Nintendo Wins Lik Sang Piracy Case

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to an Adrenaline Vault article indicating Nintendo has won substantial damages against GameBoy 'backup' device vendor Lik Sang. According to the original Reuters story, "Nintendo Co Ltd said on Thursday it has won one of its 'most significant anti-piracy judgments ever' against a Hong Kong firm that sold devices capable of copying its games and putting them on the Internet for limitless downloading." Nintendo has been awarded an interim amount of HK$5 million (US$641,000) in damages, and they say Nintendo software publishers as a whole lost US$650 million in sales last year due to piracy.

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[MyDixieWrecked]

For starters, there's an entire underground GBA programming initiative. I've muddled around with it a bit. Wrote a little etch-a-sketch app. Ported my "Life simulator" code. Made partical fire based on the routines at LongbowDigitalArts. It's great.

In fact, being able to do that is great, if you get a large enough cartrage (about 300$ for 1GB), you can fit 32 of your GBA games into one cart so you don't have to constantly switch them and fumble around with games and worry about losing them.

And, for the record, I've had gamegear games go bad on me. But that's because I had a magnet in the drawer with them. ;)