Eek! Emulation! - Scott The Woz

Scott incriminates himself.
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Music Used:
"Select Screen" from Mega Man 6
"Sonic World" from Sonic Jam
"Love² March" from Magical Drop III
"Bowser's Theme" from Super Mario 64
"Bubble Crab" from Mega Man X2
"Main Menu" from Sega Genesis Mini
"Stage 1-1" from Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
"Choco Island" from Super Mario World
"Forest of Mystery" from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
"Volcano Valley Zone Act 1" from Sonic 3D Blast (Sega Genesis)
"Title Theme" from Journey to Silius
"Fear Factory" from Donkey Kong Country
"Underground Theme" from Super Mario World
"White Land II" from F-Zero
"Gallery" from Sonic Jam
"Boss Battle 01" from Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos
"Extra Stages" from Super Monkey Ball
"Athletic Theme" from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
"Water Theme" from Super Mario 64
"Breakout from 3D Dot Game Heroes

[@Nocturne989]

Remember, paying 300 bucks for a fucking SNES game wasn't the developer intended experience either.

[@Echidneys]

Truth. One guy can make 300 bucks from one old cartridge that the game companies won't see a dime for, or the company instead could make $5000 selling 5000 digital downloads for a dollar a piece. Company makes money, customer gets to experience game for virtually no legal/financial risk, and everyone can be happy. And the cartridge people can do whatever they were gonna do anyway.

[@Extremezotako]

Yes

[@PKSunset]

And also remember, collecting the games in the first place are how we got said roms. Emulation or Hardware, play either. Both are important.

[@cocoahere875]

Nor was completely re-writing the game to play how the original did. Ironically wouldn't emulation be more faithful at that point?

[@herowither12354]

Adjusted for inflation, they did intend for them to be like.. 180 bucks.

[@Zaborpila]

Gabe Newell summarized it perfectly: "The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates." And that also applies to game emulation.

[@CathrineMacNiel]

And that's why Gabe is god.

[@PsycheTrance65]

can confirm. used to play pirated pc games before steam made it really convenient for me to buy games online

[@cattysplat]

GabeN literally built an empire out of the neglected PC gaming market, game stores and publishers only cared about console and mobile, even Microsoft shunned PC gaming.

[@CaptainJZH]

Same thing applies to TV/movies/music. Streaming made it a LOT easier to consume content conveniently, so piracy went down drastically. But then streaming got split between tons of different platforms, so piracy's back up

[@ege8240]

Where i live, triple a games are 15 dollars, it is still to much for my people since our money is near worthless but people do buy from steam because of it. Noone is giving 600 on a game, when average salary is 4000

[@supaskiltz9877]

The main thing I hate about company’s going after emulation is the fact that one day every cart will stop working, every disc will rot no matter how well you take care of it, these things happen due to time, online files never rot, undeniably emulation is the best way to preserve games

[@hassansyed4135]

That is until the solar storm hits earth and wipes out electricity in the entire world, including the internet.

[@KatZEdition]

@@hassansyed4135 Don’t worry we will send a copy of Super Mario Bros 2 out of our solar system just for save keeping before that happens

[@ExtraBurntToast]

@@KatZEdition Just keep a usb with sonic 1 in a black hole for safe keeping

[@SurprisedPikachuGames]

That is exactly the point. Nintendo wants their fans to do not have control in what they can or cannot play. It is so convenient to sell the same 30-year-old game for the 20th time in the same decade to the same target audience for an absurd price. With emulation, fans don't need Nintendo's re-releases and collections. Furthermore, Nintendo finds its own trademark divine, and seeing it for free online is so painful for them. "Why does Nintendo don’t just release Virtual Console on Switch? They would win even more money!" Simple. With Virtual Console, fans would play whatever they want for a fair price. Everything Nintendo doesn't want. Emulation makes old Nintendo's games old, and their stupid re-releases give them a bit of youth. Nintendo want you to love their retro games and still not be able to buy and play them, so when they release Super Mario 3D All-Stars, for example, you'll buy immediately.

[@maths8910]

​@@hassansyed4135 yeah that's not gonna happen

[@NidotheKing]

Emulation is easily the best way to capture game footage on older consoles.

[@yoshikempenaers8621]

Yes and no... When I try and look for game footage to contemplate whether or not to buy a certain game, it is waaaay too hard nowadays to find "real" footage of a game, especially the more obscure ones released before the KZbin-age.

[@SeleDreams]

or handhelds like the ds,psp,3ds etc

[@nothingsacred8684]

@@yoshikempenaers8621 I think what you said is just a consequence of what Nido the King said. The reason it's hard to find "real" footage is because the fake footage is so much better, so that's what people do. I can relate, I'm actually making a review for Mario 64, using footage from the original cart, and I didn't even realize how blurry it looked until I captured footage from Star Fox 64 off the Switch service for a joke and the contrast for those three seconds was insane. I'm never recording off of original carts again if I can help it. Unfortunately I already have a whole season's worth recorded...

[@ovidiusurubaru9281]

​@@SeleDreams Ds: play on a 3ds Psp: play on the PS vita or ps3 3ds: You can't lol , even with emulators looks ruff

[@cubedgameboy6349]

seriously. I've seen let's plays before where they use real hardware and recording devices, and it's looks shit because the video quality of the original console is so bad

[@notweesh747]

Prison inmate: “Whatcha’ in for kid?” Me: “I pirated Gex”

[@jack.h99]

"This is like playing on an emulator at Scott the Woz's house"

[@Kuria_zhaints]

_Pirating didn't stimulate the economy, and that's not okay because I like stimulate the economy_

[@woodtom14]

I would rather pirate Geist

[@Mboone1994]

Is this Gex?

[@Gay_Priest]

I gave my daughter a choice and thus I pirated Garfield Racing

[@Gnoggin]

Emulation is what got me into retro gaming over a decade ago. Now I own over a 100 retro cartridges, and you know how much money Nintendo got from me for buying all those? The same they got from me emulating them.

[@Hide_Me]

Honestly, as a poor kid with no money growing up, emulation is how I got into half the series I'm a paying customer for now.

[@Kalvinjj]

@@Hide_Me I've heard this said quite a few times when this topic pops: piracy doesn't really lose you much money. The one that pirated it, wasn't gonna buy it regardless. Also it may just become free advertisement and make new fans.

[@kintarogold1483]

Yup

[@jokx4409]

This whole comment string is pure truth.

[@gregrizzy3326]

@@Kalvinjj yeah. Yet emulation gets such a bad rap. Without it, we wouldn't be seeing retro games on our newer systems. It is still true today. Pc users don't want a console, so they were never going to buy your game for console in the first place. Yet if a version of a Nintendo or Sony game was available on pc to buy at a fair price, download, play, and keep forever, people will 99 percent of the time do that instead out of convenience and easability. So yeah, you are right, its been shown before that it is not really a lost sale, cause yeah, they were never going to buy it anyways for whatever reason.

[@koye4427]

Okay but "you couldn't pause the movie in the theater" is the PERFECT analogy for save states

[@DrUnfunny]

Not really.

[@bombyman84]

@@DrUnfunny Explain please.

[@DrUnfunny]

@@bombyman84 Well as Scott says, it's not fair to compare video games to movies, besides, some games COME with a form of save stating included

[@liammcnicholas918]

@@DrUnfunny Old video games didn't have saving, so you'd have to replay a game ALL the way from the start

[@DrUnfunny]

@@liammcnicholas918 I fail to see how this fact shames save-state users, if anything I'd rather download a rom of Mario 3 for saving than make $60 deal with Nintendo to get official save states.

[@michaeloverton04]

Isn't it fitting how GabeN is the only guy still in the tripleA video game industry to decently understand why piracy is actually done. The creator of Steam-the platform that re-released the most video games- is the only person in the triple A video game industry. SEGA may go easier on piracy than any other game company, but that's because they can use it to find remarkable potential employees.

