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duke · May 31st, 2004

my 2 cents .. or pence being in the uk. I don't think emulation projects really causes any harm. Especially projects that let you play legitimate games anyway.. like psx emu. And in the case of the xbox i dont know why microsoft never made the damn thing compatable with directx/win32 in the 1st place. Would have been cool to have a console, where the games worked on a pc as well.

chipsugar · May 31st, 2004

I don't think it does harm as such but I don't doubt there is an effect. When a console is chipped *and* an emulator is available that can play non copied games then the emulator *cannot* harm the game developers. After all anyone that wants to copy games can still play them with or without the emulator and needs a cd burner ( and hence a computer) to copy them. However when the same disk can be played on a pc it becomes harder for Microsoft/sony etc to justify the £5-£10 levy they put on each cd for their console.

May 31st, 2004	#1 (permalink)
duke Registered User Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: UK Posts: 101	cxbx my 2 cents .. or pence being in the uk. I don't think emulation projects really causes any harm. Especially projects that let you play legitimate games anyway.. like psx emu. And in the case of the xbox i dont know why microsoft never made the damn thing compatable with directx/win32 in the 1st place. Would have been cool to have a console, where the games worked on a pc as well.

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May 31st, 2004	#2 (permalink)
chipsugar Registered User Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: London, England Posts: 130	I don't think it does harm as such but I don't doubt there is an effect. When a console is chipped and an emulator is available that can play non copied games then the emulator cannot harm the game developers. After all anyone that wants to copy games can still play them with or without the emulator and needs a cd burner ( and hence a computer) to copy them. However when the same disk can be played on a pc it becomes harder for Microsoft/sony etc to justify the £5-£10 levy they put on each cd for their console.