The Okay Old Days Some of my friends are dead-serious about their retro gaming. Theyre buying all the consoles from ages past, all the original cartridges and controllers and what have you, even though you could just run all that stuff on a PC with much nicer graphics, thanks to modern filters and stuff. And personally, I just prefer an Xbox controller over the old SNES gamepad. And while theyre purists, insisting that this old stuff doesnt feel right unless you play it on the original hardware, I actually kinda like emulating all this old stuff. And not just on PC - my PSP is a portable emulator for countless old 8/16 bit games and even some other stuff like Diablo or Final Fantasy VII. Besides, ROMs dont just bring back the original games. Sometimes, they make an old game even better. Without the ROMhack of Seiken Densetsu 3 I never would have been able to finish the sequel to Secret of Mana, because Im just not that great at Japanese. And then there is this thing: Ive never been a h...