[@M_CFV]

They ended up paying for Denuvo on Sonic Frontiers

[@gmestanley2214]

@@M_CFV They were already doing DRM at the time of Sonic Mania & Forces, that caused a game-breaking bug at the time

[@jack.h99]

Steam is far too convienient to use to bother pirating anything on it. Other game launchers on the other hand...

[@gnarlybreak2438]

@@M_CFV The game is brand fucking new. They want to maximize sales before the game becomes irrelevant and pirated left and right

[@doctaterror]

@@thegamerfe8751 because battlenet games are always online slop

[@jokinghazard2312]

“This time next week, you’ll find me in a fucking ditch.” Knowing Scott, he’ll follow through with that joke for continuity’s sake.

[@redthree603]

Scott "Addicted to crack and living in a ditch" Wozniak

[@jokinghazard2312]

@@redthree603 he’s gonna start the episode in a ditch passed out or something lol

[@captaincomet9963]

tfw you realize next week is Halloween

[@Cyranek]

got a dna sample and I'm gonna emulate scott

[@3pintz545]

sup dude

[@NickyBlueEyes]

Yes thank you Cyranek meme guy.

[@AndrewGarfield_]

Instead of talking about video games and everything Nintendo he now talks about pencils and the best paint drying videos also don’t worry about the dog I didn’t put his dna in the dog

[@repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741]

Repent to Jesus Christ!! ““Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭7:7‬ ‭NIV‬‬

[@petermontgomery638]

Please update if he runs on Nesticle

[@friedzombie4]

I'm never gonna feel bad by ensuring a billion dollar company has *slightly* less money

[@theartillery9724]

yeah, like oh no this guy might not be able to afford a 24th yacht because of pirates Indie studios are off limits for me tho they don’t deserve to be pirated

[@lordadz1615]

Imo emulation is more justified especially when games are no longer being sold u buying a game for exorbitant prices online from eBay and pirating it would accomplish the same thing. The company not getting money. Its just one is utterly breaking ur wallet while the other can be done at no cost

[@ExtraBurntToast]

@@theartillery9724 There's also no need for Indie games since most of them are much newer, so they can be found on most modern consoles or online services like steam. It's really only older games from larger companies that really need emulation.

[@mattpurvis9873]

Fuckn A

[@SuperM789]

yikes

[@malenalombardi4766]

As a latina the only reason I got into gaming is emulation/piracy otherwise I would have never been able to afford any legal game even today expending on something like a switch is a luxury I can't afford. Growing up some of my fondest memories come from video games so I'll always be thankful to the fan communities that pour so much effort on emulation

[@claymore339]

Growing up poor with little to no money to spend on games in a country where even if you could they are really hard to get/expensive really makes you appreciate emulation for what it is. You can run emulators even on very old phones and have an enjoyable experience

[@MoonRenMMD]

Same for me! Games were really expensive for us before (they still are tbh) but now we can somehow afford them (talking mostly about me and my family here) My brother used to emulate old games on our pc and bc of that I had the opportunity to play a lot of games that I probably wouldn't know today. I personally view emulators like an alternative to play games for people that can't afford them, especially old games since they don't require a really powerful pc/phone.

[@Yosho549]

My hacked Wii agreed

[@AmodeusR]

@@claymore339 Indeed. That's something americans can't comprehend.

[@oliverafton1444]

Same... if it wasn't for that i don't think i would love games if it wasn't for emulation and piracy-

[@ramonesaudibert]

“At the end of the day, just do what you want. Gotcha.” *walks away* Most appropriate ending line ever.

[@laggory]

He walks away holding a gun, btw

[@masqueradian2028]

I think you missed the part where he was holding a gun

[@jejetube7667]

Lol

[@Yebby__]

@@laggory breaking: white man in ohio kills another man because he said that madden 08 is bad

[@TheyCallMeContra]

Am I the only one who was listening for a gunshot until the end of the video because of that?

[@FletcherReedsRandomness]

“I also killed a man.” Aha! So Steel Wool ISN’T the only murderer around here!

[@bobberman4641]

Of corse not! Jerry killed someone too

[@stanleysmooth]

Thank you Mrs. Liza Lotts

[@GaIaxyxvr]

It’s normal to murder for this guy.

[@Repetitivestrain-of2zy]

*wasnt* steel is very dead

[@Pixelcraftian]

He was lying, as a joke!

[@Aetharn]

Tbh, about the savepoints: Back in the day games were made way more difficult to make then seem longer, so a bunch of them were just unfair. In those cases i feel like saves work just fine

[@liammcnicholas918]

Especially for NES games. There’s a reason the phrase “Nintendo hard” exists.

[@dekumidoriya2928]

Some people hold that unfairness as quality as in hard good easy bad, when really there a more ways to make a game hard without being unfair or giving one checkpoint every 20 level

[@liammcnicholas918]

@@dekumidoriya2928 Games like Dark Souls are unforgiving, but once you know the boss’ attack patterns, it becomes simple.

[@dekumidoriya2928]

@@liammcnicholas918 does the souls game limit your checkpoints between bosses or levels ? Genuine question i never played those games before

[@kouko6677]

@@dekumidoriya2928 soulslikes usually use a bonfire system, where once you use one you will spawn there when you die and you can teleport between them. theres also always bonfires before bosses.

[@av17bestchannelonyoutube66]

*I remember playing Mario 64 emulated on a PC at a daycare center when I was five, teacher had us hooked up*

[@walkerphillips2818]

You were living the best daycare life.

[@edcola6671]

Dang.

[@awii.neocities]

Man your teacher was awesome, actually it reminds me that in my primary school there was a copy of VisualBoyAdvance and Pokèmon on the school server for some reason, I played way too much of that in school.

[@friedzombie4]

@@awii.neocitiesheh I got suspended for finding out the IT Teacher's password and filling the network drive with emulators and ROMs. They noticed the bandwidth when I added the entire PS1 NTSC-U collection.

[@francofernandes2006]

Damn, your teacher was cool!

[@deebo3825]

emulation is terrible. Now excuse me while I go buy paper mario: the thousand year door for $125 from my local video game store which is more than double the price from when it released 18 years ago and where none of the proceeds will go to nintendo.

[@Weensx]

I'm convinced its scalpers who are against emulation

[@00Jaxs013]

And it probably doesn't work.

[@missingtexturez]

@@Weensx is Nintendo a scalper?jury's still out on that rn

[@Mrgrimm150]

@@missingtexturez Given the whole mario 3D all stars thing. I'm going to go with..Yes.

[@missingtexturez]

@@Mrgrimm150 yeah

[@Guizoxy]

We have a saying in Brazil: "Emulating Nintendo games is a civil duty."

[@walkerphillips2818]

I guess I’m going to Brazil.

[@NexXxu]

*Metendo

[@kikito3850]

@@walkerphillips2818 rip

[@Suesserto]

More like every other second and third world countries. Like bruh some of us don’t even have PCs and your pretty much privileged to have a Laptop with 4 gbs of ram and integrated graphics.

[@Mussoi7000]

Amém.

[@Mrsloththegreat]

The illegal part of piracy is uploading roms/games online. Downloading a rom is not illegal (depending on were you live), thats why if you look up anti piracy screens (real one's) it usually say something like "Report this copy" or "To report this copy call [Phone number]" or some times "We hope that you buy a real [Console] and legit games" Downloading is not illegal. uploading is.

