DSTT cracks down on fakes

[Galactus]

I think that is unfair to the people who didn't know they were buying a fake card.

 

[Bri]

Thanks Bri, got (conflicting) replies...

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kobykaan mentioned that at least the early Neo TTDS carts look just like the real DSTT pictures. But it's interesting that DSTT believes them to be fakes. Team Neo has been around for a while and I would be surprised if they were making a fake under their own name. It is also of interest that although the Neo version used to use a modified version of the DSTT firmware, it hasn't been updated for several versions. Maybe they've had a bit of a falling out of some sort, but I find it hard to believe that the Neo one is really a fake given that they both came out at almost exactly the same time (one would think a fake would take a while to produce).

So can you post a picture of the microSD slot on your TTDS?

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If anything, they really should just make a detector without any sort of damaging code and at the most have it halt their own loader software on such a detection. Honest retailers could then test their stock to avoid distributors with fake product and customers can test their product to expose shady resellers who take clone price over original quality.

Thus, if it's just a scare tactic all this announcement is going to really do is lose sales to competitors.

I agree with your analysis. Definitely it would be a huge mistake for them to actually follow through on firmware that would destroy fakes. A large number of end users wouldn't know they had a fake, and would certainly blame DSTT if theirs stopped working the first time they ran it.

However, a version that simply failed to run the firmware with some sort of a message would cause the makers of the clones to have to hack the DSTT firmware and distribute the fake cart under a different name in order to keep the firmware up to date (they wouldn't be able to point the user to the NDSTT site since that firmware wouldn't run). Obviously, not impossible to do since we know that other companies have released clones of other carts and simply maintain their own hacked version of the firmware.

It's still up in the air as to whether the threat of destroying a fake is a good move or not. I personally wouldn't want to buy a cart that potentially had extra code in it that could potentially destroy a clone. But it does seem to be making sellers more aware of fakes (DX apparently didn't even know their supplier was selling them fakes).

-Bri

 

[r6306]

I've just ordered a new batch of DSTT's and sold loads over the last few months. Now I've found this thread I'm more concerned about this making me look bad as a sellar to my customers. These days there's no true way of knowing if the main shippers are trading in fakes or real cards until one of us gets our orders and trys them all out. As we're ordering in the 100's then I'm not going to risk buying a batch of duds which would peave my customers off and lose my further business in teh long run. As far as I can see this would be the end for the DSTT brand as people wouldn't want to risk their money, which is a shame as I've found it to be a really good build most of the time.

 

[shakirmoledina]

Well it does show one thing and that even when R4 are inactive (as it seems) they still inspire other teams with their ideas