Nintendo Spooks Retailers Into Pulling R4 Carts

[stevo11185]

I love piracy,original games here in Greece are so expensive...double the price than HongKong(I check it out recently by myself)So piracy is one way for me.
I use DSone and I am happy

WAHEEEEEEEEEEEY!

[rememberthe8bit]

lol, but there's an ad for what I assume is an an EDGE card right next to it. :P

EDIT: Four-thousand-nine-hundred-eighty-somethin' yen for an EDGE? That's just as much as the Cyclo DS costs, and that's what the EDGE is a clone of! Sheesh, the Japanese are really getting ripped off.

[Okami_Ninja]

i have been an R4 user for two years, and I find it interesting that the R4 gets so much negative feedback against it in the way of piracy, when in fact it wasn't the R4 that started the piracy or was it even begun during its generation, anyone remember the VBA or the EpsxE or how about other known emulators that were for systems as far back as the Comodor 64, the NES, and even all of Sega's consoles. Blaming the R4 for piracy is insane since even whether or not it even existed in the first place DS games will still be rom'ed, and will still be downloaded, and will still be used on flash carts for any average gamer to play. So i say get over yourself and blame the people who backed up there "legal" rom and decided to "illegally" distribute it, these are the people Nintendo should be focusing there attention on, not a singled out flash cart just because of its popularity. Hell if that was the case why not go after the CycloDS there more expensive and making more money than the R4 or as mentioned previously the M3 as they are cheaper at some places and far easier to come by. Nintendo i have been loyal to you since 1984, but your way out of your league if you think stopping the R4 is gonna even scratch this piracy problem.

[Steely]

I'm starting to like homebrew a whole lot more, but games like Apollo Justice... Ehhh... I can't resist.

Minimizing the distribution of the R4 isn't going to do much... However, I have seen more people with them, lately. Hmm, I guess it's all just a shame.

[DanTheManMS]

From my understanding, the R4 is already disappearing from most stores even online. No clue what the exact reason behind it is, though some R4 clones have popped up in its absense (the "N5 Revolution" - not exactly a subtle difference).

[Aryn]

I do not really agree with piracy, but maiking an example out of the R4 is not going to change anything. Sure, you manage to stop the R4, but there is the Supercard, M3 Perfect, M3 Simply (R4 in a different package), EZ Flash...Nintendo has their work cut out for them.

Well, at least they are not after the M3 Perfect, I currently love that peripheral.

[rancor01]

I was in Akiba today, and I didnt notice any less of the R4s around.. I did see the N5 today, and came to this site to check out what thats all about.. Anyhow, I have a DS one, a Cyclo DS, an R4, and a supercard Lite and I think the Cyclo DS is by far the best. I do have my eye on the Ace Kard RPG though.. they look really nice.

Honestly folks, theres currently NO problem getting a card in Akiba these days.. just go to Gamebank - that place is FULL of backup units and Chinese-made copy devices.

[masterchief929]

stevo11185: ROFL
i mean... umm... shame on u!

[____anders____]

i have one R4, and i love piracy, the games are just so friggin expensive here in sweden that i just can't afford all the games that i want, and i haven't seen ANY ds game in my town and you should see the wii, the cheapest price you can get the wii in sweden is a whooping 418$, so you see that i don't like to buy games in sweden, the cheapest internet store to buy Super Mario Galaxy in sweden is 83$, that's VERY expensive comparing to the US, you can almost get two games for that kind of money.. so that's the reason i love piracy, but i like homebrew just as much

[Spidery_Yoda]

The prices are the same in the UK, pretty much.

$60 DS games, $80-100 Wii + 360 games. It's such a rip off.

So I don't buy many games anymore. I wait until there's something that's actually worth the money.