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Court rejects SONY's restraining order against Connectix

Posted by sengan on from the gagging-orders dept.

Gon writes "According to this Techweb story, the emulation side has legal precedent on their side. This might explain why the SF court rejected SONY's request for a restraining order against Connectix." Kristian Dorland sent us this email from the authors of UltraHLE who claim they have not been contacted by Nintendo and that they know nothing about the security device Nintendo claims they circumvented in the N64." Interesting Ultra HLE Tech doc posted by an AC below.

8 comments

  1. injunction/suit by aqua · · Score: 1

    /., please; rejection of an injunction motion isn't the same as a decision for or against the suit. Let's not have a repeat of the bickering that followed the MS v. Sun Java compliancy injunction.

  2. sec by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Its more likely that they have emulated, rather than circumvented the security chip.

  3. Didn't this article appear yesterday? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Then it disappeared. Now it's back. Rob, I think you have some static warp bubbles floating about slashdot headquarters! Get Cazynski and that traveler guy to straighten it out. And keep that @#$! script kiddie Wesley out of the file server room!

  4. Links by Iffy+Bonzoolie · · Score: 1

    I get so many cool links off this website, from both the articles and the responses. I have too many bookmarks!

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    Run a pencil-and-paper RPG campaign with your far-off friends: Gametable!
  5. Good! Let's hope Connectix wins the case by Bill+Henning · · Score: 1

    I really wish companies would "compete" via innoviation not litigation. Sony should just build a better "mousetrap" (console) that a G3 Mac could not emulate... than people would have to get a G4 Mac :-)

    Seriously, competition is GOOD, gets us better products at lower prices.

    Litigation only makes the lawyers rich, and wastes funds that could be better spent on R&D for more better products.

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  6. UltraHLE.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Nintendo is famous for putting "protection" chips inside the cartridges themselves, but they usually aren't all dedicated security chips. Several SNES games have additional chips inside them(like the Super FX, used on Starfox; the C4, used for sprite control on Mega Man X2+; and the DSP, used for math processing in Pilotwings and Mario Kart) that served as security chips, since they can't be "dumped" like the ROM image can be. All UltraHLE does is emulate the main R4300, for which tech information is readily available from SGI(since this is how the PSEmuPro team got information on the R4000 PSX core), and then use the 3DFX board and other neat programming tricks to simulate calls to the Reality Processor

    I put the white paper for UltraHLE that someone posted to USENET on my site, here., but Rob doesn't seem to have thought it was newsworthy. :)

  7. Message to Sony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Welcome to America. Just because we have more lawyers per square mile that anywhere else on earth doesn't mean that you can use them against us.

    Have a nice day (tm).

  8. Got It Friday... by Godwin · · Score: 1

    Just so weird.. the day they announced the news.. a CDR came by Fedex... from Digital River with the game on it..

    I guess they are pretty these things in the "seat of the pants" mode.. no retail box no nothing..

    godwin