#and that was also how I got into emulating and piracy

[limewatt]

i’m playing shadow the hedgehog and i’m not even past the setup menu THE MENUING SOUNDS ARE GUNSHOTS AND RELOADS

#best game ever made i’m crying #i love emulation and piracy so much :) #glad that i just happen to have gamecube controllers for some reason? i think they’re my brothers’ #i mean i got the adapter but i don’t know why or how these controllers are in this house to begin with. glad they are tho #god i can’t wait until i can retrieve the wii and xbox 360 i wonder what i can do with them #ANYWAY i’m never getting over the gunshot menu sound they make me laugh uncontrollably #THE OPENING CUTSCENE IS GREAT I LOVE I AM ALL OF ME #SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG HAS A GUN #NOT JUST ONE BUT MANY MULTIPLE GUNS AND ALSO A MOTORCYCLE #COOLEST CHARACTER EVER #i haven’t pressed start but this is the greatest game ever made #shadowposting #<- tag for my inevitable rambles #the menu music is also great

[ladyluscinia]

There are obviously some people not taking Edward's S2 arc very well. Or - more often - twisting it to fit into absolutely wild takes and then pretending they are taking it well while everyone else is wrong and problematic for beliefs like "S2 clearly establishes Edward was harming his entire crew in his depressive spiral and he's still in the process of making that right." One of them wrote this section from a post that I found absolutely fascinating (if also wildly off base) in the way it buys into Edward's clearly faulty POV without hesitation...

...and I really want to talk about Knife Parade now.

Because I don't think that's what's going on here, obviously.

Edward has internalized some very fucked up shit in his piracy career, a lot of it probably going back to his time with Calico Jack (and others? Fang was with him for 20 years, and Izzy "all his fucking life"?) under Captain Hornigold, aka the man who killed Felix the cabin boy by feeding him a live crab. Edward didn't really emulate Hornigold until Kraken Era because he hated the man, but we can see from how he and Jack act in 1x08 that he still developed a very skewed understanding of violence and social bonding.

And, as unpleasant as it makes him, the Edward of the past was absolutely the kind of guy to "fuck with his crew like that for shits and giggles."

Like - hold the defensiveness because this is not a one-to-one comparison - Edward describing chasing Fang around screaming and terrified as just a fun game sounds like how someone's childhood bullies would describe tormenting them. Bullies often feel like they were just joking around or just playing a game, even when the other party was clearly not having a good time. The show even invokes this with Nigel and Stede in the first episode.

And the reason bullies typically feel this way is because the social environment that they are in treats their behavior as acceptable (or fails to treat it as unacceptable because adults/other children are consciously or subconsciously designating the bullied kids as fair targets).

Edward thought chasing after Fang with a knife and shouting "come here you little fucker" was okay because he grew into adulthood in a culture where that and way worse was normal. Maybe he even got the idea watching an adult do it to someone (for likely non-playful reasons). He was probably older and/or higher ranked than Fang, in a culture where rank entirely out-ranks obligations to give a shit about someone else's feelings.

Just think about how he describes being Captain:

"Oh fuck no. Apologizing? Nah. Didn't apologize for jack shit."

The idea Edward didn't want to hurt Fang is not even on the table, because he didn't pay enough mind to the people below him to register hurting them was even a thing his "fun" actions could do. He's entirely rewritten the events in his mind.

And, again, this is a funny joke and a very understandable mindset to develop that literally no one has ever pushed back on until this moment, so good for Edward thinking back and going "oh fuck I guess Knife Parade was less Yardies and more Torturing Felix" and then immediately acknowledging that Fang has justifiable basis for beef with him. That's pretty big of him. Growth.

But "didn't care about Fang being terrified to the point he legit forgot because peer-accepted behavior" is still not quite the same thing as "genuinely didn't realize Fang was terrified" lol

#our flag means death #ofmd meta #blackbeard ofmd #edward teach #fang ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd 2x05 #ofmd piracy #hornigold ofmd #calico jack ofmd #ladyluscinia

[ramsaybaggins]

I am having thoughts about Errol Shand's character. This will reference a leak from earlier in the year, just a warning for some!

We know that Prince Ricky was inspired to become a pirate after hearing about Stede. From the pictures, it looks like he is very much emulating Stede's look, probably a bit of fanboying going on, right? Something happens and he loses his nose, and then wants to end piracy with what seems like a singular determination.