[@glitchyaceofficial]

not games on the market though, it's illegal to not buy the game, however the games not in the market is fine

[@ExtraThiccc]

The problem with companies "just emulating" is that fans have been doing it for decades for free at significantly better quality, while the big companies expect us to pay $70 for the original with like, two extra features

[@IWillNeverThinkOfAGoodHandle]

bUt DoWnLoAdInG rOmS iS iLlEgAL

[@intelchip_x86]

you cant convince me that PFP isnt 4-dimensional

[@BoshMind]

He got the emulators for mac to ACTUALLY WORK! That's some serious dedication right there!

[@aidanredding8058]

I've gotten that to work too, until it decided not to. Hence why I don't use emulators.

[@seetrogreen2042]

He used open emu which is a pretty solid mac exclusive emulator

[@Gintoki_Freecss]

@@seetrogreen2042 Exactly, I just started using it a week ago and it’s already running really well on my Mac.

[@rontheauraknight9606]

OpenEmu is the best to use for mac emulators, but it’s kinda limited like I haven’t figured out how to change things like Lil Manster to add the QOL changes that emulator added (idk how to patch the rom)

[@berke2336]

back in 2012-14 they worked flawlessly with openEMU... 2014 is when my macbook died and i built a pc and now I'm a stereotype

[@RinoaL]

I don't know anybody who thinks emulation is bad. They all agree that 400$ for Suikoden II isn't worth it.

[@Elderberry4199]

Yup, and again, not a single penny of that $400 is going to the copyright holder anyways.

[@absorbentstudios6940]

Is it even legal for games to cost more then the system

[@fawzanfawzi9993]

@@Elderberry4199 They think that just because downloading ROMs is illegal the whole emulation scene is illegal.

[@willuigi64]

@@absorbentstudios6940 yes, but it's pretty stupid for that to be the only legal way to get the game

[@absorbentstudios6940]

@@willuigi64 thats really stupid not pretty stupid

[@Blastronaute]

Another feature of emulation is the ability to make rom hacks and fan games. GBA Pokémon in particular has a ton of rom hacks ranging from catch ‘em alls, adding mons and mechanics from newer games, extra hard difficulty, and even completely new games with new stories. Radical Red is one of my favorite Pokémon experiences and I think stuff like that deserves a place in gaming

[@jokerzyo]

Fan games make emulation a must for me. Radical red and team rocket edition made me feel like I did on yellow all those years ago on my gbc

[@Blastronaute]

While still think radical red is too hard to ever be a real game, I really wish the real games would take notes from it. Along with making the game harder, npcs used a lot of different strategies and items, forcing you to do the same. Games like RR prove Pokémon’s battle system is much more complex and interesting than you’ll ever see in the main game

[@MrMoron-qn5rx]

@@Blastronaute same goes for the "newer super mario bros" series, which COMPLETELY overhauls those games. Not 1 level is the same, and in some cases the game feels 100% diffrent. Its not like the minecraft "create" mod, which ADDS things that change the game a lot, but you can still ignore or forget.

[@SageYT7709]

"If you don't want people to pirate your game, then make them available on your modern systems!" Damn right Scott. Damn right.

[@CrispyChicken38]

@The Lost Wooly We don't buy emulated games. We download them. I already bought the game years ago, and the company that decided I don't get to experience it anymore when my decades old hardware failed can just deal with it

[@eltiolavara9]

@The Lost Wooly i know thats not how you think but god that mindset is so stupid

[@jacobg8640]

@The Lost Wooly I just have trouble understanding the whole "might" want to rerelease. Rereleasing should be a no brainer. It costs nothing aside from maybe figuring out how to emulate it on the specific hardware like the Switch and then putting the game file up on the eshop. There's no retailer fees or risks if the game doesn't sell well, there's only money to be lost by not doing. Heck, if they don't want to build the emulator, then let us continue using the private ones and sell the game files behind a legal download link. Even if it doesn't help with the convenience and people could just copy and share the files, it's already being done anyway! At least then download links would be trustworthy and get rid of the main justification for pirating of having no alternatives to play the game.

[@Michael-Archonaeus]

@@jacobg8640 Or just license an emulator that some guy made in his basement? 0% effort, 100% profit!

[@vSIG_]

@@jacobg8640 The whole "figuring out how to emulate" is bigger than you think. Hiring teams to do that takes time and money and can take an extreme amount of work. And if its a port? even worse

[@kevinnio]

The piracy/emulation situation always reminds me that games are more for gamers than for developers. Game companies don't want to preserve old games because they don't make them money anymore.

[@supaskiltz9877]

If GBA was released on 3DS VC I would have bought so many games, but no the one thing everyone was asking for and they didn’t do it, so I got all the games for feee on my 3DS instead, their loss I would have gladly paid $10 per GBA game for no reason

[@naonaga4260]

To be honest games for me should be prioritised more for the devlopers, not company developers that just want to profit of the works of their employees but the actual developers that create the games, is after all their work and if you apreciate the game and it's vision for what it is, then I think it should be respected to preserve the game as the creator intended, since modifications that emulation produce in fact modifies the experience that the creator had for it, or if they want to still preserve to this day or want to wait for a time to make it available again, is no only their product, but their creation as well and it could feel bad if a random person now wants to determine the fate of your creation without you having a word about it, videogames are not natural resources that should be available for anyone. If the creator is fine with it then go for it since it provides the opportunity to expose the game for many people, but if the creator has it's concerns and do not want the game to be exposed in that way and wants to wait foor a time to expose it, it is that bad? Emulation and pirancy are always gona be a topic of debate and we need to consider every variable before commiting into it in my opinion. It varies so much in many cases and can not be an universal truth that is only good or bad.

[@Nerdexotic]

agreed the second they make it impossible for gamers to get the games officially as far as I am concerned its fair game

[@sinphy]

@@supaskiltz9877 you probably already know this but you can get semi-official looking gba vc, now it doesnt use an official nintendo emulator but it looks convincing enough, get the ultimate injector it makes a cia of the rom

[@betafurret1503]

If it weren’t for emulation I would have never gotten into the rhythm heaven series.

[@KosherPorky]

Sir, you're under arrest

[@UrainumMuncher]

I tried tengogku with one and it was way too hard but that might be my only way of playing it sadly.

[@dicey-bd4hh]

Omg! Same here!

[@johnelway76]

@@KosherPorky no ones gonna get him arrested, thats one of the myths thats holding back emulation

[@bweaddss]

@@UrainumMuncherskill issue lmao

[@jeremyseay]

Without emulation there's a ton of game franchises I wouldn't have been a huge fan of.

[@crazycanyon3028]

If Nintendo won’t give me mother 3 I’ll just take it myself

[@JoeCartoon56]

Finally a KZbin that talks about emulation and doesn’t hide behind the “here’s my physical copy of the game I burned it onto my pc this is legal so can’t get me” no Scott straight up tells it like it is. Legit no one has gone to jail for downloading roms

[@silverwings21]

+JoeCartoon56 Yet...

[@PopADoseYo]

Been 22 years of downloading roms and movies... I think we're okay.

[@DimT670]

And no one ever will Distributors on the other hand.... Ofc they literally make money out of stuff they didn't make so it don't have any particular sympathy

[@PenguinLord10]

@@DimT670 Plenty of people make money out of stuff they didn't make. Bobby Kotick didn't make Diablo 1, 2, or 3. Starcraft 1 or 2. Warcraft 1, 2, 3, or the World of. Any of the Call of Duty games. And many, many more. He makes millions of dollars EVERY YEAR. All while firing the people that actually DID make those games. Where do we draw the line on who gets to make money on something they had nothing to do with?

[@aignemakerofchase]

Limewire. We all thought the same until they took down that random Mom to make an example out of her

[@supergamemaster2279]

My college forced us to emulate extremely old games, and write an essay on them. I questioned the legality of it, and my lecturer said "As long as it's before [Year], it should be ok"' I didn't chose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

[@sadham2668]

What was your course?

