Anti-piracy technology on DS games by this holiday |
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That injunction was granted to Nintendo just this March, thereby making it an illegal product. Despite this, however, R4 sales continue to happen, albeit more discreetly than it was before. Nintendo is not giving in, however, and is determined than ever to put a stop on piracy on their products. As such, they have developed a technology that will render pirating technologies incapable.
This is where Metaforic comes in. What their technology does is "at its most basic level detects the form of patching that the R4 cards use to play ROMS, and then process to 'kill' the ROM." Explained Mclennan:
We take any DS game and inject a security scheme into the game itself. It turns each game into its own security system. Everytime we apply it to a different game, it's a different security system. .. What we're really trying to do is make hackers take on a long, slow, manual job... We add so much security to it that it will take a very long time to hack.
Sounds like a plan. Nintendo has already started the ball rolling by coming out with the R4-incompatible DSi.
Will it work, finally sealing the doors of homebrew on the DS? We'll see soon enough. After all, Nintendo has already approved the technique developed by Metaforic and will have the publishers implementing the said solution ASAP.
What this translates to is that by holiday of this year, the games we'll be finding on store shelves will have this security added to it already.
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Via Gamasutra
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"Nintendo has already started the ball rolling by coming out with the R4-incompatible DSi. "
No, no they havn't, it's called an R4i Neo... works very well on the DSi, lol.
now when are these coming into play? hopefully after 358/2 days, lol
for all those people who will hate on me and thumb me down (or not...idk), the DS is doing damn well and in this economy we're in.....i cannot afford to waste money on stuff like this...i only have 3 PS3 games, and 1 PSP game dammit!! (laid off)
that is until MAG and Dissidia....that i must buy
Pokemon Gold and Silver Remakes. I don't even finish any handheld game anymore.
They've been doing this for awhile now, and so far all the major releases have been worked around in at least within 48 hours.
Sorry Nintendo, but until you actually start caring about me I'm going to enjoy my free shovelware.
Selling game or selling lock...
Good thing its easier to pirate on other platforms. I actually pay for all my DS games because I buy mostly 3rd party titles (Rpgs and such) and they need support to stand out among all the wider audience titles. I pirate games on my 360 though and it'll be a while before I have to worry about spending real cash on a game I'm not ready to support (Modern Warfare 2 will be my upcoming exception). And all titles I do want to support I get on PS3 ...lol
Another one thinks he can defeat the piracy...