So, I think he fucks up and gets himself disfigured in this way, but he blames it on Stede, and he turns on piracy to save face and escape blame.

I like this tweet, which is what got me thinking about this (part of a great thread):

This, I feel, is also an analogy to queerness.

The pirates are free and queer, right? So this guy, he sees Stede throw off the shackles of his comphet life to be free and queer, and he's like "I want to do that too!" But he fucks up, whether through not wanting to listen to the people in the community or some other mechanism. Instead of trying to learn about the community, like Stede did, and respect it, he instead turns on it and tries to eradicate it to save face. How many men have been 'caught' with a man and then turn around and accuse that man of 'luring' them into a 'compromising position' and then double down on the homophobia?

I feel like Prince Ricky is going to play that out through the analogy of piracy.

I hope this all makes sense! Anyway, just some thoughts! I'm excited to see where things go!

#ofmd meta #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers #prince ricky #errol shand #stede bonnet #our flag means death #ofmd

[prokopetz]

Do you have any recommendations for TTRPGs that emulate JRPGs well, or have a very JRPG-like setting? I find the unself-conscious mixing of fantasy, sci-fi, and steampunk elements that's commonplace in JRPGs very appealing, as well as the inventive combat and advancement mechanics (for reference I am playing the first Trails in the Sky game right now and I am enjoying it very much).

You've got several distinct questions there, though you may not realise it, and I'm going to tackle them in order.

First, with respect to emulating JRPGs and JRPG-like settings at the tabletop, it's hard to go wrong with, well, actual tabletop JRPGs. While English localisations of Japanese tabletop roleplaying games are admittedly thin on the ground, there are a few of them out there, including official translations of Double Cross, Golden Sky Stories, Ryuutama – Natural Fantasy Roleplay, Shinobigami, and Tenra Bansho Zero, as well as the odd partial fan-translation, of which Meikyuu Kingdom and Nechronica are probably the most notable. (No direct links to the latter two because fan-translation is technically piracy, though I'm sure you can chase them down on your own if sufficiently inclined!) There are a lot of cultural assumptions about what an RPG is and how it ought to work that aren't going to come across in an Anglophone author's attempt at genre emulation, so you'd be well served to go straight to the source.

(I vaguely recall that there are also a couple of Japanese indie RPG authors self-publishing their works in English via itch.io, though it’s late and names escape me at the moment – if anyone reading this can point us in the right direction, please do!)

Second, with respect to emulating the steampunk science-fantasy settings that Western fandoms often associate with JRPGs (though they're far from universal within the genre – their apparent prevalence is more a reflection of what gets localised than of the genre as a whole), the above-cited Tenra Bansho Zero will give you that in spades, though it's also one of the most rules-heavy entries on that list. If you have a specific desire to play in a game where the party consists of a cursed samurai, a child mecha pilot, a Shinto MiB, an oni Jedi knight, and Robocop, that it'll do.

If you'd prefer something less crunch-heavy, or more American-style in its game design approach, you might alternatively have a look at Anima Prime. It's not a localised title, but its lighter and more familiar approach may be an easier sell for your group than dropping Tenra Bansho Zero's seven hundred page rulebook on them. Aesthetically, it sits somewhere near the RWBY-meets-Final Fantasy XIII intersection.

Finally, with respect to emulating the combat of The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky specifically, that’s a tough one – I don’t think any Japanese tabletop RPGs with proper grid-based tactical combat have workable English localisations at the moment, even taking fan-translations into account. In terms of non-localised games, I’d probably go with something like Valor; it’s basically an anime-themed Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition clone, but then, most games that focus tightly on grid-based tactical combat are to varying degrees these days – D&D4E is extremely good at what it does, the protestations of certain vocal grognards who don’t approve of what it does notwithstanding.

#gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #tabletop rpg recommendations #violence mention

[flurrin]

Treasure Planet 2 rundown

@theskyexists sorry i’m consolidating into a post so it’s easier to read kldfshsj.

