Reading through the thread I see a lot of people had to go through hoops, like getting peripherals to make copies of ROMs on floppy… discovering this was probably for a few more tech-savvy kids who had an older brother or friends to introduce them to it… and no solution for N64.
I guess this kind of contraband we had here would be harder in first world countries, but third world countries are a huge market for piracy simply because a large portion of the population can’t pay for original stuff.

I guess it depends on the country. I have an American friend who said he didn’t have many games because cartridges were too expensive in the 90s. Well, I never bought an original cartridge here in Brazil - the pirated ones were like 4 to 8x cheaper, and they were as easy to find as the originals. Now for Saturn and PS1, well, unlike cartridges that had to be imported from Chinese manufacturers, vendors could make copies at home, so games were dirt cheap, same for PS2 - stuff like $1 to $5 per game, while originals were like $30 to $60. My friend said that, as a kid, he never came across pirated games (he was from Detroit).

Neither 1942 nor Vietnam (or Quake III, Unreal Tournament, Counter Strike, Day of Defeat and the dozens of other Half-Life mods…), but you still could singleplayer offline against bots.

Feel ya, to this day I haven’t play Battefield 2142 because I couldn’t get a working crack, and this game is 20 years old already, it was the first time I came across that crap.

Been a long long time that I’ve been away from game piracy so I can’t point you to good places to find cracks though.

Had to check what’s Keemstar, you are trying to make fun of Youtube to the wrong person because I have never followed any channel and I don’t know any Youtube personalities, I was already a bit too old to care about trends when Youtube became mainstream, the only two videos of those two channels I posted I have watched are those exact two videos I posted here because they are RESPONSES to GrapheneOS’ drama people like you keep bringing to tech communities. It wasn’t me that made a post about GrapheneOS drama, you are the one bringing that bullshit here and then dismiss objective proof that it’s just bullshit drama and want to play the mature, you are pathetic, go fuck yourself - don’t bother replying because I already blocked you so I won’t see your shit anymore. Goodbye.

for mods: I already saved you the trouble and quit the communities I was following in this instance.

Watch responses*
That unlike Micay claims, are full of screenshots showing the real conversations and what that guy that accuses everyone of persecuting him actually does (there is even a hilarious screenshot of a dev acc on their matrix chat telling people to use voip to create Twitter accs to harass another project and if they don’t they would get banned from the chat… shit they accuse other projects of doing lol), all their claims of persecution by techlore was because they did one benchmark video where they recommended GrapheneOS over CalyxOS despite CalyxOS performing better for not being so hardened, but somehow they went mental and called the video slander campaign trying to destroy their project and shit… but it’s your choice to stay ignorant and bring the drama that guy causes for… I have no idea what for, probably just ignorance, because those familiar with his history know it’s all bullshit. Have a fun life.

Publishing information about people’s attacks on you is called a response

That’s exactly what those two videos are about, they are responses. If you could not give a fuck, then why again are you posting the drama here?

Not at all, the drama comes from stuff like a few months ago when one French reporter interviewed one French police officer who complained about not being able to crack GrapheneOS and they decided to scream they were being persecuted by the French government, and while doing that casually suggesting two other French Android distros were involved in this “government persecution” and they could have backdoored their systems for the government, and then going back to the routine of screaming to the world that they are the ones being slandered by other projects and blah blah blah
They also seem to have no comprehension of Threat Model and constantly call other distros fake/phoney, “dubious” privacy OS. If GrapheneOS was a Linux distro they would be saying Arch is not really secure because they don’t compartmentalize and sandbox every application and blah blah blah, none of the drama comes from GrapheneOS technical aspects, it’s all from their toxic community.
I’m pretty sure that if they saw my four comments here, they would dub me as “dozen people spending at least several hours attacking GrapheneOS across platforms on a daily basis” as well, “orchestrated by companies selling dubious products marketed as private and secure”.

Responding to people who call you wrong actually improves your standing with those who view things rationally.

When someone says “This is informative, and unfortunate.” and the response is “you’ll be banned if you don’t remove support for Techlore and there will be information published about your attacks on me in support of an abusive person, it is reality, you chose to attack the project this way, abusive people and their supporters aren’t welcome anymore, you’re complicit in the harassment and swatting attacks on me.” (basically confirming all the crap from the video the person reacted too), is your standing really “improving” among RATIONAL people?
Nope, it only increase the cult support.

I never seen a single person talking shit about GrapheneOS (although devs claim that all the time), what people can’t stand is that dev who is constantly attacking every other project around, and this is very well documented, and then playing the victim saying he is being persecuted, and constantly creating all this drama like a fucking child. GrapheneOS literally loses support because of it - right there two big channels that actively promoted and donated to GrapheneOS dropped it. And then there is you, a “rational” person fueling this fucking childish drama too? GrapheneOS is great when they are silent, the reason they are banned everywhere is because no RATIONAL person wants to deal with their crap. They aren’t against the project, but against this quarreling which the only constant is a single dev team, and why again are you bringing this drama here?

for other readers who want context, these are the “baseless” “defamatory” material they complain about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx7CZ-2Bajg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0

This is not a joke. All this drama is what makes them lose support.

I wonder if they spent less time on drama the OS would be available to more hardware models.

I’ve seen some pretty funny cam records, people that would be filming the top of other people’s heads half of the time, random talking and laughter, cam being dropped or the person not noticing it was now pointed at the front sit instead of the screen… and there was a curious thing when those betting mafias started, they started flooding the internet with a lot of cam records directly from the projection room, so they had good quality as framing goes but audio was shitty, and most of those seem to have come from Russia and they’d have audio and subtitles in random languages (with your local subtitles burned in the file over the subtitles on the theater screen) and tons of ads, especially 1xbet… but hey, you could watch the latest Marvel or Star Wars movie on the internet same day of release.

In my country nowadays you can’t even contact companies and services through regular phone number, you gotta message them on Whatsapp, and I mean, you use Whatsapp to talk with the guy from your neighborhood that fixes roofs to international banking institutions.

People don’t like crypto around here - me neither, the only thing I know about crypto privacy is that samurai-thing whose owner was arrested on bogus claims of money laundering

After commercial OS have age verification they will remove it from the programs because the age was already verified, right? (Padme asking Anakin)

FOSS people are so ungrateful!

ps: don’t.

send pull requests using vibe coding :)

Awesome, congrats

Man, Benn Jordan made an awesome video about this!
https://youtu.be/W_F4rEaRduk?t=930