I honestly don't think ds homebrew keeps Nintendo up at nights. They probably look at the situation and say, "eh, why not put a few security codemonkeys on the job to keep them busy and sharp". Nintendo can probably spare (and afford) a few interns for this.Maybe they want to make us wait until they blocked most of the flashcarts
Maybe but I mostly think Nintendo's top priority is to stop piracy because of the region lockoutI honestly don't think ds homebrew keeps Nintendo up at nights. They probably look at the situation and say, "eh, why not put a few security codemonkeys on the job to keep them busy and sharp". Nintendo can probably spare (and afford) a few interns for this.
I think that they block the flashcards at each update because they want to keep the flashcard companies and some persons that search the new headers busy.Maybe but I mostly think Nintendo's top priority is to stop piracy because of the region lockout
... what does the region lockout have to do with piracy? It's for content and price control.Maybe but I mostly think Nintendo's top priority is to stop piracy because of the region lockout
Maybe but I mostly think Nintendo's top priority is to stop piracy because of the region lockout
i am not sure about it. The 4.4.0-10 updated blocked most cards permanently based on the hardware it contains. This could be bypassed for some flashcards, but they still have different hardware than the orginial ds cardridges...It's impossible for Nintendo to completely block updatable flashcarts, because the DS authentication is completely broken and there's no way nintendo can differentiate a cart pretending to be a game vs the actual game unless they manually blacklist each game, and as we've seen from previous updates, every time they "block" a game, they just use a new one. They only do the blocks at all, most likely, to assuage developers who may complain that nintendo isn't taking care of piracy.
Wai-- how?Or maybe they want to rip money off the supercard team
I think that the block is still hardware based on the save chip. But there are some demo cards (like Metroid Prime Hunters DEMO) without save chip. Nintendo can't block the demo cards. That's the reason why almost every flashcard can still update to 4.4.0-10.The block being hardware-based is up in the air. It's originally claimed it's done by a save chip, but multiple carts were able to update regardless, without save chips.
And what about the carts updated for 4.4 and 4.5 that use other games, such as Deep Labyrinth?I think that the block is still hardware based on the save chip. But there are some demo cards (like Metroid Prime Hunters DEMO) without save chip. Nintendo can't block the demo cards. That's the reason why almost every flashcard can still update to 4.4.0-10.
How many cards use Deep Labyrinth except of the r4ids.cn and the r4idsn.com?And what about the carts updated for 4.4 and 4.5 that use other games, such as Deep Labyrinth?
I'm not convinced it's a save chip issue at all.
What does it matter? There only needs to be one to prove the save chip idea incorrect.How many cards use Deep Labyrinth except of the r4ids.cn and the r4idsn.com?
The class issue is info I got a while back from a different team (not the SC team) and then posted in relation to the 4.4 update... so I'm well aware of the theories (as I'm the one that helped form them).Team Supercard says that every official Wood R4i 3DS is Class2, which can pass the update.
Sorry for saying the wrong soure. I think that it supports your theory. And I think that team Supercard knows the truth about the firmwareupgrade because they released the first fix.What does it matter? There only needs to be one to prove the save chip idea incorrect.
The class issue is info I got a while back from a different team (not the SC team) and then posted in relation to the 4.4 update... so I'm well aware of the theories (as I'm the one that helped form them).
And I'm also well-aware of how many people took what I said and ran with it, even though I posted multiple times that it was a guess whether they were linked at all...