Play Playstation Games on your PC or Mac, also "new customers" at buy.com make $10 from this

[pheobe]

Copied from http://ableshoppers.com. This is supposed to be fun, but anyone has experience on this software?

Buy.com Virtual Game Station-Free or Make $10
This Virtual Game Station let you play Playstation Games on your PC or Mac. Go to Buy.com, search for item number "20316043". Priced at $30, use $10 Off $30 coupon if you are a new customer. Need to pay S&H. Then send out the $30 Rebate. You end up with paying S&H only, or make $10

 

[Seattle]

If you're going to do this, go through ebates, although you only get 2%, but why throw away money?

 

[BruinSnowboarder]

why does a Playstation emulator seem a little illegal...I've used NES-emulators, but I still think they don't seem like console system-makers want you using...

 

[SpideyCU]

There have been court cases on this (bleem!'s been to court with Sony quite a few times), and the final verdict has been that it's alright to make emulators (even though Sony keeps appealing). However, the "illegal" emulators out there use the actual PSX BIOS, which isn't allowed. VGC and bleem! function similarly to the PSX without ripping off the actual BIOS (at least to my understanding).

So, while Sony DOESN'T want there to be other ways of playing PSX games, too bad for them; courts said otherwise.

 

[jAcKeL]

Sounds good to me...

 

[pheobe]

But no matter it's illegal or not, consumers won't be affected by the lawsuit right?

 

[SpideyCU]

No. Let's say there's the outside chance that on Sony's 87th appeal, the judge says that emulators are no longer legal (which isn't gonna happen). All that happens to us would be that Sony would issue a general statement requesting that we no longer use the software.

Kinda like Microsoft saying we should only use our copy of Win2k to install it on just ONE system.

Besides, it'll become a moot point soon. Just wait for the PSX2 emulators to start leaking out in several months. Then the **** will really hit the fan.