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Offline vudu

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Piracy on DS?
« 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?
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RE: Piracy on DS?
« Reply #1 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.

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RE:Piracy on DS?
« Reply #2 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.
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RE: Piracy on DS?
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2006, 08:19:18 AM »
Does that even work with real DS games yet?
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RE: Piracy on DS?
« Reply #4 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.
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RE:Piracy on DS?
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2006, 08:58:59 AM »
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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.
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RE: Piracy on DS?
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2006, 09:15:54 AM »
Yeah, but I was looking at the DS game, not the GBA ones.
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RE:Piracy on DS?
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2006, 09:38:21 AM »
Oh, oops.  Misinterpreted your post.
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RE:Piracy on DS?
« Reply #8 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.
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RE: Piracy on DS?
« Reply #9 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.
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