Hacking It's all getting too easy...

[Mewgia]

Even at this point, there is nobody I know with a flashcart. One of my friends is getting one soon, but I'll try to make sure that he keeps quite about it. that way, nobody else knows...

And I am never going to give one to my sister and brother, they'd blab about it to their friends my parents and then I'd be bombarded with questions about it.

 

[outphase]

I'm within the last week of my undergrad en route to law school. I see myself no longer needing to pirate when I finish that.

After programming a working app for a senior design project, I have a newfound appreciation for game development. So, if things get "too easy," why not dip your hand into development yourself? If retail games are getting boring, make your own. It feels a lot more rewarding than hitting up usenet, torrents, etc.

 

[4saken]

Even at this point, there is nobody I know with a flashcart. One of my friends is getting one soon, but I'll try to make sure that he keeps quite about it. that way, nobody else knows...

And I am never going to give one to my sister and brother, they'd blab about it to their friends my parents and then I'd be bombarded with questions about it.

Would you consider that selfishness?

I was pretty tight about it too; all the people who got R4s only because they were jealous make me sad

 

[Foie]

Nintendo's not going to do anything about it. i'm pretty sure they know what these things are.


Of course they know what these are. In fact, they probably have a few spies here on these boards... _>

Now I sell R4s at school, I have posters up in the school libraryand I sell about one a week making a profit of about £10 when I sell R4 and 1Gb MicroSD for £50.
Almost everyone in the school who has a DS now has an R4.

- Sam

That's pretty hillarious

At my stupid school, I would have to get an office approval on any poster I would want to put up. It must be pretty different where you live.

 

[4saken]

I've been caught out! I don't see why anyones school would allow trade of pirating hardware (99.99% of flashcard users pirate games), it's against morals and proper conduct, especially since schools attempt to teach you such virtue.

 

[skullstatue]

I've been caught out! I don't see why anyones school would allow trade of pirating hardware (99.99% of flashcard users pirate games), it's against morals and proper conduct, especially since schools attempt to teach you such virtue.

lol, school teaches you to obey the system without question.

 

[cheesyPOOF5]

Easiness brings noobs.

 

[archagon]

lol, school teaches you to obey the system without question.

Er...
What?
Not in my experience...

Commie propaganda!

 

[SirDrake]

Easiness brings noobs.

and threads and post asking for roms

see the main reason i got into this stuff is cause in Australia we get ripped games 6 months, games never coming out etc etc

but now i have a cc import is easy

but still Trauma Center etc only 5000 copies were release in OZ

next problem price

in oz a new ds game is going to set you around $60

but i going to use the EB example since both Australia and the US have this store

Game == Pokemon Diamond

So i look at eb games us website and they state $35usd

$35USD == $42AUD (based on 1aud = 0.83usd)

now go to eb in Australia and u see it for $70aud

which is $58.1usd

even at the cheaper places like target which do $59.95aud alot for ds games

you are looking at $49.8usd

Next you have release date

Apr 22, 2007 vs Jun 21, 2007

So we pay more and we wait longer.....

and this is basically the norm for most games

point?

well thats why there is a huge market for flash carts mod chips and so on.

REAL GAMERS GET FED UP WITH DOUBLE STANDARDS

oh nos just me crapping on now...

/me disappears

 

[4saken]

Easiness brings noobs.


lalala

Well the lack of games in Australia never really bothered me as I always imported games anyway. I prefer the wait on shipping and saving a few dollars rather than waiting an even longer time for the street date and costing even more

 

[knocturnal]

I wish emulation and Flash Cards scared people away like it used too. I've been doing this emulation thing back when we were waiting for nes games to be playable and XOR tables being released every friday and no one talked about it and now it's being talked about in magazines and other media and it seems easier than ever to get into.

But personally I've only met two other people with a flash card, my best friend and his brother. They got an X-rom on the GBA and the M3 simply after seeing me use mine. They were both into emulation as long as I was but never went the hardware route until recently.

I went to a college with tons of gamers and the only thing I really saw on the piracy side was a handfull of people used nes emulators on their psp and that's about all.

