The whole emulation scene (well at least a very good part of it) is full of drama. That's fascinating; they somehow have the time for that after writing state of the art whole system highly optimized emulators, sometimes inventing new techniques on the fly...
The person that spends the time required to learn about game consoles on a deep technical level to write emulators. Will not have much time left to refine their social skills.
It is allot of personal free time they put in to these projects so I guess it is understandable that they want to protect their work.
