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Nintendo has revealed a major breakthrough in its fight against the pirate cards that are wrecking DS software revenues – as online giants Amazon and eBay finally agree to prohibit the sale of ...
The infamous Nintendo DS 'R4' emulator card and other similar devices have been declared illegal to sell in the UK by a High Court ruling, Develop. reports. The R4 device and its ilk allow ...
Click to viewNintendo has just announced that it and 54 game software companies are filing a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court against companies that import "R4 Revolution for DS"-type devices ...
While Nintendo has, for the most part, successfully held off the mass proliferation of pirated software on 3DS and Wii U, it was a major issue for the DS, in particular. R4 cards, regardless of ...
It may only amount to a drop in Nintendo's pockets, but an Australian provider of R4 cards used to copy Nintendo DS games has now been ordered to pay Nintendo $620,000 Australian dollars (or about ...
The R4 card essentially acts as a bridge, allowing the 3DS to read and execute code that it would normally reject. This means that, for now, the R4 cards will only run DS game titles and not the ...
Nintendo is one of 50 companies that have won their R4 lawsuit. Two distributors of R4 devices have been ordered to pay out 95,625,000 yen (£638,000) to the plaintiffs, reports Nintendo on its ...
Over 70 million Nintendo DS portables sit in gamers' hands. It's an awesome success, ... Just copy files from a PC to the microSD card, and pop that into the R4.” I’m no pirate!
The importation, sale, or advertising of the R4 card, sometimes (often?) used to pirate Nintendo DS games, is now illegal in the UK. Defendants tried to argue that the R4 shouldn’t be demonized ...
Games downloaded to R4 cards for use in the Nintendo DS may hurt Macronix International, the Taiwan-based supplier of ROM featured in the Japanese vendor's official game cards, according to ...
15; Cipher; Tue 19th Jan 2010 @MarcusA - re your comment on Spain, it is the only country that has ruled as such. Every other country in the world that has been forced to make a ruling on R4 has ...