Jim is struggling socially but shares the top of the class with Kate, and they both think the other is just awful—Kate thinks Jim is a reckless hotshot and Jim thinks she's an uncreative kissup. Captain Amelia arrives with the opportunity to tour her newly commissioned ship, the Centurion, and mistaking them for friends, invites them both aboard for launch. As soon as the ship is off, it’s hijacked by Ironbeard and his crew, vying for the ancient technology the ship was constructed with at the behest of the royal family; all that remains of Flint’s legacy now that Treasure Planet is gone. BEN is the ship’s navigation system, literally built into it for comedy purposes, and accidentally tells Ironbeard basically everything the ship can do, which causes him to refocus on breaking into one of the most notorious pirate prisons in the Ethereum.

Jim’s character arc is that he needs to learn how to be a follower as much as a leader, so his loner type actions end up clashing with Kate’s lawful-good take-charge personality and it ends up messing with their escape plan so they end up crash-landing on a pirate backwater–which ends up being, of course, exactly where Silver has set up his own bar to keep his tabs on the pirate world without having to travel so much anymore (there’s really cute concept art of basically this saloon he’s built out of a beached ship). Jim’s instinct is to draw away from authority which is what is making piracy look so positive to him all of a sudden, especially when Silver, who’s worked with him before, lets him take charge on brainstorming. Kate absolutely hates all of this but she also knows the most about the Centurion because she’s a nerd for the Royal Family so her help is important in locating the ship again–after passing through the Ethereum Abyss, an action set piece filled with with leviathan anglerfish and bioluminescent creatures. The prison is set up at the very edge of this abyss, run off of space-whalefall flotsam, and Jim and co. blend in with the freed prisoners flooding the ship to get back aboard, except…one of those prisoners is Jim’s father, Leland Hawkins.

Jim is integrated directly into the crew and surprisingly welcomed. Kate and Silver manage to keep cover while encouraging him to use this to get close to Ironbeard, which works unfortunately too well–Jim, finding acceptance from this unlikely crew, is now fully onboard to take the ship with Silver for themselves once BEN, Amelia, and the other hostages are safe. Of course, Ironbeard discovers Kate and Silver and Jim is forced abruptly to choose to betray them. He does.

Kate and Silver end up marooned on the prison, which is where Silver’s crappy little ship is still moored. Naturally Jim saved their lives on purpose, but they’re still a little ticked off at him. Jim has to come to the conclusion himself that piracy isn’t for him, and the clincher is his dad’s presence: his former abandonment for THIS life of all things is what gets Jim straightened out again. His dad is not someone he wants to emulate.

He contacts Kate and Silver and they work together to make a plan, with Kate now taking the lead with her advantage of knowledge of the ship and actual warfare and evacuation protocol. Jim is able to carry out her orders from the inside while Kate and Silver standby to get everyone out and plant Silver’s explosive cargo. That’s pretty much the gist of it, I’m still thinking about the climax because it’s got a huge body count as is lol. I’ll probably have Silver fake his own death to get out of the climax, which would both bolster Jim’s feelings concerning piracy’s link with abandonment as well as giving Ironbeard an opportunity to appear ruthless and Kate some time to be independent. I also want to tie in the idea that the monarchy has corrupt elements, hence having this shady old pirate technology in the first place.

#treasure planet #treasure planet 2 #flurr text #fluwrites

[mayonaisalspray]

last night your posts and reblogs convinced me that I should investigate these ace attorneys. you seem wise in their ways. where would an aspiring ace atrourney begi n with the ace attorney series?

SHARP INHALE

Okay Ace Attorney is a game where you’d actually want to go in order. There are three ways to experience the plot of the first game, a DS rom, the remastered trilogy, or the anime.

The least expensive way to do it that doesn’t require actual piracy websites is a DS rom. If you need a good website and emulator just dm me and I’ll send you the details. The original game is good, but there’s a lot of quality of life things you’ll miss out on if you go with it. But hey, it’s free!

