Obviously, downloading games from websites is illegal.

While I don't pirate games from this generation, I do download Nintendo Gameboy/GameCube games.

In your opinion, what do you think of Pirating old games that are discontinued? Are you fine with it, or will you still not pirate a game regardless?

I'd even pirate a car if I could.

I download some rare, abandoned & strange games on every multiplatform, especially *eyes on 3DO, CD-I, PC-Engine normal or CD, Amiga CD32 & PC*

I have no problem with pirating old games, especially ones that aren't being sold officially anymore, like Gamecube games, as you mentioned (It's Nintendo's fault for not having GC games on the Virtual Console, if they had I'd buy them).

I don't pirate games, but I will say this. If they can't make money or get anything from it. At least their art is enjoyed and recognised. That is the key aspect of all forms of art. rather it's paintings, film, stories, music, or games.

It's ALWAYS feels better for someone to notice and enjoy your work than it is to get paid for it. I'd wager most would give their work out for free if it wasn't their sole source of income to live. I know I would.

I agree with this sentiment. If the producer fails to meet the needs of the consumer, such as not releasing a certain piece of entertainment in a certain part of the world, then it's OK for the consumer to to download it for free. No point in missing out on the experience they failed to provide for you.

Strange logic, I mean you can still buy Gameboy and GC games from ebay, it's not as if you cannot actually acquire a copy of the games? you can even get them new and sealed if you want to break that Nintendo seal on the box.

For myself for convenience sake I pirate all the old machines, Arcades, consoles , pretty much everything I can get my hands on a GoodSet of games for I'll store on my media PC, while I still own every title I've ever bought (with 1-2 exceptions) I don't really enjoy spending the 30 mins at times to get my NES to stop loop resetting to get a game of megaman 2 in, so I'll often fire up the emulated version of it instead and sit back on the couch with a DS3 wirelessly rather than be stuck with the tiny short cables on the NES pads.

For consoles which have no hardware issues now though I'll almost always play them on the original hardware as long as the battery back up in the titles is still fine (my copies of Secret of Evermore and Story of Thor have sadly both lost the ability to save, so emulation it is)


Not going to justify my actions with statements like if companies would sell me NES titles on a new system I'd buy them up.... I just wouldn't, I still have my original carts for all the games I love on that system so I wouldn't buy them again unless they were things remastered like on the GBA versions of Mario Bros, or the SNES Super Mario All Stars, but I wouldn't buy a ROM from the eshop of a game I have access to... that said on the Vita I've bought a ton of PSone titles which I do have the discs to also... but that is because the Vita never leaves my side and it was worth doing that for the convenience / in ability to hack that console.

Oh and Nintendo annoyed me into 3DS modding, when the SNES titles were shown for the 3DS eshop... but then were only playable on the NEW model of 3DS I thought fuck that, surely the 3DS is capable of running SNES roms if it can run games like resident evil revelations so I started to look into modding the system to be able to do just that, who could have guessed the powerhouse that is the 3ds could emulate the 2.79mhz snes cpu lol.



Cart even fits perfectly into it!

The only game I've pirated is Mother 3 because Nintendo really doesn't want me to play it legally in my own language.

If there aren't any viable options, I'm OK with it. And my take on 'viable' is quite a broad one in this context.

Ganoncrotch said: Strange logic, I mean you can still buy Gameboy and GC games from ebay, it's not as if you cannot actually acquire a copy of the games? you can even get them new and sealed if you want to break that Nintendo seal on the box. For myself for convenience sake I pirate all the old machines, Arcades, consoles , pretty much everything I can get my hands on a GoodSet of games for I'll store on my media PC, while I still own every title I've ever bought (with 1-2 exceptions) I don't really enjoy spending the 30 mins at times to get my NES to stop loop resetting to get a game of megaman 2 in, so I'll often fire up the emulated version of it instead and sit back on the couch with a DS3 wirelessly rather than be stuck with the tiny short cables on the NES pads. For consoles which have no hardware issues now though I'll almost always play them on the original hardware as long as the battery back up in the titles is still fine (my copies of Secret of Evermore and Story of Thor have sadly both lost the ability to save, so emulation it is) Not going to justify my actions with statements like if companies would sell me NES titles on a new system I'd buy them up.... I just wouldn't, I still have my original carts for all the games I love on that system so I wouldn't buy them again unless they were things remastered like on the GBA versions of Mario Bros, or the SNES Super Mario All Stars, but I wouldn't buy a ROM from the eshop of a game I have access to... that said on the Vita I've bought a ton of PSone titles which I do have the discs to also... but that is because the Vita never leaves my side and it was worth doing that for the convenience / in ability to hack that console. Oh and Nintendo annoyed me into 3DS modding, when the SNES titles were shown for the 3DS eshop... but then were only playable on the NEW model of 3DS I thought fuck that, surely the 3DS is capable of running SNES roms if it can run games like resident evil revelations so I started to look into modding the system to be able to do just that, who could have guessed the powerhouse that is the 3ds could emulate the 2.79mhz snes cpu lol. Cart even fits perfectly into it!

I've bought a lot of Nintendo games throughout the years. I just like convenience.

Also, I don't want to go and buy pokemon ruby again if I already had it. I'll pirate a game if it's either extremely old or if I already owned it. Exception is for games made in this generation