Hello , im a fun of emulators i have on my PC several emulators....one for Amiga....DOS dosbox....and i have one for the PS2 that is trouble to configure......my question is.....is it possible to have here at GOG a section for PC emulators that sells all kins of GAMES.

Thanks

Don't hold your breathe. First it's a legal nightmare but more importantly, it would break exclusivity from Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft or whatever other corps that own the rights.

No no no no no! Don't you ever be scammed into buying (console) roms or emulators! Just visit the webpages that let you to download them, as well as BIOS files, for free!

Don't give the corporation sharks more bait! Don't throw fuel into the fire, of the endless emulation wars!

Emulation had always been and should forever remain, FREE!

I guess that he meant to buy emulated games here legally.
I wish that too, even if it's quite improbable.

What KingBradley says is that nobody should ever have to pay for console emulation, legal or not.

If emulation were not available, then so many games would be lost to history. I couldn't revisit old classics like Joust, or Jumpman. However corporations would love for roms and games and emulation to be totally illegal. It would be the music industry all over again, namely that they could re-sell you the same music over and over and over again on slightly newer media rather than letting you keep what you own... as well as [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Genesis_Collection]Sega Collections are two such examples.

Not to mention DRM involved in arcade machines, one of the biggest being if you unplugged the machine the game would erase itself (RAM only) and would have to be reloaded via tape. Curiously i remember reading somewhere that Sega (or Activision or someone, i forget who) Contacted the MAME site/mainters to get a copy of an old game they had lost the sources and all copies of. Wowza!

In the end fans make emulation work (mostly), taking imperfect hardware understanding, imperfect coding, imperfect copies, on incompatible machines and what should be impossible, and simply making it shine perhaps more so than it ever could have before. Hacks for various games extend the life of older titles, or extending the story of a game to a more logical conclusion that the original devs refused to iron out.

Emulation is also a hobby... But can also be scientific. Recently watched a presentation where they (not live) used acid to remove the coating off of a 6502 to expose and map the transistors so they could figure out what all the undocumented opcodes would actually do! Amazing! see Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502.

only if the game uses same sort of emulation otherwise no.

Totally agree with rtcvb32, there are already companies out there making money off re-releasing perfectly fine games just to make a quick buck, beamdog, m$ with halo, Nintendo etc. Do you really want that to spread, every 2 years paying full price for an "enhanced" edition, not for me. If Nintendo got there money grabbers on a emulator it would be steam online only at £50 or more.

Sniff... And arcade... We still have fond memories of MAME, some of us been there from its beginning... Now we have only hatred for the greasy sobs who forced this once excellent service, degrade into the pitiful state it is tomorrow. Black spot on corporations, the plague to strike them all!

Nintendo has been selling emulated ROMs for their systems since the Wii, so it's nothing new. The bigger problem as legal issues, i.e. could Capcom sell MegaMan bundled with an NES emulator without Nintendo's consent? Maybe, I don't know. For modern systems there is no way if you need the BIOS, because the BIOS is owned by the console manufacturer and there is no way they will ever give that out. By that logic anything is free as long as you can get away with it. Why pay for food if you can just steal it, food in nature has always been free, right?

I'd love to see it happen, except then old games would be hidden behind a paywall, or emulators would be packaged so as to only use the games they intend, nevermind any legally owned ROMs (I've dumped a few for myself from my games). They'd totally do whatever they could to suck the cash out of us with it, ruining any experience. I usually don't agree with KingBradley, but corporations would totally ruin the idea because the way they should do it, as a customer service, wouldn't net them enough cash.

Funny that you mention Mega Man: I've found this yesterday: Soon a collection of Mega Man 1-6 will be releases on Steam.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/363440/

I'd buy the Mega Man X series at a decent price (and discound)...

Including the price... Weren't they demanding $10-$20 for 20+ year-old games? Games they previously let you have for free as extras in animal crossing?

Yes they probably could. All the hardware for the older consoles was just that, hardware, and didn't have a built in BIOS so the code ran directly on the hardware.


Ditto... But not on steam... Sorry Capcom, bring it to GoG and i'll fork over some money :P (Course Capcom has only 1 game here last i checked... which i'm sure has dismal sales for them)

Well, that answers that.

On the Wii it was 5€ for a NES game, 7€ for a SNES game and 10€ for an N64 game (with 1€ = 1$). The bigger problems are the complete lack of original manuals, some of which were actually needed to play the game properly, and the lack of an account system. If you Wii broke your games were gone with it. Sure, you could try to get customer service to transfer them, but outside the warranty period that's not free.

I don't really see the problem... ? If that annual "enhanced edition" fails to deliver any worthwhile improvements, you'd still be free to keep playing your preferred old version of the game, and simply not buy the new ones, no? Generally I think it's a good thing when companies like Nintendo try to make their old games easily available on new hardware. But I agree that the methods they use ( or would use ), as well as the pricing, are debatable.