God I love roms so much. I download them for every system. Personally, I don't own any consoles or console games at all; I just play roms. It's far better since you don't pay money and you can save wherever you want. I can't see why anybody would ever pay money to play a game on a console.
Well, I do have ZSNES only because I wanted to play a few games that brought back memories or are hard to come by, but for every system? So, lemme run this by you of why consoles typically are 'better':
1. Not to be the goody-goody here, but it's 100% legal.
2. You own physical copies of it...so no possibility of "OH DUR ALL YOUR ROMS GOT CORRUPT'D LOL" or having your computer crash from it. Also, you may be missing tons of key features that the system offers; aka. system menu, etc. It may just play games and that's it.
3. You own consoles or handhelds from a a variety of companies which will more than likely become collectors' items one day. Have an NES and the computer you use now for roms in another 20 years and see which one would fetch more money.
4. You don't have to play crap on your computer screen or use the keyboard to play games that shouldn't be keyboard-y, e.g. Mario platformers.
5. You don't have to go through tons of procedures or worry about which plug-in works for each game or anything like that. You just put the cartridge/disc in, and it runs. No glitched sound, no glitched polygons, no transparencies, no slowdown, you have system menus and all features within those, etc., etc.
6. Gameplay of newer games will almost undoubtedly be slow or feature no sound, etc.
7. Having rewind, slowdown, savestates, etc. etc. typically makes the game easy as hell...so you wouldn't get the actual challenge that the creators wanted you to experience. Also, I doubt that you can connect to wi-fi and play online with with your games running through an emulator.
8. Since you claim to have emulators/roms for "each system," I'm beginning to think you just can't afford any of the real systems/games and/or you're too lazy...so basically, you'd rather sit around and scour the internet for ROMs of hit games.
You say, "OH DUR how cna ppl not play ROMES?" Well what the hell man, why would we play with emulators save for hard-to-come-by games or super old games? Glorb, I think it's about time you just bit the bullet, and went and paid the "un-Godly" amounts of $50.00 for a SNES, $30 for a GCN, $249.99 for a Wii, $199.99 for a 360, $299.99 for a PS3 slim, etc. (don't forget game costs), and play the games as they were meant to be played.....THEEEEN go try and find a ROM of it.