Quote Originally Posted by Az View Post
Fast forward a few years, couple the cottage industry of flash-cart selling with sites like Aliexpress making it painless for Westerners to make purchases and the cheaper clones invaded quickly. Which is always a tasty bit of irony... people get all bent out of shape over "pirated" flash-carts. "I want to play my illegal pirated software on a REAL copier, not some cheap imitation!"
There are a lot of uses for it that don't involve piracy though. And I'm not just nitpicking since some of mine like my Cuttle Cart II have spent much more time on homebrews and other perfectly legal uses than piracy.

But it's not really because it's "pirated" and I'm afraid that I don't care too much of the creator loses a sale or two or if people are very pleased with their purchases of copies. I think the genuine deal is the way to go simply because if these imitations don't even accept his updates, I really doubt they work as well in general as his own Everdrives do.

And while I see some folks minimizing updates in here, I have updated mine several times through the years and gained much appreciated functionality. So while not a killer, let's also not pretend that it doesn't matter either.