I stil dont get why we can't openly talk about ISO'S and stuff

[jesustlife]

Hi, I follow rules. I'm ok with law and order. But I dont get that argument. Emulation, no matter how you look at it, promotes piracy. Chankast doesn't run original games, as fas as I know, so in it's case, it promotes piracy more than any other emulator. Sure, but you have to make and ISO of your own games...yeah, yeah, why on Earth would I do that if I have an original Dreamcast? Anyway, I just like to take that out every now and then. God bless, remember, dont ask me or anyone else about ISO'S.

[Clements]

Hi, I follow rules. I'm ok with law and order. But I dont get that argument. Emulation, no matter how you look at it, promotes piracy. Chankast doesn't run original games, as fas as I know, so in it's case, it promotes piracy more than any other emulator.

No more than other emulators. All emulators besides certain Optical Disk-based consoles require special hardware to dump games.

Sure, but you have to make and ISO of your own games...yeah, yeah, why on Earth would I do that if I have an original Dreamcast?

Off the top of my head, emulation has the following advantages over a real console:

- Higher resolutions
- Allows better filtering
- Cheats
- Save states
- Portable if you have a laptop (no TV needed)
- Movie recording, audio logging etc.
- Model and texture dumping
- Play homebrew games
- Facilitate rom hacking and development
- Quicker than rumaging around drawers for CDs, setting up the console etc.
- Use any controller you want, even the original with adapters

... and so on.

[Trotterwatch]

Clements wins

This thread has now been conclusively answered in the first reply, so I'll close it now.