I just shake my head everytime I see these kinds of compilations released. I’ve been playing these games for years, through emulation. These bundles advertise being able to use filters for ‘authenticity’ gameplay, online playability and such. Emulators can and have long done these things too.
But, there are people out there, who’ll wait for years on end for these compilations to be made and some shamelessly buy them. When you can cut all of that down by spending less than 2 minutes grabbing a ROM and grabbing an emulator before you’re well on your way to revisit your old favorites.
Knowing how to do things can save you lots of time, money, or both in many of different areas of life.
I can’t imagine you’ve min-maxed every area of your life, why shit on people who are happy to pay for someone to package things up for them?
Yeah don’t shit on the people buying this, shit on the companies over-charging for it.
If IP wasn’t bullshit and I still cared, I’d totally pay 5$ for a copy of a game like this.
It is and I don’t but in a civilized world where I were funding a designer’s retirement/heirs that would be neat. A version of capitalism that didn’t inevitable slip towards fascist totalitarianism and wasn’t made of orphan bones would be cool.
I do shit on people who continue to buy this because it’s telling the companies that it is an acceptable practice for them to do.