@mat03111984 said in emulation in shops:
such a shame that there not a place where people can relive them for free
Weeelll, when you put it like that, I am reminded of an exception, should you happen to live in the United States. A certain website was granted exemption from the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act and is allowed to possess and even cache games to be played directly from a browser. You can also download games and even whole collections of games without worry of violating copy protection, so long as you don't redistribute the games, or make them available for public play afterward.
So, as it currently stands, if your business resides in the US and you offered up the ability to play the games via their web-based cache format, I don't believe any laws would be broken at all. This would effectively allow a makeshift internet arcade to exist where people could gather to relive these games for free, legally. What's more is that when Kodi v18 is released with their RetroPlayer media layer, an addon will also be available to stream and scrape these games from the website, allowing an almost unlimited game library to be searched, browsed and played as if they all existed on your system without the need to take up any significant local storage space.
All in all, it really is a great time to be a retro-gamer.