Okay, this is great. This means no one gets busted for homebrew, and I guess it means Wiis are free too. What do you guys think, since this is new from last month. PS Maybe someone can sue Sony. ;D;D;D;D
Re: Nintendo Sued for Locking Homebrew Access hm.... I don't see why it would be illegal for Nintendo to block flash carts... The Game Industry has a right to block items and programs that can make their systems to play illegal copies of their OWN games. That is why there are firmware updates and why they gave the DSi upgradable firmware unlike the DS Phat and Light. (this goes for Sony as well with the changing of their firmware almost completely in 6.XX versions). I've never heard of a court system that has supported something like this. The Wii is totally different than the DS/DSi. You have to hack it in order to play games or homebrew. For the DSi/DS Phat/Light, all you have to do is stick a cartridge in and you have homebrew/roms.
Re: Nintendo Sued for Locking Homebrew Access Title is misleading. According to the article you posted, Nintendo was not sued. Nintendo took another company to court over them making devices to allow piracy (and homebrew) and lost the case.
Re: Nintendo Sued for Locking Homebrew Access Hrm...good point. Much agreed, I'd want to protect my software/hardware anyway I can. Sure flash carts ca play homebrew...but what was the original purpose they were built for? Surely adding the ability to play game roms wasn't made out of good faith. They should allow flash carts to play homebrew apps only and not roms... A sad day for nintendo and it's loyal fans wanting to see this company live on another decade
Re: Nintendo Sued for Locking Homebrew Access Correct me if I'm wrong, I understand Nintendo lost a lawsuit, about anti-pirating their games on flash cards compatible with the DS?. ie the R4? something like this the situation?
Re: Nintendo Sued for Locking Homebrew Access Yeah. Nintendo took people to court and they lost a lawsuit over homebrew. The title is misleading. Nintendo was suing the people who had the flash carts, but unfortunately lost....
Re: Nintendo Sued for Locking Homebrew Access well then, hopefully ends not by collapsing nintendo or something. but that they should have been hurt, oooooooooooooof course they yes
Re: Nintendo Sued for Locking Homebrew Access In full agreement with the rest of the folks. The title needs to be changed, as it was the other company on the end of litigation. Think your titles through clearly before you post them.
Changed title. I know this is weird and all, but they lost a court case, so they legally can't block HOMEBREW access. They can block illegally playing games however they want.
But in an ironic twist...the only way to do so would be to block the item in question that plays homebrew as well as illegal games. So according to this case, they can't block any flashcarts.
They can still block homebrew. The judge's opinion means little, it's just why the judge ruled the way he did. They just can't get anything from the company that had the homebrew enabling devices. Their opinions and reasoning behind their decision are not actual rulings. Just because the judge did not rule in favor of Nintendo in their actions against the homebrew device company does not mean that Nintendo has to stop all homebrew blocking methods they are using. Now if the company in question turned around and took Nintendo to court for blocking their devices, and won, and Nintendo was ordered to stop blocking the devices, then that would mean they would have to stop (but that will never happen).
Well..after reading this i want to smile .. P.S... nintendo ds lite and phat cant watch movies,listen music and etc etc....thats y they win the case? the this makes us a little bit even to psp
To that I agree. Nintendo can sue their ass off homebrew and flashcarts, but they will have only 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% win
Yeah, they can. MOONSHELL BAYBAY. That makes me happy. That makes me sad... DAMN I sooooo hoped for ninty to never block flashcarts again. How the hell are they supposed to allow ONE homebrew dev to release programs, but screw everyone else?
I'm very surprised at you guys With Nintendo losing that case y'all should be jumping for joy as teh Pirates won LOL! But, I do commend you guys for seeing this as something that in the long run "may" have bad implications as it "might" lead to game developers deciding to stop developing new games as pirating their games would now sound legit. And to avoid further loses they might just stop altogether. On the other hand, Hoebrew is promising as outside developers have creative ideas that the mainstream companies seem to be drying out as of late.
