Nintendo has introduced new copy protection features into the latest firmware for its new DSi handheld, rendering all previous flash cards (or majikon in Japanese parlance) obsolete.
The new 1.4 firmware appears to break all current piracy solutions on the market, with the following devices checked:
DSTTi
Hyper R4i
ak2i
R4 Ui
R4i Gold
EZVi
The 1.4 firmware will of course be present on all new DSi units, and is available as a downloadable update. The firmware also adds Facebook compatibility (using the camera built into the unit), not that this will convince many affected to upgrade immediately.
With Nintendo and Sony both looking to move their handheld devices online and make them part of their own DRMed content delivery networks, it looks as though traditional retail and the piracy associated with it will not continue in the same form, though unless the unusual success of the PS3 in stymieing copies can be replicated, it will doubtless only be a matter of time before new cracks are developed…
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The only kind of pirates they are gonna stop are the butt pirates.
What about the CycloDS? ;)
oh wow. I was going to buy a DS next week along with DSTT. Does that firmware affect only the DSi and not the DS lite ? I don't care much about the DSi... my smartphone can do everything the DSi can and in better (putting aside the games).
I say, in 11 days that firmware will be cracked.
only DSi, just get a DS phat or DSL
''Those guys from Nintendo make it hack-proof, but that doesnt mean we ain't gonna hack it.''
Yes, the ps3 is surprisingly resistant...
A nice gift from Kutaragi to Sony before he left ;(
Can't you just go out and buy a new/used original DS? I'd rather pay 100 bucks for one handheld and then never pay for games. After a few pirated games, the DS pretty much pays for itself.
Well, I applaud them for at least trying to protect their games :/. I can't say piracy is impossible to stop. Direct TV pretty much stamped out people pirating their signal. But with this it's just like an endless game of cat and mouse.
They cannot win this fight.
I have met the kind of electronics freaks behind several known modchips. To them, any kind of safety the console makers put up is a new challenge. Which they'll gladly break.
You ain't got the slightest idea of the tools, the patience and the sheer obsession they have.
The first to release a product on the market, gets all the cash?
i'm pretty sure people knew the dsi was and anti-piracy from day one which is why i don't want one. i think they have found some things that work on it though.
The PSP is better anyway.
inb4flames
The game of cat and mouse continues. This may "temporarily" work for a few months...but eventually someone will find a way around it and this whole thing starts over again.
Who cares about a camera in a DSlite if you have an original DS and a plain digital camera? They're cheaper even when you put the prices together.
It's as if Nintendo forgot all about previous versions of the DS and just cares about the worst model... Idiots.
My God you're retarded.
Posted a wager on my fav rom site.
The firmware I believe was good for all of 10 days.
Bet it took longer than 10 days to make the firmware.
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Who buys a DSi anyway? Theres no reason to upgrade from DSlite for me.
Also pirates will always find a new way. Lets see how long it takes until this new firmware will be cracked or something.
Let that be a lesson to you, kiddes: don't throw away your old versions just because some new shit comes out!
*goes to play Taiko DS which will never see a US release*
Meh, I bought all my DS games anyway, good for Nintendo.
why someone not using EDGE?
My comment above stands.
Bought the DSi XL because frankly smaller is not always any fucking thrill. EB Games offered me 90 bucks for my DS lite and I figured why not.
I have no interest in old slot two fucking crap games either.
And my Acekard 2i plays everything juuuuuust fine.
Firmware is just programming eh, it can be made and UN made.
Mods are just easy to make.... given time the DSi will be put to that PC emulator treatment too...
And once again, Nintendo totally crushes homebrew games as they try to kill pirated games... -_-
Homebrew capabilities and a possible Virtual Console for handheld games is the only reason I GOT my DSi... It's looking more and more like I wasted my money on it now...
I noticed that the flashcart makers saw this coming and within fewer days than Nintendo expected, flashcarts became usable under DSi 1.4...the secret was a flashcart firmware update either before the DSi update or from another DS...
LOL WUT
This is going to stop piracy how? Since firmware is all software base, the flash card companies just need to release an update.
I don't know why nintendo or sony bother with anti-piracy measures, though sony seems to have held back the PSP homebrew back quite a few times.
They should both just give up, and leave anti-piracy crap to microsoft, they seem to have the only slightly effective methords.
I wonder how much better games could be if they took all the money away from protecting their games and put it into, you know, the games..
but look at PS3.... been 3 yrs now.... still unable to crack/pirate. i just wonder what the problem is...
PS3 can be chipped easily, people don't pirate on the PS3 because 1. Most of the games that make the PS3 worth getting are on other consoles or PC, and 2. Because blu-ray isn't cheap enough nor that popular, even more so when the PS3 first came out.
It's the same thing all over again with the PSP's UMDs, well that and the fact that sony never intended to release blank UMDs
I still don't think blu-ray is the next media after DVD's, maybe it'll pick up more soon? I somehow doubt it.