[@bacheese]

Incredible college my dude

[@triobros98]

I'm a 8th grade student at centennial middle school and during patriot period I got a emulator to run on a school computer no joke

[@mikevisby8744]

@@scratchsoft2347 Nintendo would like to have a word with you.

[@nisnast]

@@triobros98 standby, a police car is on route to your living space and you'll be arrested shortly.

[@Dipwad_Omega]

I personally think that there should be a law where downloading ROMs off of the internet FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY should be legal IF: 1. That game is currently not available to buy officially, and 2. A certain amount of time has passed since it was last offered for people to buy officially. It's like a similar idea to copyright: If they want their games to keep being safe from downloads of it online, then they have to keep releasing them and/or giving the fans official ways to play them. Of course that might need some tweaking, but I think it's a good start.

[@memelord111alt]

Hire this man biden

[@walkerphillips2818]

@@memelord111althe’s a bit too smart for Congress and Joe’s liking.

[@colleagueriley860]

Laws are for protecting rights, not for violating them

[@awii.neocities]

@@colleagueriley860 Yet the laws for copyright has been fucked over because of a certain mouse. It's fine for a company to violate them but not for the public.

[@colleagueriley860]

@@awii.neocities yea, I’m not a big fan of lobbying or government mixing with economics. It causes all sorts of issues. I do think that Nintendo is well within their rights however.

[@Bassibasukki]

Long as they refuse to offer superior versions on their official systems, PC emulation should be fine

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

"It's all about control." Yup, that's Nintendo as a whole.

[@WoddCar]

Literally 1984

[@nintyfan1991]

@@WoddCar Unless Nintendo has control over the Japanese and United States governments, hardly.

[@JmKrokY]

Yes

[@sefflikejeff1917]

@@nintyfan1991 I think he was doin a goof

[@rayzas4885]

@@lol-ih1tl That's pretty hard to believe when their strongest market is the US

[@tophatgeo]

"I'm too lazy and stupid to break the law" This feels too real Scott

[@GaJ42]

Read more...

[@noahschlogl4739]

@@GaJ42 Reading is hard

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

It really is. Because the only people that are ever actually contained by laws are exactly that - either too lazy to put up resistance to them, or too stupid to get around them . . . though you can also substitute apathy for laziness I guess. If you're a smart criminal, you can skirt the law for years upon years beyond it ever mattering (and the smartest end up in politics and legalize their actions even), and if you're motivated to break a law it's a guarantee you'll be able to do so with enough effort.

[@PEDROGARCIA-qj3gr]

@@MidlifeCrisisJoe dude nobody is looking for you by pirating Mario 64... The laziness comes more from the fact emulation have far more steps than people like to admit, also because you are downloading illegal software, it also tends to have malicious software, and my god if you have a expensive PC you won't take that risk.

[@largeboi4678]

@@GaJ42 read book get smart phone bad

[@desertsandfly2277]

Save states are honestly a blessing in emulations. It saves you the time and pain from going all the way from your last checkpoint to the point you died last time and having to repeat multiple times.

[@cryptidproductions3160]

I really like that you bought up all the ethical grey area involved in downloading roms of games that either aren't distributed or you own in the form of original media or re-releases instead just the blanket "piracy bad" some gaming channels resort to Going through several hoops to dump one of my old carts and compile a usable rom shouldn't be legally different than just downloading a rom off the internet to play nor should people be lectured for downloading a game you literally cannot buy from the publisher anymore

[@monikasalt]

"so what are you in for?" "I murdered and entire family, and you?" "I was emulating Tetris NES on my phone"

[@kongism]

Isn’t Tetris already free on mobile?

[@stephen8612]

@@kongism Sounds like something a cop would say.

[@-FutureTaken-]

@@kongism not the good versions

[@n646n]

Deserves prison. Gameboy version ftw!

[@underscoredotpng]

"I'm playing Wordle Ds on my watch"

[@drunkemonke1995]

“Why not the L button” Scott sure does love toying with his fans lol

[@JNSStudios]

Funny button

[@pokeystar101]

@Logan Roof are you high? That made no sense lol

[@chrizzz5802]

@@Z_Viper08 it’s just a kid that doesn’t understand wtf he’s doing. he’s just following a trend trying to be cool. all we can do is pray lmao

[@edi2renzus]

@Logan RoofDon't do this with your face and full name on your account

[@MaherandIbrahimsAvengers]

@Logan Roof r/hadastroke

[@jamiswamp]

One of best things about emulation and piracy is making games available to people who can’t afford it, specially in what you would call “third world countries”. Videogames are an ultra expensive luxury item in these cases, with one game costing like a fourth of a minimum wage income in some places(as is in Brazil, where a triple A game costs 300BRL and the minimum wage is 1300BRL.)

[@TheRealR3mix]

The emulation (eek!)

[@jamesburchill7522]

Chip and Disc rot is a reality. Preservation of a lot of these older titles heavily relies on emulation. Well said.

[@PelinalDidNothingWrong]

It's a great point but Nintendrones will say otherwise

[@Tool0GT92]

I was like "Who TF is Chip and Disc?"

[@iiimaskyiii7816]

@@Tool0GT92 Russian Disney

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

That's why I started backing up my older DVDs. Most of them still work flawlessly, though.

[@andyblanton6570]

Doesn't make it right.

[@louislombardi7525]

Pirating free games is like: "I stole a balloon!" "Yeah...on free balloon day"

[@caseys2698]

LOL

[@davidzea-smith1417]

Why would you do that?

[@PracarYT]

@@davidzea-smith1417 P.T for ps4

[@wasted3secondsreadingmyuse30]

Bruh I remember that part from spongebob

[@cozzy4447]

If it's from a generation that's extremely rare or expensive I get why people do it but modern games that are cheap and readily available to buy there no excuse for piracy imo.

[@AbuseForViews]

It’s interesting that Scott says emulators don’t work half the time. I’m not sure what emulators he’s using besides Dolphin, but I’ve literally never had issues with emulation. It’s as easy as download the rom, load the rom on the emulator, and you’re set

[@demikus]

he's mostly a mac dude, I'm pretty sure he was talking about the state of emulators on mac for that.

[@makotoyuki9498]

Emulators on Mac are still a little rough, but still very capable of functioning if you tinker around with them. The one he is shown using is OpenEMU, which is similar to RetroArch, as it has a lot of different emulator cores.

[@user-sm8us5yt9h]

It can still be tricky setting up the paths for game detection and save files can be tricky if you don’t know what your doing plus you can run into problems of having to unzip and reformat file types which isn’t hard once you know what you are doing.

[@IceYetiWins]

Newer consoles that have bioses and keys and stuff are a bit harder but it's really not that hard to figure out how to get that stuff

[@vorbo01]

​@@demikus Who in their right mind uses a Mac these days lmao

[@maggi.no.e]

He makes so many good points, its like im having a genuine discussion with someone who loves video games

[@DJCube1701]

Pirating a video game is (in most English speaking countries) is illegal, but it's not a criminal offence. That means that the company has to actually contact you and sue you personally, which is really not worth the effort for targeting the people downloading, only the people supplying the copies on a mass scale.

[@jmurray1110]

You think one guy sued an elderly woman who put a listing for a CD for $10 all she did was sell her husbands old stuff but since it was an illegal boot she was fined $10,000 This was German btw

[@blakecampanella2502]

@@jmurray1110 Imma be honest, that sounds like an extremely specific example that seems more like an exception than anything.

