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Do you buy DS games or download them?
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, Apr 28 2007 07:44 PM
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Guest_weeheehoo
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Posted 09 September 2008 - 01:49 AM
I buy, I don't even know how to download them.
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Posted 09 September 2008 - 04:42 AM
I must admit most of my games are bought ;_;
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Posted 09 September 2008 - 05:38 AM
I like to dowload the games, but only when I am tight on cash. I would normally just buy it cause then you get the manual on how to play the game and other things. Latley I have just been dowloading though.
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Posted 09 September 2008 - 06:28 AM
Did you ever hear of Sturgeon's Law? Theodore Sturgeon was a SF author in the fifties and coined the Law that "90% of everything is crap." Now that seems to me to be a little bit optimistic when applied to video games and particularly to handheld video games. I do download dozens and dozens of games and have done this on many systems in the past. But if I play a game repetitively and really enjoy it, then I will go out and buy a legal copy. I consider downloaded games to be demos, they type of demo which if the publishing companies themselves were honest they would probably offer in some sort of crippled version. If games for the DS were available on the publisher sites for download but had such features as saving disabled I would likely go there instead of ROM sites. But I refuse to spend so much money as games cost these days based on deceptive box art, reviews from magazines who take ads to survive, ad copy and official website bullhockey. So I have had the DS now for around a week. I have downloaded about 30 games. Most stink. Tomorrow or the next day I will be buying Zelda and FFIV and a couple others because 90% of what I downloaded is crap. I don't feel that any intellectual property theft I have committed is unjustified given the fact that it is the only way a consumer has to protect themself. (Just parenthetically the XBOX 360 does have a system like this where you can download hundreds of game demos. I do not and would not "pirate" XBOX 360 games due to that fair-to-the-consumer system).
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Posted 09 September 2008 - 04:57 PM
cyclods is the bombbb, wifii and game saves work awesome. already bought two! one for me and gf.oh and i like the availiability of being able to try a game and see if you like it. my one friend was like yuhhh its so cool, its not like renting, its like playing it...until you beat it haha.
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Posted 10 September 2008 - 01:54 AM
I'm a "Try b4 U buy"er :(Usually check out the latest ROMS then will buy the ones i like...if they ever come out in my country... 
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Posted 10 September 2008 - 08:13 AM
I would buy my games, but as to the fact that they are so darn expensive, I'd prefer to download them and whether play them on the comp or use my 2G R4~ which btw, is totally worth it! It's pretty much 20+ games for the price of maybe 2-3 (depending on the memory of the microSD that you have) However, yes, downloading them is illegal, so I only get the ones that i REALLY wanted, or else I'd leave them alone and not even touch them.
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Posted 10 September 2008 - 01:51 PM
You're dam right.The ds emulator runs perfectly on even lower machines.As for the games i used an R4 for 20 bucks from ebay.I would buy my games, but as to the fact that they are so darn expensive, I'd prefer to download them and whether play them on the comp or use my 2G R4~ which btw, is totally worth it! It's pretty much 20+ games for the price of maybe 2-3 (depending on the memory of the microSD that you have) However, yes, downloading them is illegal, so I only get the ones that i REALLY wanted, or else I'd leave them alone and not even touch them.
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Posted 10 September 2008 - 07:38 PM
the only game i bout is fifa ,the rest is ALL DOWNLOAD !!!! more than 200+ games...
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Posted 11 September 2008 - 09:16 AM
its better to buy them...for the next gen of those games
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Posted 11 September 2008 - 11:22 AM
I buy game for a good game. Download for a bad one which i know, I play less time than I download it (if I use dialup modem)
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Guest_arcane rofl
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Posted 11 September 2008 - 01:13 PM
Always support original, unless you're poor.
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Posted 11 September 2008 - 03:37 PM
Bad habits are hard to kick. I've downloaded music for so long being a student and not being able to afford a CD with two good songs on it. The games have gone the same way since I got my card and all. Probably should support companies, but it is so hard when they make millions and i make 7.50 an hour. 
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Posted 11 September 2008 - 07:49 PM
some games i download, while some i buy. if i want to try it first, definitely downloading is the answer. although some games require other peripherals like guitar hero so you're off buying the original
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Posted 12 September 2008 - 03:15 AM
well i'd like to buy it, it more cheap
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Posted 12 September 2008 - 03:18 AM
Buy. I rarely download DS games, which is very different than GBA. I buy, and download, them.
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Guest_kennieth
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Posted 12 September 2008 - 03:25 AM
I buy games. I don't know why. I just do.
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Posted 13 September 2008 - 03:56 AM
of course download. why should we buy it when there is a free version of it?
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Posted 13 September 2008 - 07:16 PM
Downloading games make so much more sense! It is great to be able to get games and if you don't like them, you have wasted a lot of money. Love the r4!!
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Posted 13 September 2008 - 08:21 PM
i buy most of them, i downloaded one or two.
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Guest_shadowwolfknight
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Posted 13 September 2008 - 08:32 PM
As of now I have not downloaded any DS games (That doesn't means I won't though), I have bought all of my DS games.
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Posted 14 September 2008 - 04:58 AM
I downloaded every single one of my DS games.Before getting the DS, I knew there was such a thing called a "R4" so, when I bought the DS, I bought the R4 immediately afterwards.When I knew about the DS and not the 'R4' yet, the game I wanted was Nintendogs. I was still 10-11 then.
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Posted 14 September 2008 - 04:36 PM
wow.. this is a sensitive question to ask.. Well if you asked me, I download them and the reason is the same as the rest i suppose. Even it can be argued that the games aren't that expensive, one must still look at the other side of the story. With games coming out ever so quickly, how could a normal-income family support their child to buy every single game?
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Posted 14 September 2008 - 10:30 PM
Im buying them, but now I've stopped. Im saving for a R4, I bought a Games 'n Music cartridge wich I shouldn't have done.. 
