There is some buzz going around currently on how Nintendo is going around trying to kill off the latest doodad that allows the clever and the willing to get something for nothing.
Say (just fore the sake of preposterous argument's sake) that Nintendo actually WAS successful in making it no longer possible to obtain and or make use of our popular doodad the slot 1 flash cart option what would I actually do (beyond not caring and continuing to use the one I have with the games I have at my disposal now).
Well I have already mostly answered my own question. But, this month there will be god alone knows how many Nintendo DS games released. What if the people producing the flash carts were gone? Well no more updates when a game refused to cooperate I suppose. This would increasingly make being a site that offered the rom files more and more only a place to find OLD game roms. Because if the newer ones ain't working, then why put them up for download eh.
Eventually the thrill of having the flash cart will die down I guess. And in time fewer and fewer people will be all that interested in discussing them. Fewer people buying them eventually. Less people asking how to fix a rom that doesn't cooperate, as it will become common knowledge eventually that if it doesn't work too bad.
But what is a flash cart really?
It's a device with software to enable us to use a Micro sd card to play rom files.
That's not exactly hard to recreate in a lot of ways.
For instance, it's entirely legal to market sd cards and micro sd cards (well the last time I looked it was).
And it appears it is legal to market sd card adapters to allow them to use micro sd cards.
The only real barrier is the size of a Nintendo cartridge is important.
That barrier doesn't seem like much of a defense.
Anyway, if tomorrow we were suddenly unable to download and employ Nintendo DS roms, what really would that mean to me?
I'd likely be playing a great deal fewer DS game roms.
But I bought the DS Lite itself on the strength of wanting just one game.
I might not be able to discover I liked a few titles that I was unable to decide on otherwise.
And I never buy games on impulse for the most part. I only buy games that way with my wargames and those are often picked apart long before they actually go on sale.
I wonder if it would hurt Nintendo sales, help Nintendo sales, or make no difference to Nintendo sales?
I wonder how many of us rom downloaders would never have bought the DS unit if we couldn't download roms?
I wonder how much Nintendo gets out of us constantly talking about their games even if they didn't sell the game to us?
I think the only thing that will happen, is I will get to see fewer shitty as hell Nintendo DS roms that I almost certainly never had any interest in getting in the first place.
I've seen most of the Pet games eh. And I did it out of curiosity only. But I could have gone without knowing for certain they can barely interest a child let alone a teen or an adult.
I'd have likely passed on some of the fringe titles like Aquarium simply as there is always a limit to my interests when it costs money.
I might have made a couple of bad calls of course. Spitfire Heroes, still unsure if it was a waste of time to download free let alone pay for.
Say (just fore the sake of preposterous argument's sake) that Nintendo actually WAS successful in making it no longer possible to obtain and or make use of our popular doodad the slot 1 flash cart option what would I actually do (beyond not caring and continuing to use the one I have with the games I have at my disposal now).
Well I have already mostly answered my own question. But, this month there will be god alone knows how many Nintendo DS games released. What if the people producing the flash carts were gone? Well no more updates when a game refused to cooperate I suppose. This would increasingly make being a site that offered the rom files more and more only a place to find OLD game roms. Because if the newer ones ain't working, then why put them up for download eh.
Eventually the thrill of having the flash cart will die down I guess. And in time fewer and fewer people will be all that interested in discussing them. Fewer people buying them eventually. Less people asking how to fix a rom that doesn't cooperate, as it will become common knowledge eventually that if it doesn't work too bad.
But what is a flash cart really?
It's a device with software to enable us to use a Micro sd card to play rom files.
That's not exactly hard to recreate in a lot of ways.
For instance, it's entirely legal to market sd cards and micro sd cards (well the last time I looked it was).
And it appears it is legal to market sd card adapters to allow them to use micro sd cards.
The only real barrier is the size of a Nintendo cartridge is important.
That barrier doesn't seem like much of a defense.
Anyway, if tomorrow we were suddenly unable to download and employ Nintendo DS roms, what really would that mean to me?
I'd likely be playing a great deal fewer DS game roms.
But I bought the DS Lite itself on the strength of wanting just one game.
I might not be able to discover I liked a few titles that I was unable to decide on otherwise.
And I never buy games on impulse for the most part. I only buy games that way with my wargames and those are often picked apart long before they actually go on sale.
I wonder if it would hurt Nintendo sales, help Nintendo sales, or make no difference to Nintendo sales?
I wonder how many of us rom downloaders would never have bought the DS unit if we couldn't download roms?
I wonder how much Nintendo gets out of us constantly talking about their games even if they didn't sell the game to us?
I think the only thing that will happen, is I will get to see fewer shitty as hell Nintendo DS roms that I almost certainly never had any interest in getting in the first place.
I've seen most of the Pet games eh. And I did it out of curiosity only. But I could have gone without knowing for certain they can barely interest a child let alone a teen or an adult.
I'd have likely passed on some of the fringe titles like Aquarium simply as there is always a limit to my interests when it costs money.
I might have made a couple of bad calls of course. Spitfire Heroes, still unsure if it was a waste of time to download free let alone pay for.
