Were you guys all reacting like this when Sony patched running unsigned code out of official 1.5 firmware PSPs? Like my god, running stuff like this quite obviously leads to full retail released games being side loaded and running, of course things like this are removed. Sega changed the disc drive in the Dreamcast because of this kind of thing as well. "I just wanted to run NESterDC! Sega are a bunch of greedy corporate bastards!" meanwhile someone else burned a copy of Sonic Adventure 2 instead of paying for it. Of course the final run of Dreamcasts fixed it. Microsoft is trying to sell OG Xbox games on their storefront and you're all pretending being able to play the PS2 or GC versions of those games, isn't some kind of big deal. Microsoft is trying to sell 360 games on their storefront and you're all pretending that Xenia on Xbox Series consoles isn't some kind of big deal, being purposely obtuse with examples of people opting to play Ice Climbers instead of acknowledging that most people doing this would be more along the lines of loading up the GC version of Time Splitters instead of buying the OG Xbox version off the marketplace. No, I refuse to believe you're all actually that dumb. I have more basic respect for you all than to think that. You're intentionally misrepresenting what happened here, and this was obviously the only thing that was ever going to happen.
Either pay for dev mode, mod a console that can be modded, connect an old laptop to your TV, buy a Steam Deck, or something else if you want emulators like the rest of us do. No one here is saying don't emulate old games.
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