Benefits of emulation over original hardware:
>supports resolutions higher than native, custom post-processing, fixes for things like PS1 jitter
>accepts any input method you want, not just one corporate-approved gamepad model
>lets you mess around with speed-up, save states, rewind etc
>guaranteed it will still be here tomorrow, won't spontaneously shit itself like a 30 year old console
>access to decades worth of free games
>makes tendies fume
Did I miss anything?
Cons:
>no soul
>makes tendies fume
Absolutely based. Fuck tendies.
>triggers Yas Forums and /vr/
I don't believe in emulation
I have nothing against emulation except for games that you're playing for the first time, then you should play on the original hardware but if you're just trying to replay some old ps1 game or wathever go for it
Negatives
>illegal
That's enough to persuade me to stay away and purchase old consoles and games.
Yes, please jump through a bunch of hoops to play games for the first time before you click play on your computer.
I've played plenty of old PS1 and SNES games on emulator first and I never even saw a real hardware.
I guess you're just going to have to deal with it. :^)
fpbp