Quote Originally Posted by Edmond Dantes View Post
I like that repros exist. I don't like emulators because they don't feel authentic enough--and what's the point of having real hardware if you're not gonna use it?

What I don't like is the whole "donor cart" thing, and how for every repro made there's another game lost forever. This is okay when its something dirt common like Super Mario Bros, but I've heard of people using fairly rare games as donor carts (someone on these very forums once used Bandit Kings of Ancient China as a donor) and that kind of thing just scares me.
"Donor carts" concerns me as well. With websites like retrousb selling boards and cases, I believe it is unacceptable to kill a video game that didn't need to die. I have similar feelings about the NES rgb mod where a PPU from a Playchoice 10 is stripped, killing a Playchoice 10. The ethical issue is mitigated in the later case because there is no alternative method to do the rgb mod, which some tech savvy individual should solve.