bansama: Actually, your refusal to accept the challenge to prove your own point, doesn't mean that you're right. So unless you're prepared to prove your assumption that emulators will always work, you have no foundation to state I am incorrect.
By the way, one example of emulation that doesn't work 100% would be PS1/2 emulation by Sony on their own consoles -- it does not work 100% hence why they publish compatibility listings. And I doubt there's a 100% working emulator for PS1/2 games on the PC either.
Yes, it's a console, but your statement of emulators always working was not specified as PC specific. So, you still haven't proven yourself correct, and I've still supplied you with examples to help show that you can't.
Jaysyn: I did give you examples, look:
NES, SMS, Collecovision, Atari ST, 2600 & 5200, Commodore 64, Amaiga, SNES (via multiple emulators) Genesis (via multiple emulators), Mac OS Classic, DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, 98.
Every single one of my 30 or so PS1 games work fine on my PSP. They also work fine on ePSXe for my PC. I'm not even talking about hardware emulation on the PS2. If it doesn't work it's because Sony didn't want to spent a bit more on them, whether it be testing time or money for components. Software emulation will eventually be perfect. It almost always gets to that point eventually.
Gundato: Megagames has a working crack? Ooh, nifty :p. Hopefully it isn't the crappy one that doesn't actually work. Been looking for a few years. I keep finding a few cracks that claim to work, but since it was a pretty obscure game (and I may have a weird version), it doesn't. But here is hoping (Yay, Roman Alexandria is going to blow stuff up again! :p)
Thanks militant anti-DRM guy.
I found Star Crusader on HotU, installed it with DosBox 0.73, configured it, played it & deleted it. It works fine & didn't have any disc protection. Since you actually own the game....
Also
http://dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=2210&letter=S I was considering that, but from what I have read it sounds like that might be the version without cutscenes. When I work up the willpower for another likely failure I'll probably fiddle around and try to make a super-copy that works with DOSBox. Or I'll keep holding out hope for GoG to solve my problem for me :p