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DS Flash Cart Case Thrown Out

Ubergizmo:
A French court recently threw out a lawsuit filed by Nintendo where the use of flash carts on the Nintendo DS is concerned. Guess homebrew programmers as well as those who dabble with DIY projects won't have their earth come crashing down, while folks who use these flash carts to run pirated games on the DS can continue to do so thanks to the protection of the law. No doubt Nintendo is peeved about this, but hopefully they won't make things too proprietary for the consumer in the near future.

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vhero6006d ago

Good for homebrew users and good for nintendo too. You really think they would have sold so many DS handhelds without these carts? I doubt it.

Jamescagney6006d ago

I'm pretty sure the ratio of ds owners with a flashcart compared to those without is pretty small.

Baka-akaB6006d ago (Edited 6006d ago )

I'm sure it's actually far bigger that what most people believe .

I just obviously dont expect most 7-10 kids to have those ... but then again they are far from being the only ones owning a ds .

I also doubt those people would have ditched the DS without the existence of those cards ... they just would have been far more conservative and selective in their choice of bought games .

The way i see it , with piracy , even if wrong , some people who still keep purchasing games takes more chances with obscure or lesser known titles .

Once you remove piracy without giving some symbolic gestures (like stopping being so greedy and lowering prices ) , people just fall back to their old pattern , and instead of giving a chance to that nameless atlus ds rpg , will buy the next pokemon and pretty much nothing else the same month .

Grandreaper99996006d ago

And some people wonder why Nintendo likes to go the proprietary route more often than not.

Baka-akaB6006d ago (Edited 6006d ago )

And how has it worked so far for them ? Every generation they end up being the most easily pirated system , the more cheap and proprietary they go (and yet while always having the easiest way to bypass their security) .

Nintendo has been waging a losing war back in the days of snes and nes cartridges too ...
So basically they keep prices high , supposedly because of the cost of their formats , wich still ends up not being secure enough ? I call that a rip off ...

kingdavid6006d ago

Nice tiny paragraph news story.

*shakes head.

lizard812886006d ago

well, nintendo does have some mighty fine anti-piracy coding.
its like nintendo taking an AK47 and shooting the crap out of the flash cards. most of them are obsolete now. only the acekard 2/2i and cyclone are the best and have most roms working. nice job ninty, out of all the flash cards out there,and there's a ton, and a ton of rip-offs too, it seems you really only need to worry about a handful now.

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Chrono Trigger Form-ism Figures Revealed at Square Enix Pop-Up Store

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20 Nostalgic Nintendo DS Games That Defined a Generation

The Nintendo DS has some amazing titles available. Here are some of the best nostalgic games that every child of the DS era grew up playing.

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ZycoFox48d ago

I enjoyed both Rush games, I did think the action was sometimes too fast to see what was coming up in terms of hazards though, which meant replaying the same stage a bunch of times, other than that they were enjoyable, good special stages, 3D sections and bosses for the most part.

Cacabunga47d ago (Edited 47d ago )

DS is one of the best consoles of all time. Such a rich library of software
Zelda were all glorious on it.

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WarioWare director Goro Abe leaves Nintendo after 25+ years

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