Hacking It's all getting too easy...

[Fieryshadowz]

well i live in SF.. and everywhere i go in my school.. someone is playing a DS.. 2/3 of them are using a mod chip

 

[Mars]

I'd just like to point out that not all noobs are dumb. I've been a pirate for pretty much as long as digital media has existed. I know to search, read, and read again before asking questions. My flash cart isn't even here yet and I'm confident there isn't anything about DS piracy and homebrew that I can't handle.

And remember kids...

Yeah I'm 13 and I've never modded a console before, yet I got my R4 working in minutes.

 

[joesmokey]

I think it's gotten somewhat easier to use, but mainly the prices have come down so much that it's much more realistic for someone to justify and purchase. Especially with memory cards being as cheap as they are today.

In the days of gameboy and gameboy color flash carts, you were stuck with one cart with fixed storage and you had this obnoxious parallel port adapter to hookup to your computer (which had to be plugged into your computer on bootup and usually had to make bios changes to get the adapter recognized). It was still as easy as loading a game onto the flash cart after that, but if you were an early adopter you were screwed because later games that came out were much bigger sizes than the carts cold hold, so you'd typically have to upgrade again, or just wait. Not to mention the program to flash roms would only recognize the device about half the time.

Nowadays with USB hookups and easy to use programs, it's a joke getting a game onto the memory card. Games are also much easier to find with widespread torrents (broadband doesn't really have an effect on handheld piracy I would wager), and memory cards hold significantly more storage that there's never a worry about the card being too small for a game (you were lucky to get 4 gbc games on one flash cart).

With that being said though, I don't really think in terms of piracy it's much more widespread than what it was before. Most people have no idea what it is, and outside of my family I have never met anyone that has heard of flash carts (or memory card options) and uses it on their DS. I think that with the new technology it just makes it easier for those who would pirate anyway.

The only thing that's getting harder these days is finding reliable sites to purchase from. Almost everyone that was in piracy back then knew about Lik-Sang and the ease of getting products. Now it's actually much tougher to make sure you'll actually get your product reliably from a site.

 

[six-five-two]

I am selling M3 Simply's to friends but they think I am scamming them and want the reicept first, some friends... Even if I did charge them more, it costs money for all the time and gas (there is a store in the outskirts of town that sells R4's and M3's) aswell.

I still have a Nintendo 64 and in my opinion, it is a classic game console and for it's time, the graphics are amazing. That is the last gaming console I bought (not saying handhelds).

 

[xabier]

slot1 flashcarts should have never been out, they make too easy for any noob to pirate their "rooms"

 

[4saken]

slot1 flashcarts should have never been out, they make too easy for any noob to pirate their "rooms"

The pirate room!

 

[outphase]

Yeah I'm 13 and I've never modded a console before, yet I got my R4 working in minutes.

Well, you still haven't either. Using a flashcart isn't "modding" a console.

 

[HBK]

Yeah I'm 13 and I've never modded a console before, yet I got my R4 working in minutes.

Well, you still haven't either. Using a flashcart isn't "modding" a console.

Correct, modding a console is adding or modifying something (firmware, etc.) to enhance features, play ROMs, etc.

Flashme (for DS) is considered modding a console, IMO, it's modifying it's firmware. Flash Carts don't fall into this category.

 

[ZdProjects]

Yea, that crap's too easy. I'm painting my ds. Orange for school colors. I've been messing with this for about a week and i know about almost everything already. This is so simply, Marz you should tear your ds open and build it in a glass case or something. The only crap thing is that since im only fourteen and my parents are strict as crap i have to find someone that'll let me use their credit.

 

[mothball]

slot1 flashcarts should have never been out, they make too easy for any noob to pirate their "rooms"

Because it was a whole lot more of a hassle before slot 1 cards, right?


The only step slot 1 cards take out is buying a passme.

 

[aZnXrAvEr]

Yea!! I can't believe all my friends have the R4... because of me.

They don't know crap about the NDS scene. They don't know where/how to get roms, how to use homebrew (DLDI)... they don't even know how to install the R4 skins.

My friends just saw that I had the R4 one day, and they're like "OOO can you get me one?" They didn't do any research and whatnot to find out about the other Slot-1 cards.

I wish it was still back in the days where we used Slot-2 cards for the DS roms. When my friends saw that I had a Supercard SD, they were like "ehh... too complicated". ;D

 

[TLSpartan]

At my school only 4 people in my entire school use flashcarts. And people think I am amazing because I can chip consoles(Its not that hard)