Why You Should Emulate Games

emulation keeps games alive!
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[@atomicfangs2148]

This guy had the absolute best parents that were tech-savvy enough to figure out how to play many many games off ROMS and Homebrew

[@JacobCruise]

W parents

[@da_pwo]

Nah they just bought a flash cart cause it said 500 games on it

[@jamie36]

We had a neighbour do it for like €10-15. Guy was cashing big time but for my parents still cheaper than buying a €50 game every time

[@uncrstbl]

@@jamie36 My guy did it for 40 😭

[@jamie36]

@@uncrstbl damnnn

[@TheNameIsSR]

Interesting video, but there are some faults in your explanations. Piracy and emulation are not an interchangeable terms, you can play on emulators legally. Playing ROMs via their intended hardware (like on the wii or ds) is also not emulation.

[@JacobCruise]

I’m sure I was technically wrong at some points. But nobody besides a certain group of hardcore people knows the terminology.

[@CinnamonOwO]

@@JacobCruise but as the content creator you should be using the correct terminology, because then we end up with misinformed viewers

[@Goldfire345]

@@ShitFlingingMonkey i disagree if people buy a copy of the game they should be able to play it on whatever platform they want After all they own that copy

[@Goldfire345]

To add to that if a person buys a copy of a game then I'd see no issue with them downloading a rom copy in order to emulate it if they don't have the tools to dump it At that point They've already given the developer money to play the game so they should be able to play it how they want to

[@TheNameIsSR]

@@ShitFlingingMonkey to add even more to that, a lot of games up till the PS3 era have become essentially abandonware.

[@BrckPrgm13]

tl;dr : legal or not, I believe it is moral to pirate games no longer available through official means, it can make you discover and play games you never knew you would like, and in turn, maybe help the companies that made them with their most recent games, so that they might make similar games down the line. Also, it doesn't need to be illegal if you can dump your own games onto your computer for better performances. I'm gonna be honest, I feel like emulation is more about morality than legality : Is the game still distributed by other means than resale ? If not, then it doesn't matter if you pirate it from anywhere, because the original creators won't get a single penny from it anyway. If yes, do you support the company ? Do you want more games like this from them ? If both answer are no, then pirate it (I would be against it personnaly, I feel like piracy for games should only be done if no other official way is available, but everyone has his own boundaries) (Also don't come and say that the devs are getting paid from sales : most time they're not, they got their paycheck, now it's the company getting the money). But if you can support a company that produces or produced games you liked, go for it. I'll take an exemple : Thanks to emulation, I have played, in my eyes, one of the greatest and most overlooked DS game "Solatorobo: Red the Hunter" which if I had a DS to play it on would have cost me at least a 100$ to buy off resale, but with emulation, I could just do it right away on my PC. And I loved the game so much, I went and tried to know as much as I could about it (Did you know that the track list in the jukebox of the game has the same amount of tracks than the CDs of the OST that was sold 2 years later, but with one track changed ? It's because the game contains two version of the track "Re-CODA", one of them being replaced by the opening theme "And then, to CODA", absent from the game jukebox originaly.) I found out that the game is part of a universe of games that seems to be passion project (they always sell poorly it seems, and there's a lot of love put into them, because they keep making them anyway) to the company who makes them : Cyber Connect 2, Naruto: Ultimate ninja, Jojo's bizarre adventure figthing games, Asura's Wrath, and .hack//, that sells overall pretty well which they use to finance those smaller and more heartfelt titles. That's why I bought their two latest entries in this universe "Fuga: Melodies of Steel" 1 and 2, which are now part of my favorite games of all time and all that because I emulated an obscure DS game FURTHERMORE, emulation can make you discover games you never knew about that you could like, and thanks to great communities, some of those regionaly locked games have fan translations that make them available to more people, I could never have played Mother 3 for exemple if it wasn't translated from Japanese, same for Klonoa Heroes: The legendary star medal, two excellent GBA gems that I would recommand to anyone ready to look into it. Also for more titles that you own, emultaion can enhance the experience, and you can do it legally with your copies of the game and the console. It requires a little more technical knowledge and implication than just downloading a file from the internet and loading it into a software, and sometimes requires a hacked console (My switch can testify) but you can now play your games on your computer, and can also serve as a backup if your console eventually dies. Also, it can morally allow you to play your more recent game through emulation, like I did with my switch library (And it's legal, because you bought your games)

[@JacobCruise]

Great read. Thanks for watching the vid!

