Have you had fun playing backups of games you legally own on physical media lately? Dumped any BIOS files from the old consoles you own?
I'm sure you have- after all, we're all about doing things legally and being above board here, aren't we? :wink:
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In all honesty, I get why the official forums, subreddits, discords and what have you for different emulator projects have the anti-piracy stances they do- they don't want years of work being cease and desisted by Sony or Nintendo because of people linking to roms. I still think the pretense is funny
I did the same thing and played it through the online private servers. Game is still a blast and introducing it to friends with functional multiplayer was great.