If you cannot afford original hardware, consider that emulation is a preservation effort—but always delete the archive within 24 hours if you are testing (the classic “fair use” argument rarely holds in court).
: Launch each game at least once in TeknoParrot to generate an profile in the UserProfiles Dummy Files : Create empty files matching your game names with a teknoparrot roms archive work
This turns into a personal “archive” you can restore anytime. If you cannot afford original hardware, consider that