The remastered trilogy is how I personally started Ace Attorney. It’s got the first 3 games and is available on Every God Damn Platform I’m serious. I checked to see what it was available on while writing this and there’s a IOS/Android port that I just didn’t know about (why are there so many mobile ports that no one told me about wtf). It’s $30 which I think is absolutely worth it for three Pheonix Wright* simulators

The final way to experience the first game is the Anime. I haven’t actually watched it but it’s available on Chruncyroll. It’s just a retelling of the game and you can watch it for free with ads. The most notable thing about the anime is actually all the English dub blooper reals which are fun to watch

If you’ve got any questions feel free to send me questions I love ace attorney and would love for more people to love it too. Also if there’s any smarter ace attorney fans who have recommendations feel free to add on to this

*Pheonix isn’t the main character for a bit in one of the games but like. It’s still 80% him

#I LOVE ACE ATTORNEY!!!!!! #also don’t tell anyone but I’ve only finished the first game #I’ve got a horrible disease called starts games and doesn’t finish them so I’ve started playing basically every game and haven’t finished #lol #ive gotten a lot of it through osmosis tho

[ranvwoop]

Vwoop, a question. How to get into Pokemon? I watched it on TV as a kid (saturday morning cartoon network I think) but that was like, a while ago and I keep seeing it more lately and I'm curious. Hi.

Good morning Mairen! Warning: I like pokemon.

There are a lot of different ways to get into pokemon to be honest!

For the games, if you enjoy that sort of RPG, any of the games can be picked up without prior knowledge of eachother if you've got the means to play them (the 3DS games are relatively cheap secondhand last I checked, anything before this is NOT and emulation is ur best bet but pokemon is very well preserved so it isn't hard to do :3. if you don't have a console skip step 1 and go straight to emulation They're too expensive to just be pokemon machines). I think that just spending a while with one of the games yourself is the Pokemon Experience (tm) due to the relative endlessness of customizability of teams and such. There are so many special guys in this world. As there's no continuity it doesn't really matter which game you start with, and they're all really beginner friendly. Which one is like... "best" is also incredibly subjective, but Heartgold/Soulsilver was really good. Just saying.

If you aren't really interested in playing yourself, there are a ton of playthroughs on YouTube tho! I don't have any solid recs other than the general vwoop endorsement of RTGame is my favourite YouTuber and he Does have edited down videos And stream vods of some challenge runs of the older games as well as playing the new switch releases for the first time. But there are genuinely so many pokemon youtubers as well as any variety streamer ever has probably played at least one pokemon game, especially with recent releases.

THE ANIME/CARTOON is... a different beast. There are like 25 seasons but it is not required to watch them all to Get Into the pokemon anime. It is also just unfeasible to do this legally, I don't even know if the entirety of the anime is on any streaming service and definitely not the same streaming service. With the power of piracy it could be done. Regardless, it isn't really necessary to, as every run of the anime is pretty self-contained to keep things fresh since they can not expect kids to watch 25 years of backlog. The first series, Indigo League, is still cool though and probably a good place to start :] (and also on netflix.) Each season takes place in a different region and loosely follows the plot of the games set in that region also!

The main anime serious just concluded, also, and there's a whole new series with different characters called Pokemon Horizons! So. That whole ramble is irrelevant if you wanted to watch that one instead it just started and has no continuity to the last 26 years.

TLDR: Honestly you can start wherever you find in your heart. If watching the anime, probably Indigo League but you also don't have to do that. If playing the games, all of the DS era is solid and you should always pirate Nintendo games, but there are also sooo many people who have played the games so you don't have to if you wanted to take that route instead. :3!

(If you do wanna emulate things I also wouldn't mind helping you set that up, I've done it a fair bit :D)

#vwoop.answers #mairen #it is not possible to cover everything but honestly its not as intimidating as this block of words made it out to be #everything is set up in a way that makes it easy for kids to pick up and Consume A Pokemon :] #there are also a bunch of spinoffs and like 20 movies and also detective p*kachu which is a fun experience with cute fantasy animals - #even without full context. So. :D #apologies if this isnt coherent I just woke up also #Also apologies for the rt plug. But he's a very lovely mix of funny + earnest + good at games despite insistence on making them silly + i #did enjoy his pokemon playthrus immensely. I would reccomend playing them yourself for the personalized experience part but like. Who am I #to tell you how to absorb video game. :]

[ayakashibackstreet]

Also, if it hadn't been for piracy, I wouldn't have gotten into the Layton games, which realistically speaking kinda saved my life.

After I got my 3DS, I immediately got Miracle Mask (new copy; pretty rare for how I buy games) as my first game, both because I couldn't emulate it at the time and because I was just... overwhelmed with gratitude? Is that weird?

Years later I have a bit more funds, a bit more freedom and a bit more will to live. I also have 5/6 Professor Layton games on my shelf, plus the movie (that released in Poland?? It's one of the weirder little things in my collection), still didn't get The Last Specter since that one seems the rarest here. Had it not been for piracy, I wouldn't have played any of those games - hell, if piracy didn't show me how quality the DS library is, I wouldn't have gotten a 3DS in the first place.