I think it will replace DVDs within a couple years once more people move to HD. Though, it helps for games more when the game take advantage of it. I wan't to see like, comilation PS3 games with multiple games on one disc.
Blu ray. Nobody is going to torrent 15gb of useless uncompressed data for one game.
Right now, it's pointless to crack the PS3. Wait until everyone gets a BluRay writter. It's gonna be PS2 ALL OVER again.
No one, not even Nintendo, thinks it will stop piracy forever. But obviously they do it as temporary stopgap to piss off pirates. What else can they do? It's not like they can go and sue the people who make the items since it is legal in their country of origin (china).
It takes one to know one. If it takes one to make the security measure, it takes another to break it.
PSP RULES!!!
Everyone who enjoyed playing Resident Evil 1 on the PSP knows this system rocks. ;]
Don't forget being able to play Star Ocean, DJ Max, and using an SNES emulator too.
I think I love you from this comment alone.
Fuck DS.
Open Source consoles and handhelds are the future:
http://www.openpandora.org/
Of course, if people continue to expect all content to be free, then there will surely be a lot of iphone-esque "fart games" and not much else.
People who program free dozen-hour RPGs out of sheer love are getting rare.
Only problem with Pandora is it won't be able to run Windows games. So not a whole lot of use for the people here, who'd like to play hentai games on the go.
Almost every Eroge works with wine. Trust me.
and soon games will be just a memory in our cotton stuffed heads
Why not just use a PDA with winMobile, linux or whatever? The devices already exist and older ones are quite cheap.
Pandora would be nice if it had phone abilities. In that case I'd consider replacing my HTC with it.
I can't say I know a lot about pandora, but it would seem like it would be more worth while using a netbook.
Open source seems great, but it never seems to go anywhere, I mean look at linux, it's great it's there, but unless your a programmer, there isn't much point in using it.
Still interested in where pandora might go though.
Er, no, enjoy your lack of good games by proper developers.
Enjoy your shitty system with no support.
Open source handhelds are the future? You're a retarded fucking moron. Open source will never become mainstream because the majority of people have no incentive to devote hundreds if not thousands of hours to making something for free. Even the biggest competitor for DS, the iphone, builds its success on the idea that people who make games for it can turn in a big profit. You stupid commies know jack shit about the gaming industry if you think some day all games will be free.
Yes, because there are no commercial games on open-source operating system... not.
Go back to your cave, will you ? The vast majority of web servers and softwares are open-source and free. People devote time if they want too and you're lack of knoweldge in good free (as in beer) games, even more when it comes to doujin games, makes me wonder what you're doing on this website.
If you like to pay everything, so be it. Don't worry, even if these "stupid commies who do things for free" gets a lot of things done, there will be always someone to milk you, like the fat cow you are.
That Pandora actually looks interesting to me; I'll watch it and see where it goes.
Except the iPhone 3GS blows it out of the water for specs and also has a pretty open app store (ie anything can be made for it), as long as the content is legal.
Hmm... have Facebook on my DSi... or continue to play games for free.. such a HARD fucking decision. Mou...
Who I really feel sorry for is those who update without knowing it's going to cut off their flashcarts.
there's a M3i Zero
who cares?
most of today's games are shit anyways. I have completely given up on the entire gaming industry!!!
books are the future!
(and no, it wasn't my intention to troll)
Books are the past, present, and all that shit. Of course they'll be more productive than games. But some people still have to have their super mario. Reading it just doesn't work.
Nice conclusion maniac. I made that one back in 2005. But my solution involves buying old games from ebay and playing them on my old TV to have retro-fun. 2D > 3D, goes for games as well.
kingdom hearts, shin megami tensei game that supposed to come later... and other things >.>
I havent give up on game industry, I just play, like, one new game per month or two months.
there's still a way...
Well of course they might find a new upgrade for the r4 to beat the block or start making hacks so you can play the games directly from your ds without the need of an r4 but that would require alot of space, I'm pretty sure the dsi only has a few mb's
My DS Phat and flash device are quite enough for me.
Aww poor butthurt Nintendo, they are just wasting time and money with this shit. It ain't gonna stop anything.
*cough* EZFlash V *cough*
not to the pirates ;)
You do realize the fact of: They said DVD is UNPIRATABLE, but now Pirate DVD is swarming as hell.
Apparently when they announced that DVDs were "unpiratable", they forgot that there is a group of people called Filipinos who are willing to take up any copyright challenge
And there's also a group of people called Chinese that markets this talent of the Filipinos
Good job saying the same thing he said, just more confusing.
They just want to brain fuck you.
What the hell are those anonymouses babbling about? Is it even English? O_o
^ Foreign commentator using Babelfish? :X Common sense janai.
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Anonymous 3:33 and 3:34, I know exactly what you guys mean.
It won't stop anything but will slow it down requiring more effort.
what the f?
all your base are belong to us !!1!
They just posted some random spam mail and cut the viagra out.
