I think where piracy and emulation really is important is in game preservation. Even if you have the original hardware and disc/cartridge those things will eventually die. Discs get bitrot, cartridges oxidize, and consoles hardware eventually fails. Emulation keeps games alive.
I also did jailbreak my ps vita and i gotta say jailbreaking is amazing and i did also use psp mode/adrenaline which allowed me to play Games which are no longer available like GTA LCS adn VCS and Medal of honor which were all my childhood, not just for psvita but i support jailbreaking for every device,incase psvita digital store shuts down i can still access almost everygame via jailbreak, jailbreak is now essential for preserving games.
Making roms available and jailbreaking is game preservation, reselling old games for $300 dollars isn't. I think some people just think everything is piracy and that's it, it's "bad".
We all know how GTA "defintive edition" went down and how rockstar had shutdown the original classic versions, so instead of paying 60$ for a game i wont even own i just hacked my vita and played the original GTA SA on their WHICH I HAVE FULL ACCESS TO TILL MY DEATH! and i can even mod it to look like definitive edition, jailbreaking saves when the devs mess up.
@@WiiUnabuddy jailbreaking doesnt only applies to Big AAA titles it also can preserve indie gems, like i can literally play hollow knight an cuphead on my vita and it is forever preserved.
As someone who pirates both AAA and indie game and doesn't find the latter to be okay as I know I am scamming out smaller devs but I do it anyway cuz I'm poor ... I agree that piracy is necessary for the sake of preservation. Pirating never games (like I ALSO do) is just scummy and is just because you are a greedy bitch who want evermore entertainment that you aren't gonna play anyway because it just gets added to your backlog. But pirating older titles that the devs are no longer profitting from is fine.
If companies are being straight up anti-consumer, i agree with piracy. Example: Nintendo selling Mario 3D Collection for a limited time and now an used copy being worth more than when it was new. No reason to make it limited, it sold 9 million copies, but people are gonna make the prices skyrocket because it was a "limited" release. If you pirate indie games, enjoy it but buy it whenever you have the money to do so. They are the people who really need that source of income.
Also, if you look behind me, you're gonna see that i mostly buy my games, i advocate for piracy because i believe people should have access to video games, to music, to movies, but that doesn't mean i pirate all my games. Actually, in recent memory the only one i HAD to was Dragon Quest 4, because i wanted to play Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince and a copy of DQ4 for the DS is $100.
@@WiiUnabuddy Yeah that's another thing, I 100% advocate pirating retro games that cost the amount of space rocket. Ain't no way you should pay $200 for an old game unless you REALLY want it for you collection. And yes, while I do pirate because it's free and I thus can't help myself like a drug addict, I do at the end of the day prefer to have my games legit too and support the devs.
You either find both okay or neither. To say pirating indie games isn't okay doesn't make sense, as pirating doesn't equal a lost sale in most scenarios and there's dozens of reasons in favor of it, excluding preservation. The latter matters especially since day 1 versions are often very different from versions down the road. You'd want to archive every major version and not just the latest prior to studio shutdown or end of support.
Piracy and emulation go hand in hand. No one's dumping their own games and the rare times you may be able to use a disc you own, you're still better off downloading it digitally for less hassle.
@@imaginarymenageriemanager6303 I think the reason Piracy and Emulation go hand in hand is because companies demonized emulation. Also, there are people who do dump their own games instead of pirating. It is probably less hassle to just pirate games, but dumping your games is an option if you really don't want to be a pirate, like Nerrel and Modern Vintage Gamer. (This is coming from me, someone who thinks Piracy is a necessary evil. Well, the 'evil' part is the fact that it isn't legal.)
@@zviedelman9015 "No one" was a hyperbole. The point is the vast majority of people do not dump their own games, even if they own them. I sure as hell won't go grab my old and scratched copy of DQ8 to play it on PC, I'd rather just download it. Especially because I can download the NTSC version instead and limit the game to 1/2 frames. 30fps is a lot nicer than 25 with the PAL version. Sadly a necessity for PCSX2, for anyone with an older system. It's important to remind people why emulation and piracy are necessary and videos like this are needed.
@@imaginarymenageriemanager6303 Good point. To be honest, I am also one of the people who download games instead of dumping them. I also think that emulation is the future of retro gaming, no matter how much Nintendo hates that fact.