[@Random_Idiot69420]

It is always morally correct to pirate 30 year old Nintendo Games.

[@JacobCruise]

FACTS

[@Gloryboyquan]

​@JacobCruise facts bro ... Nowadays.. I don't have much time to game on TV so I own a modded oled ps vita doing a good much at keeping me entertained from all the snes nes gba etc plus psp ps1 and vita native Libaryy .. nice handheld package ... Haha df I'm suppose to do ? Go find a snes and a Mario world cartridge for 200+ Dollars ? yeah right 😅

[@ZayJayPlays]

To me, it's completely ethical to emulate any game the publisher doesn't make available on the current market.

[@JacobCruise]

Yep. 100%

[@connor9568]

It’s ethical even if they do sell it

[@ZayJayPlays]

@@connor9568 To me, I'd say that's piracy. If you emulate something like Chibi-Robo, which hasn't had an available release in years, Nintendo/Skip isn't losing a profit because the only other way to get it is second hand. If you try and emulate something like Super Mario. Bros. Nintendo does have that available and they would be losing some amount of money on that.

[@JacobCruise]

@@connor9568hey man I can’t lie I would pirate games on the DS when it was still active

[@BigSmoke-xh5hi]

first youtuber to be honest loll

[@YaBoiJoosh]

I gotta say I think this was a pretty solid video, I encourage the use of emulators as it's allowed me to play a lot of games with my friends on Discord. It also allows me to play modded content for games that I grew up with, or even just to experience them all over again from the 6th generation and onward.

[@JacobCruise]

Thank you!

[@ronaldmcdonald6067]

how do u play emulated games with ur friends when online isnt available thru emulation?

[@JacobCruise]

@@ronaldmcdonald6067 netplay

[@SunlightGwyn]

0:07 1) You being four years old in 2008 is crazy to me. I was in high school. 2) I discovered emulation around the same time. My high school computer had an GBA emulator on it that had Pokemon Emerald, Mega Man battle Network, Dragon Ball Adventure, and a few other gems on it. A student put it on the computer for sure but I never found out who did it. I had tons of fun playing those games and I put them on a USB stick and brought them home.

[@garfieldinheat664]

I agree with pretty much everything you had to say, except for the implication that downloading games slowly off a shady website is any less bad than just torrenting, theyre essentially the same thing, and I feel this way even about torrenting movies vs. streaming off a movie piracy website, at the end of the day it's all the same thing, you're downloading content illegally through the internet. That being said, I 100% agree that emulation is glorious and one of the greatest things to happen to the gaming industry when it comes to just accessibility and preservation of art.

[@JacobCruise]

Facts

[@HerecomestheCalavera]

It if wasn't for emulation retro gaming wouldn't be anywhere near as popular as it currently is. And when it comes to 3D systems emulation is far superior to the original console. You can RGB mod that old Nintendo 64 all you want but it isn't going to look anywhere near as crisp and clean as emulation. The Dreamcast is probably my all time favorite console but I got rid of it and just emulate. The games looks so much better in HD on an emulator then they ever could on the original system.

[@JacobCruise]

Absolutely.

[@CQCorruptionQuest]

Calling Miyamoto right now

[@JacobCruise]

no pls

[@BuizelCream]

Why only Miyamoyo? 😂 Jk

[@Tricke432_YT]

as if he was alive

[@JacobCruise]

@@Tricke432_YT bros he’s literally alive what

[@Tricke432_YT]

@@JacobCruise i wonder what he died from..

