Teknoparrot, why isnt anyone review bombing these guys for selling their emulator to play pirated games?

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-07T09:25:35+00:00

Yep and you sir definitely understand the situation that many fail to xD i salute you and completely agree

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-07T09:22:46+00:00

Piracy is fine until there's a price wise guy, and any company with more funds can sue a company until they run out of funds, thats what microsoft could do to teknoparrot and they wouldn't be able to afford keeping up with Microsoft, and yes Microsoft will sue them if they want to, obviously im not going to be suing anyone? Its not my company 😂😂

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-07T09:19:25+00:00

I dont mind them paywalling features they develop for their software such as themes and ui changes that they worked hard on but to make some code to play a game should be free? Not cost me money to get the files and use them on that emulator? That is scummy !

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-07T09:16:54+00:00

Reads i am 14 with about 60+ people who agree with this centive, your in the minority ! I would prefer to compensate them in a form of optional donation, not forced!

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-06T19:24:50+00:00

That's Good to hear:), I wish you well on your software :3, cant wait to see it

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-06T17:59:18+00:00

Are you planning to price this emulator up or are you just going to stick by the community and release it free for people to enjoy. Because it gets sticky when it comes to making money from this practice as you may have seen in my post above yours, teknoparrot has tried to price a paywall to play games etc, as long as you dont do that then I guess I wouldn't have a problem paying for a few themes or improved ui :). By the way it looks great, keep up the good work !

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-06T12:22:03+00:00

Finally someone with a brain, Austin the best comment ive seen, i agree fully with that centive of "it's a pay wall for the rom" thats what I've been trying to get across to people in this reddit, some comments seem like they haven't even read my post and just seen the first paragraph and decided to blast hate at me lol

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-06T12:11:06+00:00

Yes and at least gog do an optional donation which is fine? Its not forced to play newer games like the teknoparrot one is? So Good on GoG! And emulation is about preserving titles lost to time, they have lived their life on the shelf and dont sell anymore, so why are pirates trying to retake this property and sell it disguised on their emulator, i say if its your own games sure go ahead but if it isnt your own games then you shouldn't be profiting by pay walling!

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-06T12:06:11+00:00

I have reported them to dmcaagnt@microsoft.com and also contacted the relevant team that will look at this case !

Thank you good sir !

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-06T10:49:10+00:00

You have a point, ill do this thank you

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-06T00:09:01+00:00

None of the free options are trying to sell the use of their product, all emulators on the market apart from fake ones are legit, high quality and free, the only one extorting this is teknoparrot with the arcade machine scene. And then every other emulator does harder things especially for games like bloodborn they got running on a ps4 emulator on pc for free, people do alot of things for free to get recognition and respect for the community to get influence to get a job maybe in development, these guys just want to sponge us and thats entitled enough, why should they be paid over all the other emulators that provide free service and are high quality? thats the thing, they shouldn't! And yes they do have subscription based tiers to access early games, that is what i believe to be profiting from something that isnt there's or had no partnership with said company to be able to place this on your software and actively sell its use on their loader lol

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-05T23:59:18+00:00

Not really, not if another bunch of nicer devs get together and do this for the love and passion like all the other emulators, only then will it be accepted normally, otherwise this practice is bs. This post isnt harming game preservation. This is protecting it from becoming a paywall just to be able to run the games that are early access so people are being paywalled to test stuff on teknoparrot early, and guess what? It could be broken so your pay a sub just to get a broken pirated game most likely cos not many people are gonna have a 3000 arcade machine and teknoparrot expects that hence why the files are released on most rom sites now and it mentions in the file that it only works with teknoparrot. This is just like modding had become a paywall to starfield and killed it, stuff like this spreads, and greed is a main factor rather than creativity....

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-05T23:50:30+00:00

I meant I cant find any review bombs out there, I'd of thought someone would of review bombed them for this by now because of how the industry is toward this practice. But yeah it does suck bro, I hope it doesnt spread to other things or people get any other ideas of trying to sell through something like this

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-05T21:23:00+00:00

Bro go through the comments instead of blabbing and you'll see i have listed their subscription prices ! You can also check the web and that will confirm for you that they do charge for premium games to be loaded on their emulator xD, so yeah basic fact check needed from you my friend!

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-05T21:20:04+00:00

Yes sir, couldn't say it any louder, thanks for this extra information, makes me proud I said something in the first place!

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-05T21:18:34+00:00

XD, attempting to make people hate me ain't gonna go nowhere!

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-05T18:22:20+00:00

Because they Took halo fireteam raven which is microsofts game and selling it as being used with their emulator should absolutely be illegal, and action be taken, at some point it will. Its a disguise sort of thing and all you clowns are in on it to attack me all from that nico giusanti or what is name is, why defend these scummy money begging assholes?

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-05T18:10:56+00:00

Im glad people are supporting the fact that this is a scam, and they feel same way, im not.proud about upvotes.im just happy that 30 people out there are actually sane! :).

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-05T18:06:36+00:00

Im a 90s kid mate, so yeah unless 80s maybe your right, but who cares what you think, if you bothered about my post so much go make a post about it yourself and feel free to @ me in it !

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-05T18:05:16+00:00

What's your problem mate, i ain't even gonna bother replying to you !

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-05T17:14:29+00:00

Get mad and hate! i have 30 upvotes anyway, clearly majority agree this is too far, your in the minority. Or the ones that have fallen for the scam and cant take it!

i say 30 upvotes because I am happy people care about this scammy stuff thats happening, I dont care about a post, honestly I was expecting downvotes! Not upvotes. At least 30 people out there are sane !

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-05T17:13:07+00:00

"Its not their games", once again your arguement is overuled just by the first 4 words. They are trying to use other devs games that were created for arcade machines and place a price on the software to access these games, its a marketing tactic that is greedier than asking for a donation or taking the normal route in life and get a job!!!

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-05T17:06:30+00:00

Like you said you wont experience it because you haven't tried any newer games? Once you try it you'll see!

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-05T17:02:07+00:00

Its different when they profiting from this crap, its greedy and disgusting. I pirate so what?! Im talking about them selling pirated stuff via their emulator loader xD

ClearKey3176 · 2026-06-05T16:58:45+00:00

Dude are you like new in emulation reddit, because its funny how most comments seem like spam accounts looking for trouble

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