Homebrew Anyone else feeling kinda weird?

[OSW]

Does anyone get that weird feeling inside when they play DS roms, that feeling almost like an orgasm?

The feeling goes away eventually

QFT...although I felt REALLY weird today when my friends little brother asked me "how did you get pokemon before it came out?" and I told him, "well...I din't really buy it..."


yea i felt really weird when i was playing pokemon at school and people asked me how i got 18hrs into it already...



LMAO. i can imagine some pokefreak asking "hey, how'd you play 18 hours, the game isn't out here and hasn't even being out in the US for 8 hours yet?...) LOL @ PREDUMP

QUOTE(cheesyPOOF5 @ Apr 22 2007, 08:19 PM)Yay, with a flashcart you can steal $40,000 dollars worth of games!

That is a lot of money for mostly crappy games.

Gotta agree there, theres a huge amount of crap not worth 5 cents.

 

[Migugu]

Sometimes, when I do something 'wrong' I get that kinda feeling to
But when I do it a couple of times, I don't feel it anymore

TIP : when you get the feeling, think you're not cheating or hacking etc., but think you're doing something good like you want to be a little unpro gamer or something

 

[VmprHntrD]

Ahh I know that feeling well, but I never got it so much when I was using a GBA flash kit as I did 5-10years+ earlier. Through high school I didn't have any job or anything, just class, and a small allowance so I never could enjoy a lot of things. The cash I had went into nearly only NES/GB/SNES era stuffs and the PC just sat. I learned I could get things using BBS's and then later online out of irc. It was like an addiction and I at a time had loaded up a good sized HDD with installs and made backups in multiple disk boxes. It felt awesome going...OOOH Leisure Suit Larry 6 sweet (or something) but I'd rarely finish any of them but a few, just wasn't motivated. I found eventually I suffered from two things out of it which was oversaturation and a bit of guilt. Not so much of guilt of ripping off the company, but of just taking the things in general, storing them, and doing crap with the stuff but wasting my time and space. Eventually this did spill into early NES/GB/SNES era stuff too though that did take a LOT less space, but I gave it up. Eventually I'd just d/l to test drive, if it sucked, bye-bye, if not I'd give it a few more rolls to see if i'd buy it NOW, later on the cheap, or just was initial fun/shock value and erase it too. MY GBA kit saw me wasting more time earlier in it, but really ende dup just being for dev games people to and testdrives, that and backing my own carts up to the PC. I also found very fun use in PocketNES, etc because i could take my 100+cart collection on the go.

 

[miikes]

coming from a nation that everything is pirated (yes, everything is pirated... even toys'r'us sells pirated stuff) I could get games for anything easily and most of all cheaply.

On the other hand flashcarts are a welcome addition to my gaming cause. Ever since I got my ezfII, I loved the fact of not having to bring a whole bunch of cartridges everywhere I go with my gameboy/ds. Having a flashcart for me is very convenient and makes my gameboy/ds what it really it is suppose to be, portable.

 

[xPhantom]

yeah, i don't get that weird feeling either.
i use them with my M3 Simply..
and i think it makes everything so much easier and more convenient.

 

[Veho]

Guilt? Bah. None of that. I'm ruthless. Arrr.

And now I shall quote someone who I believe has perfectly captured the essence of the issue here (because he's so brilliant), namely, myself:
(Also, since I said this somewhere already, I don't feel like typing it again)

I don't know if this applies, but I generally find I think less of games when I can get any of them for free (ie. when I can pirate them).
When you buy games instead of pirating them, you're limiting yourself, you have no choice but to actually have a proper go at your games, and ultimately it's more rewarding.

I think it's because you won't admit that you spent a ton of money on a crap game, so you say you like it. And you play it through, and you even replay it, if you're desperate. And you won't admit you don't actually like it, because you spent money on it, and you'd look foolish (to yourself, mostly) if that money was wasted.
But when it's free, you are bothered by every flaw, you get bored easily, there's no "by Jove, I've paid for it, I'll play it if it kills me" attitude you get when you've squandered your hard-earned moneyz on the game.
When you download the game, you can afford to just flip through it, and delete it. But when you buy a game, you want ot milk it for every cent of worth you can squeeze out of it. You find and glorify the good sides, you tend to ignore the bad sides, but you don't give up on it that easily. Actually buying a game automatically adds 30% to the score you'd give the game if it was free.

Downloaded games... you don't feel an obligation to yourself, to the money you spent, to the people who gave you the game, to play it, to get the most out of it, to like it, to enjoy it. And that feels weird.

 

[tackle]

Very good point

Also, kinda like the "kid in candy-store and has to pick one only"-type of scenario.

I do a lot of audio work and have access to a gazillion synth presets for my productions, and that's more of a hinder than helping hand. It's not too uncommon to hear about artists/producers finding some pretty crappy gear and set a goal to only use that, to actually get something done.