@@zviedelman9015 It definitely is, but it also sucks for anyone who wants "the real thing". Even if emulation if 100% accurate, some people just want the physical thing, box and controller, all original. It sucks how much prices have gone up in the past few years. I'm personally hoping that down the line more replicas will crop up, that are close enough to the real thing where most people that want physical stuff don't care anymore. Like how a lot of "sneakerheads" will happily buy knock-offs, as in a lot of cases they're nigh indistinguishable from the real thing now. But going back to downloading games, but also things in general remember one thing. If you care about it, make a copy/preserve it. This goes not just for games, but also for mods, fixes/patches and everything from movies to music and funny videos. I download most of the stuff I care about, like funny or cool videos, because there's no guarantee that YT will have them forever, as a matter of fact most YT videos are bound to be lost media down the line, as one day this website will shut down and the likelihood of some other company continuing where Google left off is slim to none. Back up your shit.
Lets be real here piracy is hurting the industry for example unlike popular belief piracy is the only reason the dreamcast failed and took away sega from the console market. People say things are expensive 50% of games where pirated in europ for the ps2 back then just sayinv people need to pay for what they want to play
Sega was making A LOT of bad financial decisions before they released the Dreamcast, like the 32x and the botched Saturn release, even if piracy wasn't an issue for the Dreamcast, they were going for a hail mary by that point. The PS2 is the exact opposite, piracy was huge everywhere and still sold better than it's competitors at the time, probably the reason many stuck with the PS2 was because there was piracy. But, yeah, i agree with you to some extent when you say "buy the games you want to play", i know i do because i like collecting video games, but should we really be all up in arms to defend big companies like Nintendo or Sony? I don't think so. Steam showed people that the best way to combat piracy was with good services, so they let you play a game for 2 hours to be able to see if you like it, if you didn't they give you a refund no questions asked. What about the other platforms? Most games don't release demos anymore, so you can't even see if you like the game, and if you buy the game digitally they won't refund you. Sony fucked me over on that one, i bought GTA V because of a sale, downloaded it, opened it, saw the game was only GTA Online. Wanted a refund (not even to my credit card, just funds for my psn account), they told me i couldn't be granted a refund because i had already downloaded the game. I WOULDNT KNOW IT WAS THE WRONG GAME HAD I NOT DOWNLOADED IT. So... yeah, long text but if companies are giving me or you the middle finger, i wouldn't be sad to pirate their ganes. Support indie devs, tho.
Piracy is not hurting the industry, as the "lost sale" wouldn't have ever happened to begin with. There's obviously some exceptions to this and it's not always true, but the vast majority of people who pirate either can't or don't want to buy games. It's probably a 90/10 split of people who would never buy vs people who would've bought. It's the same stupid argument that companies and law enforcement use whenever the topic of counterfeit goods comes up. Something like "counterfeit goods cost brands $400 million in 2023", when in reality almost none of those people would've bought the real thing and the "lost revenue" statistic is using the original's price instead of the price people actually paid for the counterfeit. A $400 million loss is more like 40-80 million in reality, in actual money, and then you have to wonder how many of those people would've spent any of that on legit product purchases. Piracy doesn't hurt these companies, not nearly as much as their DRM and monetization schemes hurts the consumer. Keep seething about piracy though and go and buy MH Wilds. It's only $110 for Deluxe and it even comes with Denuvo, how neat is that. Remember to check which proton version to use if you're on Linux, lest you get locked out for a day for trying too many different versions in a row.
@@WiiUnabuddyYes, Sega's console-making fate was actually sealed when the Sega Saturn flopped so much that it could not come close to the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation.
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I think where piracy and emulation really is important is in game preservation. Even if you have the original hardware and disc/cartridge those things will eventually die. Discs get bitrot, cartridges oxidize, and consoles hardware eventually fails.
Emulation keeps games alive.
@@axonn101 PREACH, BROTHER
don't say piracy man, its called sharing your media with others but the "others" are all the people in the world.
my copy my choice what i do with it.
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I embrace piracy more because of Valve, Ubisoft and Capcom. With each company having their own faults
I mean, i think Valve is alright, they let you refund a game without many issues
your channel name is wild
HAHAHHAHA
Hopefully i can keep the name, i find it funny.
