You're screwed

Captain · Post by **Captain** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 11:54 pm

You now have to pay for every single shmup you ever played illigally. This includes cracks, roms, stealing arcade tokens or whatever you did. You also have to pay the standard price for any shmup or shmup-related gear that you obtained for a smaller price.

How much are you paying? (for anything you did, use prices that were valid when you did it)

As for me, I'd say less than 200$, but close to it.

Xyga · Post by **Xyga** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 12:00 am

You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 12:00 am

Hmm...would you include shooters you first tried in MAME, etc. but bought afterwards (would ports count)? Would stuff you tried once and said "ugh, this is awful" and immediately deleted count? Would stuff you tried to play but couldn't make work properly count? Not that it matters since I could never begin to guess at how much money emulating has saved/cost me over the years, but I'll bug you anyways.

Captain · Post by **Captain** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 12:05 am

Generally try to categorize games in mame to "played a few times" and "played shit outta", and make an approximate guess on how much it would cost you in the cheapest place they are available to you. Use a standard price you find somewhere if you never saw them in an actual arcade. Yes, ports count. Yes, any machinery that is in any way related to playing or owning a shmup counts (if you obtained it for a smaller price than the usual one). And yes, shooters you mame'd and bought later count. It would be like going to an arcade and then buying it.

CStarFlare · Post by **CStarFlare** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 12:49 am

Thank God Recca is on the 3DS shop and Harmful Park is on PSN or I'd be one broke dude.

ACSeraph · Post by **ACSeraph** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 1:02 am

Does each save state loaded in MAME count as a 100 yen arcade credit? Cuz if so my ass is getting sold into prostitution...

Captain · Post by **Captain** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 1:03 am

Nah, save states dont count for anything.

KAI · Post by **KAI** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 1:22 am

Lots of zeros for me. I'm the guy who just pirates/steals everything after all.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 1:23 am

KAI wrote:Lots of zeros for me.

A Zero...Wing? What you say!!

BIL · Post by **BIL** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 1:34 am

I'll sell my CIB r@rez, go into witness protection and play Sonic instead. Fak u CAPN :£

I actually don't emulate stuff I don't own, purely because my collector nerdboner can't get sufficiently enraged if it aint somethin I got.

Strikers1945guy · Post by **Strikers1945guy** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 4:06 am

KAI wrote:Lots of zeros for me. I'm the guy who just pirates/steals everything after all.

I don't get it though, aren't most people in Argentina Christian??? Does in not haunt your soul or something?

Ruldra · Post by **Ruldra** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 1:10 pm

BRB applying for bankruptcy.

Lord Satori · Post by **Lord Satori** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 1:55 pm

KAI wrote:Lots of zeros for me. I'm the guy who just pirates/steals everything after all.

Ikazu-san · Post by **Ikazu-san** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 2:58 pm

Getting prosecuted to the full extent of the jam would be imminent.
Probably not as bad, since videogames aren't so expensive in Russia. Most of the time.

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 3:40 pm

No problem, I'll just sell both of my guitars.

Kollision · Post by **Kollision** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 5:09 pm

Ever since I started gaming in my adult life I've always preferred the real thing - meaning consoles with original media.
I only MAME to practice and to participate in stuff like STGT.

So my debt with the devil is something close to 2% ~ 5%.

TransatlanticFoe · Post by **TransatlanticFoe** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 9:08 pm

Would happily pay for old arcade ROMs if there was a method of doing so and the cash went to those who created it, or at least current rights holders who are still making halfway decent games.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 10:13 pm

Let me dedicate this space to my disappointment in the choice of topic title, one word away from greatness.

You're BUSTED

Kollision · Post by **Kollision** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 10:38 pm

too bad we can't embed the videos directly here

BIL · Post by **BIL** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 12:07 am

AW NAW!!!

Post by **system11** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 12:15 am

Very little money at all, a couple of Amiga games.

MathU · Post by **MathU** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 2:58 am

TransatlanticFoe wrote:Would happily pay for old arcade ROMs if there was a method of doing so and the cash went to those who created it, or at least current rights holders who are still making halfway decent games.

Same here. Why won't anyone give this a try already? There is literally nothing but money to be made. Do they think people are going to pirate more if they do it or something?

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 3:40 am

I spent more $$ on my flash carts for NES, SNES, and MD than I've really gotten back in terms of "free" play. And my Turbo Everdrive experiment was a fail. Not to mention, the virus on my computer that I got from downloading "free" roms to test on my Everdrive cost me plenty of trouble. I'd say I'm safely in the black.

cicada88 · Post by **cicada88** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 7:17 am

I'm not telling you.

Oniros · Post by **Oniros** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 8:58 am

I would have to buy a Garegga, Ibara, and DOJ pcb. A copy of DOJBLEX is on its way to my place so probably just the first two.

Xyga · Post by **Xyga** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 9:20 am

Downloaded so many games just to try once, like a demo, I couldn't count.
I think maybe 95% of the time I've spent playing in my life was on games I actually own (or used to), because I feel like spending my money on stuff I actually enjoy.

Captain · Post by **Captain** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 11:51 am

cicada88 wrote:I'm not telling you.

Best post 2014

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 3:25 pm

At $60/70 a pop for retail ports [possibly significantly less for certain older games, a bit more for certain others], I'd need a few months to pay it off. Also, I'd need a J-360 and J-PS2. PS1 and Saturn stuff, I can run just fine.

the killer is the unported games, I'm too poor for some of these PCBs

and it's a good thing Radiant Silvergun has a port [that being said, the game has gotten fairly "cheap" compared to its historically high pricing]
although, I think it might actually be cheaper to get the ST-V cart, but then I'd need a ST-V to play it on

If I count me having gone to the arcade instead to play, I'm also pretty clear for some games [other than DOJBL and Dangun Feveron -- both games I haven't seen in an arcade, but I'd probably come out worse than getting the 360 port and possibly even worse than getting the board for Feveron -- this is at $0.50 a credit, which is standard fare where I've seen].

either way, there's a lot of money involved

ED-057 · Post by **ED-057** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 9:47 pm

Captain wrote:Generally try to categorize games in mame to "played a few times" and "played shit outta", and make an approximate guess on how much it would cost you in the cheapest place they are available to you. Use a standard price you find somewhere if you never saw them in an actual arcade. Yes, ports count. Yes, any machinery that is in any way related to playing or owning a shmup counts (if you obtained it for a smaller price than the usual one). And yes, shooters you mame'd and bought later count. It would be like going to an arcade and then buying it.

Cost of plane tickets to Japan plus sum of all credits played would probably be less than getting 40 PCBs and hardware to play them here.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 12:39 am

Play it like you stole it! *fishes about under the CPO for a test coin switch*

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