Nintendo Battles Makers of the R4

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @09:42AM from the another-victim-of-moore's-law dept.

eldavojohn writes "A neat little device called the R4 allows for homebrew on the DS ... and as micro SD prices fall, it is becoming easier and easier to put on these cartridges binary dumps of games people don't have the right to play. Which is why Nintendo will see them in court. Note, it's not just the console maker pressing charges, it's also Capcom, Koei, Square Enix, Tecmo, Bandai Namco, and Sega. Is this truly a case of fighting piracy, or is it also an attempt to stop homebrew from stealing the market?"

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Re:Well, that's an easy one to answer by Goaway · 2008-07-29 10:16 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Wow, I feel personally offended by such comment.
Then you did not understand it. I'm sure you're doing all kinds of wonderful things with your R4, but that doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of people use them for piracy, and neither does it change the fact that neither you nor anybody else in the homebrew scene is any kind of threat to the established developers.