Somenone in UK got sued by Nintendo and faced jail time for a year because he imported 26,000 carts. They got serious about the cartridges…dead serious.
Nintendo’s ongoing struggle against the now-infamous R4 cartridge continues, as another blow against the potentially devious device has been dealt in Japanese government. While the R4 has been illegal to sell in Japan since 2009, importing the thing was still technically legal. Now, however, that too has been prohibited by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
For those of you new to this perpetually unfolding saga of prohibition, let’s recap: The R4 is a flash cartridge for the Nintendo DS, which allows users to play homebrew and/or pirated games on their handhelds. You can probably guess which usage was more common.
So far, distributing the R4 (and similar devices) has been banned in Japan, France and the UK. Additionally, Amazon and eBay have discontinued sales of the cart at the behest of Nintendo. Australian-based distributors of the cartridges have been successfully sued by Nintendo, and a man in the UK went to prison for a year for importing over 26,000 carts.
So, if you have to run an illegal import/export business, take our advice and shift away from the R4 and refocus on something less dangerous to work with, like cursed Egyptian artifacts, or mint-in-box time-traveler’s bones.
[Source] = Joystiq
11-25-2012
06:24 AM
That's what you get for going with those cheap r4 clones instead of some better flashcards.
11-25-2012
06:26 AM
considering the carts contain copyright code, im not surprised whatsoever.
11-25-2012
06:26 AM
Come from China land of the *Clones*. How many different r4's carts are on the market?...i lost count.
11-25-2012
06:47 AM
Lol I just got another one today other one got giving to me only could put a 2 gig sd not enough for todays data so I had to upgrade
11-25-2012
07:00 AM
You can kiss goodbye the R4.
Just saying..you did not read it from me. LOL.
11-25-2012
07:13 AM
Nintendo will never fully block out R4 no much how many times they try systems all ways get hacked including the security of the mighty so called ps3. homebrew FTW
11-25-2012
07:42 AM
I got my son one last year.R4I gold
Does the job.
11-25-2012
08:03 AM
[MENTION=186943]hellsing9[/MENTION] not exactly, if they block the r4, they simply change the game that they are pretending to be.
my r4 is updated regularly and if you update 3ds before the cart you will need to borrow/use a nds to finish the job but no need to "kiss it goodbye"
im on latest 3ds fw btw
11-25-2012
08:08 AM
Did not update tough..i did not purchase anything interesting on this last month.
11-25-2012
08:47 AM
A bit off topic (then a bit on)
I know Its probably been said before, but with the exception of Resident Evil Deadly Silence, Dementia 1&2 and perhaps the recapturing of ones youth with New Super Mario Bros,...It is just what I expected. An insanely childish console for the masses and Pokemon fans. Nothing more, nothing less. I can totally see why psp brutally KILLS it. Selling it this week.
I just bought a DS lite this week
They were on sale in one of my local malls I work in for a third (yes a third) of the price because they were trying to get rid of stock for some unknown reason. So of course I bought one. I thought if I didn't like it I would sell it privately for a bit more money easily, or the same price as what I bought it for. Luckily my brother in law had a R4 cart lying around so I tried it out and wow I really don't like the DS. The homebrew is terrible with the exception of moonshell. But who cares about videos on a DS?. Games aswell
On topic:
A year for importing 26000 carts? Heavy considering the R4 truly can be used solely for homebrew just as the early ps dongles were. As bad as the homebrew is the amount of homebrew is considerably large.
I realize I am being quite naive though with homebrew. The majority buy it to put downloaded games on. So I guess nintendo have a point?
11-25-2012
09:16 AM
^^lol
why buy an obvious casual game system if you are not a casual gamer?
the ps was aimed at the more serious gamer (hence the control system)
on topic: the R4 contains nintendos code (thats how it works and is not sold blank) so no amount of legitimacy can be claimed as it uses their code without their consent. it is intent and act of mass distribution of copyright material
11-25-2012
09:17 AM
I have R4 (yeah i have some games) on my 3DS but i enjoy the homebrew.
It's not WOW but it's something at least.
