Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: vudu on January 31, 2006, 02:19:30 AM
Title: Piracy on DS?
Post by: vudu on January 31, 2006, 02:19:30 AM
Does anyone know the extent of piracy on the DS? Is it as bad as it is on GBA?
It's gotten to the point where you can't even purchase a GBA game off of eBay because over half of them are bootleg copies. Does the DS have this problem yet?
Title: RE: Piracy on DS?
Post by: Smash_Brother on January 31, 2006, 04:40:43 AM
To the BEST of my knowledge, they haven't cracked it yet.
If you do a search on google, it appears they've dumped the roms, but I highly doubt they've been able to replicate and write to the NDS media format.
-SB
Title: RE:Piracy on DS?
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 31, 2006, 07:36:35 AM
There are no pirate carts per se (as in, you can't copy a DS cartridge to a "blank" DS cartridge), but you can purchase hardware to play downloaded games on the DS.
Title: RE: Piracy on DS?
Post by: KDR_11k on January 31, 2006, 08:19:18 AM
Does that even work with real DS games yet?
Title: RE: Piracy on DS?
Post by: vudu on January 31, 2006, 08:22:34 AM
Thanks. I was poking around eBay and I noticed a lot of Phoenix Wright carts being sold from Hong Kong for extremely cheap. With a GBA game that automatically means it's a bootleg, but I wasn't sure with a DS game.
Title: RE:Piracy on DS?
Post by: JonLeung on January 31, 2006, 08:58:59 AM
Quote Originally posted by: vudu Thanks. I was poking around eBay and I noticed a lot of Phoenix Wright carts being sold from Hong Kong for extremely cheap. With a GBA game that automatically means it's a bootleg, but I wasn't sure with a DS game.
Hmm, any mass amounts of products like that from Hong Kong definitely is suspicious. But you do know that Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is a remake of a Japanese GBA game, of which there are already three games in the series? So Phoenix Wright on the GBA isn't automatically not legit if it's using the Japanese name.
Title: RE: Piracy on DS?
Post by: vudu on January 31, 2006, 09:15:54 AM
Yeah, but I was looking at the DS game, not the GBA ones.
Title: RE:Piracy on DS?
Post by: JonLeung on January 31, 2006, 09:38:21 AM
Oh, oops. Misinterpreted your post.
Title: RE:Piracy on DS?
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 31, 2006, 05:49:13 PM
You can play commercial games that way (I read about it, but I don't do it...I don't even own any of the needed hardware), and have been able to for quite some time. DS games are only like $30 usually, it's worth the cost.
Title: RE: Piracy on DS?
Post by: jasonditz on February 02, 2006, 06:55:06 AM
Its not hurting Nintendo's bottom line, however widespread it is. I'd consider it a non-issue.
