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After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal (www.androidauthority.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

I'm sorry, what are you saying is not really true about the part you quoted?

What I was getting at was that they aren't for sale through official means, implying that they'd be for sale on the secondhand market. And while physical media does degrade, there are plenty of people who prefer to use physical hardware to play retro games.

The games are generally available. They're also available for sale, but on the secondhand market. If you don't like the secondhand market, that's perfectly valid. But they're still generally "available". Hence why I conceded that my prior comment was overly pedantic (using the definition of "getting overly caught up in minor details").

I'm not anti-emulation, and I think some people got that perception from reading the first couple sentences of my original comment ans moving on. Which, again, is fair, and why I acknowledged that my comment wasn't the best, lol