Homebrew Possible Ban for using freeshop games - Discussion thread

[Deleted member 350372]

So they'd ban you from buying games for not buying games, therefore forcing you to pirate games?

Makes perfect sense to me.

In that case, yes. Nintendo's logic is fucked up in the head. Lmao. They would need to change their shit if they want to ban people from buying games, as well as prevent them from pirating any paid game as well. That would fix things up for them.

 

[Majickhat55]

They could have done this a LONG time ago when CIA installs were preferred over flashcards. All they have to do is check your installed tickets against your purchase history and bam, banned. Why haven't they ever done that? I have no idea but I doubt that would ever happen if it hasn't happened yet. As for FreeShop, did you even read the stickied thread that would have answered your questions and makes this thread moot anyway? No Freeshop is not illegal and no you can't get banned. Believe the people here, or don't use it.

 

[Jacklack3]

One thing that I think is pretty obvious to a lot of people. But the only "cheating" that I would accept is if you customized stuff but it was only for you.

 

[einhuman197]

@Majickhat55 you can't get banned for cia installation. It's the same as freeshop with the difference that you install the game directly, not over a ticket.

 

[Quantumcat]

@Majickhat55 you can't get banned for cia installation. It's the same as freeshop with the difference that you install the game directly, not over a ticket.

Cia installs still install a ticket. They're just not "good" tickets that are recognised by the eShop as being legit (they are just enough for the console to be happy with them). Don't know how it works exactly but @cearp can probably explain, afaik he was the first to make "good" cias downloadable, through a Python script.

 

[Majickhat55]

@Majickhat55 you can't get banned for cia installation. It's the same as freeshop with the difference that you install the game directly, not over a ticket.

I never said you could get banned for CIA installation, but for having tickets (which are installed) that are recognized by the eShop as "paid". All Nintendo would have to do would be to check your purchase history against those tickets and any mismatch tells them you installed the game "by other means".

 

[Quantumcat]

I never said you could get banned for CIA installation, but for having tickets (which are installed) that are recognized by the eShop as "paid". All Nintendo would have to do would be to check your purchase history against those tickets and any mismatch tells them you installed the game "by other means".

The fact that this hasn't happened in the two or three years we have been able to do this (eg legit cias were redownloadable before the discovery of "good" cias) suggests that they are not able to compare purchase history of the NNID making a download from the eShop, at the time of that download (or ever).

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Hi Guys, Today i read a thread that said we can be banned for using freeshop/Tikshop games.
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I read this bellow in that thread!!

It is also worth mentioning:
It is possible that Nintendo may in a future update choose to cross-reference the installed tickets with the titles that your console serial has access to and if that fails it is possible that they could ban you from online activity (including eShop)
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I think its safe play games from tikshop/freeshop and i think it's impossible nintendo would ban for using tickets because if they do that, they would ban also retail consoles with preinstaled games. Nintendo cannot difference between cias-legit cias (preinstalled)-downloaded cias fron CDN (nintendo server)
Also, tickets are not assigned to any NNID so nintendo doesn't know neither if you bouthgt a game or if you downloaded it.

If anyone have feedback about this, i will apretiate your opinion.

It's definitely possible, but if it hasn't happened yet, it's not likely to this late in the console's life cycle.
They most certainly can differentiate between preinstalled games and pirated ones. Try system transferring legit CIAs, it won't work.

 

[Quantumcat]

Try system transferring legit CIAs, it won't work.

That's not Nintendo doing it on purpose though - that's just info on their servers changing around.

 

[Krude]

The fact that this hasn't happened in the two or three years we have been able to do this (eg legit cias were redownloadable before the discovery of "good" cias) suggests that they are not able to compare purchase history of the NNID making a download from the eShop, at the time of that download (or ever).

They do, though - that's just what happens to DLC. If you ever got a legit DLC ticket for a game (you bought 1 DLC or got a free one) and then try to install other DLC for that game (you want to pirate the other 9 DLCs), you know what happens if you ever go online via eShop or in-game. All the DLC is deleted except for the one you actually own. Same thing happens to themes.

The online connection checks all the valid dlc tickets you have server-side and then tells the system to clean up the rest on the console. Why they only do that for DLC and not games/apps, only Nintendo knows tho

 

[cearp]

Cia installs still install a ticket. They're just not "good" tickets that are recognised by the eShop as being legit (they are just enough for the console to be happy with them). Don't know how it works exactly but @cearp can probably explain, afaik he was the first to make "good" cias downloadable, through a Python script.

http://gbatemp.net/threads/what-is-a-legit-cia-and-other-noob-cia-questions-answered.386705 this is a resource i made to explain it