#again please don't pirate indie games generally speaking #not that I haven't done it #just... kind of a scummy thing to do #and if you do talk people's ears off about said games until they cave and buy it #kinda 'paying with exposure' except the dev actually gets paid in the equation #anyways sorry I just really like piracy lol #it sucks when it happens to indie titles though #and small titles in general since those will actually feel the difference between you buying and grabbing a free copy online

[felikatze]

Hi I hate downloading programs and spending money but I’m very interested in your fire emblem guys. Do you have any advice as to how I can best look into more details about them?

You are at the correct address, friend. You say you hate downloading programs but alas it is the best way to not spend money.

In the following you will find a basic summary of FEA, an abridged 3DS emulation guide, and whatever else abt FEA i word vomited.

This got long.

Basic Gist: My Guys (this is the second time someone has called them that, amazing) are Chrom and Robin from Fire Emblem Awakening for the 3DS. If you just want the basics, you can watch a let's play of them, I guess? I used this cutscene compilation to check things for my. fea fanfic. and god bless it is a playthrough where chrom and robin are married because it just makes the story better. it does.

If you don't know shit about FEA: Chrom, prince of the halidom of Ylisse, finds an amnesiac tactician out in a field. They, Robin, join his militia, the Shepherds. The group sets off to combat a new threat of zombies. At the same time, they attempt to solve the mystery of "Marth", a masked person who came through a weird portal together with the zombies.

Listen man you know who "Marth" is. I don't need to tell you.

If you don't know shit about Fire Emblem: FE is an SRPG fantasy series frequently referred to as "anime chess" because it is. It has a permadeath mechanic (if a unit dies, they r gone forever) but newer games, including FEA, also include a non-permanent death mode. The choice is yours.

The writing: certainly questionable sometimes. The Valm Arc™ is kind of famous as filler, because a new character gets to be protagonist for a few chapters. Say'ri, you're neat an' all, but do we need to do this?

Disclaimers: fea is kinda colorist. Which if you know fire emblem is (deep sigh) to be expected. Why are only non-playable Plegian characters brown and all the playable ones white? You know why.

Side characters rely heavily on gimmicks to define them which is either endearing or annoying. Depends on you. Also there is a loli dragon and I've seen THREE separate mods that redesign her. God people hate nowi's design (i'm people)

The game has a marriage mechanic. If two characters reach Support Rank S, they get married (straight married only though there IS a gay mod). Then their time traveling kid from the future shows up. You can have Chrom and Robin get married in-game (if Robin is a girl. I specifically picked F!Robin to do so) but they will REGARDLESS be the sappiest bitches on earth about each other. Even if they are married to other people. It can feel kind of awkward, I'd imagine.

Despite my disclaimers I will say that I was overall engaged with FEA's story on a moment to moment basis; it moves at a brisk pace without dragging, I found the emotional conceit at the heart of it all deeply compelling, and I overall just had a lot of fun.

With a cutscene comp you get the usual drawbacks: no side content. Some of the supports (optional conversations between characters) are fucking hilarious (looking at henry) and you also miss out on paralogues (sidequests) which include the second generation characters besides Lucina (my daughter whom I love).

If it's 3DS emulation you're looking for, Citra is your best friend. It's available for both PC, both Windows and Linux, though I have better experience on the former. It also has an Android App now, and from my scant experience with it, it runs great. Citra is definetly the No. 1 3DS emulator. No competition.

If your PC isn't on the higher end, fiddle with settings until you get to a grade of chugging that you're comfy with. I don't know what i did to get the game run smooth. Set audio to mono though bcuz it cuts out echo from lag.

As for a totally legit copy of Awakening, my usual go to vimm's lair doesn't have it, but the Reddit Roms Megathread does. Reddit is the best piracy help site fr.

Awakening Rom: Here. It's in alphabetical order, so scroll down to F till you find it. Or use the search bar.

Awakening DLC: Here. Same as above, use the search bar. Europe or USA version at your discretion.

If Citra complains that the files are encrypted: use the Batch Cia Decryptor. It's for windows.