[@DogginsFroggins]

I'm a bit older than you, but in a similar situation, emulation was literally my childhood and spurred my interest in tech and computers. I have Nes, Snes and Gensis nostalgia despite never having played any of them besides the Nes. Nowdays I spend a boatload on games but emulation made me a passionate gamer for life.

[@MenderMan]

my dad showed me how to emulate stuff too, cause i wanted to play the GBC Pokemon games. i've never looked back since. i recently homebrewed my 3DS and that's my main emulation device now (except for stuff like GameCube and Wii)

[@appleando752]

My Rule of Thumb with emulation is "If I can't buy it legally, then I can always get it for free" Then again. Even if I do own a game legally, I still would prefer to emulate it on my own because the official avenues don't have RetroAchievement support.

[@linkssz1699]

Some emulators did have the rewind function years before the switch, nostalgiaNES on android is one.

[@ErnestJay88]

Emulation today couldn't be easier, since many seller sells "x TB HDD with batocera / hyperspin drive will 10,000 plus of games" on Aliexpress which is basically entire library of games from Atari 2600 era towards PS1-N64-Saturn era and countless of modern games from PS2 / Gamecube / Xbox era towards new generation such as PS5. no need to "Torrenting r0m one by one" like the old days.

[@bartekmil]

Your dad is cool - my dad worked in IT when internet was still in early days where I live, and he teached me and my brothers to pirate both pc games and emulate console games. He probably did it because we couldn't afford games/consoles, but I'm very grateful for it

[@JacobCruise]

Yes! Super cool of him to do that.

[@sofiauhm]

I remember my dad getting a bunch of random games from a USB for me on the Wii (Pokepark Wii rocks). Years later I realized “oh shit, my dad emulated games for me” like that was dope (thanks dad) The weirdest thing about those games was that the New Super Mario Bros.Wii was “modded” or changed the original game by a guy named Tom. So me and my friends played Tom’s New Super Mario Bros together, which was really fun because it gave us so many cheats the original game obviously didn’t have… Man, emulation gives you some good memories

[@JacobCruise]

Shout out Tom

[@90sNath]

Actually those aren't emulation. Simply pirated games. Those were Wii games running on native hardware

[@rodneybrown2059]

Emulation is one of the best things to ever happen to us since we can't afford every console that's out there because they're either hard to find or hard to afford. With the power of emulation, we can play any game we want on any platform.

[@SimonSandrons]

You are right about emulation.😸👍🎶 But you are wrong about price tags. I got a CIB PSX Digital Video Recorder; a CIB DualShock 2 White Ceramic; a CIB Beatmania IIDX TurnTable ASC; a CIB Beatmania IIDX 7th Style; a CIB Stepup and Down Transformer; a CIB Sanyo Plasma TV; for 45 €. And I've already found 43 vendors with low price tags (Original Retail Price - 70,80,90%). Many people said "There is no hope. Original Hardware is a Holy Grail.". It's wrong. It's 2024. The year of the Retrogaming Revolution.

[@ToyKeeper]

Emulation and modded consoles are the best way to play. It puts more control in the hands of the end user instead of the corporation, and also, the original locked-down or "Nintended" experience just isn't as good. Like, I'm fine paying for games, but I want to control the environment it runs in.

[@harrisonfackrell]

That bit in Booster Tower is just how the game is. It gets everyone. You can jump out; the isometric perspective just makes it look really weird.

[@FinalStage4L]

I completely I agree with this video I remember when I first discovered emulation back in my middle school days it was awesome and still is and has come so far

[@Nigel222]

The PSP was what got me into emulation as a teen. I hacked it and put PS1 and snes games on it.