 

[No Name Trowa Barton]

why feel guilty at all?

thats like saying i should feel bad for not being religious. or for looking at porn. or fuck even masterbating. burning cds recording shows downloading and burning games.

yah piracy is bad for the industry sure it is. but its also good for it.

example me.

i used to only play games i knew i liked and never tryed anything new. never. i did some demo discs but demos where always lame in comparision to the real thing. (much like porn sucks in comparison to a real girl) anyways if it wasnt for "flash carts" i would have never got a gameboy advance... at all. for seriousness.

after the ds came out sony wooed me with there psp around the time of the ds launch. so i decided to wait and see what this magical device is. because in all honisty my ps2 was used more then my gamecube. (and is used more then my wii) anyways

they only "feelings" i get when i pirate are that of.

"i feel sorry for the people that paid for this game its crap"
or
"wow thats the next game i am going to buy"

i have legit copys of games i like ie ouendan for the ds and tekken dark resurection for the psp.

the only times i have ever felt guilty was when i was younger and tryed asking a girl out. because of how soicity drove into me that boys shouldnt sexualy harass girls. fuck i still cant get a girlfriend...

i hate my life.

 

[shaffaaf27]

yeah, i get bored easily and hop games liek i do channels on a tv...

but i have just gotten a job, and have started to buy more games and dvds.

its the first time in 3 years i bought a dvd yesterday or spider man 1 and 2.

i will be buying diamond and have imported pearl.

its basically money.

 

[HipN]

I do, but hardly. And by that, I mean once in a blue moon.

When I do get that feeling it only lasts for a couple of minutes, and disappears after playing the games for a while.

FREE = GOOD.
PAY = BAAAAADDD

 

[Veho]

I don't think the OP meant feeling guilty, I think he meant something other.

I don't know, somehow, if you have all those games, you seem to detach yourself from playing. You aren't that much into it. You don't get involved. Games become like watching TV, automatism. Or you may say, hey, I like the game, I'll give it more time later. I can play it whenever I want. And that ruins it.

If you buy a game, there's the anticipation (they say anticipation is the best part), there's the planning, the waiting, and all that stands between you and the game is a price tag; once you do get the game you play it through through sheer inertia.
If you have a flash card, however, you know that in a sense you already have all the games you'll ever want to play, and part of the game experience is lost.

 

[chalupa]

I'm no to sure if I agree with your theory veho as games that I borrow/ get as a gift seem to keep my interest just as much as if I bought it with my own money...... I don't mean to bash your idea, just trying to point out that i think there is something more.

 

[Bowser128]

"What about the great feeling you get from knowing you're better than regular people?"

the only times i have ever felt guilty was when i was younger and tryed asking a girl out. because of how soicity drove into me that boys shouldnt sexualy harass girls. fuck i still cant get a girlfriend...

i hate my life.

Since when did asking a girl out involve sexual harassment?

 

[Veho]

I'm no to sure if I agree with your theory veho as games that I borrow/ get as a gift seem to keep my interest just as much as if I bought it with my own money...... I don't mean to bash your idea, just trying to point out that i think there is something more.Maybe I should have worded that differently... The whole process is still there no matter how you get the game, as long as you can't have it whenever you want.

"All that stands between you and the game is the fact that the friend who has it always seems to forget to bring it when he comes over, and you've been waiting for days now."

Same thing, really.

QUOTE(No Name Trowa Barton @ May 9 2007, 06:33 PM)the only times i have ever felt guilty was when i was younger and tryed asking a girl out. because of how soicity drove into me that boys shouldnt sexualy harass girls. fuck i still cant get a girlfriend...

i hate my life.

Since when did asking a girl out involve sexual harassment?

It's all in how you ask

 

[frostfire]

I definitely enjoyed my DS games more when I was still playing the original cartridges yes. Why, you ask? Well, I don't know really.. maybe because when you're about to buy and look forward to real cartridges you really want to enjoy your invested money well thus you complete the whole game (at least I do). But when you download roms, it doesn't give the sastisfaction of spending your money and wanting to enjoy it. In addition, the variety of roms available is so immense you don't know what to play anymore, and don't want to finish nearly any game since you can play a whole lot of other games. Because of this, I've left the timeconsuming RPG's behind and like to play pickup-and-go games now which are still fun to do.

Oh well, maybe after all I'm getting to old for gaming.

 

[Knab]

nope i enjoy it to tell you the truth theres only a handful of games i play on it anyways and im glad i didnt shell out the money to be disappointed with the crap i didn't like.

i have more gba games on my flashcart then ds games lol

viva la GBA

 

[Evilkoko]

I feel great playing roms, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside knowing I have 15+ games in one cartridge and could add any other game I wanted easily.

 

[ZdProjects]

You people are getting game overload. I had that when i first got my computer and just kept jumping games. Just only have one rom at a time.

 

[SlCKB0Y]

I do not feel bad a all, I would pirate less if europe wouldn't be treated as a god damn 3rd world country when it comes to games

Whinge whinge whinge.

Try living in Australia. A flash cart is nearly a must.

 

[4saken]

Australia gets game releases too. I know spiderman 3 is out

(and other titles). We get them in the end anyway.