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DS Flash Carts Deemed Legal By French Court

Posted by timothy on from the not-open-like-all-the-french-consoles dept.

Hatta writes with a snippet from MaxConsole: "Nintendo has today lost a major court case against the Divineo group in the main court of Paris. Nintendo originally took the group to court over DS flash carts, however the judge today has ruled against Nintendo and suggested that they are purposely locking out developers from their consoles and things should be more like Windows where ANYONE can develop any application if they wish to."

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  1. Party games for PC? by tepples · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Anyone can develop, no fees required. Hasn't ruined PC gaming.

    But the PC's inability to output video to a television without an obscure adapter between 1987 (when VGA came out) and 2007 (when TVs began to incorporate VGA and HDMI inputs) has ruined some genres of PC gaming. Where are the 4-player games in the board-game-and-minigame genre? Where are the 4-player fighting games? Where are the 4-player racing games? All on consoles, because the median console monitor is bigger than the median PC monitor.