collecting things that, half of the time, you play once and let them gather dust.
>It just 'feels' better. You the tangibility of physical things
>You've got a boner for nostalgia and you're desperately trying to relive your childhood.
>You're a retro elitist. You think anyone who doesn't play on the original hardware is 'poor' or 'underage' or just isn't playing the game 'properly'. Playing on the original hardware inexplicably makes you feel better than other people (lot of these weirdos in this thread right now).
>You honestly either have a lot of money to spare on useless things or you have absolutely nothing else to spend your money on.