Nintendo Joins 54 Companies in DS Piracy Battle
The devices—such as the R4 Revolution for DS and CycloDS Evolution, among others—are similar in form to standard Nintendo DS cartridges, while featuring a small slot for MicroSD cards which can be loaded with pirated DS games, homebrew software, utilities and other data.
In a statement reproduced by Kotaku, Nintendo said that the devices are "causing severe damage to our company and software makers, and this is something that we cannot possibly overlook."
The company added that the devices cause harm to the growth of the game industry as a whole, and that steps must be taken regarding the legality of flash cartridges. Other companies participating in the suit include Capcom, Square Enix, SNK, and Sega.
Though the suit carries legal weight only in Japan, it seems likely that Nintendo may eventually pursue a similar action in North America—such devices have proven quite popular in the territory, with the R4 and other devices for sale at numerous online retailers and in many independent game shops.
The UK-based Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association recently told MCV that it is considering legal action against merchants who sell the devices, stating that the R4 is an "infringement and an offense" against various copyright and patent acts.
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replyLame, the DS has a pretty happening homebrew community that doesn't pirate anything.
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There is a small subset that doesn't homebrew for the sake of piracy (ScummVM comes to mind) but the majority use the cards for ROMs. Now, the thing here is that, unlike the VHS debacle, these carts have so little legitimate use that they really can't be refered to more beneficial than harmful.
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I've seen tons of homebrew apps that aren't for pirating. Sure, people use the cards for ROMs, but I could use my computer for NES Roms too. BAN COMPUTERS!!
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I guess you completely missed the point, Computers have other uses these hardly do.
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DS Reader
Still Alive DS (game)
Colors
AirScan (WiFi Finder)
DS Organize
DS Notes
DS Weather Report
MPEG4 Player
BeatPad
NDS Mail
DS Dictionary
should I continue?
I have an R4 without a single ROM on it. I find it very handy for reading eBooks and showing photos to friends when I don't have my camera with me. Then I just pop Mario Kart back in and I'm back to playing games. I really don't see what all the fuss is about.
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By all means, continue.
I'm not against the "homebrew scene", I just don't find any of those applications appealing. Well, besides Still Alive DS. BeatPad looks interesting, but the new korg-ds cart that is out looks much better (I know they aren't the same thing, but they have somewhat similar purposes).-
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That point I might concede. There's not a ton of great homebrew games. StillAliveDS, PocketPhysics (which, while fun, isn't really a "game") and Tower Defense clones are really about it. But there's a few in development that might be pretty playable in a few months. There's always Doom and Quake ports if you get nostalgic as well. I think that the game development time is probably a little more intimidating from a homebrew developer stand point than making a quick app that uses the DSs built in WiFi, but I think we'll see some pretty cool games as time goes on. If not, well, then we'll have all the Tetris clones we can possibly want, lol.
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I knew there would be somebody who would try to defend this stuff.
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While true, it has a much larger community which pirates everything.
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