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[DeVS]

80% of people CAN pirate the PSP, but 100% of people CAN pirate the DS. The DS is not a success due to piracy, it's a success cause it has kick ass original games unlike the PSP.

[bitblt]

many many less people have supercards to pirate nds games... probably about 10%

With over 22 million DS units sold, I would guess less than 1/10th of 1% of DS owners have Supercards.

[PharaohsVizier]

I think 1% is right, because there is such a huge market, it can't just be so few.  So my guess would be, at least 1%.

[bacon]

i had mario kart, mario 64, new super mario bros, nintendogs and metroid. but ive traded them in now. supercard is just easier

[Carnivean]

I had  4 - I bought them when I could afford £30 for a game I'll play 10 minutes on the bus. I sold three of them and bought a supercard and 1gb card with the money. I have no income so I couldn't buy the games anyway - so ninty is losing nothing.

[Gleasonator]

Really? I just sold 72 ofthem for a hundred bucks! HAHAHAHA!

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wow... so you sold them for an average of $1.38 per game..  is that a good deal?

*cough* Ima little late posting but whatever.

I was desperate, and it was worth it, because with that money I bought a 2 GB SD card for my SuperCard. (I had just bought my SuperCard and had nothing to use it with)

PSPs aren't even worth the piracy anyways though. You can barely get past the beggining credits of Spider Man without the battery going out. (This is exagerated of course, just in case anybody here's too retarded to realize it) And it doesn't have nearly as many open doors as the DS, due to the fact it includes NO MICROPHONE AND ONE SCREEN THAT'S NOT EVEN TOUCH-SCREEN.

I apoligize for my behavior, but I feel that that had to be said.

[PharaohsVizier]

But they have more power to support more elaborate homebrew projects...

[Gleasonator]

Yeah... but they're not as cool. The touch-screen (in my opinion) is the best thing ever to happen to handhealds.

[vandal]

bought my SCL as soon as i had preordered the Wii and 2 games. seems fair to me.

[VladamireSteelWolf]

I own 11 games and no SC (although I've been playing around with the idea of buying one, just to save me the trouble of switching them out constantly because my daughter wants to play X game I was playing earlier, although the NES SNES emu and the homebrew apps I've heard of interest me as well). I'm no where near rich though, and do all my DS gaming on a DSFat, as does my daughter.

[m2pt5]

I own the Metroid Demo, the DS Browser (won't work on SC anyway), and Clubhouse Games (for the download play, and because I got it for $20.) Anything else I want to play, I pirate.

Before the DS, I had a GBA SP, and I also had a flashcart for that. (EZF Advance, 256Mb.) When I first got my DS, I continued to use that cart for GBA games, but I took the opportunity to flash my DS when it was available. Then the DSPatcher came out, and I played Castlevania and Super Princess Peach on it. The limitations were a bit stiff though - 32MB of space, and it couldn't allocate a 2Mb save area, so there were only a few playable games.

I got tired of only being able to have one game at a time, so I looked into the media-based carts - at the time, Supercard was the best deal, and the SCSD had just come out, so I got one. Now, I'm perfectly happy with Supercard's >99% compatibility.

The biggest reasons I pirate games are because I really can't afford to buy all the games I'd want to play, I go through games (or get bored of them) too quickly to be spending $30-35 on new games every couple weeks, and I can't afford to be spending money on games that may or may not suck.

Also, the homebrew kicks ass. I love DSOrganize and Moonshell, and I often use the wifilib test app to scan for access points.

[kyus]

Am I a pirate? Well the only things I lack are the wooden limbs, the eyepatch and the obligatory bird on my shoulder. In all other aspects of the term, yes, I am a pirate.

Nintendo make the same money off me that they would if I wasn't pirating, simply because I'd be missing out on alot of hardware because I'd only have the one console and the one handheld. Software companies that bitch about pirates have their heads up their own ass. If you create a game, that does NOT entitle you to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Same with lame bands that go on about people downloading their tracks. Creation of something special entitles to you fame. Not riches.

[Devil_Spawn]

i like this poll, its interesting.
4 games here

btw: is it true the ps1 was only a success due to piracy?

[Romiress]

I've been completely legal for years. After a certain point however, there are just too many games I want to play and too little cash. So I swapped over to the 'dark side', so that I can spend my money on the Wii (Nintendo aint losing any money from me). Aside from that, I have a problem with spending 40$ on a game I'll beat in under a week. :/

[Hi]

I dissagree kyus, riches drive creation more than fame. Without the opportunity for riches, there'd be less amazing things created. Game creators create games for money more than fame, and proberaly wouldn't create those games if it was just for fame.