If not for Piracy, there would be no new developments, nor would there be a hacker's, recognized community that the big boys have contests, to help them figure out the weak links of their products. The winner this year, was able to hack into IE8 on a win7 64 bit platform.
Let us talk about hacking for a minute, modding the unit. Where is the support for those that do not want to upgrade? These gaming systems, companies abandon us once they want to see a new line. I say once the line is abandoned, it is open fair game to continue to use your machine. I say hack the hell out of it. I still have over 200 games, from the original Nintendo, that the company bailed for the N64 quickly. I have a 64MB module that sits on top of the machine. I have the roms on a old (not for the day I did this) 40MB hard drive in an old 386-40mhz that loads the games into the rom memory and it works great. Same with PS1, once they totally abandoned us at Sony, I put a no solder chip in it. I can rent games, burn them have my own copy. It is getting to the point you cannot even find a PS1 game to rent at the rental stores. They are all in the $3 bin at the gaming stores.
a GDS is not worth my time. I just modded my Game Cube, boy what a scam Nintendo played us for for that, then $230 machine. It is okay that they leave us in the wind, but those of us that cannot afford $50 games over and over. I have not mod'ed my PS2 or PS3 as there is still some support for 2, still good support on 3.
Between all I have and saved all of them over the years for the kids, starting in the 80s
Coleco Vision, PS1, 2, 3. Nintendo, N64, Cube, Atari Juaguar (need that piece of junk, while we were in a hotel for two weeks awaiting military housing).
So, be careful before you call us pirates, we have quite spend multiple 1000s of dollars on machines, accessories and most important, hugely expensive games that are left in the wind. Who says we have to upgrade? Because these companies leave us in a lurch when they come out with new products.
