I was wondering about the legal buy/sale status (non-commercial sales of course) of flashcarts in the USA, and also their general/possession legal status in the USA? For each issue; sales and possession, are they Illegal, Banned, Legal, Not Regulated, Etc..? Also if it helps I am particularly interested in the Acekard 2i, M3I Zero, IPlayer, and Supercard DSONEi.

On a side note does anyone know the answer to the exact same question but for Wii modchips, in particular the Wasabi DX, DriveKey, and WiiKey Fusion?

Thanks in advance to those that answer, I appreciate the info. Talk to you all later.

Sincerely,
Elmoreas

 

So just having one is illegal?

 

I believe flashcarts are legal in both the U.k and America (and probably other countries) aslong as they are sold completely blank (nothing on them) they are also legal to play homebrew applications and the such, the only illegal part about flashcarts is playing roms on them even then you CAN (I think) negate the illegallity of it if you only run roms that you own the actually NDS cartridge for:- i.e you've gone to a store and bought pokemon platinum and then later on you put it on your flashcart. This would only work however if you can prove (no matter where you are) that you do indeed own said game.

but I could be completely wrong on that last part.

and as for the wii modchips well...I think the same thing applies doesn't it? someone with solid facts will probably come and answer this much better than I have though

EDIT:-
ifish said basically what I was trying to say but in a much simpler form

 

Not sure about bout modchips but read this its a bit old but it might answer ur question:

Source: Kotaku


EDIT 1: I think what is illegal is to sell and distribute Modchips but having one for backup purposes is legal, but don't quote me on that...

 

I wouldn't risk it if I were you, even ripping the label off of the front probably won't make much difference.

 

My Acekard came from Canada.

Right, completely wrong, that's a myth spread by ROM sites in an attempt to dodge blame. Under US law you can MAKE a backup copy (so no downloading, period, because that's not making it) if the IP holder doesn't say you can't.

And nintendo of course says No, so the roms are illegal, period.

 

Edit: Sorry, misread the post.

 

What do you mean look at my history OP, your clear? What does that mean?

 

Nevermind what I said, I thought at first this was a trick thread, since I have a natural instinct to initially question anything.

Sorry if I doubted you.

 

Ok question is answered, you all can keep talking on this one if you want but I got the info I needed. Thanks all. Talk to you later.

Elmoreas