I also did jailbreak my ps vita and i gotta say jailbreaking is amazing and i did also use psp mode/adrenaline which allowed me to play Games which are no longer available like GTA LCS adn VCS and Medal of honor which were all my childhood, not just for psvita but i support jailbreaking for every device,incase psvita digital store shuts down i can still access almost everygame via jailbreak, jailbreak is now essential for preserving games.
Making roms available and jailbreaking is game preservation, reselling old games for $300 dollars isn't. I think some people just think everything is piracy and that's it, it's "bad".
We all know how GTA "defintive edition" went down and how rockstar had shutdown the original classic versions, so instead of paying 60$ for a game i wont even own i just hacked my vita and played the original GTA SA on their WHICH I HAVE FULL ACCESS TO TILL MY DEATH! and i can even mod it to look like definitive edition, jailbreaking saves when the devs mess up.
@@WiiUnabuddy jailbreaking doesnt only applies to Big AAA titles it also can preserve indie gems, like i can literally play hollow knight an cuphead on my vita and it is forever preserved.
yers i would download a car
except not a car cause i can't drive and don't want to drive and don't like vehicles , but the point remains
Download a chauffeur, my guy
Same lol. I stick with my bicycles.
But I would indeed download a cool bicycle design...if I had a 3D printer. lol
Based video.
love your channel name, piracy is always good
@@lilithisaperson hopefully youtube allows me to keep it lmao
As someone who pirates both AAA and indie game and doesn't find the latter to be okay as I know I am scamming out smaller devs but I do it anyway cuz I'm poor ... I agree that piracy is necessary for the sake of preservation. Pirating never games (like I ALSO do) is just scummy and is just because you are a greedy bitch who want evermore entertainment that you aren't gonna play anyway because it just gets added to your backlog. But pirating older titles that the devs are no longer profitting from is fine.
If companies are being straight up anti-consumer, i agree with piracy. Example: Nintendo selling Mario 3D Collection for a limited time and now an used copy being worth more than when it was new. No reason to make it limited, it sold 9 million copies, but people are gonna make the prices skyrocket because it was a "limited" release.
If you pirate indie games, enjoy it but buy it whenever you have the money to do so. They are the people who really need that source of income.
Also, if you look behind me, you're gonna see that i mostly buy my games, i advocate for piracy because i believe people should have access to video games, to music, to movies, but that doesn't mean i pirate all my games. Actually, in recent memory the only one i HAD to was Dragon Quest 4, because i wanted to play Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince and a copy of DQ4 for the DS is $100.
@@WiiUnabuddy Yeah that's another thing, I 100% advocate pirating retro games that cost the amount of space rocket. Ain't no way you should pay $200 for an old game unless you REALLY want it for you collection.
And yes, while I do pirate because it's free and I thus can't help myself like a drug addict, I do at the end of the day prefer to have my games legit too and support the devs.
You either find both okay or neither. To say pirating indie games isn't okay doesn't make sense, as pirating doesn't equal a lost sale in most scenarios and there's dozens of reasons in favor of it, excluding preservation. The latter matters especially since day 1 versions are often very different from versions down the road. You'd want to archive every major version and not just the latest prior to studio shutdown or end of support.
9:30 nice math there, bud.
Title's wrong, you mean piracy, not emulation.
But cool video though.
Piracy and emulation go hand in hand. No one's dumping their own games and the rare times you may be able to use a disc you own, you're still better off downloading it digitally for less hassle.
@@imaginarymenageriemanager6303 I think the reason Piracy and Emulation go hand in hand is because companies demonized emulation. Also, there are people who do dump their own games instead of pirating. It is probably less hassle to just pirate games, but dumping your games is an option if you really don't want to be a pirate, like Nerrel and Modern Vintage Gamer.
(This is coming from me, someone who thinks Piracy is a necessary evil. Well, the 'evil' part is the fact that it isn't legal.)
@@zviedelman9015 "No one" was a hyperbole. The point is the vast majority of people do not dump their own games, even if they own them. I sure as hell won't go grab my old and scratched copy of DQ8 to play it on PC, I'd rather just download it. Especially because I can download the NTSC version instead and limit the game to 1/2 frames. 30fps is a lot nicer than 25 with the PAL version. Sadly a necessity for PCSX2, for anyone with an older system.
