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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. Re:Stockholm Syndrome by tonycheese · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hold on, as an OWNER of one of these flash carts, I have to say Nintendo is pretty justified in trying to stop these things from selling legally. Have you seen or used these flash carts? I would guess about 90-95% of them are used to pirate DS games, while the other 5-10% are used to emulate older games (NES, GBA, etc.) and play media.

    There is a card out that purposely does not attempt to play commercial games called the iPlayer card. This flash cart reads music, video, pictures, and so on along with homebrew games. The most popular operating operating system/media player out there is called MoonShell, which does not play commercial games. Honestly, it's pretty trivial to not allow pirating of DS games on these flash carts, but almost all the companies making them are obviously promoting them to play "back-ups".

  2. Re:Stockholm Syndrome by MindlessAutomata · · Score: 1, Troll

    Using that logic, bittorrent ought to be illegal, because it's mostly used for pirating software.