/vr/ - Retro Games

Why are people so anti-emulator when it comes to retro gaming on modern displays?
I see people buying shitty upscalers or destroying old consoles for things like Gameboy Consolizers and HDMI mods when a modern emulation box would produce the exact image they're after. if not better, with much less hassle and more often than not a lot cheaper especially considering pirated games are free.

We're not in the dark ages of emulation either, we're at the point where shit like the Wii U is emulating well and unless you're pedantic beyond pedantic (in which case you'd probably want to be playing on a CRT anyway), emulation of things like NES, SNES, Genesis and Gameboy consoles is completely fine.