[@N3Selina]

emulation is sadly still the best way to play old games kinda sad but oh well. luckily many dedicated people. thank you and thank the pepole who made this possible

[@JacobCruise]

W

[@90sNath]

What else you gonna do? Have the companies resell the original systems? That just isn't practical

[@YungFalcon]

BRUH THANK YOU!!! someone else had a similar childhood like me growing up XD Felt like I was the only one. I came from a fam with 4 kids and as cost mounted among us getting a couple broken shovelware esque titles my dad had enough and ended up getting the "real M3" ds flash cart and Itouch one for myself. It's thanks to this I got to play so many awesome DS games growing up as living overseas made it hard to get access to new releases and by the time I was in the states a lot of games weren't on storeshelves! As years have gone on i've given back to these devs of course in ways I can buying any remasters or remakes (like locke's quest on ps4 for example) but it's thanks to that cart and emulation as a whole I became such a hardcore gamer and it's always opened the door to extremely obscure yet awesome titles. Highly recommend the dreamcast library of games as it's pretty much perfect :D some of my personal favs being dynamite cop, super magnetic neo, and the exquisite skies of arcadia!

[@JacobCruise]

Thanks for the comment! Glad to be so relatable to you.

[@savvad]

But there is another side to emulation - when you give a kid a cartridge with like 1000 games, what often happens is they spend 15 minutes in each but never get anything out of any. Ive seen it happen to many people and have experienced it myself. But when I had my 3DS, for which I would get a big game only once in 3 months, I got all the juice I could out of those games, or any other games I could get in between, like VC games.

[@JacobCruise]

That’s actually great insight. Never thought about it that way.

[@mRidley508]

Emulation is what got me into pokemon. My brother is actually the one who showed me what it was, and he isn't even a big gamer. he just saw a video of someone playing fire red on their phone and tried it out himself, and then I thought it was cool and also tried it out. eventually i became a paying customer, buying every new pokemon game.

[@Whisky115]

Without Homebrew on the Wii. I would have never played games like Sonic 3K and Wii Romhacks

[@DisneyTLK110]

"I guess the SNES was just hard to emulate back then" Aren't you talking about... what, 2010-13? SNES emulation was perfectly fine.

[@JacobCruise]

Didn’t mean to hurt your feelings bro

[@krlllx]

@@JacobCruise ?

[@itranscendencei7964]

Bro... You legit have the coolest parents that I've ever heard of. The story about your dad giving you the Wii roms hard drive makes him seem like such a G. Lol

[@JacobCruise]

he is definitely a G 😁

[@Luizanimado]

I love emulation and piracy, some people try to say that piracy is this evil thing, but as someone that grow up in a poor country, I could see how beneficial that is, if piracy, emulation and hacks wasn't a thing, no one here in Brazil would ever had the opportunity to play Playstation 1 and 2, or Nintendo games, since those companies didn't sale anything in here in the past. Also, piracy usually leads to official purchase, so in a way, if it wasn't for piracy or emulation, a lot of those companies probably wouldn't even have a merket in more poor countrys today. Anyway, emulation is great, and piracy does more good than harm to the industry.

[@shadowspike74]

I started emulation in 2016. And somehow. I managed to get away with getting viruses from rom sites. Which I still do. However, in the later years. one franchise that got me interested in collecting an actual copy with just one game was gran turismo 2. Now I have almost every gran turismo in my collection. Only missing 7 GTHD (PS3 demo) and GT2000. Two being to observe why I would not get them in my collection due to budget reason along with regional reason's. At the same time in 2016. I wanted to replay sonic heroes after not being able to play it thanks to the fact that 1. My xbox 360 hdd was not big enough in size meaning it was missing the xbox back compat. Which these days I'm better of playing my og xbox games in an emulator or my modded og xbox. 2. I had nothing else to play the game on. I tried an early ps2 emulator and dolphin on my phone. And of course got no where. That was until late 2017 when I got my first gaming pc. And the first thing I did was install dolphin just to play sonic heroes once again. Without emulation. We would lose the icon's that made gaming what it is today. With less ways to play old system's. And company's making poor efforts or non to preserve old and lost game's. We need emulation now more then ever. And company's like Nintendo need to start opening there eye's. And see the damage thats being caused by not taking proper action. Reather they are stuck in the past. And looking at it as if its hugely damaging the company. When it really isn't. Emulation is not just about piracy. But also... its about preservation and the things we love. Company's like nintendo may have their right to their games. But when some end up going unloved by the corporation itself. We have our right to save it as much as possible.