Sooner or later it's going to turn around and bite us all in the rear, yeah I accept the fact that what we are doing is illegal but I still buy games when I can afford too. For the most part I use my card to play imports that would be too expensive for a recent college grad to pay for while the evil student loan people or knocking on my door. When I get a decent job I'll buy more games, it's as simple as that. But until then like my grade school mascott, I am a Pirate.

 

[Sinkhead]

Now I sell R4s at school, I have posters up in the school libraryand I sell about one a week making a profit of about £10 when I sell R4 and 1Gb MicroSD for £50.
Almost everyone in the school who has a DS now has an R4.

- Sam


That's pretty hillarious

At my stupid school, I would have to get an office approval on any poster I would want to put up. It must be pretty different where you live.

Yup, it must be. There's a few noticeboards in the library and one of them is the trading noticeboard. You can put adverts there about things to sell and buy etc. That's where I put the poster.

- Sam

 

[111111111]

Now I sell R4s at school, I have posters up in the school library and I sell about one a week making a profit of about £10 when I sell R4 and 1Gb MicroSD for £50.
Almost everyone in the school who has a DS now has an R4.

Wait a minute, so you profit from this being so easy, yet you are complaining that it's too easy and too many people are doing it?

DYS? Thats like a smack dealer going all daily mail and complaining about the state of the country with all these junkies.

Besides, you are ripping people off. If you want to sell carts, buy them wholesale and charge the same as everyone else.

 

[4saken]

Now I sell R4s at school, I have posters up in the school library and I sell about one a week making a profit of about £10 when I sell R4 and 1Gb MicroSD for £50.
Almost everyone in the school who has a DS now has an R4.


Wait a minute, so you profit from this being so easy, yet you are complaining that it's too easy and too many people are doing it?

DYS? Thats like a smack dealer going all daily mail and complaining about the state of the country with all these junkies.

Besides, you are ripping people off. If you want to sell carts, buy them wholesale and charge the same as everyone else.

Yes. It's like the FOB's in Australia who complain that there are too many *other nationality* people coming in. I can name a few people like this. They piss me off

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EDIT: NOTHING AGAINST SAM

 

[Sinkhead]

Wait a minute, so you profit from this being so easy, yet you are complaining that it's too easy and too many people are doing it?
DYS? Thats like a smack dealer going all daily mail and complaining about the state of the country with all these junkies.
Reading the first topic really does help.

Besides, you are ripping people off. If you want to sell carts, buy them wholesale and charge the same as everyone else.

I don't really sell enough to buy wholesale and it's not as if I hide the name of the product from them. They could easily do a quick Google search and find a place to buy them cheaper.
I'm not stopping them.

- Sam

Edit: Typos

 

[111111111]

some titles become collectable over time whereas a pirated single-game cart will be worth $0.00 indefinitely.

Some nes bootlegs are worth more than your average original cart.


QUOTEThere definitely are profits being made off of scene groups, yet the interesting thing is that the groups don't see any of the money come back from China.

Plenty of scene groups are making money from piracy, and have been for as far back as the scene goes. It's a scummy practice but it definitely goes on. :/

 

[4saken]

Nobody in this thread seems to be attacking manufacturers who pirate DS games and sell them online/locally.

What would you consider worse:

People who sell/develop/distribute flash cards
People who sell fake/counterfeit/pirated games

The latter may seem worse, but they're quite the same thing

 

[Sinkhead]

I suppose this doesn't make it any better but I would rather support small flashcart developers that helped the scene than a huge game development company such as EA Games.
- Sam

 

[4saken]

I suppose this doesn't make it any better but I would rather support small flashcart developers that helped the scene than a huge game development company such as EA Games.
- Sam

The large companies are what keeps the games coming though. I guess if you do want to pirate, you should at least have the decency to support the companies that pump out the good games (inis

)

 

[suppachipmunk]

I would like to sell the R4 wholesale. I just need to look for potential clients.
My only fear is getting caught and prosecuted??? I live in the U.S., are there any laws that would prevent me from selling them?