I'm a pirate. I have an R4, CFW on PSP, and most if not all the games on my PC didn't exactly come from stores. Oh I also have a M3 for my Gameboy Advance Micro. I'm mostly a handheld pirate since I like seeing all those 360 cases on my bookshelf. Recently however none of my handhelds have been getting any play time. Its not because I don't have any time its simply because I couldn't be bothered. You see while some of you see all the games you could possibly want I see nothing more than data. That's all these games are to me. The World Ends With You = data. Rhythm Tengoku = 1's and 0's. God of War: Chains of Olympus = data. Its meaningless to me. All these games don't mean anything to me. There value is nothing more than the amount of space they take up on my HDD.



I miss that feeling I use to have when purchasing something. I remember my birthday when I was a kid. The original Gameboy Advance had just been released. My parents took me to Toys R Us and bought me an indigo GBA and Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku. I remember on the ride home I sat on the car floor (where you put your feet) just so I could play it. If you recall the original GBA screen was shit and I had to sit like this because shade = I can actually see the screen now.



One day while taking a dump I was thumbing through my Game Informer when I saw it, the DS Lite. It looked amazing and much better than the original. Now my family is far from rich (which is why piracy was so awesome to me) and saving up money for that DS was hard as hell. There was this kid in front of me the day I went to pick up my DS Lite (I preordred). The little fucker bought three DS Lites. THREE OF THEM. Now I shouldn't have judge the little bastard like I did but hey I'm only human. This meant to me though that I would love my DS Lite that much more. It was my own. I couldn't afford three of them but damn it this one DS Lite was mine and mine only. It even had a little post it with my name on it. I treasured it so much. This is also the start of my piracy habits since I bought an R4 for my DS about a year later when I found out they actually exist.



This paragraph kind of ruins the above paragraph. I sold my DS Lite for my PSP (hey I got about $80 for it and it technically wasn't mine since I had to send the original in and got a refurbished one AKA someone elses and anyways I bought a cobalt and black one in May). I got the PSP solely for the CFW. I was amazed with my PSP Slim. The homebrew, the graphics, and the games. All of these things amazed me. It honestly still is my favorite handheld. Any handheld that lets you play any games on the PS1 and predating the PS1 is awesome in my book. By the way if you haven't played Cave Story you deserve to be hit in the head with a boulder. The amount of things you can do when you have CFW is amazing. Actually my PSP doesn't count in this little "revelation" custom firmware is too awesome.



The last handheld I recently acquired was my beloved GBA Micro. Now the GBA Micro is pretty hard to find in stores. When you do find them though be sure to buy. I was lucky enough to see one at my local game store and for $50 I snatched it up quick. When I bought it I also purchased Golden Sun. Jesus Christ the amount of fun I had with that game. My friends were jizzing their pants when they saw Golden Sun on this tiny screen. Last year some time I owed my friend a little bit of money so I offered him my micro. Later the next year I rebought my Micro from him for only about $20 and it came with an M3. This is when it started hitting me that these games didn't mean anything to me. It really hit me when i downloaded Golden Sun. I was so happy to be playing it again. But something wasn't right. It didn't feel like Golden Sun. It felt like a cheap piece of shit game (see Eternity's Child) than one of the best RPGs I had ever played. It was a rather depressing moment.

So this is why I have decided to actually buy handheld games. Not only so I can have some value in my games again but because I also enjoy seeing cases and boxes staked on my bookshelf. This is one reason I never want digital distribution to take over. I don't want a bunch of data, I want to feel like I actually bought something. I guess you could say a box and manual are worth $40 to me. I may sell my R4 or keep it for the homebrew. I don't want to use my M3 anymore. The custom firmware in my PSP stays. I invested in a 4 GB card and I'm not letting that go to waste. I'll only use it for PS1 games and other past generation consoles. Also movies. I will buy PSP games though. There's are crap ton of great homebrew for the PSP as well so yeah 3.90 M33 is staying.

I have nothing against piracy. I could give a shit if I'm supporting developers (which is bad since I want to be a game developer :P). I never understood the whole you shouldn't buy used games argument. I also never got why people rage against piracy either. Maybe this is because I'm an idiot which is probably true, but I'm an idiot who misses having value in the things he owns. So here's to a semi (music, movies, and PC games are still fair game :D) piracy free Heretic.


What's a Heretic blog without a Youtube video :D A wall of text with bad grammar and spelling errors that's what.


(Just kidding about that Eternity's Child crack Luc after all I suck your cock)
(Also that song isn't edited that's how it actually goes...and yes she's part of Salmon's people)