[@Ruiji64]

The first time I got into emulation was when I heard of Super Mario World rom hacks. I thought they were so neat and I wanted to try it but I didn’t know how to do it(I was not tech savvy at all and didn’t know how to open snes9x)then I got a modded Wii for Christmas and it was amazing. I had a bunch of GameCube games so I figured I try those games on a pc emulator. This time I knew how to do it so I finally started emulating, modding consoles,etc. I’m very happy I got that Wii because I wouldn’t be the nerd I am today.

[@the_xplorer_sploder]

Retro, vintage, modern? You want it? It's yours, my friend, as long as you go see Vimm.

[@JacobCruise]

LOL

[@PKsLabYT]

My cousin introduced my to emulation since I was 5 and I haven't turned back since. It's really great to see other people grow up the same way. Great video :)

[@JacobCruise]

thanks :)

[@johnnysasaki]

Nintendo DS and R4 was always a great combination. Today modding a 3DS is now pretty easy and a great way to keep enjoying it's library,since Nintendo clearly won't let us to...

[@blikthepro972]

ive gotten rather fed up with nintendo, meaning that i pirate everything they make, even the new stuff

[@bland9876]

He had a DS at 4 years old? The Game boy advanced wasn't even out when I was 4 holy crap.

[@JacobCruise]

im 19 :)

[@bland9876]

@@JacobCruise that happens to me sometimes with someone says stuff or asks a certainly where they could be around my age and then they're like nope I'm way younger and I'm like holy crap.

[@mgamobilegamingamature8684]

One of my favorite games that I play a lot that has huge replay value is yugioh especially the 5ds world championship for ds 2009-2011

[@Aman-xo4yx]

W dad + basically my childhood where nintendo doesnt exist in INDIA and I literally emualted nes , snes , n64 , gc ,wii lol ... my father only bought nes and 3ds for me by importing rest I enjoyed in PC and android .... tech savy thing is necessary lmao

[@Westile]

I can only imagine how much an 70's - 00's kids mind would be blown just having a hacked console handed to them with infinite games. Immensely jealous of your childhood.

[@Easmodx]

Wait, you actually got a letter regarding torrenting? I've never seen that happen at least in my country (Spain) except for owners of major rom websites or things like that

[@JacobCruise]

In USA, the internet company’s are a little more strict. The letters don’t really mean anything though

[@Rainbowhawk1993]

With there being no remasters or ports of Golden Sun and the Legend of Spyro games available for purchase, I don’t really see the harm in emulating those.

[@Pirupi]

Dude, wtf I thought you'd have like 100k subs this is extremely well done, I enjoyed the video. I also got into gaming by emulating, more specifically pokemon. I played out pokemon emerald and various other romhacks on my samsung phone around 2013 and it was awesome. Thanks for the video for curing my boredom for a bit 🙂 keep it up!

[@JacobCruise]

thanks :)

[@Juhstxn]

When scrolling down I was expecting to see like 200k subscribers, but I am now surprised on how well this video is put together for a fairly small channel, keep it up!

[@JacobCruise]

thanks !

[@quas3728]

6:40 hell yeah I love these features (fast forward, save & load state) (btw pokemon colosseum and xd are my favorite pokemon but It doesn't let player skip battle animation so fast forward is very useful). also I love doing randomizer. randomizer makes me enjoy same game again and again. recently I tried wii mod and 3ds mod. it was easy af and It was a great experience!

[@nimbylive]

Picture this: playing Nesticle in DOS. those were the days. Also, if anyone can remember dial up internet taking 10ish min just to download a SNES game.

