For the most part I only bought imports on systems without region locking or ones where it was trivial to bypass the lock.

One of the main reasons I hacked my 3DS was to make it region free (and custom themes and game mods). That having been said, I have exactly one import game for the system (it’s Picross 3D: Round 2 which received a physical release in Europe, but not North America).

My Dreamcast is a MIL-CD compatible model, so it’s possible to get past the region locking with a burned CD-R. I don’t have that many games for the system, but most of the ones I have are imports.

It was being cheap because I’ve been wanting to do this since before the RAMpocalypse started.

I wanted to upgrade the RAM and maybe the storage in my laptop, but I kept putting it off because I was being cheap.

Additionally, most Switch pirate shops charge money for access.

The numbers are are probably scene numbers. Most of the ROMs floating around the internet come from various scene groups. Many older groups would number their ROM dumps (I assume in the order that they released them). Additionally, different groups often had different numbering systems. From what I understand it’s a practice that’s mostly fallen into disuse since it doesn’t really help.

The pre-installed stuff is also often configured in a way they leaves it with massive security holes.

It’s literally this one techbro’s personal vibe coded Arch setup. Also, the guy is an all around awful person.