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I have no problem with this. Seriously, if you like the games, buy them. I have no sympathy for cheaters.

I used to be heavily into homebrew and console hacking. But I don't bother anymore. The only thing I have hacked now is a soft-modded PS2, which I only have as such so that I can watch video files from a thumbdrive on my TV.

The whole argument for "it might as well be a pc" is ridiculous. If you pay for it, you're paying for a player. If you're pirating the games, you should realize the risk. Having games on a pc only leads to people running cracks and more easily dling/burning games. We all know what happened to pc games in the mainstream. You can't get anything worth playing for pc. If this is what they have to do to get people to pay for games, then I don't see what's wrong with it. Pirating on current gen is dangerous and kills the industry.

V3rtigo wrote:I have no problem with this. Seriously, if you like the games, buy them. I have no sympathy for cheaters.

I use the Homebrew Channel for homebrew - I have no iso loaders and no Wii iso's. Dont see what I'm doing wrong so I dont see why Nintendo should hassle me about it.

I dont think that Nintendo intentionally bricked the wii's, its just that the update code was buggy and failed at a crucial point in some cases. Mine updated just fine.

Curlypaul wrote:

V3rtigo wrote:I have no problem with this. Seriously, if you like the games, buy them. I have no sympathy for cheaters.

I use the Homebrew Channel for homebrew - I have no iso loaders and no Wii iso's. Dont see what I'm doing wrong so I dont see why Nintendo should hassle me about it.

well if you're using homebrew to run emulators, then you're not paying for games released on Nintendo's VC. I'm not inserting any of my own judgements. Just telling you what I think Nintendo sees that you're "doing wrong."

by the way, if any of you guys want to make a point and boycott Nintendo, feel free to send me your Wii.

I justify my use of the homebrew channel very easily, so if any of you want to pass judgement go ahead. I have backups of all of my multiplayer Gamecube games on standard sized dvdrs and have backed up all of my Wii games onto an external harddrive. Ok, so I have one or two games I do not actually own on burned - namely Battle Stadium DON, but if I find a copy in a store Ill end up buying them.

Using this method when I travel all I take are things that are eaisly replaced if stolen or damaged. Sure sure, you say you dont travel that much (Ive been on the road pretty much every other weekend since Februrary). Well at one of my friends parties, somehow an open beer found its way into my bag that I brought a few games in. Luckily they were in generic cases and the controller had broken earlier that day, but it could have been alot worse.

Also its the best way to play 2600 games on my tv.

I don't even use emulators. I don't think most of us here are in the business of pirating many games we don't own. Get of your soapboxes . I don't use the homebrew channel for anything but playing media files on the TV and backing up Gamecube save data to the computer. I just want to be able to support Wiiware games I like. Looking around yesterday, there are apparently ways of updating your shop channel and going online without updating your system menu. I may just have to do that as soon as I get my Wii back.

equalsign wrote:I don't even use emulators. I don't think most of us here are in the business of pirating many games we don't own. Get of your soapboxes . I don't use the homebrew channel for anything but playing media files on the TV and backing up Gamecube save data to the computer. I just want to be able to support Wiiware games I like. Looking around yesterday, there are apparently ways of updating your shop channel and going online without updating your system menu. I may just have to do that as soon as I get my Wii back.

who exactly is on a soapbox? There was a question of "what would Nintendo see as wrong" which I tried to answer. But I also pointed out that I was leaving my own views out of it.