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Nintendo Creates Piracy-Proof Console For China

Posted by simoniker on from the go-retro-to-go-forward dept.

Thanks to Bloomberg for their story discussing Nintendo's announcement of a new console for China, apparently based on N64 technology. According to the article, "Nintendo will sell the console, called the 'iQue player' for 498 yuan ($60)... To prevent copying... users will download software onto a 64-megabyte flash-memory card at a local [retail] store, paying 48 yuan for each title" - a little like the Lawson partnership Nintendo had in Japan? The piece goes on to explain: "Nintendo will sell Chinese-language versions of software originally designed for the company's older-generation game players such as Nintendo 64."

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  1. It's still thinking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    If this were released on a wider scale, I'll bet it could make some good money, especially if it had the best of N64 + SNES + NES. So many great games for so little!

    If you want to play SNES+SNES+Genesis+SMS etc games:

    1. Buy a used Dreamcast for $40 or so.
    2. www.dcemulation.com.
    3. Got a good NNTP client?
    4. Burn
    5. Play
    6. Support the companies (the ones that still exist, at least) by buying their current products (since the morons aren't set up to receive payment for electronic versions of discontinued products).

  2. Actually... by Sits · · Score: 3, Informative

    The custom DVD format the Gamecube uses has been broken and in a manner Nintendo is unlikely to be able to block. Take a look at the fledling GC home brew scene on Dexrose.