DLC can be installed via the handy dandy "Add DLC" button citra has. I recommend dlc solely because the Future Past dlc has soo much Grima characterization that makes me go rabid. Highly recommend. I watched cutscenes of this one because I'm not smart enough to actually beat it.

When playing on Citra, I recommend turning off battle animations, since they're the laggiest part to emulate. Without them, my game ran smooth.

If you specifically want to see Chrobin, you will get more than enough of them in the base game. If you want to see my babygirl grima, you will likely question my choice in blorbos from base game alone.

There's also Fire Emblem Heroes, the mobile game, which has the famous day of devotion Chrobin duo unit, but: not worth it.

On gameplay tips: I'm very bad at strategy games. FEA is toughest early game in my opinion. Use Frederick liberally for his high defense stat until he's trash mid-game. Pair up is busted. If you pair Lon'qu up with someone who gives him + Speed (like Panne <- I am biased toward this pairing) he is basically unhittable.

Chrom and Robin are both very good units who will SHRED. robin's future kid morgan also shreds. #morgansweep. there's like. a whole skill inheritance system and like ideal parent combos for good stats or whatever but I got by fine ignoring it. i benched basically all of the second gen units except morgan and lucina. rip to them.

The base game can be vry easy it's just the dlc that is Very Difficult <- looked dlc up on youtube.

Additional Chrobin content includes, once again FEH, but i mainly just look at the art anyway, Fire Emblem Warriors (solid mid tier game but high tier co-op chaos experience with extremely garbage plot), and most recently the Fire Emblem Engage DLC, where Chrom and Robin get to chill in a bracelet as ghosts together. I don't have engage i just (once again) looked it up on youtube.

If you do decide to play FEA and like it, i will recommend you my favorite chrobin fics in a heartbeat. And, god forbid, you like Grima a smidgen as much as I do, i have. so many thoughts about him. And fic recs. Chrom/Grima ficrecs even. I love chrobin and chrom/grima equally because [if my incessant posting didn't spoil this twist i will be geniuenly suprised.]

TLDR:

watch cutscenes of FEA on youtube or emulate it ig. have fun.

#Feli gets asked #this is very long because i am a very verbose person #long post

[duckyfruitbat]

Why Join this Jolly Roger?

Welcome to the world of media piracy, here you'll find all sorts of methods and tall tales of swash buckling fun. Before we get into that though, we need to go through why one would turn to piracy. For convenience I have a condensed list of four reasons with a few examples sprinkled in.

Money: This was the most common reason in the early 2000's and was the reasoning why people used Lime and Nappster. Say for various reasons you don't have the treasure for a CD or a movie, but you have a computer and it is available on one of the dubious websites you frequent. Please keep your antiviral software up to date, kids.

Stick it to the Man!: If you ever played a game from EA, you'd understand this. Say the company has a business model that purposefully keeps you from playing the games you want the way you want. For example I have this Sims 3 expansion pack called Dragon Valley. It is a physical disk that my brother only got to work once and never again. We can't figure out how to make it work. Alternatively maybe they absolutely butchered a city management game in a way that makes it borderline unplayable and you just want a version of it that just works. Only way you can play a version of that is to download a modded bootleg.

Region locked: This is a problem common in video games. Games can only be played on certain systems released in certain regions of the world, and there are of course games that are only published in certain countries. There is a whole catalog of N64 games that never made it to North America, this includes the original Animal Crossing game.

Rare/unavailable: This is the biggest reason, it is also the reason why emulators are popular. Often games in this category are either just old, limited, banned, or caught in copyright hell. Take the NES library for example, there are hundreds of games that haven't been officially re-released in decades. Nintendo is often criticized for not releasing their own games on their virtual console. The copyright hell comes from when a piece of media's ownership is in question. There is a Muppets Christmas special that is a crossover between the Muppets, Sesame St. and Fraggle Rock, the ownership is only in question because after Jim Henson's death, the studio was divided between Disney and Sesame Workshop.

There you have it, four reasons why someone would want to pirate. Now for legal reasons I have to say that I don't endorse this, and I totally never did it before. Generally speaking though, the artists behind these works are usually OK with piracy, especially if there is no way to get it officially where you live. With all that out of the way, we can get into it.