[@fluf201playz]

fact: the tears of the kingdom and mario wonder was both leaked and i uploaded gameplay of them but nintendo dmcaed the videos in a few hours :/

[@infernape716]

I used to have a PSP but I never really played any PSP games on it that often. So when I was 12, I found a tutorial online that showed how to install a GBA emulator on my PSP and holy shit it was the greatest experience ever once I got that working

[@ReeeMonke]

When I was a wee lil lad (not to long ago, probably a few years ago) I didn’t know what piracy was and when I got the dolphin emulator as well as downloading the games and playing them for free, I was hooked. I was so happy since I got double dash and it was so fun and I didn’t even have to pay for it! Also, I think there is an emulator called yuzu which emulates the switch.

[@radu-oy7em]

nintendo wants to know your location

[@IvanShef156]

I may have played a certain mario game that released last month a little early so you got full support from me... ;)

[@Crow_Rising]

Something interesting is that the use of emulators in and of itself is legal, but unlicensed third parties distributing games for them isn't. I mention this because Nintendo in particular have been a bit problematic and even hypocritical recently. They want everyone to believe that all emulation is bad/illegal when this isn't true, and they themselves redistribute most of their old games on newer hardware via legal emulation. It's as though their actual stance is "we're allowed to do it but nobody else is", with them trying to get emulators themselves taken down instead of just going after unlicensed game distributors (though of course they are going after them too).

[@Vulpixelchu]

While emulation is great, something I have noticed personally is that at least for newer consoles like the Wii, 3DS and Switch, whenever I pirate or emulate a game I lose interest pretty quick. When I buy and play them legally, on the other hand, I tend to stay interested. Except for Kirby Star Allies. Played through one level, but my experience was really negative because I was sick as fuck, so I lost all interest. I'll get to it eventually.

[@anotherblob8095]

Yeah, that's natural. If you buy something, you're committed to wanting to get your money's worth out of a game. If you don't, then you have nothing to lose and there's no motivation to play it (outside of possibly your friend recommending it, then sure).

[@felipne87r2]

5:36 I had a similar experience playing mario & luigi superstar saga, I was playing the game on my phone using myboy, after beating the beanbean queen I gone through the rooms and had a black screen during the transition to another room, I waited for like 30 minutes too bc I also thought it was part of the game, and bc I was afraid of losing my progress. After some retries and getting the same result, I came to the conclusion that the rom was faulty, so I got another one from somewhere else and it worked

[@baglord2803]

Great video! I have also been considering modding my 3DS but I have no prior experience modding is it easy to learn?

[@JacobCruise]

Yep super easy. If you follow one of the top tutorials, you’ll be able to do it with no problem.

[@Sly88Frye]

4:29 Oh the irony. I played black two all the way to the champion League and actually stopped playing and save the game just before the elite four but then just stopped playing because I played pokémon y. So you lost your save just before the elite four and I just literally stopped playing before the elite four that is just crazy ironic

[@JacobCruise]

😭

[@Sly88Frye]

Back in 2000 when a perfect dark came out on the N64 I played it and I was only 12 years old yet it was rated M for mature

[@JacobCruise]

savage

[@Jokerxeno1]

currently living in a 3rd world country in the caribbean and will be moving to spain for college next year. I needed some times for myself and modding my switch and being able to play switch games, and old systems like the ds, n64, and snes has actually got me back into gaming. I maybe could have afforded to buy more switch games but if I had to choose between saving up extra money for college or buying a lot of switch games, it was an easy choice for me. Yeah, companies and company simps might make it seem like it's immoral but I wasn't buying those games anyways so it was either than or consuming other forms of media so I made my choice as per

[@Micchi-]

7:13 retroarch has that feature

[@adrenaliner91]

You mix flashcarts and homebrew with emulation. Other than that, interesting video.

[@nFyrin]

Whenever I wanna download switch or PS3 game to emulate I just VPN over to a third world country like Indonesia or Brazil, never gotten in trouble that way.

