Nintendo faces new piracy threat

[acn010]

divineo is good man, what the hell are you talking about

[wiggy fuzz]

google dot co dot uk

a great site, i searched m3 and got a car

[Hypershell]

It's a shame. There are legitimate reasons for nabbing R4 and the like. It's an unfortunate fact that commercial-rom-compatible hardware tends to have better specs than anything used for homebrew exclusively (not to mention they're near always cracked at some point anyway). Furthermore, this little thing called fair use, is a good reason for a legitimate gamer to want commercial rom compatibility in the first place. Playing by Nintendo's rules, you'd never get to let people enjoy Bowser's Castle online in MKDS, or play a translated MegaMan ZX without having 90% of the voicework stripped out.

Too bad people who are too cheap to pay for their games have to ruin it for the rest of us. I have 14 DS games. Bought them all, and will buy many more in the future. I still love the R4.

If only Nintendo would focus on the ROM distributors instead of the hardware.

[kcajblue]

this is so stupid.
how late are those people on this kind of stuff.
and they call it the stocking filler from hell.
thats right they cant "smash them all".
cause they cant.
they dont have good enough reason.

[Eyedunno]

iPod goes on sale in Akihabara and internet for around GBP 150

The music industry faces a new threat from piracy this Christmas, as the iPod becomes one the most sought after items in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district.

Described as the music industry's "Christmas stocking filler from Hell," the iPod costs around GBP 150 and allows users to play illegally copied music and other material.

Sale of the device – believed to be manufactured in China – is not strictly illegal, but what the users do with it is.

[Pilot_51]

It's a shame. There are legitimate reasons for nabbing R4 and the like. It's an unfortunate fact that commercial-rom-compatible hardware tends to have better specs than anything used for homebrew exclusively (not to mention they're near always cracked at some point anyway). Furthermore, this little thing called fair use, is a good reason for a legitimate gamer to want commercial rom compatibility in the first place. Playing by Nintendo's rules, you'd never get to let people enjoy Bowser's Castle online in MKDS, or play a translated MegaMan ZX without having 90% of the voicework stripped out.

Too bad people who are too cheap to pay for their games have to ruin it for the rest of us. I have 14 DS games. Bought them all, and will buy many more in the future. I still love the R4.

If only Nintendo would focus on the ROM distributors instead of the hardware.

I agree with just about everything here. Although I'm against piracy so much that even though I own some of the most popular online games including MKDS, I wouldn't download a ROM for that extra functionality. By downloading illegally distributed ROMs, I'd be promoting piracy in one way or another. I love my R4 and all the homebrew, and piracy is just making things worse for the homebrew community. I even bought Quake so I could play the full version on my DS, so I think homebrew is helping the gaming industry more than hurting it. On the other hand, homebrew has given me less reason to buy licensed games, but I still plan to buy any games that really catch my eye.

As said, Nintendo just needs to focus on tracking down the ROM distributors instead of the homebrew-compatible hardware distributors. It would be great if they would give homebrew some backing (as they seemed to promise with Wii) instead of putting homebrew gamers in the same class as pirates.

[Sigma83]

Well said Pilot. I would really like to see Nintendo give some props to those coders working so diligently on developing great applications for the DS like Colors, DSOrganize, BEUP MSN, NDSMAIL, TetattDS(what an awesome game), bunjalloo browser, puzzlemaniak, chess, emulators, quake!, noplacetohide, spidersolitaire(wow), comicbookds,dsdictionary, ti-83 emu, and phidias.

supporting this community will only encourage more ds sales. The developers of these homebrew apps deserve the recognition.

Cheers ds'rs!

[wiggy fuzz]

pftt... buying myself an m3 simply so i could use it as an mp3 player (courtesy of dsorganise) saved me a fair bit of cash, considering before my ds i bought a green ipod nano...

...worst thing i've spent oney on, a total waste of time. so i did a trade in store for a new ds (plus i kept the ipod earphones by accident, which helps)

in the end, though, nintendo are still selling decent hardware that's well on it's way to outselling the old game boy.

[Echo1]

The amount of people who buy legit games will always out way the number of people using flashcarts by a massive margin.

But not the people I know. I encourage them to buy an R4 (and they do).

[paul3100]

I encourage them to buy an R4 (and they do).

lol i do too , ok piracy is not a good thing i suppose but i for one can't afford to buy a ds game every week or month and most of the games i don't like so i would be wasting my money.

As i said before if it were not for the R4 or other cards we wouldn't get to see 99% of the ds games that come out!

paul