#duckyfruitbat #piracy #rambling #media #internet #technology

[kobalent]

i got the nintendo switch online expansion for thd eventual promise of Kirby and the Amazing Mirror to the GBA library (which i've wanted to play since reading about it in my Club Nintendo magazines back in the day!!!! but never had a GBA) and i've been playing Mario Kart Super Circuit because it's like the only mario kart i hadn't played and i simultaneously think it's the worst game in the franchise and it also has the coolest shortcuts.

like the driving in general feels Not Great™ but there's a part in Ribbon Road (the same track in MK8DX!) where you can take two boosts before the first ramp and hold right at a specific time to fly through the track and skip a pretty significant portion of it! too early or too late and you fall out of bounds and Lakitu takes their sweet time putting you in a really bad respawn, but if you nail it you save a solid 15 seconds and if you're playing grand prix you don't have to worry about CPUs because they don't have enough time to rubber band to catch up

i mostly got the nso expansion to play through Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion (which i will get to soon!) since i got a used copy of the game and also to use the ACNH dlc that is included, but i do like the emulators they have because of the rewind feature. i played Mother 1 (Earthbound Origins) a couple years back and absolutely loved it because i figured out how to manipulate RNG to deal more damage and have the enemies miss their attacks lol i hear the N64 emulator they have isn't good but i really like the rewind feature (over regular save states since i don't have to manually set them) because it makes me feel like a TASer :)

okay all of that kinda reads as an advertisement so here's a little rant: the old games are really easy to find online and if that is the main reason you'd get the nso expansion i recommend to save yourself the money lol heck, my favorite way to play Zelda OoT is the Ship of Harkinian PC port because it adds a ton of accessibility, customization, and randomizer options and i think its now compatible for multiworld OoT and Majora's Mask and that is awesome! old games are much better in the hands of fans and nintendo should just make them open source instead of gatekeeping them and forcing us to buy them in some way every single time they release a new console. imagine if they released official mod tools for their gamecube engine?? i would kill for a way to easily create custom Mario Sunshine levels.

anyways, piracy is always a moral and correct choice!

[autumntri]

personal blog, 12/20/2022

well friends, today i have purged my current media library and i am now restarting it with high quality rips. (!)

for my personal media library, im orienting it towards higher quality media. FLACs instead of MP3 files for music, MKV instead of MP4 files for media, generally because these formats are more lossless and in a way, its kind of an investment in the future. i dont really have the best tech currently because of certain life circumstances but Soon, yk?

for those of us that like going the legal route, ripping blu rays with a blu ray rewritable drive and makeMKV make it very simple to reproduce your library. right now, im currently making rips from discs that i find at the library and torrenting when i eventually get a p2p VPN service, collecting my torrents and creating a "download query." this paragraph is a joke btw.

of course, what they dont tell you when you start doing this is just the monetary investment that will eventually be required at some point down the line and this includes paying for software, ironically i dont actually want to get cracks for software that im using to create blu-ray rips but as far as i can tell, i cant figure a way to do that for free. with blu-rays atleast.

if there are any cool FOSS people reading, please lmk how you figured out how to break BD+ copy protection. this is what im currently stumped on.

this is just the beginning. ive got around 4tb (not pictured) to fill with all sorts of media for offline consumption, so far most of my media is in video games that i can play on emulators, of which i have 709gb currently dedicated to, with 688gb left to go. roughly 5000+ games, most of these being classic game ROMs but a few hundred consist of 'modern' titles as well.

i just generally dont like how "web-based" everything has become. i dont feel like any of my media is secure in the cloud, especially if i have to pay for access to it. we're seeing in real time what is happening to people that either sold their physical media for quick money or never felt the need to build up a collection at all, how now that streaming services are becoming exorbitant, they have very little they can actually consume now. this isn't to say consumption is everything but also, i feel salty about it too. these people hoped for something long lasting and cheap, meanwhile for myself when i finally got a job at 16 and was able to actually afford streaming services, i slowly started seeing all of them go to shit and not even be worth the price of admission.

its demoralizing when you consider that in order to engage in conversation with anyone these days, you have to watch the TV shows they watch and if you cant watch them for whatever reason, theres no reason people want to talk to you. people socialize around media and i think its because of that, piracy is absolutely justified.

because what else are you supposed to do to form human relationships anymore? in america atleast, we live in a culture of hyper consumption and if youre not in it, youre not part of the culture. i think the paradigm sucks currently.

