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No everdrives but basically all my consoles can play copies and I'm a huge fan of my hacked Wii on my PVM (I am planning to cobble together a 15khz RGB emulator PC sometime in fact, to take it one step further). Similar concept.
It is a bit of an existential crisis when you sit down and realize the games themselves are just a splash of data, and what disc/cart/system contains them only in part (if at all) makes the game for most of us. Does this mean I like that I can hold a grey slab with Mario on it as some amount of my whole enjoyment of Super Mario Bros with the other part making the pixel plumber run and jump? That's a yes to me.
I enjoy the intangible aspects of collecting (deal hunting, becoming a bit of an expert on certain games just because you own them etc) and whatever good vibes come from seeing a lot of games and pulling them out and interacting and stuff. That and, I don't at all mean this as a means of boasting, but it's a good feeling when friends come over and root through for something for us to play/watch. Out of most gamers I know I'm one of a few with a somewhat substantial collection (I'm kinda hating using that word, basically all the games I have I bought to play or because I like them versus some sort of "quantity over quality" thing it implies about catching 'em all) and I'm totally cool with being used as a sort of museum. Maybe for some people this would be impressive, but I don't think I'd have the same reaction from lists of games on a TV you pick a game from versus the tangible real games.
Personally I'm also more inclined to play something if I have a legit copy of it as well, even if going to an emulator's favorite ROMs folder or similar is basically as convenient.
That said I'd sell all my games if I absolutely needed the money, between emulation and modded consoles I can have my Make Mario Go Right experience and enjoy it nearly as much as if I loaded it from the real cart. I'd say "the money or the space" but I "only" have ~400 physical titles which fit neatly into a bookcase, I'm nowhere near losing all my wallspace to shelving in some Room Of Doom looking gameroom.
It is a bit of an existential crisis when you sit down and realize the games themselves are just a splash of data, and what disc/cart/system contains them only in part (if at all) makes the game for most of us. Does this mean I like that I can hold a grey slab with Mario on it as some amount of my whole enjoyment of Super Mario Bros with the other part making the pixel plumber run and jump? That's a yes to me.
I enjoy the intangible aspects of collecting (deal hunting, becoming a bit of an expert on certain games just because you own them etc) and whatever good vibes come from seeing a lot of games and pulling them out and interacting and stuff. That and, I don't at all mean this as a means of boasting, but it's a good feeling when friends come over and root through for something for us to play/watch. Out of most gamers I know I'm one of a few with a somewhat substantial collection (I'm kinda hating using that word, basically all the games I have I bought to play or because I like them versus some sort of "quantity over quality" thing it implies about catching 'em all) and I'm totally cool with being used as a sort of museum. Maybe for some people this would be impressive, but I don't think I'd have the same reaction from lists of games on a TV you pick a game from versus the tangible real games.
Personally I'm also more inclined to play something if I have a legit copy of it as well, even if going to an emulator's favorite ROMs folder or similar is basically as convenient.
That said I'd sell all my games if I absolutely needed the money, between emulation and modded consoles I can have my Make Mario Go Right experience and enjoy it nearly as much as if I loaded it from the real cart. I'd say "the money or the space" but I "only" have ~400 physical titles which fit neatly into a bookcase, I'm nowhere near losing all my wallspace to shelving in some Room Of Doom looking gameroom.
