I'm gonna graduate from High School, And it's only going to take one more week, one more week, one more super duper week, one more super spectacular, extra magical, extra fantastical week!
Alright some emulators are really good like 2d systems like NES and SNES. I was actually really big into emulation a couple years ago but I just got tired of them because I just find playing emulators too uncomfortable for me even with controller adapters. I just find it more authentic to play on the original hardware. And I can even get flash carts to play roms and hacks even though they're still not perfect it's more authentic.
I would probably only use emulators if I ever wanted to play MAME or something. Don't accuse me, I just don't like emulation very much and if you collect several games over different systems I could also do that if I wanted to.
Yeah Gamecube games are getting expensive but there are ways to use burnt games which isn't very practical but it's there. And cartridge based systems have flash carts available as well. Some games could have problems and glitches in emulation that weren't in the original games. Even though you can make the graphics sharper, emulation isn't very practical for me.
There are some games that work well like Mario 64 and if I wanted to I can play hacks of it because there's a lot of them.
Because teenagers feel like they're too old for cartoons and get into live action shows but I feel shows like Family Guy and King of the Hill are very teen friendly even though they're considered adult cartoons.
Maybe PS2 has a different architecture that's harder to emulate I think. But I don't really like emulators because they give me a poor experience of what a game is and even with some enhancements like cleaner graphics sometimes games on emulators have glitches and problems not in the original. N64 and Saturn emulators are very hard to emulate and it's very hard to play DS games on emulator because even though you can hook up a controller, games that use the touch screen a lot is hard because you don't have one, just clicking which feels impractical.
So if I were to play console exclusive games like Zelda or Kingdom Hearts I would play them on their respective system.