[@jmurray1110]

@@DarkeningDemise not if you take the proper precautions

[@MoonOvIce]

I lived since my pre-teens until early adulthood in the US (coming from South America) and I emulated games a lot because I liked emulation and seeing what it was capable of, and because I mostly emulated games that at that time were not available anywhere else, and I was not going to get an old tv just to play some games, it was mostly games I had missed (knew about them but didn't have the opportunity to play them) in my childhood in the 90's and so I emulated them, nothing ever happened. I otherwise owned all the current consoles (at the time) of the 6th and 7th gen and paid for every single game and played online. The same thing with PC gaming for the last almost 15 years, I buy everything legally, specially since Steam and other stores started having regional pricing (I stil paid the normal 50-60 usd for a game from time to time, but now some cost 20-30 or less sometimes due to regional pricing).

[@hamzasultan96]

@@jmurray1110 Yeah, that was a bootleg CD, of course, it would be taken seriously. You don't sell this stuff, even if you didn't make it. Unless you're as big as Amazon, I guess.

[@rasmustagu]

"..everyone has their own rules for Monopoly.." is a sentence we can all relate and unite to

[@narobii9815]

even the government

[@TheBfutgreg]

Yet the Free Parking house rule was so damn common....the first time I played without it was the first time the game seemed semi "fair"

[@dont-feed-ben4833]

I've always played that you get tax dollars for landing on free parking. Idk if that's the correct way or not but looking back it definitely makes the game take longer than it should

[@Humble197]

@@dont-feed-ben4833 its not. The default rules are faster then all the house rules people have. In fact some house rules exist to speed the game up because of some other house rule slowing things down.

[@Roxor128]

I have one rule for Monopoly: Don't ask me to play. I don't care how much you beg, I will not play it.

[@jamessoth1479]

I never would have played Castlevania Aria if Sorrow without an emulator. Banger of a game. Emulation also helps me revisit childhood games that i don’t have anymore.

[@Flamecreeper677]

The way I see emulation is if the developers or publishers won’t release a version of the game on modern consoles then it’s fine to emulate. A good example is Pikmin 1 and 2. I emulated them till recently when Nintendo released ports of Pikmin 1 and 2

[@lonkus1290]

I’m not playing $40+ dollars for an over 20 year old game that only got widescreen support

[@gggumball]

@@lonkus1290 what would you have accepted, $5!?

[@ShortHax]

Prisoner: “I robbed a bank, what are you in for?” “I pirated TF2 because I didn’t want to pay for it”

[@user-yz7cd9eb4c]

@UntitledGamer TF2 was 30 dollars

[@holocade4908]

maybe he means titanfall 2?

[@KRUSH-R]

no cheater's lament for you >:(

[@theotakux5959]

@UntitledGamer That just makes it more impressive.

[@bob-km4uq]

Silence BOT

[@BowserZeki]

Scott finally learning about emulation.

[@kiguy5284]

Yep

[@d_the_great]

I have a feeling the ending statement was more accurate, and the beginning was so that he wouldn't lose his Nintendo Creators Program licence.

[@TheLetterbomber]

in his defense, he's a Mac user

[@palix2417]

He did use it for cod on ds

[@ABlob]

@@d_the_great The Nintendo Creators Program shut down in late 2018, I think he's gonna be fine.

[@xamislimelight8965]

Sometimes its not "I want to use emulation" more than it is "I have to use emulators, because 400 dollars for Earthbound is horseshit"

[@Bats645]

It's on the Switch though.

[@xamislimelight8965]

"ItS oN sWiTcH tHoUgH!" Yeah, a system that hasn't been out my whole 30 years of life, imagine that. Almost like I downloaded the ROM quite the number of years ago or something. Imagine that, people doing things a long time ago. Weird, I know!

[@xamislimelight8965]

Also, @bats thats still using an emulator.. so...

[@Bats645]

@@xamislimelight8965 Ok.

[@Bats645]

@@xamislimelight8965 I understand.

[@yassomesho4554]

"Welcome to the gang kid, we've got stealin steve, murderin mike, and crimes johnson" "What did crimes johnson do?" "He emulated Wario's Woods on PC"

[@waltercomunello121]

"I own this game!!" "I own this console!!" Nintendo: *Well, yes, but actually no.*

[@tg-sj2nu]

"I own this phone!!" Apple: *Well, yes, but actually no.*

[@kurobutt]

@@tg-sj2nu When people misquote something: *Good guess, but actually no.*

[@BabzaiWWP]

@@kurobutt when people copy and paste the same template for 5 years straight

[@austinfondren5053]

Most people don't realize that they merely purchase a license to play a game when they "buy a copy" of them. Read the terms & conditions. You might find something interesting, fellas.

[@NeoArashi]

@@austinfondren5053 yup. People don't realise that even when they buy a physical game. They *still* don't own the game. They own the plastic that hosts the game (wether it's a disc, card or cartridge) but the game is still 100% owned by the copyright holders. Buy a game is actually, as you said, paying for a lisence to play it. The advantage of getting a physical copy however is that the license is transferrable.

[@Kloqdq]

Emulation is so important for preserving gaming history. When stores like the PSP close and a whole library of digital only games are lost to time for one reason or another - emulation can help keep those games alive. The same can be applied to retro gaming as a whole. it is SO important to keep gaming history alive and its a crying shame companies either don't care to preserve their games themselves or actively stop it like Nintendo. I almost always suggest trying to go through "legal" means to play games but when its not possible or just not a feasible option due to a variety of reasons - emulation should be welcomed into gaming with open arms.

[@rompevuevitos222]

It is welcome, the ones against it are corporations (nintendo included) that get no money out of it, and since they only like money they fight against it

[@intheshadowofathousandbean563]

If it wasn't for emulation, I would never get to play some of the best games and classics on PSP or GBA, now they are some of my favourite games and I can have a sentiment for something I would normally miss. I understand the legality issues with emulation but... If you just want to play a 20 year old game that is so hard to buy anywhere that it sometimes feels even more illegal than actual piracy, it's hard to argue against the emulation and, as you said, how it allows old classics to stay alive and be available for younger generations.

[@cattysplat]

PSP doesn't even have batteries made for it anymore and most of the original batteries are swollen and dangerous. Who wants to play a PSP plugged into a wall? Not certainly as it was intended.

[@cattysplat]

@@intheshadowofathousandbean563 GBA games are so good they make fantastic emulated and mobile games, simple controls with strong gameplay.

[@kingdomkey2262]

@@cattysplat Exactly, I don't want to risk my psp exploding on me if I want to play some Killzone liberation. Emulation needs to be embraced

[@Y0K4I218]

Pro tip:If you do want roms, use vimms lair or wii u usb

[@cavejohnson5796]

This

[@PRO_OF_MC]

And roms subreddit

[@Gnurklesquimp2]

Another great benefit is being able to try stuff before you commit. And in my specific case, I just couldn't wait for the Megaman: Battle Network collection in April, which I'll still buy cause I think it's so cool they're bringing it back.

[@mariano1196]

"Some consider it cheating, I consider it an open relationship" best sentence of 2021 right here

[@walkerphillips2818]

Yep.

[@kirin1230]

I only got the joke after reading it...

[@luichinplaystation610]

Yep

[@Nameless_JPN-ENG]

Who would've thought we would revisiting this line in 2022 lol

[@bird9675]

@@kirin1230 LMAOOOO SAME :,)

[@Phostus]

Pirating and emulation are almost always issues of CONVENIENCE. If a decent port is available from the original publisher for a decent price, the majority will choose that. If a game requires old hardware, is incredibly rare or grossly overpriced, people will emulate. As much as Nintendo and other companies complain about emulation, it is really quite a simple (and profitable) fix for them to just perserve their old titles.

[@crazyfire9470]

When they do rereleased older games, all I see is people complaining about having to pay for them and go straight back to pirating so why should Nintendo bother?