LOL ^^; My bad. Wut i meant is... Someday, some geniuses will be able to crack those protectors. Technology always evolved ^_^
Why do you suck so much in every comment you make Storm Wing?
He's always replying to the first commenter, whether his reply has anything in topic with the first comment is another matter.
In other words, he only wants his comment to be on top so everyone will read it a.k.a attention whore.
*yawns*
If that's you are, then wut am i?
I'm a fag!
As much as I agree with you, your typing fails xD
Yeah, he's logic is kinda fail.
Nice job looking like a retard.
That's the sad part, too. Because people are too stupid to realize that piracy really does hurt the industry, the amount of good games being released keeps decreasing while casual shit is dominating.
How about the rental market? When people realise they can rent a couple of games and swap them for other titles unlimited amount of times for $20 a month. Beats the hell out of paying $60 a pop for the shit most publishers shovel.
Plus, MW2 publishers want to charge $90 here. Not that CoD4 had any problems selling a shit load of coplies, but I see this as nothing but greed, so a fuck you is in order for them.
Now...my personal experience, is Left 4 Dead and Killing Floor. L4D cost $50 to begin with, and KF $20. Now they're making a L4D2 a year later, and I feel ripped off because I paid $50 for a fucking extended demo. At least I won't give a shit if they announce KF2, since KF wasn't expensive and felt value for money. Even if it isn't as pretty, polished or as exciting as L4D. KF even is getting a free update with new content (paid for character pack, but hell even that's cheap at $2 or whatever it is).
the damage piracy makes in the idustry is overstated, so to distract from what really hurts it the industry.
Meaning:
Publishers (usually they take 70-80 % of the profits)
Stupid graphics levels (in itself not a bad thing but when you spend millions in that aspect alone ignoring the rest like gameplay of bug testing, its stupid)
Oversaturation of shitty copys of good games (for every call of duty 4 (just an example) we have 20 shitty "realism" shooter (haze, call of duty MW2, etc..),
Really short games with absurd prices (60 dollars for 6 hours and no replay value no thanks)
DRM, millions to make really intrusive DRM that screws more the paying customers than the pirates (this is specially true in pc).
also piracy is the developers easy way out when a game floped badly, their games didnt flop because its crappy gameplay, game breaking bugs, shitty story, etc.. it floped because of piracy
One week is the standard work around time. Then again if all it adds is facebook dunno if they will bother.
It's sad to see the company I cheered for for so many years go in such a wrong direction :(
Heaven forfend they try to make people pay for their products! What is the world coming to...
Nice archaic language there, bro.
Thought about getting with the times?
It's not sarcasm. It's the far superior Artecasm. Great laughs for everyone when it's misinterpreted.
no I agree with that anon who said Artefact uses "Archaic" language. Well it's not archaic or anything, but it's definately ridiculous how he uses a bunch of obscure words in practically every article/comment he makes.
It honestly makes me rolls my eyes, Artefact must think this is some online University class room, and THAT..is pathetic
Looks like the joke flew way over your head.
>It honestly makes me rolls my eyes, Artefact >must think this is some online University >class room, and THAT..is pathetic
What? Everytime he uses those words, I just think of them as being overly sarcastic... Since most of the articles here come off that way.
"Or for people who don’t want the same word to be used three times in the same sentence?"
Most of the time, using the same word three times in the same sentence is a different problem altogether. If you're talking about a specific item and happen to mention it in each successive sentence, it's actually not a bad idea to use the same word describing that item for sake of clarity.
The use of "heaven forfend" in our modern interweb vernacular is just contrived.
Ignorant joker-boy needs dictionary.
Yes it is worth it, you don't seem to understand how badly DS software sales have been hit with piracy, for example the excellent GTA Chinatown Wars flopped because of it.
I for one am happy because piracy is hurting the videogames industry. I don't believe many people here think it's alright just to download a game for free, a game which was easily worth the money in the first place. Get an education, as Artefact said.
Was that really worth addressing?
Hey being dumb is the shit. Being smart is just a fad. I don't need to go to no skool.
Cringe Worthy
By the Gods, HAST THOU SEEN ANY SUCH ABOMINATION!?
At least i tried. :(
Thought about getting an education? Might be asking a bit much in your case...
You might want to try staying away from the thesaurus for about a month. Those things tend to be about as addictive as crack for people who try too hard at impressing others.
Or for people who don't want the same word to be used three times in the same sentence?
Thats impossible.
Unpossible, even.
Well it only matters if you upgrade if they make it so you can't got to the ds store like sony did so can't play new games without the upgrade then there is a problem, plus you still have the regular ds right?
Are you a retarded idiot or something, or some kind of communist faggot living in a 3rd world country who pirates everything?
Yes I am!!!
then go fuck off. none of the video game companies care about you and they will continue to make copy protection to spite free loading faggots like you.
Anonymous 2.... it's already at that point and has been for a LONG time.
Until these copy protections become so bad that pirates will be more free than you, simple customers.