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Nintendo DSi: An Encouragement for Piracy?

October 03, 2008 in Blog comments 6

Mike Fahey of the site Kotaku has expressed his concerns in an article concerning the new Nintendo DSi. The worry springs from the idea that the DSi might actually be an encouragement for piracy because of the SD slots.

If Nintendo hasn't designed the DSi with protection against such things, Nintendo might experience a mass pirating of their games.

Piracy of games for the DS is already easy, is it about to get worst?

"Adding an SD slot makes a bunch of sense for downloadable content given the way things are going," offered Brown. "I just hope they've done something to counter the mass piracy that exists via the R4 on the Lite. It scares me that with an SD card input, that might leave it even wider open that it was on the original device," added.
Dark Arcanine via kotaku.com »
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  • 0
    Final Blade Oct 3, 08
    Well, all I can say is hahahaha.

    Although, It can't be any different to the PSP piracy.
  • 1
    Kim Jong Il Oct 3, 08
    Piracy on the DS lite is soooo much simpler than the PSP. I mean seriously, by one card off eBay, download your games and your off.

    I don't see how the DSi could be any easier.
  • 2
    Smoke Oct 3, 08
    Skip the first step in DS piracy, having to buy the card. Typically, you buy an R4 cartridge and then get a microSD, what the article is suggesting is there will be no need for the R$ card and you'll be able to pirate directly from the SD.

    However, I'm sure there will be some pretty tight security features for the SD card slot. But as they say, for every person there is working on security, there is 10 figuring out how to hack it. gg Nintendo.
  • 0
    LinkMaster03 Oct 7, 08
    This makes me laugh. Is the world seriously infested with idiots? Good luck trying to run unsigned code on a memory slot that is BUILT IN. Running it from an external source was complicated enough for the scene. There might sometime be a way to get it going from the slot, but this article just makes me laugh. I also laugh at how people refer to flash cards as R4, as if it is the only one.
    • 0
      Slumpy monkey* Oct 7, 08
      People do it on the PSP fine enough.
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    McClubbin Oct 7, 08
    I'm sure Nintendo, with their staunch anti-piracy stance, has already considered the implications about adding the SD card slot. They aren't that naive that they would just add in the SD card functionality and think that everybody's actually going to use it to listen to music.

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