Dunny said:
One thing that has occurred to me -
This lack of a slot-2 option is a little disturbing. Everyone knows that piracy is rampant on the DS. If a game company wants to ensure that there are maximum sales of their game then the best way would be to include an extra that you can't get by pirating.
The guitar-hero grip. Motion sensor. Paddle controller. Edit: There's also the Browser add-on. I know that Opera is being bundled in with the system firmware (possibly), but someone was selling that browser for the DS, and now they can't.
None of those can be used by the pirate unless he or she buys the game. And the games are nowhere near as much fun without them.
Looks like the removal of the slot-2 is
a) Going to make things easier for pirates \o/
b) a huge kick in the nuts for the game studios that offered us these extras, and probably a huge kick in the nuts for their sales potential too.
Erk, eh?
D.
To my knowledge there were only like 4 games out of the entire 2500+ DS library that needs a special addon (slot 2) There's the DS browser (not someone, but Nintendo was the one who developed it), Guitar Hero On Tour (and there's already tutorials out there on how to make your own, as well as patches to the ROM itself to play without the addon), DS Fit, or whatever it was called that uses the Pedometer in the Slot 2 to track how many steps you take during the day, and there was the Rumble pack that worked with Metriod Prime Hunters (what other games did it work with??)
So, all the "NEEDED Slot 2" devices weren't actually needed! The only thing I can see this hurting are games that used the GBA version of it to transfer data (Pokemon, D. Band Bros (japan))
Things were never that hard for pirates... the Guitar Hero patch was out within 4 days of the ROM being released... no big deal there...
MANY MANY MANY Slot 1 flash carts have patches for the DS browser to be used with Slot 2 flash carts, and there's even homebrew Browser apps out there that don't need anything in slot 2!
As for the kick in the nuts to sales?? Yea... I get ya there... now, people will have to KEEP their old DS phat/lite to play guitar hero, AND buy a DSi... yea, huge hurt for Nintendo!! With all the new hardware, and faster WiFi, who's to say there won't be a wireless solution for the Guitar Grip, or other devices! Just look a the new Pedometer... wireless... bet no one will think of a way to use anything else wirelessly! NOPE!!
As for pirates... if there's a will, there's a way... there will always be pirates, so there will always be a way around everything!
[sarcasm]Well, I'm off to build me a new Guitar Grip for GH
T... that way I don't have to go out and buy it... because, arrrhhgg!! I BE A PIRATE!![/sarcasm]