Pirating old games?

[airsoftmanic]

i'll just repeat what everyone else has said so i dont need to say it.
but my more pressing conflict is with newer PC games. not for permanent copies of course, just for testing purpose. for me, i only know a game will run when i have it my PC and attempt to play it and demos are cut down versions of proper games so i cant tell (made that mistake with SWAT4) and i know its illegal but every PC game i DL is deleted or specific files kept for back-up and i own 100% legit copies of everything. this process has helped me so many times in determining whether a game will run or not. i cant rent PC games as no-one rents them and i cant just buy them then trade them in as no-one takes them. for me that justifies it but it is a niggling thought.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I'm with the guy about his idea of 'for old games, if I can't get it for less than half its 'new' price, I'm downloading it.'

Sure I could get hold of a copy of Earthbound, Final Fantasy 3/6, Chrono Trigger etc, but expect to pay £60-100 for it. Of course, not one penny of it going to the original people who made it either, just pure profit for Game or whoever.

 

[Aardvark Soup]

As long as the game is completely unavailable in stores, not released in your country and also not on the Virtual Console or a similair download service, I think this should be no problem. Otherwise I would have never played awesome adventure games like Grim Fandango, Snatcher (although the ROM crashed halfway through, so I never finished it), Day of the Tentacle and Monkey Island.