Is this true? Is flashme really illegal? I highly doubt it but I have been getting modded at other sites because I have talked about flashme. They say I have been modded for "illegal activities" but we are still allowed to talk about flash carts. I know flash carts aren't illegal but neither is flashme right?

So is flashme really illegal? Or are they just making up BS?

 

Not really why?

 

That's odd. The bullet points under the "illegal activities" had nothing to do with firmware and that mumbo jumbo. It just said stuff about MP3s, ROMs, modchips, and media.

 

Maybe flashme falls under a type of "modchip" thing despite the fact you're not really installing hardware itself.

Lemme guess, you're a GBADEV refugee?

 

EULA issues aside (which if anything would come under civil law and then more likely to be aimed at someone who provides a service) and maybe DMCA copy protection measures avoidance/evasion nonsense.

Anyhow while I am no legal expert Noflashme (which is supposed to contain some of the original firmware) is about as close as you would get.

Personally I would say it is overzealous moderation probably stemming from a desire not to get trouble (many companies fire DMCA, C&D, copyright notices..... like the rest of us breathe. These normally appear at a sites host (which have all the backbone of a worm for the most part)) and ignorance of flashme.

 

You nailed it on the head. GFAQs kept deleting like every post I made.

I have to say, this site is like paradise to me. It has EVERYTHING concerning the DS I could want and need. Great site guys.

 

You have a GFAQs account too? It is freaking ridiculous. The boards are littered with R4 topics and I even made a thread called "who buys games and who don't". In it I asked to say if you are a pirate or not. I was expected to get modded instantly but the thread is still their today. and I got modded for making a flashme topic and some karma taken.

 

Technically, you're talking about borderline illegality. It skips the check for signed code for Slot 2 and RSA, so techinically it is circumventing encryption. Under US law, this violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but it's more intended to go after people that somehow encourage that activity AND provide the means (files) to do so.

If they copied any part of the Nintendo FW, it would be illegal due to copyright infringement. I don't know if FlashMe has any original code or if it is completely reverse engineered.

 

To answer everyone's question, FlashMe is illegal, as it contains (albeit a slightly modified version of) copies of the Nintendo DS Firmware which is copyrighted by Nintendo.

 

You're silly. loopy, even admitted it was illegal. He states it many times on gbadev.

And the firmware's been decrypted for donkeys. It runs in no$gba too.





EDIT: In the same place, it's also re-iterated that it is impossible very difficult to fit anything like the official firmware fit on the firmware chip, keeping it in the 256KiB boundary without losing the graphical interface. See FWNitro

EDIT2: Also, no one has ever worked out how to re-create DS download play. Why is it in Flashme then?