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Means that the system becomes totally broken, making the Hardware as useful as a brick
As long as there is people willing to buy, there will always be some group that will manufacture flashcarts. Also, DS software sales are slowly decreasing because of the 3DS so it's not a victory that big and people can still buy a DS lite to play pirate DS games anywayBut what if one day, the flashcart companies stopped production? Will it be a big victory for Nintendo?
you are correct on that "as long as there is people willing to buy... etc etc BUT if this group of ppl were to get sued and what not by nintendo I'm sure that would be it.As long as there is people willing to buy, there will always be some group that will manufacture flashcarts. Also, DS software sales are slowly decreasing because of the 3DS so it's not a victory that big and people can still buy a DS lite to play pirate DS games anyway
Kirby's Epic Yarn (a recent Wii game) flat-out tells you that if you have unauthorized stuff, an update may render your machine inoperable.
In the game's manual I guesshuh that's weird, where does it say that? i used to play kirby's epic yarn all the time.
Question,
If I was to send in my 3DS for service, (thank God I don't need to), but theoretically, if I left my Supercard in Slot-1 by accident, what would be Nintendo's course of action?
Would they then sue me, or send me back an inoperable (bricked) system? (I think this would be a waste of their time though.) Would they just keep the cart and send the system back without it?
I'm sure someone's screwed up and sent a flash cart in before. D:
They would keep the card, fix ur system and send it to u.
Really? My friend got his 3DS jammed in a car door, he paid for the repair, and Nintendo wouldn't fix his system because they said the DS had been tampered with because it was missing a couple screws around the slot 1 area... and that was because it was jammed in the car door. They must have fell out because the breakage was pretty bad. They sent his system back to him as is, accusing him of tampering with it, when that never happened. I can't believe they would just fix your system, especially after all of the "fearmongering" and wordiness that Rydian pointed out in the start of this thread.
Flashcarts, of course.Do you think Nintendo is targeting flash carts, or all sorts of accessories such as battery packs
At the worst they will ban your console in Online.Do you think Nintendo will actually brick machines, or do you think it's fear-mongering?
Bricking consoles is too radical, I think.Do you think Nintendo has a right to do it, or do you think they'll get sued?
Considering you don't agree to this in order to legally purchase the device, this is dubious at best.They are also permitted to exercise their legal right to charge you over violation of the terms of use agreement with the OS, which says basically you cannot hack it. It is unlikely unless your unit contained proof you were the one to find an original 3DS hack, in that case you might be in some real hot water.
Nobody's done this. Nintendo hasn't done it for the numerous other systems (Wii, GC, N63, SNES, NES, DSi, DS, GBA, GBC, GB), even Sony and Microsoft (who are seen as relatively heavy-handed) haven't gone nearly that far.As for 3DS hacks and bricking, I would expect some kind of blocking to be added to the OS in the same way the hacked game cards are added. Potentially blocking all games from the unit. Perhaps you get 3 chances at unblocking it, and to have it unblocked you have to take it to a licensed Nintendo retailer for them to input a code and collect your name and address for Nintendo's records (and to scare those getting it unblocked.) After 3 unblocking codes, one would be refused all Nintendo services and have their unit left permanently blocked if they use a hacked card again. How they would detect this I do not know, but I expect such a move from Nintendo. Just my guess.
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Reverse engineering-the process of looking at lower levels of abstraction to understand higher levels-is not limited to decompiling programs, as many believe. It is an excellent way to pinpoint what you need to build an interface or change a system to reflect new business goals. But unraveling someone's code opens up a legal can of worms, and as reverse engineering becomes more popular, some people are taking time out from their Y2K worries to say, “is this legal?” This in and of itself is not new-the law seems consistently to be an afterthought to solving technological problems-but in this case, the current preoccupation with reverse engineering may cause the two disciplines to finally stop and consider each other. The courts may realize that if we want to achieve a global electronic society, the law has to make it easier for systems to become interoperable, correct, and secure. Software and system developers may realize that long-standing legal principles can actually work for them, not tie their hands and, more important, that they can influence the laws being made. Unfortunately, we seem to be taking one step forward and two steps back in trying to make this happen. Laws in four key regions-the US, EU, Japan, and Australia-reveal foundational inconsistencies in attitudes about reverse engineering. And recent US legislation, both enacted and proposed, is conflicted