Would have expected pirated ones to just come with the BIOS. Of course that still means being stuck with an older and buggier version :/ I still get the BIOS questions a lot too, I really have no idea if they're using the older version because they're stuck with a pirated one or they just never updated. Either way, I just tell them the newer versions don't need it.
For the record, I don't really care about people pirating it (but note that I'm partnering with Lordus on this and I do not speak for him), but you would think they'd get further asking for help on their own message boards than asking the original author.