Your Stance on Emulation?

[Kosheh]

It's a different experience to playing it on the actual hardware.

I want to agree with Chris here and I mostly do, but I'd rather play on official hardware than emulators if I can help it. I've actually gotten to the point of acquiring Japanese versions of games that are too expensive to purchase in English. :/

IDK, I like how games just...work, and pop on CRT monitors and everything. Maybe if I had a hugegantic fucking CRT monitor I wouldn't feel this way, but everything, from the click of the console to the controller in your hand, to the way the game isn't displayed crisp and perfectly, the sound that comes out of the speakers of the television...

It's perfect. Now, I won't argue over "oh it's not rite to emul8 rom playing scum". Earthbound is $150+ on places like eBay. It's silly to purchase something like that so you can play it once and have the "authentic experience" only to resell it again later and recoup your losses. Then, there's also the issue of romhacks etc.
If you want to play it on another console (Virtual Console included, I guess but there's something about the VC that doesn't make it half as charming, partly because you're not holding the traditional hardware in your hands) that's fine, and probably more ethical if you purchased it off the console's official marketplace.

eh idk i just like playing videogames, w/e