Gyrian
Hardened Shock Trooper
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- Mar 24, 2016
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The people who wrote these emulators stole the Intellectual property of the original Hardware manufacturers in the first place, everyone has every right to use their thievery technology and making legal games who are actually supporting SNK and others. Why are you defending them like i dont get it.
No, they didn't. You are ill-informed about emulation.
Reverse engineering can be problematic when it's based upon ill-gotten source information, which isn't the case for your average console or arcade emulator. It's not illegal or even morally ambiguous to figure it out on your own and/or use publicly available info to that end.
Even if you put all of this aside, your assertion that you should just be able to 'steal code right back' continues to be ridiculous. In your view, these should be two wrongs, not a righting of a wrong.