Is this so true of emulators? Emulators already often require lots of work to go find the games themselves (which certainly would not be distributed on Steam), so how much effort is actually spared for the users? Very little.
> Emulators already often require lots of work to go find the games themselves
That used to be true, but today, ROM sites are very easily discoverable on Google. People also sell ROMs on hard drives and SD cards on Amazon, many of them qualifying for Prime delivery.
I used to find them on IRC fserves. I first started doing that maybe 26 years ago. Using an IRC client and a command line, so not stuff most people off the street would be familiar with. Later on I remember them being traded on apps like Hotline. I don't recall it being super easy in the few years after that. It wasn't a mainstream thing, you had to know a little bit about the communities involved.