[@shulkash8799]

@@crazyfire9470 this

[@ThePunisherSpider]

@@crazyfire9470 Exactly. Nintendo Swith Online is 20 dollars a year for a bunch of old games, and people still bitch about "I don't really own them". And with the virtual console, the same stuff, complaining about paying for old games. So a bunch of people only want shit for free. Like fans that pirate tv shows and then complain when they got cancelled because they didn't made any money.

[@CuantumQ]

@@crazyfire9470 From what I've seen that's mostly with games that they have effectively already bought. Like,, 'Why do I have to buy this again on the Nintendo e-shop, I already bought it on the Wii shop!' I hardly ever see people who complain about having to pay for games that are released for emulation for the first time officially (like,, No one complained about having to buy Earthbound once it was finally added to the e-shop, just moreso confusion over why it cost twice as much as other snes games)

[@Reliken]

@@crazyfire9470 You see that because the price points are insane. Project64 was able to emulate Majora's Mask in 2011 perfectly, and that's available for free. The game is 21 years old. Charging $50 or $30 or even $19.99 for the convenience of playing it on a modern console is absurd. If Nintendo can get MM to work as easily on Switch as I can on PC, then it's highway robbery to charge $20 for that. Rerelease emulated ports that have been long available elsewhere should be dirt cheap. I'd pay $5, maybe $10 for an emulated port of N64 MM on Switch, but it really should be like $3.99. Any more than that just isn't reasonable for the work involved.

[@mikemoss6045]

Nintendo: "but we cant make money on teh emulation!" Me, an intellectual: "you're not making money on third hand sales either.."

[@izzywakefield72]

That exit gag being the most replayed part of the video means a lot to me

[@PkGam]

Interestingly some lawyers have brought up the legality of downloading game copies you already own. It basically boiled down to this: If you already own a copy of a game, you are legally allowed to make a backup as it counts as software but you have to do it off of your own copy yourself... Maybe. See, they also stated that whether or not downloading it or making it yourself matters when the end result is the same is up in the air as it was never tested by courts. (See the video: "Smash Bros. "Big House" Online Tourney Cancelled by Nintendo") Something tells me game companies don't want to test it either because the last time something like that happened, the one who tried it lost hilariously and they're scared of it. "Bleem!" is what I'm referring to and courts ruled that the emulation was legal and their use of screenshots to market it is fair use. Now... Some people think that the legal fees were what put Bleem! out of business which is what Sony was going for to begin with. But that's debatable because it ended up setting a precedent for the future of emulation, opening up more than just Bleem! to get a foothold (which it did), but no one knows for sure why Bleem! went under. They might've made more stuff than they sold thinking that it would catch on more than it did for all we know. Plus Sony would never have known what their funds were and they could've lost a ton to Bleem! and inadvertently funded their operations. Even when Nintendo took ROMUniverse to court and "won", they didn't exactly "win". See the video "Nintendo Wins Empty Victory over ROMUniverse (Nintendo v. Storman)". So the more things that come out about emulation and ROMs, the more it looks like smoke and mirrors by companies just to scare people so they can generate sales even though people who weren't going to pay still wouldn't. Sort of like how they handled copyright on KZbin where they would claim basically anything even though lawyers said that they couldn't. Primarily companies do so to intimidate people into thinking they had the right to and to make money they weren't entitled to. When people pushed back, the companies had no choice but to back down as their public relations were so negatively perceived between them being found to have been illegally abusing the copyright system and going after their most devoted fans that it became a nightmare for them. ....Needless to say I find this topic incredibly interesting which is why I looked into all of this, lol! I think it's because it's such a gray area that there's a lot of possibilities. Overall, I too would agree that however people play games isn't a big deal, nor is emulation. Companies aren't really "losing" sales that never could have existed to begin with and they are certain;y not going under anytime soon. Developers are already paid during game development anyway as well. Anything after that point is just funds that go to the company and not the developers that actually worked hard on the games to begin with. Thus companies are really the one double dipping and trying to make people feel bad. Heck... more than double in a lot of cases. But then there are cases like you mentioned where they complain about games being emulated they aren't even selling anymore like Melee. I've seen people actually make arguments that they don't have to make their entire library available and that people aren't entitled to have access to them at any time. But if companies don't care enough to keep them available, then why would people care if others emulate them?

[@computerkid1416]

Oh hi there, PkGam!

[@PEDROGARCIA-qj3gr]

If so then I don't get why people bitch so hard about Nintendo in this point, they can't stop piracy, so why is there even a discussion? Like that Mario trilogy controversy, or is it people nothing better to do than whining about corporations?

[@CrispyChicken38]

@@PEDROGARCIA-qj3gr Because Nintendo still works really hard to make it impossible. Emuparadise was a safe website that made it really easy to get old roms. I don't have the super expensive hardware to rip my old game carts, so this was an amazing thing to have. Nintendo sued them into irrelevancy, and now they don't host roms anymore. Now you have to go back to the sketchy sites again, or sources I won't mention here for fear of Nintendo shutting them down too. These giant corporations deserve all the criticism. And you dare to call it "whining" when we point out their abusive behavior?

[@PkGam]

@@computerkid1416 Hiya! :D

[@PkGam]

@@CrispyChicken38 Well said!

[@anshagrawal254]

I live in a country where Nintendo doesn't officially sell its consoles or games. So emulation is the only hope i ever have to play their games

[@dranchalkaushik6699]

Same :(

[@mrdeatheli]

Keeping fighting the good fight, brother!

[@napoleonborn2party401]

Same

[@badegg1262]

dude, im from a country where it was so easy to get a pirate copy of a game that i never saw a official psx disk until 12 and a official gba cadtridge until 16 XD

[@Mister_Clean]

Emulation is a human right Keep at it, brother

[@MADKapo]

One year later and this is still the best take on emulation I have ever heard.

[@aceofspadez131]

With my family of 8, my mortgage , 2 car payments, bills , 11 phone lines, school money leaches, and a buch of other unlisted expenses, you better believe im an advocate for emulation because theres no way in Hell im buying 7 of the same retro consoles with 7 of the same games every time. I want my kids to experience games without the limitation of sharing 1 console. When i can build a mini pc filled with every game ever released from atari up to switch for a fraction of the price. Emulation stations like retro arch also create online play. Playing games like turtles in time or the simpsons online is freaking awesome, and it costs next to nothing to accomplish. And all i need is a micro pc(60$) standard tv or monitor (10$-14$ at a goodwill usually) and Peripherals (20$) and im off to the races with every retrogame ever made. Yeah sure i still buy the big 3 newest consoles because im not a looser lol but any further back screw it why bother. I even built arcade cabinets with all the same stuff, some wood and decals, and still spent less than an arcade 1 up.

[@waled7564]

True words of wisdom

[@cornap1]

This man has turned moving into a sketch I love him so much

[@Water_Me_Loan_64_YT]

Ooooooohhhhh that explains a lot.

[@samtamoglia7335]

Wait he did actually get himself a bigger place for his stuff? Cool.

[@30watermelon.]

Get ready for another fire

[@freezingkold]

New new location McGee, coming to an Ohio near you

[@samtamoglia7335]

@@30watermelon. or something crazier

[@Pixelcraftian]

Gonna be honest, of all things for Scott to cover, I never would've expected Emulation of all things. Really awesome video Scott!! Good points!! Now, if you excuse me, I'm going to jail for using Project64 9 years ago.

[@themostdislikedchannel]

Yep

[@Cinibonswirl26]

9 years ago!? That's rookie numbers! Try yesterday!

[@Bagel_Le_Stinky]

@@Cinibonswirl26 try *2 minutes ago*

[@lloydlandrum3040]

Eh odds are this is related to the Kotaku debacle of saying'' just pirate and emulated Metroid dread'' basically riding on the coattails of that news wave that happened .. not that I blame the guy but the timing is way too much a matching scenario as he has done similar on older vids to maximize views and such Edited for a typo

[@DigiMaster236]

@@lloydlandrum3040 Small correction here. All the kotaku article said was that people are emulating Metroid Dread, and at higher resolutions than Switch. It never stated any specific stance for or against emulating it. Just that it's happening.

