Ha ha. Bubble for you

Most of these kids won't know who Columbo was.

*Cigarette falls out of gasping mouth*

One day you're just minding your own business, copying that floppy and smoking a cig and you find out that one is illegal and the other will kill you. This day just keeps getting worse!

Exactly lol. SEGA doesn't make a cent when I buy sonic the hedgehog on Amazon.

So when you have too pay(if you have an SNES) sometimes over 200USD for each of these games Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger and such too get them for the original systems. No way no one would pay that execpt the true fanatic of those games.
But why should for example the owners of those who bought them in the past have too pay for a converted copy to Virtual Consoll they already own the game.

Second the emulators does more for the games themself then it´s original system. Take the Dolphin emulator that enhancing Gamecube and Wii games to thier fullest potencial. To play those games in 1080p with great upscaling.
Why did not Nintendo incorporate these features in Wii U whithout us have to pay a single penny for it. I do not think for a second that this BS.From either Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony that thier systems is not backwards compatible "not for a second". I mean, What could those emulator makers do with OXBOX. The could make OXBOX run Sonys system Playstation game on it. If they could do that too that system(often singlehanded) Those companys can do it too. They are just being stuborn, greedy, or nonlistening to what we gamers really want from future systems.

Roms/backups aren't illegal either as far as its a backup from your disk/card and not from someone else its basically the same than ripping a CD/DVD, as far as you don't distribute it its not illegal and this is why Microsoft came with the Xbone policy that you own the disk but not the content.

Yeah, as long as it's mostly your own coding, an emulator is not illegal. It EMULATES, it's not a carbon copy of the hardware. Roms are another matter entirely, though I pretty much only get roms of games that I've bought in the past. If it's a game I never got to check out that's 2 generations behind the current one though, I might grab it to see if it's any good. I never grab anything I haven't bought past PS2 era though.

Exactly, they aren't illegal at all. E.g., with PCSX2, the PS2 emulator, the emulator comes with everything you need to get it running, except the BIOS, which you need to rip yourself, which means you need to have your own PS2 to legally use the emulator. Same with games, you need to own the original disc and make your own backups to play them legally.

So long as you own the original console (if a BIOS is required) and you rip your own backups of the games, then you're good to go. If PCSX2 were illegal, Sony would've ordered a cease and desist ages ago. I regularly speak with some of the PCSX2 devs, and they've told me that Sony has been well aware of their work for many years now.