EDIT: DAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT! "mooching" not "modchipping"
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I pirate occasionally, but unlike with most music sales, game sales DO directly influence the people who made the game. If I have to open up a console to mod it I won't do it because I suck at that stuff and hiring someone else to do it is expensive, in addition to supporting the developers. I buy games when they are good, meaning I read reviews and if I can pirate it beforehand to play the first few levels that's just icing on the cake. With the Phoenix Wright 1-3 games, CAPCOM had this stupid idea of completely translating the Japanese version into English for the Japanese release so they were dual language games. And the second and third game came out MONTHS later than the Japanese versions, despite the game being completely translated. In that case I downloaded the games onto my R4 and bought them when they FINALLY did come out.
That's another thing. I bought my R4 for convenience, not piracy. Although I'm not getting a new DS to replace my old one for a loooong time, when it worked all of the games on my R4 were either games that I owned, or the DS download stations, which are a lot of fun in a big group. Also, on DS units that stores had set to "autoplay" you could hold start at the right time and it would boot to the menu like normal. From there I'd open up download play and give the store's demo DS a better demo!
And I'm getting a new PS2 9000 series (I like to call it a PS2 slimerer) before New Years. If there's no price drop by then I'll at least have the newer model.
