The average price for a SuperCard is what, $30USD?
The problem here is really about the level of expectation for your measly contribution. The SuperCard people could stop offering you updates tomorrow. They could stop offering you updates right now. You didn't pay for a product with guaranteed lifetime updates for $30! It's the same with any other team, even if you'd paid them a little more. The kits still do what they say they'll do, but without the updates you lose compatibility with the latest and greatest. No team is obligated to continually push out updates. It can garner them some good customer loyalty and appreciation, which will probably lead to more sales, but that's up to them. They could just as easily do what happens in the PC industry every day - offer a product with upgradeable firmware, and simply stop updating that firmware when they release a new product. I personally don't even count "upgradeable firmware" as a positive feature in any product that I buy these days, simply because one or two half-assed updates later the product has already been supersceded and the company simply doesn't see the benefit in devoting resources to pushing updates to an 'old' product. The flashcart teams have all been incredibly amazing about supporting their products, and the SuperCard team even more so because their product is DIRT cheap. There's certainly no financial incentive for them, so perhaps a little bit of humilty and gratefulness should be happening on the users part. So what you have to wait a week, two weeks to play a recent release? That's the price you pay for stealing your games, whether you like to be told it or not.
My response: Oh well.
That's what you get for participating in this particular 'scene' if you will. Do as HugeCock suggested and get another cart. Do as others have suggested and buy a few games. Go back into the expansive DS & GBA library and play some other games while you wait. More importantly though, understand that for $30, you're lucky you got something that played roms at all, let alone the level of support that's come with it.
The instant it becomes an expectation rather than sweet icing on an already fattening cake..is the instant that something is wrong with your perception and what you feel you're entitled to. You're playing stolen games on gray-area-legal hardware devices. If the SuperCard stops getting updates tomorrow, you've had a great run for your $30 - that's less than the price of a real game, and you still would have the opportunity to run the 500 some-odd games that preceded the point where the updates stopped!
So in short: I really don't believe this is something that even warrants complaining about, for the SuperCard or any other card. If and when an update comes down the line you should be grateful that they took the time to figure out how to support the new games. You simply did not buy into an 'unlimited updates for life' plan, end of story.
The problem here is really about the level of expectation for your measly contribution. The SuperCard people could stop offering you updates tomorrow. They could stop offering you updates right now. You didn't pay for a product with guaranteed lifetime updates for $30! It's the same with any other team, even if you'd paid them a little more. The kits still do what they say they'll do, but without the updates you lose compatibility with the latest and greatest. No team is obligated to continually push out updates. It can garner them some good customer loyalty and appreciation, which will probably lead to more sales, but that's up to them. They could just as easily do what happens in the PC industry every day - offer a product with upgradeable firmware, and simply stop updating that firmware when they release a new product. I personally don't even count "upgradeable firmware" as a positive feature in any product that I buy these days, simply because one or two half-assed updates later the product has already been supersceded and the company simply doesn't see the benefit in devoting resources to pushing updates to an 'old' product. The flashcart teams have all been incredibly amazing about supporting their products, and the SuperCard team even more so because their product is DIRT cheap. There's certainly no financial incentive for them, so perhaps a little bit of humilty and gratefulness should be happening on the users part. So what you have to wait a week, two weeks to play a recent release? That's the price you pay for stealing your games, whether you like to be told it or not.
My response: Oh well.
That's what you get for participating in this particular 'scene' if you will. Do as HugeCock suggested and get another cart. Do as others have suggested and buy a few games. Go back into the expansive DS & GBA library and play some other games while you wait. More importantly though, understand that for $30, you're lucky you got something that played roms at all, let alone the level of support that's come with it.
The instant it becomes an expectation rather than sweet icing on an already fattening cake..is the instant that something is wrong with your perception and what you feel you're entitled to. You're playing stolen games on gray-area-legal hardware devices. If the SuperCard stops getting updates tomorrow, you've had a great run for your $30 - that's less than the price of a real game, and you still would have the opportunity to run the 500 some-odd games that preceded the point where the updates stopped!
So in short: I really don't believe this is something that even warrants complaining about, for the SuperCard or any other card. If and when an update comes down the line you should be grateful that they took the time to figure out how to support the new games. You simply did not buy into an 'unlimited updates for life' plan, end of story.