11-25-2012
10:07 AM
Well, at least here in Venezuela, neither Nintendo nor any money-sucking brand (yeah: $ony, Micro$oft...) cannot sues us. There's no known law forbidding you from importing/exporting r4, jailbreaking consoles and smartphones, releasing such jailbreak softwares... And in the hypothetical case that this law does exist, no law force will do anything for that... They barely move for murdering cases and other stuffs. Sad, but that's our situation here.
11-25-2012
10:31 AM
Hey hellsing9 this is a PS3 site in case you didn't know.
11-25-2012
11:05 AM
http://www.ps3hax.net/2012/11/14-gam...next-gen-xbox/
or do you just not have any balls?
11-25-2012
11:08 AM
11-25-2012
11:27 AM
If you seek for attention, try again.
But as usual another suicidal imbecile like you appears to point the obvious and tell what a piece of **** of article get's frontpaged when you don't EVEN READ THEM!!!. Well, this proves that you don't have a clue.
For ****s sake.
Seriously, try harder.
Regards.
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[MENTION=193443]concretecork[/MENTION] Meh more of the same. Funny tough, *this* ones are the first to ***** about any frontpaged article but they don't use their damn eyes to read them. It's automatic *Hellsing9 - Let's find something to make him burst.*
Is getting old and boring.
11-25-2012
12:02 PM
The whole time I have been on this site, I thought we were talking about antique bananas.
People actually talk about PS3's here ?, nobody told me, I feel so stupid now
11-25-2012
12:23 PM
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11-25-2012
12:37 PM
11-25-2012
12:49 PM
11-25-2012
01:05 PM
Back to topic.
Seems to me it's mostly R4 that gets all these problems. Supercard, M3, Acekard and the others seems to stay outside Nintendo's radar in some way. Sure my Supercard DsTwo does get blocked with almost every firmware like all of them. But no law suits that I have seen reports of.
Maybe its because they come without any code or program what so ever att start. And you have to add all that your self,
11-25-2012
01:07 PM
Hell, maybe the even sold that cartridge to the highest bidder.
They know, we don't.
Also why Nintendo is on *Sue* mode now?, they could done that ages ago.
Irony or beyond ridiculous, we don't know 100% sure wtf happened.
Or do we?...
Nintendo just sued some low life importer that ended in Jail for ONE year for 26.000 cartridges.
I see irony, injustice, lack of honesty and dirty business but it's just my point of view.
They put in jail some random reseller when you have thousands all over the globe.
11-25-2012
01:09 PM
It's not illegal to sell hardware that can be used for Piracy, but it is illegal to sell hardware that has pirated code on it at point of sale.
11-25-2012
01:17 PM
But it's also legal to sell TB or any DRM device?...they will not be chased by any company/etc or eventually get sued.
I don't get it.
Any other example of hardware that has pirated code on it at point of sale?.
That's not R4's cartridges.
11-25-2012
01:23 PM
Hardware is hardware and as long as it does not breach any hardware copyrights, it's what is on it at point of sale that makes it a yes or no
11-25-2012
01:29 PM
They bought a game, ripped the code they needed off it. And I said "stole" because they don't exactly steal the code, more like, as said above they pirate it.
11-25-2012
01:30 PM
Post-patent Famiclones:
Now i get it.
11-25-2012
10:37 PM
11-25-2012
10:56 PM
11-26-2012
12:09 AM
http://www.ps3devwiki.com/wiki/Talk:Cex2Dex
http://www.ps3hax.net/2012/07/cex-to-dex-facts/
http://www.ps3hax.net/showthread.php?t=40619
Use google and check how many news i posted and how many of them are 100% speculation and which ones not.
Instead of keep defending yourself.
Refute what im saying, refute that *Evidence* but you are too lazy to make some search here, on google or anywhere.
I said..try HARDER.
Yeah sometimes i *work* on speculation, so what?.
Friendly advice:
Don't push your luck.
11-26-2012
12:59 AM
Time to invest into the acekards
11-26-2012
05:21 AM
People still use R4s?
Investing in a quality card (dstwo, 2i) goes a long way.
11-26-2012
05:45 PM