3DS to Stop Piracy In its Tracks.

It hasn't even come out yet. The 3DS is coming out in EU on March 25th and in the US on March 27th. I can't wait! I am going to take the entire weekend off just in case GameStop has a midnight launch which they might...

 

I think it's kinda odd: isn't it that most games come out in EU like a month after US? THen it's kinda odd that they get the 3DS 2 days before

 

It's a system. I don't mind. In the US, Nintendo usually releases games and consoles on a Sunday. For every game I've bought in the past 3 years, it's come out Sunday.

 

I wasn't saying I was upset EU got the 3DS before us, that was just a curiosity that I found, given the regular trend.

 

I know what you mean. It usually goes: Japan, US, EU on average.

 

About the sheer-size issue... couldn't pirated flashcarts be programmed to take in compressed games, and decompress them when activated, and re-compress when finished? Just wondering... I found that kinda logical to combat the "huge-data-size" issue worrying people about 3DS games.

 

3DS games will just be big. People who worry about it apparently aren't people who pirate for the Wii, 360, or especially the PS3. Game sizes aren't small for the most part, and there is no special way that the systems can read the game to make downloading any easier.

tl;dr If you have a small download limit, you're boned.

 

The thing is, there's no system to even start the conversation here.

For all we know flashcarts might not even work. Granted they work, compressing and decompressing games at will sounds like it's beyond a flash cart's ability - especially considering the size of the games. Maybe run compressed roms in winrars, but that's about it. If we're talking a PC, sure. Snap a finger. This is a piece of plastic with some chips. You can't just go lolcompressnowplz.

 

Ok, I know this won't happen. Looking at the graphics, it'd be awesome if you could get something to add extra RAM to the 3DS, then play old games, like Gamecube games, 64 games, etc. Wishful thinking, that's all

 

Gamecube - No.
N64 - yes
adding extra ram is just no

 

Assuming from the screenshots of the games I've seen (namely Dead or Alive.. snicker) I'm sure you won't need extra RAM. Just some fancy emulator or something

 

That'd be EPIC!! And maybe a specially made thing for a kind of jack to make moreof a gc controller, unless there's a way around that...

 

*shakes head* Nintendo is shooting them self in the foot just like many others that have made such claims, I give it 2 months and someone will crack the 3DS. A little history lesson. every time someone has claimed their stuff was unhackable it has been cracked just for the laughs. The PS3 update recently blocked homebrew, what happened? someone made a jailbreak file for it. Nintendo keeps making updates to the Wii firmware that blocks homebrew and tends to brick the systems that have that stuff in them. but that doesn't matter because the people have found the workaround, or if Nintendo has covered that hole someone will find a new one that will either put the hole back or undo what Nintendo's "patch" did.

It doesn't stop. people will always make things do stuff that the thing was never designed to do.

 

Even when it's cracked, I'm still gonna have a few hard copies of games, namely Zelda and KH at this point in time. Thing is, who's gonna dump ROM's and where? We all know it's gonna happen. Plus, a hidden tactic they should've used was to NOT say they're stopping piracy, and then totally confuse hackers!! Haha suckas!!

 

An open tactic they should have used was to open up the system for homebrew development. If Nintendo had done that in addition to including heavy security, I'm pretty sure that the 3DS wouldn't have been cracked for a looong time.

 

People would've found a way that the games would have some sort of homebrew "signature".

 

You misunderstand me. A lot of hacking teams, Team Twiizers, for example, hack systems for the purpose of giving people the tools to develop homebrew and are very opposed to piracy. If Nintendo, or any company for that matter, would let homebrew be developed from the get-go, a lot of good hackers wouldn't attempt to crack the system.

 

You're too hopeful, there's always going to be the type who want to play free games. The best way for Nintendo to combat piracy is to make the system hard to crack, or even delay the crack. It's impossible to make an uncrackable system, the best option for Nintendo is to make it take a long time to make a crack.

This is an interesting read for anti-piracy measures. There's no way to prevent piracy and often delaying the piracy would be the best course of action.

 

my question is, why spend the money to produce antipiracy when it is going to be broken. It just creates a money pit.

 

Delaying crackers is a good and the only way in directly effecting piracy, most people who pirate are impatient to wait for a crack, thus if they really want to play it, they'd buy it legit.