To the dumb kids who are searching for "metroid fusion rom download"

GO OUT AND BUY THE DAMN GAME YOU CHEAP BASTARDS. THIS ONLY COST ME $25!!

Best game. Best graphics and sweet music.
This is must buy?/download? in addtion to
Metroid Prime. All I have to say is..

Get it now!

It is a must BUY. Don't pirate games that are currently being published. We are only talking about $25.

estas muy bueno

the best of the best game of all games

so tell me how to download this fuking game from Dragomir beacouse is ........... for fucking better world

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Hey edy. Let me quote from the Nintendo Website.

To report ROM sites, emulators, Game Copiers, Counterfeit manufacturing, or other illegal activities, please call us at 1-800-255-3700 or e-mail Nintendo of America at piracyscene@noa.nintendo.com

you can get this game new for $30 you cheap bastard.

How in the blazes can you get a new GBA for 25$? It had to be a used game. In that case, you're just as bad as the pirates of the software. The companies only get money if you buy it new. Get off your horse.

It was on sale at Best Buy. Used games is not piracy just like use car lots are not car theft. In used games the company has allready gotten their cut in the origional sale.

Oi, buying it on sale is one thing, but buying it used is another. If you're buying it used, the company isn't making any money, just as if someone bought the game and made pirated copies and then distributed them for free around the internet. And please, cars and software are two completely different things. You can't, for instance, just decide to let your friend borrow your car and license for a few days. Yeesh.

You are joking right? the company has already made money from the original sale. used game sales are 100% legal and 100% ethical. I am sorry but the RIAA concept of device dependent DRM sales is for a word Fascist. I have been buying Nintendo games since the NES came out new and some that I have got were used this is perfectly legal and ethical and it does not cut into their bottom line. If not Nintendo would be suing Gamestop, EB and Ebay.

fuck u jake, i dont want to buy it. i want to download it.

Ha ha ha ha. Go get a fucking paper route or learn how to use the internet.

Here is the problem. Yes buying a used game is 100% perfectly legal. However One person bought the game right? That means the company already made it's money off that game.That's true. So you bought a game from someone used. So where or when did Nintendo get your money for this game. They didn't. It's a very fine line. Instead of buying the game from Nintendo and giving them the profit from game you bought it used. Yes this is legal but it's not a good defense for saying rom usage is bad. I like used games myself but I'm smart enough to understand that used games do hurt the company. If you don't think used game sales hurt Nintendo then go look at several of their lawsuits they have filed against used game companies.

Pugo I have not heard of any lawsuits over used games. Sure there are lawsuits over pirated games all the time but not used legit games. I just got back from Gamestop where I purchased some used games on sale. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft all still sell their new games there at Gamestop and I doubt they would do that if they thought that used game sales impacted their bottom line of selling new games. I dare you to show me proof of lawsuits in the USA over used games.

I bought my car a Ford Taurus from my Grandmother. She bought it new from a Ford dealer. Now did I have to cut Ford a check for the time that I bought the car? No because they already made their money off the first transaction. This is basic capitalism we are talking about here.

What we are trying to say is how does buying the used copy of the game differ from downloading the rom? Both the Rom and The used game provide no profit to Nintendo. So why does Nintendo even care that people download their game for free. They should have made the profit twice. It's just a legal loophole in our country.

Yes. That is basic communism. What I'm saying is unless this is a game that is not being manufactured right now (like say Zero wing on the genesis) then buying a used game is just as harmful to the company as illegal rom downloads are.

Gamestop has come a long way from being funcoland. When they were funcoland they had a much higher profit from used games. Now they barely have any. Gamestop is now making the bulk of it's profits off new game sales so yeah The big companies do like them.

The cases I was refering to were not US ones but rather Japanese ones. In japan there are many more used game stores that make much more money then nintendo would like them too.

