a new level of piracy for the ds now exists

from: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/port...sxtreme-nintendo-ds-media-enhancer-207963.php

apparently it plays all your roms, backups, and for the 1 or 2 people out there doing homebrew it does that as well; also does mp3s for the low cost of $125. Kinda sad really, especially when its a nintendo product that gets pirated.

 

Unfortunately, the game industry forces devices like this to be created simply to enable the backup of legally purchased games. Piracy aside, the only problem that I have with these devices is the bit-byte mismarketing scheme.

 

No it doesn't. 8 people use these devices for legit purposes. The other million get free games w00t!!!!

 

Not to mentiont they get to cheat on online games, since Nintendo did not include any sort of protection to prevent hacked games to be played on their Wifi net.

It really is annoying to see other players in Metroid Prime flying and being invincible, altough to be honest I have only found cheating players two or three times so far.

 

Ok, so we need to get rid of CDR's, DVDR's, VCR's, DVR's (everything else ending in R's), scanners, printers, copiers, fax machines, ipods and anything that can provide a backup or copy of anything. Just because some people can use it for piracy, does not mean that it should be denied to everyone else.

 

"YOU MANIACS! U FINALLY DID IT!!" *bangs hand on sand, in front of Lady Liberty*

 

I would mind having such an card for my DS, and no not for the backups but for easy playing al my ds games without taking them all with me. However the most people will miss-use this card, but there's nothing to do about it....

 

The game industry doesn't force shit. The desire of cheapskates to rip off programmers is what drives the development of devices like this.

Since the only legal backups are the ones you create yourself, this device doesn't serve any purpose for that one DS owner that wants to backup his games. It doesn't have any way to create a backup copy.

-hl718

 

$129 for 512 mb? That's flipping nuts. Might as well purchase an mp3 player and get your moneys worth.

 

It's America. You're entitled to think what you want. I don't find anything wrong w/ these, I was just pointing out a gaping whole in your theory.

 

Its either PlayYan or that for mp3 playback, and I know a couple of people who want their DS to listen to music, since they want an all-in-one carry-on package. Backups? Bad or good, this is the way of things, nothing beats the price of "free" for most people. Not everyone is a collector like us here

 

The idea of using this forback purposes is somewhat mute since the fact it's not easy to rip your own DS games. I think there is only 1 product on the market so far that lets you do this and its still rather new. Before that only a few who built a special rig could backup games.

So esentualy most people who are using "backups" are just using illegaly downloaded roms from the net, which does not make them a backup anymore & just a illegaly pirated game.

Anyways this is just a next gen flash cart. A few companys are working on them (neoflash, supercard, M3 & G6 staff).

 

don't get me wrong, I myself would like one of these. It would save me from taking along my ipod except for extended trips and i wouldn't have to keep track of all my loose games while on the road. Its a nice idea of a product, but i dislike the fact that it could kill sales and costs as much as a dslite, rather just buy 3, 4, or 5 legitimate games.

 

How is it a new level? If anything it's a new low. Sure it uses slot A, which is convient. But it has built in flash, and its horrifyingly overpriced. You can run DS roms on a 35$ SuperCard just about as well. GBA and DS are the new playstation really. It's evident by their huge level of piracy yet high popularity and volume of games. Makes you wonder how much money they're losing.

 

Right, because theres absolutly no difference what-so-ever in the dvd-r's that I use to copy my home movies to or the fax machine that we use at work to send business contracts and this device that allows me to copy ds roms to but suspicially has no way to actually extract them

Curse Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft for trying to protect their assets by applying copy protection to their media. They really need to start catering to the clumsy people who can't take care of there of discs/cartridges.

 

Isn't this like old news ? You can do all of this with an M3 and they only cost $50 for a 1 gig expandable version. At least the m3 i have here can play movies,mp3,ebooks,gba,nds,nes,pc-engine etc.

 

The M3 costs are 75$USD or more. The SuperCard costs around 35$. Honestly the SuperCard and M3 are far better than this new DS xtreme thing, and cheaper. The only thing is its more idiot proof than SC and M3.

 

Definately getting one of these for myself, or at least something. I like to own my games rather than having a piece of data.

 

I totally agree with you APE. There's just a big difference between having the binary file of a game, and having the original pressed disc or manufactured cartridge. Some people ofcourse, aren't collectors, just gamers. They don't care if it's a bootleg.

 

At least the PSX had a hell of a lot more quality 3rd party titles. I cant think of more than 5 games for the DS that seem worth checking out.
Anyway, i'd get a card like this too for the homebrew and scummvm etc. I too buy the games i play; not because im mister right but because in the psx-days i downloaded everything that came out and sometimes only checked it out long enough to see if it booted. I never played my games so little as then. Now i just buy the few games i play and have a lot more fun.