I've pirated a lot of files in my day. Music, movies, games, operating systems, what have you. I think I got the most value out of my NES and SNES roms. I've had these things for over a decade and they still hold up.
Nintendo is greedy AF. They purposefully create artificial scarcity to boost the value of their products. Last Christmas they re-released SNES Mini and the year before that the NES mini. Now, they could have given us all their games and created plenty of consoles for everyone, but instead they greatly limited both. It's for reasons like this that even white-hat hackers will say "no" and do some quasi-illegal stuff to bring these classics to the masses, free of charge.
First, you need an emulator. I use Nestopia for NES and ZSNES for SNES.
As you may or may not know, using a program may be illegal, but creating it is not. These emulators are totally legal. You aren't breaching copyright law until you download the roms, which are the game files.
nes roms https://thepiratebay.org/search/nes%20roms/0/99/0
snes roms https://thepiratebay.org/search/snes%20roms/0/99/0
Downloading these is what infringes copyright, but if you think Nintendo will come after you for it just remember that money rules the world. It's only worth going after the centralized entity that is distributing the copyrighted material. In this case, it's thepiratebay.org. As we all know, try as they might, the establishment has not been able to stop torrents, so there is really nothing to worry about. Long live peer to peer decentralization!
At one point (ten years ago) I was getting strikes on my account all the time from my internet service provider. I remember the first one was from an HBO TV show called Rome that my roommate had downloaded. They had a three-strikes-and-you're-out rule. Guess how many strikes I got? Five. I later found out that a strike gets deleted after 6 months, but I wonder if they were ever going to terminate my account. After all, they would lose money.
When it really comes down to it ISPs don't care at all if you use their service to break the law. All they care about is money. When intellectual property owners come crying to the ISPs, the ISPs will shine them on and make it look like they are doing something about it when they actually aren't. It's not their problem. Capitalism at its finest.
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