It's important to remind people why emulation and piracy are necessary and videos like this are needed.
@@imaginarymenageriemanager6303 Good point. To be honest, I am also one of the people who download games instead of dumping them.
I also think that emulation is the future of retro gaming, no matter how much Nintendo hates that fact.
@@zviedelman9015 It definitely is, but it also sucks for anyone who wants "the real thing". Even if emulation if 100% accurate, some people just want the physical thing, box and controller, all original. It sucks how much prices have gone up in the past few years.
I'm personally hoping that down the line more replicas will crop up, that are close enough to the real thing where most people that want physical stuff don't care anymore. Like how a lot of "sneakerheads" will happily buy knock-offs, as in a lot of cases they're nigh indistinguishable from the real thing now.
But going back to downloading games, but also things in general remember one thing. If you care about it, make a copy/preserve it.
This goes not just for games, but also for mods, fixes/patches and everything from movies to music and funny videos.
I download most of the stuff I care about, like funny or cool videos, because there's no guarantee that YT will have them forever, as a matter of fact most YT videos are bound to be lost media down the line, as one day this website will shut down and the likelihood of some other company continuing where Google left off is slim to none. Back up your shit.
Lets be real here piracy is hurting the industry for example unlike popular belief piracy is the only reason the dreamcast failed and took away sega from the console market. People say things are expensive 50% of games where pirated in europ for the ps2 back then just sayinv people need to pay for what they want to play
Sega was making A LOT of bad financial decisions before they released the Dreamcast, like the 32x and the botched Saturn release, even if piracy wasn't an issue for the Dreamcast, they were going for a hail mary by that point. The PS2 is the exact opposite, piracy was huge everywhere and still sold better than it's competitors at the time, probably the reason many stuck with the PS2 was because there was piracy. But, yeah, i agree with you to some extent when you say "buy the games you want to play", i know i do because i like collecting video games, but should we really be all up in arms to defend big companies like Nintendo or Sony? I don't think so. Steam showed people that the best way to combat piracy was with good services, so they let you play a game for 2 hours to be able to see if you like it, if you didn't they give you a refund no questions asked. What about the other platforms? Most games don't release demos anymore, so you can't even see if you like the game, and if you buy the game digitally they won't refund you. Sony fucked me over on that one, i bought GTA V because of a sale, downloaded it, opened it, saw the game was only GTA Online. Wanted a refund (not even to my credit card, just funds for my psn account), they told me i couldn't be granted a refund because i had already downloaded the game. I WOULDNT KNOW IT WAS THE WRONG GAME HAD I NOT DOWNLOADED IT.
So... yeah, long text but if companies are giving me or you the middle finger, i wouldn't be sad to pirate their ganes.
Support indie devs, tho.
Piracy is not hurting the industry, as the "lost sale" wouldn't have ever happened to begin with. There's obviously some exceptions to this and it's not always true, but the vast majority of people who pirate either can't or don't want to buy games. It's probably a 90/10 split of people who would never buy vs people who would've bought. It's the same stupid argument that companies and law enforcement use whenever the topic of counterfeit goods comes up. Something like "counterfeit goods cost brands $400 million in 2023", when in reality almost none of those people would've bought the real thing and the "lost revenue" statistic is using the original's price instead of the price people actually paid for the counterfeit. A $400 million loss is more like 40-80 million in reality, in actual money, and then you have to wonder how many of those people would've spent any of that on legit product purchases.
Piracy doesn't hurt these companies, not nearly as much as their DRM and monetization schemes hurts the consumer. Keep seething about piracy though and go and buy MH Wilds. It's only $110 for Deluxe and it even comes with Denuvo, how neat is that. Remember to check which proton version to use if you're on Linux, lest you get locked out for a day for trying too many different versions in a row.
That was not piracy that was hurting the Dream Cast that was Sega being incompetent.
Wrong. lmao
@@WiiUnabuddyYes, Sega's console-making fate was actually sealed when the Sega Saturn flopped so much that it could not come close to the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation.
6:34 There are a number of titles like that on Switch, which is a shame. I really hope we can get some re-releases in the future
The companies cheaping out on the cartridges with more storage just to save a few pennies is ridiculous, i hate it.
you have ig or discord?
Just made an IG: @keepitsimplegaming