[@celestiachamberlain7029]

If it weren’t for emulation, I wouldn’t have been able to get into persona and ace attorney (before it released on pc) as well as Danganronpa. All three Of them impacted my life a lot and got me into multiple fandoms during my teenage years around 2012-2017. Also I had an ancient pc and the emulators worked decently on them without much lag, so I was able to play them despite my hardware being terrible. My parents also didn’t want to buy me any consoles and all I had was an old pc, so I made the best of it.

[@mattbeaudoin1]

i've gotten into flash carts lately - i feel it's the best of both worlds. you can play games on the original hardware - as well as romhacks, fan translations, unreleased games, homebrews, ultra-rare/expensive titles, and randomizers. some of them even have save states!

[@i.8530]

you can completely legally dump your own roms, without downloading them. you just gotta buy an adapter to connect cartridges and such to your computer. this was legally proven in the Bleem! vs Sony case

[@1rk3neditz]

I was just about to say this. Nothing illegal in Preserving games you Backed up yourself. so long as you don't Sell it or Distribute it, it's fine

[@subtledemisefox]

Theoretically, a downloaded copy should be identical to a dumped one, so try proving that I didn't lose my dumping device lol

[@DogsRNice]

More modern systems like the Wii also allow you to dump with homebrew software

[@Bread-kun]

Which means you can freely download them because who the fuck can actually prove that dump is yours or one you downloaded because the file is going to appear the exact same either way. And they know this, if it wasn't the case they would bring people who download these games to court just to prove a point and deter people.

[@XRelays]

Researching this case is sad. Sony sued them so much until they couldn't afford the fees and they were forced to shut down.

[@timmitytom]

I'm so proud of Scott for actually touching on modern Nintendo's bullshit.

[@rompevuevitos222]

It's the universal BS from all console companies

[@bortburgos7105]

@@rompevuevitos222 yeah but only Nintendo it's on an active quest to errase it

[@indisciipline]

@@rompevuevitos222 Thank you, no one mentions this! Sega and Sony especially so get the pass from people, when they deserve as much of not more scrutiny then Nintendo.

[@alexk7880]

@@indisciipline well technicality on some SEGA games that they copyright. SEGA supports emulation of fanmade sonic games that there is already a new Sonic hacking contest happening now that has been going on for years as well as another happen every summer.

[@josephgravley3603]

And yet you get cases like Metroid Dread emulation that, in a way, validates Nintendo's stance. It's as the saying goes, "One bad apple ruins the bunch."

[@mrdownboy]

That Gizmondo moment was PERFECT!

[@volcano_lotus]

Good to know Scott is with the people

[@dreadgrave3379]

Preservation is my eternal middle finger towards anti-piracy stances. It's clear from lack of legal support that no company is invested enough in their own history to attempt true, full scope preservation. The best they can do is rereleases of the hits everybody knows or batches of backwards compatible titles baked irregularly. If Nintendo in particular have a problem with retro emulation then they have my permission to do better. For that, we're still waiting.

[@zappodude7591]

A lot of companies are erasing their history because it makes their modern stuff look bad.

[@thatboringone7851]

The real crime is that I can't like this twice.

[@andyblanton6570]

I don't understand why theft and vandalism are seen as morally grey these days. Companies don't want true full-scope preservation because then everyone will be so busy playing old games that they won't buy new games that companies can charge more for.

[@DatsOdd]

Everytime emulation or video game piracy comes up I think of Ross Scott's videos he's made on the preservation of games and how, many studios don't allow this and or care for older titles they've made, and going forward many games are a "service" per say so when the game developer pulls the plug on an always online game your screwed out of being able to play it. I'm all for preservation, I believe we should be allowed to play older titles that we may not be able to play because of console or cartidge availbility, or price.

[@smgofdvld]

well even then we are seeing with nso expansion pack they do the bare minimum and up charge for a sub par service.

[@Daniel-it1dp]

“You couldn’t pause the movie in the theater” 😆 You hit the nail on the head with that one.

[@chaosdimension6433]

I legit force myself to watch movies without pausing at home as much as possible, pausing ruins immersion

[@steelbear2063]

@@chaosdimension6433 I respect you and hate you at the same time

[@Faded.Visuals]

@@chaosdimension6433 So you pee in a foley catheter or something? or you wait for a "boring scene" and rush to the bathroom and pee as hard as you possibly can?

[@chaosdimension6433]

@@Faded.Visuals What I do, and I know this is a revolutionary idea (thinking of patenting it) is........(drumroll) I pee before sitting to watch a movie

[@RarefoilB]

@@chaosdimension6433 And that's great! Because you can just ignore pausing if you want to, and others can just pause because its so much more convenient for them.

[@four-en-tee]

"it wasn't meant to be played on a keyboard!!!!!" Then i'll buy a third party controller.

[@ultrasquid579]

I really like those emulation handhelds that allow you to play these old games portably with a controller, but also offer the same features as pc emulation does. Also, If a game isn't being sold anymore then its morally correct to emulate it.

[@gggumball]

thats the only real time I accept it. I want to play Boxboy on the 3DS but the game is digital only and the E shop closed, so I now have to resort to emulation.

[@leonardo.diCATio]

The fact he talked about emulation instead of the Nintendo Online Expansion like everyone else is is the absolute funniest thing ever to me. So perfect, this is why this is my favorite channel

[@wafface7548]

N64 GOT CANCELLED 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

[@LunadeMusic]

Cause Scott doesn’t ride on trends

[@CaptainCat101]

He doesn't do trends. It's why he never got sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends, and just made an April Fools video

[@leonardo.diCATio]

@@LunadeMusic I know, I love that about his channel. The timing of the video was just so perfect

[@anthonydeadman]

That's what we would call "low hanging fruit" and Scott never grabs that kinda fruit cause it's too damn easy to do so.

[@thelinktothepastof7986]

When Scott was talking about how annoying emulation is to actually set up properly I couldn't help but think of Retroarch and how much of a pain in the ass it can be to get working properly.

[@MetalJody1990]

Yeah. RetroArch has a steep leaning curve for beginners. It can take a long time to get stuff configured right. Took me a long time to get the hang of it. It's worth the trouble I think.

[@thelinktothepastof7986]

@@MetalJody1990 Oh absolutely now that I know how to use it it's great. Still sometimes breaks and I have no idea why though...

[@blairlohnes8103]

Once you realize you need to download cores and scan directories for roms, it's fairly simple, albeit that's with an xbone controller.

[@waffles245]

I didn't find it too difficult at all. Huh

[@HUYI1]

That is my worst hate, retroarch, I even avoid it and use other alternatives out there that are far more easier to use than retroarch 😫😫

[@megadriveleo]

This guy is the family friendly version of AVGN I love it. Edit: Ok, not that family friendly but not as bad, the right amount of humor.

[@zoot_the_axolotl8095]

The PG-13 version of AVGN then?

[@megadriveleo]

@@zoot_the_axolotl8095 yes!

[@chaosspider5765]

I accidentally pulled out a baby tooth while watching this video.

[@MikeTheMcer]

You realize you don't have to share anything that happens to you while watching the video right?

[@ChickenNuggetCancer]

Yummers.

[@Zyphon]

omg, sonic jam! it’s the game you’re known for owning :O

[@absolutezehr0h]

JUST LIKE SONIC 2 WITH A LINE!!!

