The 3DS eShop lives on, thanks to Piracy ☠️

I'm gonna agree with Arlo's hot take: it's not piracy or stealing when the only place you could buy it from doesn't exist anymore.

I want people to start saying, "You can't steal from a store that doesn't exist." This isn't like movies or music where you can buy all of it through different mediums. There is literally no place to buy these games where the publishers and developers see that money.

What kills me about losing access to games is the loss of cultural history in an increasingly disconnected society.

“We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem…” - Gabe Newell. Also, I gladly gave the hShop devs $100 because they are doing so much for 3DS preservation. Thx, guys!

I seriously think that there should be a law that if a game or movie isn't available to purchase that piracy is fair game

This might be a hot take, but the reasons others don't talk about this is not only because they don't want to get in trouble, but to also not get sites/apps like the hshop in the spotlight and in trouble by people like Nintendo. I'm glad more people are finding out about stuff like the hshop, emulation, and how piracy is usually okay, but putting these kinds of sites/apps in the spotlight by making videos or writing articles about them can do as much harm as good. Especially once the info starts becoming mainstream

I think the SECOND any media goes out of production (ie. The company can't make any more money on it since they stopped support/ making copies etc.) It should be free to do whatever with.

If you're not going to sell me a game, or deny me access to games I paid for, I don't care about the legality of piracy.

The moment he said, “It even works with pokemon bank” that was the moment it solidified my resolution on moding my 2DS

Finally a sane discourse on emulation and piracy. If they won't sell it, then it should be public access. Copyright laws are completely out of control and abused by companies like Disney and Nintendo.

It's also important to note that Luma3DS patches out region checks, removing regionlocking entirely.

Gabe Newell got it absolutely right when he said that piracy is a service problem. When I want a game, the first place I check is Steam. I have a lot of wishlisted Steam games that I'm waiting for a sale on. I could probably spend hours figuring out how to download some of them, but I'm okay with waiting a few weeks and buying the games for cheap if it means that I can get the convenience of Steam. If developers like Nintendo embraced emulation and made an online storefront so I could buy their games on PC for a few dollars, I might even use that instead. But for games I wouldn't be able to play legally due to exclusivity.. 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

Remember kids, piracy is always morally correct when the people you're trying to get these games from are actively trying to prevent you from getting and playing said games.

Thank you Homebrewers and hackers for keeping videogame history alive. Certain DLCs are inaccessible now with the eshop closed forever, so you guys are my last resort and last hope.

I'll give my two cents about piracy. I live in a 3rd world country, and is also a country with a LOT of anime fans. We where weaboos even before this was popular in the US. But Most Anime and Manga never got a national release (and when it did, it was either heavily censored or cancelled midway) Brasilian Anime community survived and grew solely on scanlations and fansubed DVD rips. Today it is one of the biggest anime markets out of japan Piracy can be good

Jesus explaining how Pirated games work is so nice.

This type of piracy isn’t even considered illegal anymore, many regions started saying that if you can’t buy digital media from their original seller, you are free to pirate without breaking any laws.

My hacked 3DS is a treasure. Finally got GBA virtual console!

I am very pro piracy, especially if there is no legal way to buy it. What I do is pirate things, play them, and if I ended up really enjoying them I find different games from the same publisher and buy them on steam to show them some support.

Fun fact: I believe that piracy is ok if the device has lost it's lease on life, I.E. the services it provides have been shut down and it becomes a technology advanced paperweight.