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For console emulation to be legal, a working unit must be owned and used to dump the BIOS file. Yeah yeah, we've all heard it a million times already.
But, my question to you guys is, what happens when all of the hardware stops working? For instance, what happens when the last ps1 on earth breaks, and the BIOS is no more available to newcomers of the scene? Will the ps1 emulation scene still exist?
Let's face it. The hardware won't last forever, and there will come a time when you just can't these consoles through sites like eBay anymore?
I know that right now it's pretty easy to get a hold of older systems, but I'm just thinking in terms of the slightly foreseeable future.
I'm curious as to what you guys think on this issue. Am I incontrovertibly correct, dead wrong, or somewhere in-between?
But, my question to you guys is, what happens when all of the hardware stops working? For instance, what happens when the last ps1 on earth breaks, and the BIOS is no more available to newcomers of the scene? Will the ps1 emulation scene still exist?
Let's face it. The hardware won't last forever, and there will come a time when you just can't these consoles through sites like eBay anymore?
I know that right now it's pretty easy to get a hold of older systems, but I'm just thinking in terms of the slightly foreseeable future.
I'm curious as to what you guys think on this issue. Am I incontrovertibly correct, dead wrong, or somewhere in-between?