i was also priced out of building a DVD/blu-ray collection for years, streaming services *were* the cheap alternative, but now that this is also gone, i cant help but resort to piracy or other means of keeping and holding on to media for a long period of time.

in my next blog, i will hopefully talk about an ubuntu+plex server setup i am currently figuring out. that blog won't be up until ive had it running on bare metal for a while

[freeleague]

Wii channels shut doen

To an extent, most games seem to be seen as merely being disposable by the companies in charge. This mentality isn’t exclusive to Nintendo it seems to be the mindset of most publishers in general. Yet, the company hasn’t taken any real action to preserve these games from a legal standpoint. They will still live on in emulation communities like the retro games, but of course, Nintendo will never approve of this. But, it’s situations like the closure of the Wii Shop Channel that drive some gamers to turn to emulation and piracy in the first place.Īs I alluded to earlier, most WiiWare games are now gone forever from a legal perspective. Nintendo has not been shy about voicing its disdain for this sector of gaming, even going to the point of taking ROM sites to court-a move which had huge ramifications that spread throughout the rest of the community. True, a lot of the games that were available here are also officially available elsewhere, but it’s no surprise that they’re most prevalent in the ROM/emulation communities. I never really got into the VC, but I can see why retro fans in particular are mourning the loss of the Wii VC. Of course, the Wii Shop Channel’s truly biggest asset was the Virtual Console, which still remains as Nintendo’s largest collection of retro games to date. So, as simplistic as the Wii Shop Channel was, it still managed to charm my little 11-year-old mind. Prior to this, I played only on PC, and that was at a time when CD-ROMs and DVDs were still prevalent. The Wii was my very first console, so the Wii Shop Channel also happened to be my introduction to the world of digital games. Though, I do still have fond memories of booting it up and hearing that iconic music. That’s why I’d be lying if I said it’s truly sad for me to see the store close down. However, also just like the Wii’s retail library, the selection of truly top-tier WiiWare games is quite lacking in the grand scheme of things. Though, there were a few stand-out hits like World of Goo, FAST Racing League, Art of Balance, and Excitebike, which were just as polished as quality retail games. The Wii Shop Channel had a file size limitation of only 45MB, so the digital-only WiiWare games were usually very simplistic. Like the Wii console itself, the Shop Channel was incredibly simple and archaic when compared to the PS3’s PlayStation Store and the 360’s Xbox Live Marketplace, which had fully digital versions of all their retail games. The Wii Shop Channel was important for Nintendo since it marked the company’s first true attempt at trying its hand at an online marketplace. Seeing it all go offline seemingly so effortlessly reminded me of just how fragile this new age of digital gaming is-yet the industry continues to march ahead with embracing it. As a result of its closure, quite a number of digital-only games are now lost to time (at least from a legal perspective). 30, a whopping 12 years after first coming online. The Wii Shop Channel shut its doors on Jan. The fragility of digital games The fragility of digital gamesĪs a new year comes in, remnants of an era long past have finally been whisked away.

#Wii channels shut doen

[tenitchyfingers]

I'm willing to receive criticism on these choices but I wil NOT budge on Adam with Seviper, Langa with Ninetales and Miya with Purrloin.

#sk8 #sk8 the infinity #pokemon #reposted on tumblr because this thread got 0 INTERACTIONS on twitter :((((( #also saying that I've been into playing pkmn games 'lately' is a mistake #i've been playing pokemon since i was like... 7 or something #my first game was pokemon red #i got it on A FLOPPY DISC #and that was also how I got into emulating and piracy #ahhhh #good old days #ok but Adam straight up DOES look like a pokemon character #also an Ace Attorney character #i love him #THAT MEGA SEVIPER IS HONESTLY PERFECT FOR HIM

[nameheart]

1st day of fast food hell temp job & everythings happening so much, dinner hrs esp feels like a trainwreck cept ur part of it or watching it

anyways everytime a dumbass tweet abt not supporting emulation/piracy cos "its evil & yall r evil" appears, another game is added to the "games to pirate" list :)

#giogio.txt #'emulation/piracy yadda yadda is illegal & u should be in jail' yawnsss #i pirated starbound 2-3 weeks ago & learning abt its disastrous dev history which led to current ver is a lot #like plenty of good features got thrown out from beta & thats how i ended up playing modded #also controls harder to get used to than both dst & stardew valley combined