Breaking News: R4 banned in UK

[Mantis41]

Ok.. If you'll excuse me while I race out and buy a couple more carts.

 

[DarkStriker]

First off when they say the ban R4 they indeed mean ALL type of flashcards. This will sham out any flashcard distributors publicly out of the UK and at most any packaged shipped with a flashcard will be labeled as "PC Controller" or "DS Accessory", thats of course using registered mail. Bulk shipments are the ones that will have issues bypassing checkpoints.

I'm glad Nintendo is getting serious about this and I root all the way but I'd say the damage is already done. Its been quite a few years since DS flahcards came out and now they're so dirt cheap anyone with half a peanut for a brain wouldn't think about not buying a "TOt4lly uBBER Fr33 DS ROMZ" card for $3 (I'm talking to you R4), this is especially true within children where low morals and low income give pulse to such things.

But what can I say.

Sure they mean all cards but the one banned is R4 brand ONLY. Who cares about the details? What they state is what they mean which is R4 is banned. And by all means im totally not glad. Not everyone use the flashcarts for some stupid piracy school project like me. Some actually use it for homebrew applications and the making of them, who doesnt want to enjoy a flash game from a website made into a homebrew in ur R4 directly on ur DS! K, i shouldnt have used R4 for examples of homebrews...

 

[HouQuan1031]

First off when they say the ban R4 they indeed mean ALL type of flashcards. This will sham out any flashcard distributors publicly out of the UK and at most any packaged shipped with a flashcard will be labeled as "PC Controller" or "DS Accessory", thats of course using registered mail. Bulk shipments are the ones that will have issues bypassing checkpoints.

I'm glad Nintendo is getting serious about this and I root all the way but I'd say the damage is already done. Its been quite a few years since DS flahcards came out and now they're so dirt cheap anyone with half a peanut for a brain wouldn't think about not buying a "TOt4lly uBBER Fr33 DS ROMZ" card for $3 (I'm talking to you R4), this is especially true within children where low morals and low income give pulse to such things.

But what can I say.
Sure they mean all cards but the one banned is R4 brand ONLY. Who cares about the details? What they state is what they mean which is R4 is banned. And by all means im totally not glad. Not everyone use the flashcarts for some stupid piracy school project like me. Some actually use it for homebrew applications and the making of them, who doesnt want to enjoy a flash game from a website made into a homebrew in ur R4 directly on ur DS! K, i shouldnt have used R4 for examples of homebrews...


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Most people just buy flashcarts to play NDS games on it because they can't afford to buy retail cartridges.

QUOTE(Neo_Ch!p @ Jul 28 2010, 10:36 PM)

I'm glad Nintendo is getting serious about this and I root all the way but I'd say the damage is already done. Its been quite a few years since DS flahcards came out and now they're so dirt cheap anyone with half a peanut for a brain wouldn't think about not buying a "TOt4lly uBBER Fr33 DS ROMZ" card for $3 (I'm talking to you R4), this is especially true within children where low morals and low income give pulse to such things.

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[SixtySixHundred]

It seems to me that Nintendo aren't really doing this to annoy DS, DSLite and DSi users, I reckon they're trying to send a message to the next generation of flashcart makers...

"Don't mess with our 3DS!!"

And where does this news leave the 'Action Replay' team? I know the AR isn't a flashcart per se, but it is a reverse engineering device that uses a similar exploit to flashcarts. Nintendo have hated the AR for a number of years too!

EDIT: Grammar correction and stuff.

 

[Mantis41]

They won't be able to stop international sellers. The worst that could happen is the occasional item could be intercepted by customs. Because they are such small packages most will still slip through.

 

[HouQuan1031]

I hate people who cheat online...

 

[spinal_cord]

It's good that Nintendo are finally doing something about piracy in the UK, however

"Nintendo promotes and fosters game development and creativity, and strongly supports the game developers who legitimately create new and innovative applications,"

Makes Nintendo sound as homebrew friendly as Apple. As far as I am aware, the only legit way to code for the DS is to goe through Nintendo's dev program which will cost you upwards of £10,000 and even then, only if you are ALREADY a commercial success.
Now, if Nintendo charged as little as Apple to dev for the DS/DSi there there wouldn't be this piracy problem that they say they have because there would be no flash carts out there.

 

[Pong20302000]

the NEXT GEN will just have no data to bypass piracy

people cant help it if the software is put on them to do so

 

[DarkStriker]

I hate people who cheat online...

You doesn't seem to see my meaning and im not quoting what you wrote because is long and unnesecary. By also looking at how ignorant you write it im not going to discuss more than this.

 

[jalaneme]

who cares because the R4 is dead anyway, on top of that i have my cyclo ds and super card dstwo so i don't care i am sorted, you can blame David Cameron since that guy went into power all he has done is ruin this country.

 

[EpicJungle]

It's for our own good.

R4 SUCKS TOES!

But I have a Acekard

I'm clean.

 

[antwill]

If this is just banned in the UK, then it won't affect all those dodgy Chinese auctions on eBay that sell flashcarts with roms on them, instead of actual copies of games like they advertise.

 

[gameboy13]

Oh, well. All the more reason to buy an Acekard or a DSTwo if you live in the UK.

 

[cyberninja]

It's not just R4, the ruling applies to all devices that allow pirated games to be played on the Nintendo DS.

Source http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10790835

 

[Mantis41]

It's not just R4, the ruling applies to all devices that allow pirated games to be played on the Nintendo DS.

Source http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10790835

As I said, they won't be able to stop international sellers and sites and the small packages will be impossible to filter as they pass through customs.

 

[RupeeClock]

Well....shit. :\
I hadn't even ordered the DStwo yet.
Is the law immediately in effect too? Because it really does sound like they're targetting more than just the R4 brand here.

 

[Nimbus]

I've got a solution.

Lets just ban all types of storage devices.....

oh wait!


Oh and FYI, the DS Phat and DS Lite do not have any security precautions against flashcards. As far as I know, they never did. So how this ruling can apply to them is beyond me.

Only the DSi and it's enlarged cousin do.

 

[Armadillo]

Not going to change a thing. Same thing happened with ps2 modchips (ruled illegal) and it changed nothing. You could still get hold of them without much hassle and there were still plenty offering installs.

 

[twiztidsinz]

Oh and FYI, the DS Phat and DS Lite do not have any security precautions against flashcards. As far as I know, they never did. So how this ruling can apply to them is beyond me.

Only the DSi and it's enlarged cousin do.

Not true.
Original backup devices needed a Pass-Me or something similar.

 

[RupeeClock]

This is definitely the end of my local R4 stall down town though, that's for sure.

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