I decided the other day that I'd like to play Mother 3 again, and decided to put it on my phone. Checked the Play Store and holy shit... you either pay a fucking SUBSCRIPTION for an emulator or get bombarded with ads everytime you want to load a game, while playing, and are limited to only 1 save on some of them for the free users.

That just really bothered me because I've been in the emulation scene since the late 90s. It's alway been a community thing. It's always been free. If you want to donate to someone... cool, but you didn't ever have to pay to play.

It took me all of 3 minutes to do some research and figure out I could use RetroArch and load Visual Boy Advance through that. If you're already pirating old software, why the hell would you willingly pay for a fucking emulator?

I don't know why this bothers me so much, but it does. When I was younger I figured the people of the future (today) would all be tech wizards, but if it isn't an app then most motherfuckers are just completely lost.

>>11873967 (OP)
Society has always had a large contingent of retards. The issue is back in the day they didn't have internet access, but now they do

Likely stolen code preying on kids thinking it's something official, mobile storefronts are loaded with so much clearly bootleg shit that it's practically unprecedented.

>>11873967 (OP)

>>11873967 (OP)
>SUBSCRIPTION for an emulator or get bombarded with ads everytime you want to load a game
Based. Savestating retards should be taxed

It does bother me too and the fact that it's so hard to point a finger and simply clarify WHY it's wrong only makes it frustrate me more. People who just accept subscriptions and ads literally just think you're some stupid sperg if you try to argue against it. Or they simply just do not care.
I mean case in point a couple posts above mine.

>>11873990
You know how 4chan and social media are so fucking retarded? Well those are the people that don't mind reading words for fun, meaning they're smarter than the average

>>11874078
This is a pretty well phrased update to the classic Carlin quote.

>>11873967 (OP)
Because people are retards? Especially Android users. You haven't seen how much they milk retards with other apps and services? Including Virtual Console etc.?
The question isn't "why and is it morally acceptable". The question is, can they get away with it? If the answer is "yes", they'll do it.
There is enough retards who think RetroArch is too hard and badly designed. There will be retards who will say "it's so much easier to pay for this emulator!".

>>11873990
>so hard to clarify
What's hard to clarify? You have a thing available literally FOR FREE. Always has been free, too. Then some genius starts charging money for it. People fall for it. They're retards. Nothing to clarify.

>It's alway been a community thing. It's always been free.
This isn't true at all you larping tranny faggot. iNES was shareware. Magic Engine was shareware. All the no$ emulators were shareware. Emulators for new or niche shit were all paid apps. Save states were paywalled if they existed at all. I remember having to download an NES emulator that only let you play the earliest static screen mapper 0 games because everything else cost money. Back in the day it was the accepted wisdom that an emulator would be shit unless you paid for it. Free emulators like nesticle were rare and didnt become the norm until much later. Anyway this all boils down to being your fault for buying an android. Get an iphone, download retroarch, and try being less brown next time.

>>11873967 (OP)
tl;dr

>>11874160
zoomers be cray cray no cap frfr

>>11873967 (OP)
can a woman's breasts be used as a video game controller, for the purposes of videogame emulation?

>>11873980
>mfw an entire seven sentences lay before me

>>11874181
>can a woman's breasts be used as a video game controller
I'd be surprised if someone hasn't already made a video of a woman attempting to use a UForce with her breasts.

>>11873986
I use emulators and not once have I ever used a savestate except by accident
>>11873967 (OP)
she is so pretty

>>11873967 (OP)
Just download Lemuroid, moron.

>ios emulation has become better than android emulation
lol lmao

>>11874131
Shareware is free

>>11873967 (OP)
The normalfag values ease of use and convenience above all else. They can't be arsed to sit down and figure out how to do something for free. They'd much rather pay, even in the form of a monthly subscription, for a service where they can open an app, choose content, and play without having to do anything else. Then they're surprised when later on they take some content down and introduce ads despite already paying.

>>11874181
>>11874215
Funny you should mention that.

>>11873980
>wojakposting fucktard is also illiterate
color me surprised!

>>11874379
isnt the hardware of apple devices usually better

>>11873967 (OP)
For OPs next bombshell, he's going to tell us all about VIRUSES on the....INTERNET!

>>11874181
Yes. A bra could be used as a controller skeleton to pinpoint the proper ways for mapping. Jiggles, jumping jacks, swinging side to side. Suttle wiggle, womp womp, etc....

>>11874131
>Back in the day it was the accepted wisdom that an emulator would be shit unless you paid for it.
NTA but what day? There were plenty of great free emulators that are probably older than you. Nobody paid for shit like FCE(U), SNES9X, even the divisive shit like ZSNES (which offered free online play in the fucking 90s.) Even when you get to contemporary shit, we had Biz/DiscoHawk a few years before even shit like retroarch. Sure going back there was paid shit like bleem, but even the "inaccurate" emulators tended to be more than adequate. If you just mean mobile stuff, he was talking about how things were free in the 90's.

>>11873967 (OP)
is it really a subscription tho ?
i've paid for a couple android app like fl studio,magicdosbox and some other,all of them were a single payment purchase.

>>11874379
you can't even use JIT on IOS

>>11874649
You can but you have to sideload. It isn’t terribly complicated but I personally wouldn’t bother because I’m not a zoomer so I have an actual computer to run things on

>>11873967 (OP)
Oh anon. I'm sorry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfR_Jj4grZE

>>11873967 (OP)
If you play on a phone you deserve this.

