With those pics they say they grabbed, i think could've been done by anyone, anyone with video input, if you look at the pictures, they are basically the ones from the memory card screen which can easily be cropped out. or editted in photoshop. personally i think it is very ignorant of them (starcube) to be doing something like this. part of life is the challenges that it holds, i remember being a little kid and renting the same game from a rental place multiple times just because i couldn't afford to buy it. it didn't bother me much. now i am older and that game that i played is now a ROM that can be perfectly emulated on most computers. i don't play that game emulated simply because now i own it. it was harvest moon for SNES. i didn't buy it for myself but my parents did, they saw how much i liked it and bought it for me one Christmas. it was very nice waking up and opening a gift and behold the game that i stayed up playing was now mine never to be returned to anyone else. i can see how it might be different soon, parents burning games illegally and giving that to their kid. i can tell you how he will grow up, wanting everything, knowing that all he has to do is ask for something and in a matter of hours it will be in his hands. there is no challenge in that. now let me think back to the time i bought my first gamecube, i waited in line at midnight the sunday before Church at a wallmart and got one. it was a nice feeling to have, knowing that in a matter of minutes i would have my own gamecube. that wait and patience that i had was worth the while it had been. imagine if nothing had any wait, life wouldn't be very great. those challenges are what make life worth living. the challenge of saving money, borrowing money, no matter what it be you are saving for. it is for a cause.
looking at morals.
why do you want to pirate games?
there is no reason i can see, for those that laugh i want an honest reply.
do you kill someone because it is the easiest way out. do you harm one another because it costs less than paying someone for a job well done?
not only will most classic feelings we had as youth brought up in times of great video games be gone, but many people lose money, time, and many other things. Nintendo won't specifically lose money except for the games that it makes, Midway will also lose sales, same with all other 3rd parties. Nintendo seems to be the only failsafe with their sales until the day backups can be played on their system. the reason gameboy is doing so well is because there are always little kids that can afford to save the money to buy a game they want. the number of people that play the games emulated or backed up does not outweigh the younger generation that does things the legal way.
anyways i'm a little lost in my thoughts right now, so if i seem confused or confusing i am sorry.
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With those pics they say they grabbed, i think could've been done by anyone, anyone with video input, if you look at the pictures, they are basically the ones from the memory card screen which can easily be cropped out. or editted in photoshop. personally i think it is very ignorant of them (starcube) to be doing something like this. part of life is the challenges that it holds, i remember being a little kid and renting the same game from a rental place multiple times just because i couldn't afford to buy it. it didn't bother me much. now i am older and that game that i played is now a ROM that can be perfectly emulated on most computers. i don't play that game emulated simply because now i own it. it was harvest moon for SNES. i didn't buy it for myself but my parents did, they saw how much i liked it and bought it for me one Christmas. it was very nice waking up and opening a gift and behold the game that i stayed up playing was now mine never to be returned to anyone else. i can see how it might be different soon, parents burning games illegally and giving that to their kid. i can tell you how he will grow up, wanting everything, knowing that all he has to do is ask for something and in a matter of hours it will be in his hands. there is no challenge in that. now let me think back to the time i bought my first gamecube, i waited in line at midnight the sunday before Church at a wallmart and got one. it was a nice feeling to have, knowing that in a matter of minutes i would have my own gamecube. that wait and patience that i had was worth the while it had been. imagine if nothing had any wait, life wouldn't be very great. those challenges are what make life worth living. the challenge of saving money, borrowing money, no matter what it be you are saving for. it is for a cause. looking at morals. why do you want to pirate games? there is no reason i can see, for those that laugh i want an honest reply. do you kill someone because it is the easiest way out. do you harm one another because it costs less than paying someone for a job well done? not only will most classic feelings we had as youth brought up in times of great video games be gone, but many people lose money, time, and many other things. Nintendo won't specifically lose money except for the games that it makes, Midway will also lose sales, same with all other 3rd parties. Nintendo seems to be the only failsafe with their sales until the day backups can be played on their system. the reason gameboy is doing so well is because there are always little kids that can afford to save the money to buy a game they want. the number of people that play the games emulated or backed up does not outweigh the younger generation that does things the legal way. anyways i'm a little lost in my thoughts right now, so if i seem confused or confusing i am sorry.