I'm all for emulation. For one, there's the convenience, as microfracture mentioned. I still have a working SNES, but recently 75% of the time I play an SNES game it's on my PSP or Wii U (which I still consider emulation even if it isn't free). Emulation has given me the ability to take my SNES games on the go, load any ROM up quickly and without having to clean out the cartridge, and it has also added features like savestates to the games.

I'm also 100% behind emulation for preservation purposes. I hope every game ever made gets ripped, made available, and backed up in a thousand different locations to ensure it never becomes impossible to find and play. I'm perfectly OK with this being saved until after the game is no longer being produced, but I still strongly believe it should happen eventually (as well as with music, movies, TV, books, and any other sort of media). I hate to think of anything being lost and forgotten.

I feel the same way I don't mind emulation at all, it's convenient to have everything In one location (I use my psp) and some of these older games are so expensive it's hard to try and pick them up.

I don't really have any issues with emulation (provided the game is no longer sold).

For me it is a matter of convenience. I have a few of the older generation consoles, but I find that it is sometimes easier to play the games in an emulator instead of pulling the desired console and game out of storage each time I have the desire to play them.