[@classicspeeder]

iconic

[@tastethepainbow]

@@loganroofpedoexposer4952 this isn't even a markiplier video, also wtf

[@Feesh6]

Not anymore classic robbery stuff

[@idoghacker8008]

I thought it was Flingsmash for the Wii or whatever it's called

[@ValueNetwork]

Unappreciated joke, Scott is playing “Devil world” a Japanese religious NES game, when he says “Christ’s sake 9:10”

[@crusty2o662]

I don't really think that's intentional.

[@erin1896]

Bravo Vince!

[@STP.83]

Last year I fall in love with emulation in general when I found out how incredible it improved. Since then even my favorite console of all time the Dreamcast is only collecting dust, while I'm playing retro games of several platforms whenever and wherever I want with a Xbox Series controller on a modern tv or on the screen of my smartphone.

[@JimmyFantage]

I love you and your videos Scott the Woz. ❤

[@d_the_great]

Really liked the second half, I'm glad someone is standing up for game preservation for once. It's really nice to see.

[@anarlote5658]

Yeah, thats kinda a case where I think that the morality of preserving history outweighs any of the legality issues, as some games are only kept alive by emulator. Especially as it is so common that companies go defunct or ignore the game entirely. Some games are so extremely rare that the common folk can onlt access it throughe emulation. Then theres the case of localisation, as theres entire catalogues people in the west have no official translation to, the most famous example being Mother 3 fans are still waiting for an official english release.

[@TreespeakerOfTheLand]

Nitro Rad often shares his thoughts on game preservation. Check him out ;)

[@tiozindapacoca0162]

Imagine a dvd player without a pause button because "you cant pause the movie on the theater!" It surprises me how good Scott is at making points in every way like, damn.

[@fernansanchez6331]

He could be a really good lawyer.

[@dasboom7133]

I skip right to the end of the movie. I just want to watch it to say I watched it.

[@zacknattack]

@@draguOdoT wasn't the "pause button" argument about using a save state specifically when closing the game and reopening it later? he used a different argument for using it to return to anytime.

[@homebreaux]

@@draguOdoT WE GOT ONE FOLKS

[@applehazeva2739]

Yes!

[@renthagod3414]

I just realized the opening joke of this episode about the bank and how hes gonna "give them a 20" was a reference to the opening gag in the following episode

[@K9arcade]

I see pros and cons from having both accessible. I probably lean more to being a purist as I now stream with the real hardware as much as possible. It is nice to have the backups ready in a time of need, and in some environments it's more accessible especially if the game is rarer or if it's on a hardware you're trying to preserve.

[@randomguyontheinternet7940]

Emulation is one of the greatest things to ever happen in video game history. There, I said it, cry about it, I didn't buy a SNES game for $900. Preservation, ROM HACKS, FAN GAMES, breaking apart games to deconstruct their code, giving generations a way to play games from before their time or ones they missed out on.

[@lmello009]

+1. And rom hacks and fan translations are a world on their own.

[@soraversusroxas]

I'd kill to see research done on how many top notch gaming coders working for big industries started off messing around with old game code and emulators. How much these businesses trying to strike down emulation owe to it for creating some of their best minds.

[@NottJoeyOfficial]

I may prefer original hardware for many games, but emulation is definitely the better way to experience them, especially in the long term. Emulation is an amazing tool, because not everyone is going to be as stupid as me and go out of their way to own 28+ game consoles and hundreds of games.

[@NurMars]

Sega is like the complete opposite to Nintendo when it comes to emulation. I recently got some games from the Sega Mega Drive and Genesis Classics on Steam and they literally provide you with the roms. You can either just play them in their emulator or if you feel like it just pop them in your favorite emulator and have fun that way. This approach where you just spend a buck or two to play old games, which you then actually own almost completely negates the need to pirate stuff.

[@S.I.L.]

To play devil's advocate. Nintendo still makes their own hardware, unlike Sega, so they have an interest to keep their games exclusives.

[@MrMoon-hy6pn]

@@S.I.L. but do they still make gamecubes, wiis or snes's? I don't think so, so bundling some more obscure roms that they wouldn't of put on nso into a collection won't negatively impact them at all.

[@PEDROGARCIA-qj3gr]

@@MrMoon-hy6pn why you guys act like the only games you download are the ones Nintendo don't sell anymore? We all know is not true, I'm ok with people emulating, the only thing is annoying is this high ground you take where there is an evil corporation, we aren't in an illumination movie, this kind of childish behavior is why gamer is an insult nowadays.

[@CrispyChicken38]

@@PEDROGARCIA-qj3gr Get off your high horse. Most emulation these days extends maybe to the GameCube. PS2 and above requires beefy hardware. Sure, some modern games have been successfully emulated, but to assume people haven't paid for those games because they are emulating them is asinine as well. I personally have a little handheld that can emulate everything up to PS1, and I loaded all my old games on it, and you can sit and spin for pretending like I must be stealing modern games for doing so. You take the straw men companies line up and prop them up for those companies, when people just want to play games that aren't easily available anymore.

[@sangan3202]

@@PEDROGARCIA-qj3gr cus thats all emulation has been until they catched up with the switch lol stop ignoring the facts

[@linokuma6559]

> buy a console legally > buy the game legally > backup those shits digitally using normal computer onto SSD/M2 > play em on emulator > Living a good day and take a bath regularly. It's always good things to do. Unless you're gonna sell the "copied videogames" now that's scummy .

[@Shad0wed]

1:05 The persona footage in a Scott the woz video alarm has gone off.

[@mega1268]

Fun fact: although it is technically illegal, no one has ever gone to jail for downloading a rom of a game, only for putting it up there.

[@no_4259]

The most that can happen is that your ISP sends a letter to scare you (usually only happens if they catch you on a torrent). Unless you live in Germany, which in that case you get executed without a trial.

[@marcovossenkaul8921]

@@no_4259 as a german, this happed to me. For Downloading fucking Pokémon yellow

[@jacobmetalcrafter6259]

@@marcovossenkaul8921 that's brutal, glad to see you came back to life tho

[@foxbox6016]

Well, SoujaBoy was pretty close to jail for selling Nintendo games on his chinesee console 🤔 Is there any news for smash bros on my souja boy console btw?

[@thejjdm1126]

To be fair you can get a hefty fine but jail time is almost impossible even if you tried

[@kingbash6466]

“Emulation is like telling a teenager that grape juice is wine.” Me who went to Christian school: Oh.

[@thetruegavinator]

Yeah, unless you went to a catholic one like I did, the wine they used wasn't really wine perse

[@bioticsla]

Cringe, wine is important

[@CubNole]

OpenEmu is so well done

[@theGDmenace13]

There has never been a better time in history. To start being a pirate. Thanks to the rise of digital games. If you don't own what you play. Pirating it isn't stealing it

[@beardedvulture9014]

"Some consider this cheating; I consider this an open relationship." Best quote I've heard all week.

[@dashie_pink_slushie]

As much as I want to support game developers, piracy sometimes is the only way to get your hands on a certain game. I have a psp, and with the online store dead and game disks being impossible to find in my country nowadays, roms are god's blessing. It hardly has anything to do with money, if a game's accessible, I'll be more than happy to pay for it.

[@chl_ca]

what country do you live in?

[@dashie_pink_slushie]

@@chl_ca Russia.

[@dapperfan44]

In the U.S, PSP games can still be bought on PS3 and Vita.

[@luichinplaystation610]

Well you pay the internet to download the roma

[@omegadaboi]

@@dashie_pink_slushie 🤨

[@seththebeatmxchine]

Big shout out to the random dude in college who put left 4 dead and star fox 64 out of my Macbook pro in 2008. You gave me many hours of joy And I can never thank you enough.

[@boyimbored662]

Honestly, thanks to emulation I became a Nintendo fan in the first place. I used to play gba roms and love the games like pokemon, Kirby, megaman, and since then I have wanted to buy the consoles and their games