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  1. Arilys

    Gary Bowser has been sentenced to 3+ years in prison

    I'm not saying there are no moral problems. Morals are not the same for everyone, you do you, I'll do me. I personally have no issue with pirating because I use it basically as game demos: if I do like a game enough, I'll buy it if I can find it on sale at a price that I feel is worth it (I...
  2. Arilys

    Gary Bowser has been sentenced to 3+ years in prison

    Neither does it mean that the "damage" is as big as the companies claim. "The companies that wanted to sell something bad for your health did studies and conveniently got inconclusive results on whether or not the thing they wanted to sell was bad for your health" Come on now lmao, why would...
  3. Arilys

    Gary Bowser has been sentenced to 3+ years in prison

    And yet it's still the most thorough study that we have, even according to that article you link. Also, a few paragraphs after the one that points out the margin of error: I had a bit of a skim through the study for a few hours these last few days (at least until the initial interest faded and...
  4. Arilys

    Gary Bowser has been sentenced to 3+ years in prison

    Comparing two completely different markets (console gaming vs mobile gaming). I don't remember Android gaming starting off with paid games, the whole hype I saw about it was about there were so many free games on it. If you're going to make one of the main draws of your platform the free games...
  5. Arilys

    Gary Bowser has been sentenced to 3+ years in prison

    Piracy is a tiny, TINY percentage of the total userbase, be it in games, movies, whatever you want. Especially nowadays with how easy and "affordable" (if you don't think long term, but that's a different can of worms) streaming services are (for movies and music) and the ease of access to...
  6. Arilys

    Gary Bowser has been sentenced to 3+ years in prison

    I really don't understand how there are people that use this argument. Do you honestly think that the devs only get paid after the game starts selling? Sure, that applies to indie games, but I seriously doubt that Nintendo did this to help the indie devs, and I doubt even more that they'll give...
  7. Arilys

    Gary Bowser has been sentenced to 3+ years in prison

    Yeah, there are a lot of people that find excuses. But there are also others that do end up buying the games. I've lost count to the amount of games that I pirated on PC and older consoles that I ended up buying later on. There are even some that I pirated and would like to have bought, but I...
  8. Arilys

    Pokemon Sword and Shield overtake Gold and Silver as series' second-highest selling games

    Yeah, fair enough, it's a bit subjective, so I won't argue too much on whether PLA is or isn't a mainline game. It's weird enough that people will disagree on it until we know if the next game will be like it :P That said, the series' original intent was more about collecting (and trading, to a...
  9. Arilys

    Pokemon Sword and Shield overtake Gold and Silver as series' second-highest selling games

    By that logic, gens 1, 2 and 3 aren't mainline games since they're single player rpgs with no online battles :D Which makes that "the ip isn't gonna get very far" bit even more ironic. Also, about trades being added at the last minute: the games have been rushed since gen 5 or 6, when they...
  10. Arilys

    Pokemon Sword and Shield overtake Gold and Silver as series' second-highest selling games

    I get it, I thought similarly until I got into Ranked Battle Spot back in XY and started making silly teams (like mono-type teams) to try out new stuff. That made me like a lot more Pokémon and start playing with way more variety in future games (and even when I go back to replay some older...
  11. Arilys

    Pokemon Sword and Shield overtake Gold and Silver as series' second-highest selling games

    The latest main series game is Legends Arceus, apparently. Source(s): "Despite its title not containing the full name of "Pocket Monsters" in Japanese, Pokémon Legends: Arceus is considered to be a part of the core series by the official website." ~ Trivia section on PLA's Bulbapedia article I...
  12. Arilys

    Hacking What has been tried to homebrew patched switches without hardmodding?

    Some time ago I read a post on GBATemp mentioning that the 3DS also has a microkernel. I also did a quick search and found this, which also mentions it being a microkernel. Funny enough, it also mentions that the 3DS's OS is called Horizon too. I guess Nintendo just updated the living bejeezus...
  13. Arilys

    Tutorial PS4 Exploit Guide

    Yeah, that one really confused me too. I ended up disabling the DNS, using Al Azif's exploit menu and caching it. Now I can use that offline, so hopefully the weirdness is over lol
  14. Arilys

    Tutorial PS4 Exploit Guide

    I'm a dumb and completely forgot that goldhen has the FTP option in its menu. Used that and went to the update folder, but there's no UPDATE.PUP file, only the two folders and the .bin in the attached image. The folders are empty so I assume that they're not the issue, which leaves the .bin...
  15. Arilys

    Tutorial PS4 Exploit Guide

    Hi. I'm trying to get this to work properly on my PS4. Earlier I managed to make it work while using Al Azif DNS but now every time I try to go to the page to run the exploit, I get an error ( WV-33898-1 ), and it'll only work if I remove the DNS. I then have to dance around the menu to go pause...
  16. Arilys

    Hacking Private servers for online gaming?

    Something like http://lan-play.com I guess?
  17. Arilys

    Hacking Mariko revision. Does nobody care about hacking these?

    Monkey's paw: someone does find an exploit but keeps it private out of spite lmao
  18. Arilys

    Mario Party Superstars has leaked online nearly a week ahead of its release

    You asked what Lite users would do since they can't buy Joy-Cons. I answered that they probably can use Joy-Cons like in the normal Switch. And now I even went to check online and it turns out that Joy-Cons CAN connect to the Lite just fine. Dunno why you suddenly decided to move goalposts with...
  19. Arilys

    Mario Party Superstars has leaked online nearly a week ahead of its release

    You can connect the Pro Controller to the Lite and use it like you would normally. Dunno about normal Joy-Cons, but my guess is that they also work without issue. Edit: Given, even if you get the joy-cons, you obviously can't slide them onto the Lite to charge, so you'd have to get a separate...
  20. Arilys

    Mario Party Superstars has leaked online nearly a week ahead of its release

    All this talk about leaks being bad because "muh spoilers". Meanwhile, I always somehow manage to avoid spoilers for the games I like. Heck, I played KH3 about a month after the official release without having anything spoiler'd lmao Just be mindful of what you're watching, listening to or...
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    Yeah I think I spent like close to 300 all in on my Pi5 setup buuutttt depending on how you look at it that is super cheap, like per game or all the "Mini" consoles you would have to buy to get something close to it.
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    I just divided 5000 by 300 works out to 16.666666 cents per game lol
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    Yeah but some of those games aren't worth that much. I hope the others make up for it. :P
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    If you own no other devices and can find something that does up to switch for 300 the price makes up for it just for that then again a complete genesis can go for around 150 not including games
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    The Switch is the next big milestone.
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    It's interesting, you can get up to PSX with a $50 device, but if you want PS2/GC and so on, it's $150 minimum but $200 to be sure, and those devices can already play Switch.
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    Still better than 350 on a actual switch I'll take a few frame drops
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    I'm not disagreeing. It's just weird that if you can get PSX for $50, and Switch for $200, why can't you get PS2 for $100?
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    Emulation is weird.
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    I mean just take the fact SNES still isn't perfectly emulated.
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    So the cost of molding screen battery and all that jazz iirc more ram helps shaders load properly which ps2 had like 32mb of ram so it's all over
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    But with Emulation some say 16gb is required
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