So what I'm trying to say is You bought them game. That is good. Better then many internet punks who would try to find the rom. In other words it means about jack to say that you bought a used in publication video game. It only makes you better by one half then guys who download roms. Course if I found it cheaper then that I would have gotten it too. But there are similarities between used games and pirate copies. That being that the company is selling the game once instead of twice.

e.e Good lord, I'm hoping no one is confusing me with that half-name stealer. But I'd just like to point out that the ROMs I usually get are to tide me over until I can find the original game. Also it's handy for when my NES and SNES decide not to work sometimes.

If the game is in publication and easy to find, getting a ROM is just sad, because anyone can afford the game if they have a damn computer. However, if the game is rare or hasn't even come out in America, I don't see why I should deprive myself of an overseas gaming experience.

And yes, I love communism. Sharing is the best way to go about everything. Isn't that what kindergarten taught us? Or was it just me?

I have no problem with ROMs of super rare and out of print games. In fact I have a very large personal collection of them. I just don't see why every 13 year old kid comes to my site looking to download games and is pissed when I don't help them steal from Nintendo because they lack the basic Internet skills of how to obtain said ROMs.

Pugo when a person buys a game new they are also purchasing one permission to play that game. When the physical game is sold again to another party the permission is transferred to the new owner.

Legal loop hole my ass. Personal property rights that are controlled by the individual rather than the corporation is the fundamental principals of American capitalism not communism. Jesus.. your IP is from the University of Kentucky I hope you are getting your tuition money's worth because I can't believe I am explain how basic intellectual property rights work.

If you read Nintendo's Legal FAQs
http://www.nintendo.com/corp/faqs/legal.html

and the IDSA anti Piracy FAQ
http://www.idsa.com/piracy.html

It does not mention anywhere that used games are considered piracy or are any way Unethical or illegal.

I wrote about this here on my post
A PSA: Don't Pirate New Gameboy Advance Games You Cheap Bastards!!
http://www.8bitjoystick.com/archives/000989.php

Look if you want to send Nintendo a check every time you want to buy a used game or say penance or what ever but I have no ethical problem with used games, CDs, Books, Magazines, comic books, DVDs, Video tapes, or what ever.
If I go to the Salvation army store and buy some Levis Jeans should I ethnically cut Levis a check for the difference between the five bucks that I paid and the $30 that I could have got a similar pair of Jeans at Wal Mart? No that is batshit loony.

Now you've got Pugo paranoid with the whole IP thing and he's yelling at me. Anyhow, I think we're all agreeing that ROMs are pretty much only ethical when the game is rare or out of print. o.O I don't see any real agruement here o.o Ah well, Metroid Fusion still kicks mighty ass, even though it is a bit, eh, easy? Yeah, that's my only complaint. Ah well, Samus! We loves you!

Geez, Jake. I'm not sure how I managed to miss this post originally! Great review on Metroid Fusion, I have to agree 100% I would have bought it sooner if I had read this earlier on.

Now, I would like to address Pugo for a second. GameStop was NEVER Funcoland. GameStop bought FuncoLand out, therefore making it a completely different company. It did not evolve. Prior to GameStop buying FuncoLand, they had their mall stores: Babbage's and Software Etc. which were actively selling used games also. Of course, the mall stores don't have as high a volume of used sales as the FuncoLand-based stores, because the clientele that usually frequents malls isn't looking for anything used. FuncoLand-based stores still have an insanely high percentage of used sales. We sell used games/accessories/and *shock* DVD's. We are just stomping all over copyright laws aren't we? Get over it. The only legal litigation that has ever come up over the sales of used games is used PC. And that is because of the high amount of pirating and 'burning' of PC games that occurs.

Now I ask you this. If you are so against the selling of used video games...what about used clothing? used furniture? as Jake mentioned before, used cars? These are all items that were purchased by an original buyer and resold. And in most cases, were bought by the original buyer (random company) and sold to the consumer (random consumer), therefore creating a middleman, which could be construed as having been previously-owned.

You really should think before you speak.

My IP is 66.185.84.72 and I am a cheap bastard who will not even pay Nintendo 20 bucks for a fucking Gameboy Game

My IP is 194.210.31.128 and I did not leave a real email address