>>11873967 (OP)
>I've been in the emulation scene since the late 90s.
> It's always been free.

Spotted the liar

>>11873967 (OP)
>you either pay a fucking SUBSCRIPTION for an emulator or get bombarded with ads everytime you want to load a game, while playing, and are limited to only 1 save on some of them for the free users.

The solution is to simply download the .apk file for the paid version with no ads for free from archive.org and then install it on your phone as a third party app.

https://archive.org/details/com.fastemulator.gba

Piracy is literally so easy and they deserve it for trying to sell you something that has historically always been free.

>>11875157
There's a reason Bleem went out of business, and it's not because lots of people bought it.

>>11875683
That reason is Sony bullying and it had nothing to do with the fact that the emulator was pay to play, that had zero bearing on the trial

>>11873967 (OP)
You could have done it too. Take an open source emulator, port it to Android, and make bank off of retards don’t know any better. Stupid people don’t deserve their money.

>>11874215
Does that work like a theremin?

>>11875167
speaking of, has that emulator bene updated? the lack of auto charge i annyoing

>>11873967 (OP)
Been using MyBoy for over a decade now. Never had an issue.

>>11875802
Once you do those things, you become those things.

>>11875157
Did you just learn about bleem because it was posted about above you?

>>11874181
A better question is, will videogames ever be able to emulate the feeling of women's breasts?

>>11873967 (OP)
A lot of people can't find answers because they never learn how to ask questions :O

>>11874181
That's an unfortunate jawline :(

>>11877450
but imagine her pooping ;)

>>11873980
This.

Shut the fuck up retard OP, no one gives a fuck about mobile emulation.

>>11877524
imagine if she pooped and it smelled kinda stinky but i kinda liked it anyway lol wouldn't that be weird haha

>>11877450
Women should have small jaws

>>11873967 (OP)
nobody is this dumb... surely

>>11879373
ever heard of antstream?

>>11873990
It's insane, there is a brand of cattle-like people who just accepts being served ads. They open up a youtube video they want to show you, it will play one, two, three ads, they will complain lightly about it and just sit there watching
This is fucking insane. Am I living in a fucking asylum holy shit. You just sit there. The man serves you doordash ads or whatever and you just consume it. No questions asked? What in the fuck. They also pay for content. They open up fucking plebflix or whatever, fetch their wallets, type in their credit cards info there
Fucking crazy. Were I not a morally good person, I would take advantage of everyone like a fucking psychopath

Any non-FOSS emulators should absolutely be snitched on to Nintendo, they deserve it.

>>11880865
Some people are just ignorant and lazy, so they don't know what to do about it and cannot be arsed to find out. Others know they may be able to do something but are afraid of doing anything with their devices that is not authorized and sanctioned by the corporate overlords or, again, cannot be arsed to go through the necessary motions, so they just leave it be. And still others are those who Fuckerberg lovingly called "dumb fucks".

>>11873967 (OP)
Too much faith unfortunately, because
>>11873974
Is true. 90% of people 500 years ago were picking grain and rolling around in the mud. Those people didn't magically jump forward 50 IQ to match the point who actually move society forward. The gap is only going to get worse btw

>>11881059
To match the people*
Maybe I'm part of the grain caste

>>11873967 (OP)
Anyone with a brain already knows you can sideload retroarch.
Getting upset over slop on the playstore is like getting upset over scam phonecalls. If you fall for it you’re probably deserved it.

>>11874521
No

>>11874113
I hate that anti-white retard

>>11873967 (OP)
Been a while since I emulated on a phone, but this guy's emulators are straight ports of the open source ones with no ads or other BS. They're free on his GitHub (for those who know how to sideload apps) and cost a few bucks on Play Store (if you want/need that convenience)
https://github.com/Rakashazi/emu-ex-plus-alpha

>>11882042
>>11881389
>Sideload
What a Nancy way of saying loading third party apps.
>"Hello, Diane? It's Nancy. I sideloaded a dildo into my rectum and I need you to take me to the hospital...

>>11873967 (OP)
>e I've been in the emulation scene since the late 90s
why the fuck are you trying to us eon on a mobile them. There are very few good examples of emulators and most of them are in custom built cases like The Spectrum or custom industry builds for obsolete building and production automation code. They've always been fairly terrible for 16 and 32 bit consoles. I'll never understand why people who love games did not buy obsolete consoles and game and peripheral collections at estate auctions, for decades would could pick them up for less than 50 bucks. Its way nicer to play games on the original hardware,.
>>11873976
Android and IPhone software libraries are the definition of jank, this stuff used be considered unwanted spyware and adware.

>>11882110
NTA, but it's fairly obvious. You can't justify carrying extra hardware on you when you're just looking to fiddle with a turn-based RPG, like pokemon, with speed-up while you're on a train/tram/bus/etc for 20 minutes a day.

Not everyone is looking for some expensive, modded to modernity, turbo-autist setup on the go. Just because I have a massive collection of retro shit, it doesn't mean I'm going to bring that rare and expensive shot with me in fucking public.

>>11882110
Are you autistic? Holy shit.

>>11882110
>the spectrum
Yeah you're on the spectrum alright

>>11873967 (OP)
Sec

>>11873967 (OP)
Fem Adams Scott?

>>11873967 (OP)
nutendies arent people though. they constantly cry on twitter about how "no one wants to go through all that" (all that = download file and click play in emulator). It's just a cope for them having a double digit IQ.

I paid for lunchbox, to support them. I such an idiot

>>11873980
>filtere by a few sentences