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Chazore said:
IcaroRibeiro said:

Not only GBA Pokemon. Many of Nintendo older IPs were experienced trough emulation for the generation who born in the late 90's and 2000's. Piracy is an overlooked factor when people are analyzing the industry. It's like when you have a new manga that was never released in west, but when it gets official release it tops new York times sellers list right out the gate, why? Because there was already an avid pool of customers reading it online, just not paying for them 

I agree games (especially older games) are very easy to emulate. Take as much effort to run them as to install any software and open any file on windows

I too once used to emulate Nintendo games back in the day, like Pokemon G&S, first few Mario games, first few Zelda titles etc. 

Yes. All Game Cube games I've played were through emulation. Unlike SNES and N64 that were plentiful, I've never really saw anyone in Brazil with a Game Cube, it was a system I know it existed thanks to Magazines (although they were mainly focused on Playstation 2 at the time)

I also emulated GBC and some GBA games as well. My first Nintendo handheld was a DS, and even though they could play GBA cartridges I was just much more convenient (and free) to download GBA roms as those cartridges weren't that easy to find at stores, I think the only GBA games I've legally played on DS were the ones my neighbor gave to me

The point is, if a 7 to 8 years old kid had no problem emulating I don't think grown up men and women would have such problems either