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NDS R4 flash carts officially banned in Japan

Posted Feb 28, 2009 at 4:44AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Nintendo DS Tags: Asia, Capcom, Japan, Nintendo, North America, piracy
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R4 NDS flashcart - Image 1Japan has now officially - and legally! - banned the selling and importing of R4 flash carts. Back in July of last year, Nintendo and 54 other software developers filed a lawsuit to the Japanese court against the popular R4 flash cart, on the grounds of the "Unfair Competition Prevention Law."

Well, it took some time, but now Tokyo District Court has ruled a decision. Nintendo and the group of game developers win. Their claims of their sales being affected by the flashcart are found valid: findings have confirmed that "the game copying devices are a violation under Japan laws." This via a press release from Capcom.

Now Nintendo and the entire group of 54 developer studios may have won this battle, but they haven't won the war. They're laying the smackdown on piracy and they won't stop here either. From here on out, they'll still continue "to pursue legal actions against game copying devices that allow the play of illegal copied software made available on the Internet."

There's no confirmation about it yet whether other regions will follow suit. With Japan already banning the flashcart, Europe, North America, the rest of Asia, and other countries may eventually have it banned as well.

It's pretty cool that the efforts of Nintendo to stop piracy are finally getting some results. It's just a shame that homebrew - legitimate homebrew - has to be affected by this as well.



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# Well it should be.muffinhead 2009-02-28 08:11
This cart was garbage to start with. lol

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# .HitDyl 2009-02-28 10:13
Lol at Nintendo R4 isn't even in production anymore just some R4 Clones

But there are much more other better Flashcards available

Since the beginning Nintendo only talked about R4, it's like they don't know there are other cards then R4

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# .itzzspencer 2009-02-28 10:53
fml

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# It was but...papajag 2009-02-28 11:10
It was the first of its king. Of course Acekard is probably the best one now. Plus they can still get the flashcarts through the internet.

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# nds r4 cardleer238 2009-03-01 07:04
nintendo has done this so we can not have are homebrew see nintendo lese money and so dos other game makers be case of homebrew and if they stop the r4 that plays homebrew and also retal games they stop homebrew and if they stop homebrew people will start buying there games and stop playing homebrew



ps. fu** you nintendo there are more cards out there and you will have to sue them to stop them and you can not stop them all.

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# who caresraziel_leonhart 2009-03-02 19:12
R4 is dead now so its no big deal

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