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Good luck drawing with the touch screen on a DS. I tried. I came up with this and this; others came up with these.

Good luck drawing with the touch screen on a DS. I tried. I came up with this and this; others came up with these.

Good luck drawing with the touch screen on a DS. I tried. I came up with this and this; others came up with these.

your listing could be the only target or could be one of hundreds, and the ESA may simple never have got to your appeal. Which is why 17 USC 512 takedowns end automatically after two weeks if the person who posted the disputed information files a counter-notice. Do VeRO takedowns follow this practice of allowing a relist by default following the counter-notice? And there exist selling communities other than eBay, right?

Selling devices and software that break copyrights is illegal under US Law Citation needed if the seller markets the device for use with original works (e.g. homebrew) and uses that fall under the copyright exemptions of 17 USC 107 through 122. Sony v. Universal and MGM v. Grokster support this view.

Incidently, citing any law that allows you sell such a device will also get it removed, as you are not a lawyer. Lawyers know better. So if a seller states that he has retained a lawyer, does that make the listing safer? Or does eBay's "our server is our private property" defense trump all?

Nintendo is not paid any money in licensing for these devices, and THAT is why they are illegal. What citation do you have that trumps Sega v. Accolade, Chamberlain v. Skylink, and Lexmark v. Static Control?

Nintendo makes their own media player for the GBA/NDS so don't throw your 'but I can use it to play music' excuse. Citation needed that Nintendo of America Inc. has ever marketed the Play-Yan product.

That leaves the only reason someone would want these is to play backups or homebrew, and the average joe sixpack doesn't know butt all about ARM assembly. You don't need to know ARM assembly language to use homebrew. Heck, I develop homebrew, and I don't know much ARM assembly language. (I use C.)

[DS advantage:] Two screens. DS screen: 256x472 with an 88px gap across the middle, touch-sensitive in only the bottom 192px. Pocket PC screen: up to 320x480, touch-sensitive in the whole screen.

[DS advantage:] Look at this http://www.collectingsmiles.com/colors/ and the gallery here: http://colors.brombra.net/ please tell me if I can do this with Windows Mobile, I will be delighted. In fact, I have submitted this picture to the Colors! gallery. The only reason that you can't port Colors! to Windows Mobile is that Colors! does not come with source code.

[DS disadvantage:] You need a expensive cartridge, total cost are much much less than a Windows movile. And it will become even more expensive once Nintendo cracks down on R4 and the rest. Nintendo has succeeded once: it was impossible to find new Game Boy Color flash cards during the last year of Game Boy Color's life (which coincided with the first year of Game Boy Advance's life).

[DS advantage:] Two screens. DS screen: 256x472 with an 88px gap across the middle, touch-sensitive in only the bottom 192px. Pocket PC screen: up to 320x480, touch-sensitive in the whole screen.

[DS advantage:] Look at this http://www.collectingsmiles.com/colors/ and the gallery here: http://colors.brombra.net/ please tell me if I can do this with Windows Mobile, I will be delighted. In fact, I have submitted this picture to the Colors! gallery. The only reason that you can't port Colors! to Windows Mobile is that Colors! does not come with source code.

[DS disadvantage:] You need a expensive cartridge, total cost are much much less than a Windows movile. And it will become even more expensive once Nintendo cracks down on R4 and the rest. Nintendo has succeeded once: it was impossible to find new Game Boy Color flash cards during the last year of Game Boy Color's life (which coincided with the first year of Game Boy Advance's life).

Well

I used to think the way you do, I never had a Windows Movile though, too expensive for a hobbyist like me. So I will be pleased if you(anyone?) share your experience, here is mine with the DS:

Pros:

• 3D on your device.
• Two screens.
• If it works in your device works in millions of others without modification.
• Two CPUs for only one program(it doesnt hava an OS, this is bad and good).
• Very good support from the GameBoy Advance community.
• Look at this http://www.collectingsmiles.com/colors/ and the gallery here: http://colors.brombra.net/ please tell me if I can do this with Windows Mobile, I will be delighted.
• Cheap, from mass production and Nintendo losing money with every device (they get money from the games, like printers fron cartridges).
• Cheap programming, the develop enviroment cost 0 EUR

BAD:

• You need a expensive cartridge, total cost are much much less than a Windows movile.
• Platform is closed(difficult to debug).

If I can get this in an open platform, I would be sold, so I'm waiting for OLPC and OpenMoko, Asus eee.

Great for the gameplay. I own both Lumines games for the PSP. Lumines I can understand. But Disney's Lumines II? Do you listen to Sonny and Cher? ([1] [2] [3])

I also have a GBA (and a DS, and a GBA-Micro and...) though I have not pursued the necessaries to play homebrew/ROMs on it. You should; you'll like DS homebrew. There's a lot you can do with a touch screen that you can't do with a pointing stick. For example, all these were drawn on a DS.

I used the internet to find ROMS of the carts I own. As for UMG v. MP3.com, IANAL, but it appears to me that the court ruled that MP3.com didn't have distribution rights Then neither do the ROM sites, as they don't even try to verify that the downloader owns or possesses the cartridge. But I asked about cart dumpers not only for the legal reasons but also because I want to try my hand at developing homebrew for some of those older systems without relying entirely on emulators.