[@qxlf]

the main reason emulation is populair and a thing is because getting access to older consoles and games get harder with each day that passes. eventhough Nintendo doenst want us to emulate there games, they also dont provide solutions for us

[@CEOGAPER]

you sound like such a cool person with a very interesting childhood. great vid man

[@JacobCruise]

:) thank you

[@MissTomi]

Letters from your ISP? What the fuck? That is a huge invasion of privacy

[@JacobCruise]

lol yeah 😭

[@skiez7430]

No dont worry they arent tracking you like that. They dont care. You only get receive letters when you torrent. It happens because your IP is visible when you torrent. Copyright owners take advantage of that by checking torrent seeders and report your IP if they see you pirating their content

[@WannabeMarysue]

how did you keep loosing your saves i never had that problem with emulation many emulators do have a rewind, look through the settings and documentation. SNES emulators did that stuff 20 years before NSO did.

[@JacobCruise]

im an emulation noob tbh. I just really liked playing old games.

[@ThatGuy-ky2yf]

Some modern versions of emulators allow you to save in game just like on the retail versions like PCSX2 and for old games I think BSNES can do that via making an SRM file per Rom iirc.

[@fluf201playz]

underated youtube your content is so good i didn't even notice it was a small channel until you said it was

[@JacobCruise]

thanks :)

[@Tricke432_YT]

tbh i think most old nintendo games are morally okay to pirate or emulate, like for example gamecube or wii. though tbh i do pirate games on my wii u which i think isnt really old lol

[@ruebenhernandez8016]

What's your opinion on MIG Switch?

[@JacobCruise]

very, very interesting... but I haven't gotten to try it out.

[@steveprood6415]

Nice video over there man, I still remember emulated gbc and finished Pokemon Gold then have a lot of memories with gba and then rom hack ❤❤

[@KitKatRocks1984]

Make sure to get a VPN if you torrent.

[@FSSOX-v1s]

Alternate title: why you should piss nintendo off!!!

[@JacobCruise]

lol

[@SaavinHett]

Great stuff dude!!

[@JacobCruise]

Thanks man!

[@AnAshenSpirit]

rlly good video considering 200subs, you defo deserve more, may the algorithm bless you further

[@JacobCruise]

thank you :)

[@AlexBell1991]

Sometimes, you get a better experince with emulation than officially released ports. Look at Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Volume 1. It was terrible at release. MGS1 ran under an emulator (no objection, old game and would be hard to port) but they didnt bother increasing the resolution, including wide screen support, including enhancements such as shaper UI or text and fixing the polygon warp. (which was common with PS1 games still existed) 2 and 3 both ran at 720p, not even bothered to increase it to 4k, locked to 30fps on Switch (which is laughable as the Switch is far more powerful than a PS2 and tons of audio issues. I've been playing the games via an emulator upscaled from 1080p to 5k image on my PC for years, I've recently started emulation on the Steam Deck and Ive been having a grand time with it. I refuse to let any Nintendo Shills try to convince me that emulation is illegal even when it was proven in court many times that it's perfectly legal.

[@tommythicc2719]

I’ve never got any isp warnings downloading roms but I have got a warning from torrenting Spider-Man pc (it was so good I bought it anyway lmao)

[@JacobCruise]

W

[@Lumppii.]

I think they definitely will bring more emulation to the Switch 2 they prob just wanna wait for the right time to make an announcement

[@JacobCruise]

Most likely.

[@OrbitalFrog_]

NENTENDO WANTS TO FIGHT!!!

[@choder9956]

im not gonna spend 300$ extra to play like 5 games

[@misashiunderground7254]

damn what a video, u will blow up bro, keep this uppppp

[@JacobCruise]

thank you!

[@regiiart]

ur vids are quite nice to watch while im scranning pls dont stop xx

[@JacobCruise]

one every week at least. maybe 2 or 3 if i have a lot of free time.

[@ILikeSoda229]

Assuming you emulated these on a computer, how much amounts of storage did you need? My PC isn’t strong enough to run any games larger than PS1 games, so I’m curious.

[@JacobCruise]

not much. Most games before the “PS4/Xbox One” era are pretty small

[@hanneloresblumen]

that dude played Superstar Saga on his phone.....HOW?? without a controller/real buttons? good luck lol I think that's almost impossible

[@JacobCruise]

it was fun :)

[@Agent__42]

damn you are so underrated

[@JacobCruise]

thanks !

