Sony's problem is that the Connectix emulator can play gold discs out of the box. Circumventing their copy protection system. I'm not sure Connectix can get around this, as I think Sony use custom CDROM firmware, which might be impossible to emulate properly.
"And I was just about to make that argument now, until I realized, that would rob console manufacturers of revenue from the consoles themselves, not just the console games. Oops! Scratch that idea.:-( "
Bzzzt, nope, might even save them money, particularly Sony, who sold the Playstation at almost zero margin, making it all back on the games. I believe the situation for Nintendo and Sega is similar.
"Emulators are one of the very few objects which I feel should be illegal (radar detectors being the other major category). Why? Because their *only practical use* is to break the law and violate other's rights"
...and there was me thinking it was to preserve a rapidly vanishing historical aspect of computing.
Hardware dies, code lives on, it's a future thing.
Maybe a moratorium on emulators until say, five years after the release of the device, would be a good idea?
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A fair comment considering that the processors at the heart of the Playstation and N64 are MIPS designs.
Hasn't stopped them before. DNS anyone?
Sony's problem is that the Connectix emulator can play gold discs out of the box. Circumventing their copy protection system. I'm not sure Connectix can get around this, as I think Sony use custom CDROM firmware, which might be impossible to emulate properly.
Love to be proved wrong..
"And I was just about to make that argument now, until I realized, that would rob console manufacturers of revenue from the consoles themselves, not just the console games. Oops! Scratch that idea. :-( "
Bzzzt, nope, might even save them money, particularly Sony, who sold the Playstation at almost zero margin, making it all back on the games. I believe the situation for Nintendo and Sega is similar.
As long as you only play legit games, DOH!
"Emulators are one of the very few objects which I feel should be illegal (radar detectors being the other major category). Why? Because their *only practical use* is to break the law and violate other's rights"
...and there was me thinking it was to preserve a rapidly vanishing historical aspect of computing.
Hardware dies, code lives on, it's a future thing.
Maybe a moratorium on emulators until say, five years after the release of the device, would be a good idea?
Who says it has to be human? One word, Furby.
(Wish I could remember the name of the robo-kitty)