Just about everyone here thinks that emulation has no soul. Thats the whole point of everdrives!!!! To keep the original feeling on original hardware.
No one cares what you played your nes games on. Or how anyone else does. We here believe emulation has no soul and don't emulate hardware.
Not necessarily. I bought my Everdrive 64 (the only ED I currently own) because I wanted to play a hacked version of Perfect Dark (Goldeneye X), and it was either play it on my real N64, or on an emulator. And N64 emulators are notoriously bad at the moment, with hit and miss compatibility, slight but noticeable pauses and slowdowns, and various audio/graphical errors in some games. And a few games N64 don't run on any emulator yet. It's actually a fact that the Playstation 2 and the Gamecube are currently better emulated than the N64, despite them being newer and more powerful than the N64.
So I bought an ED64 so I could play Goldeneye X (which is brilliant, BTW) and I now use the ED64 instead of real game cartridges.
On the other hand, I do like emulation too. It mostly depends on how good the emulation is really, I think - 8 and 16 bit conputers and consoles are mostly emulated more or less perfectly, so I can emulate them on my PC or original (modded) XBox.
I think on the whole I prefer real consoles, but I don't mind emulators at all, as long as they're done well.