[@DecidiousGreens]

0:22 website? I'm struggling for 3ds roms

[@JacobCruise]

The one in the website actually doesn’t work, BUT “Vimms Lair” does.

[@churros1012]

This was a really good video to watch, especially since we are a bit far apart in age it seems (I’m 30) But we have had similar experiences with emulation. I’ve been gaming since I was 5 years old and as you can imagine couldn’t afford many games as a kid but played the absolute heck out of the ones I did have. In my late teen years I got super tech savvy and thus began my emulation journey and was able to play all the games I missed as a kid. The Metroid series was one that became a favorite of mine which I felt I would have loved even more as a kid. I love emulation and have helped my friends get into it too.

[@JacobCruise]

Thanks for the watch! Glad you were able to relate

[@keyzenthiru5867]

something tells me this guy is going to blow up on yt

[@JacobCruise]

something tells me

[@keyzenthiru5867]

u definatley are wish u the best in ur yt career@@JacobCruise

[@Kitty255Again]

I mean, I'm not seeing Twilight Princess on the Switch rn soooo

[@skiez7430]

Its possible. But the switch isnt very good at handling wii emulation unfortunately

[@Kitty255Again]

@@skiez7430 Yeah, but they've done Wii U ports for some games, but they've been completely silent on bringing over Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD.

[@Neyan42]

This is an incredibly well made video, sure there might be some flaws here or there, but for 111 subs, this is great. keep it up!

[@JacobCruise]

Thanks!

[@LeCaleb]

How do I emulate pokemon games. And Is it still possible on the phone

[@JacobCruise]

Yes. Just look up on KZbin for tutorials.

[@davon3384]

Yall act like anyone extracts files of owned games to emulate😂

[@JacobCruise]

bro is so real for this 😭

[@Luna9793]

Great channel, you just got a new sub ^^

[@JacobCruise]

let’s gooooo

[@iskrassupercoolchannel]

hi

[@JacobCruise]

Hi

[@MicahTurner-l4j]

Hy I play roms all the time I'm 12 and I love all of the old games ❤😂

[@minecrafter3448]

You should probably specify OLD games. Games companies make absurdly difficult to play. If there’s a legal way to do it, do that. It’s ridiculous that people will emulate games like tears of the kingdom and Mario wonder, and then proudly exclaim it. These are works of art that took a lot of effort from a lot of people, they deserve proper recognition by the company that funded them. That only happens when a game sells well. In fact, I blame emulation in combination with burnout from people obsessively playing the the first few months for tears of the kingdom’s terrible holds in sales. 10 million in the first 3 days, and then 8 million in the next month. This is understandable for the most hyped up game in history, but then it just fell off the sales charts after that. It’s now well below Mario kart 8 deluxe, which doesn’t sound bad until you realize it’s only sold twice as many copies and is 20 times older

[@JacobCruise]

Yeah, I heard about the Mario Wonder piracy incident recently. That guy who originally shared the file with everyone should probably be prosecuted in some way.

[@Isma_13XD]

Cool vid

[@debberdavid]

what you only have (almost) 400 subs?

[@JacobCruise]

let me cook

[@debberdavid]

@@JacobCruise this man is going to blow up

[@ChampionRevilo]

Most of what you talked about isn't emulation though.

[@JacobCruise]

Oh i know 🤭

[@modeeon]

nintendo is coming. you are toast

[@JacobCruise]

Gulp

[@CalmCollected]

Shiver me timbers

[@pkyt2458]

Oh wow so scary

[@suzuplaza]

Emulation is the only way to play so many games today and preserve them. Especially today with the death of physical media.

[@JacobCruise]

Exactly

[@speedhunter7156]

Well its an interesting retrospective and i say its pretty well made i just find it sad that people dodge the fact they are emulating is kinda pathetic you admit that you do it and honestly i think that kinda thing is good for a community especially when some used GameCube games cost as much as a new game i dont got the money for that