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| oldgamerz:
Arrrrrrrrr matey, Ahoy Avast Ye, Aye, Aye, Batten Down the Hatches or someone's about to walk plank. ;) In the past I've used many mods, and yes I have used some pirated software on PC games like The Sims 1 that you can't buy anymore too many working copies of the discs. I usually don't get any pirated software unless there is no other practical way of getting the game. Currently I don't think I have any pirated software, but I do have mods in which some I paid for like the developer mods for Duke Nukem 3D. That came with my steam purchase If you can't find a game you want do you settle with pirated software or do you let skip the game entirely? I was thinking about downloading ROM's but I am afraid I'll need to skip those Pokemon games for gameboy entirely what do you think, those batteries don't last forever. |
| telekill:
I personally don't have a problem with ROMs or pirating so long as the game is older... as in at least a decade old. At that point, the devs aren't likely to still have new copies on the market unless it's a remaster or something and then they usually spruced it up a bit... unless they are lazy f**ks like Rockstar. There was once I felt a little bit of guilt for pirating but it was well within that decade range. I had a friend that had downloaded just about every Dreamcast game they could and it was about 2003 or so. He burned me a copy of Shenmue 2 as I wanted to continue the story without buying an Xbox. I made up for it later and bought the Shenmue HD collection as well as backed the third game on Kickstarter for $100 to make up the difference. No regrets. As for older games that don't generally get put into collections, I have every Game Gear ROM available on an Everdrive X7. It was getting absolutely ridiculous price wise to get a hold of some of the cartridges so I said "screw it" and went for the one stop option. I also have one of those Raspberry Pi systems that has about 10 different retro systems on it. Goes from Atari 2600 to PS1/N64 days. Once it hits later consoles, the emulation is not good though. So much so in fact, that I use the games that are on there to test out which ones I want to add to my actual PS1 collection. A majority of the older NES, Genesis, SNES, etc games... they won't see the light of day that are my favorites.... Ninja Turtles and Jurassic Park. Nickelodeon and Universal could easily release remasters of those classics but they refuse. That's on them. So in my book, pirating older games... again older than a decade... won't hurt the devs and lets you play the games you love or want to try and never got the chance to play without the need of buying an over priced eBay addition. |
| tpugmire:
Depends on the system. Like I’m not going to pay hundreds of dollars just to play the Zelda games on CD-I, but I’m happy to download and burn to a cd. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: oldgamerz on November 27, 2021, 05:45:08 pm ---Arrrrrrrrr matey, Ahoy Avast Ye, Aye, Aye, Batten Down the Hatches or someone's about to walk plank. ;) In the past I've used many mods, and yes I have used some pirated software on PC games like The Sims 1 that you can't buy anymore too many working copies of the discs. I usually don't get any pirated software unless there is no other practical way of getting the game. Currently I don't think I have any pirated software, but I do have mods in which some I paid for like the developer mods for Duke Nukem 3D. That came with my steam purchase If you can't find a game you want do you settle with pirated software or do you let skip the game entirely? I was thinking about downloading ROM's but I am afraid I'll need to skip those Pokemon games for gameboy entirely what do you think, those batteries don't last forever. --- End quote --- no company is making tons of money of old games these days. You don't need to feel bad about emulating those. Pokemon company doesn't seem to be to interested in the older titles. There should have been tons of digital options by now if they where interested. GBA and ds games are just non existent outside of the og consoles, No digital options by any official means have ever happened for those and the gameboy releases where released once on 3ds which isn't a supported console anymore. Also if you where to buy an original copy, Your not helping the pokemon company. The money doesn't land in their pockets when it's 2nd hand. |
| soera:
Im perfectly cool with modding and what not. I have a modded SNES plug and play, a JP GameCube thats modded to play US games ... and even a ton of mod gear on my Diablo 3 account. |
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