subject: British Game Developer Say About Nintendo Anti-Pirate Road [print this page] In the game business, for the palm game machine DS of NIntendo, the appearace of burning cards was a disaster with no doubt. Birthday Gift Ideas for Ladies The burning cards made the players be able to download free games on the internet easily instead of buying the official version.Splendid!! Travelers all Choose PS Break
Andrew Mclennan from Metaforic Technology Corporation is a British former game developer, who has ever developed games for TV games, PC and NDS platform, and has ever helplessly seen games that he participated in developing to be downloaded in the internet before being sold in retail stores. During his 17 years involved in game developing business, almost every game developed by him had been copied pirately. The burning cards were everywhere all over the world. All players needed to do was spending 10 dollars before they could play almost every NDS game for free.25 The Vices Why You Should Save DSTTi Multimedia Card for NDS and NDS Lite supports sdhc Every Day
Andrew Mclennan is not the only one annoyed, Nintendo should be more annoyed than him. 4gb micro sd card Cutest Accessories of the World Nintendo take legal action to crack down on flash card R4 by in 2008, stating the use of R4 not only damage Nintendo heavily, but also to all of vendors developing games for NDS. In this March, Tokyo Court approved requirement by Nintendo to deliver injunction of R4 DSTT, which made R4 DSTT as unlawful existence in Japan. And it is said that Nintendo would claim to R4 DSTT developing companies, in order to destroy them thoroughly.
Although living space of writable card in Japan becomes small, it still exists between law grey area (between legal and illegal) in other districts of the world. Actually, writable card itself is legal technically, while game ROM downloaded is obviously illegal. Therefore, the combination of this two is hard to define. Certainly, Nintedo definitely want to slove the problem at the source of vicious circle- the burn card. According to Andrew Mclennan, Nintendo wants to cooperate with Metaforic technic company at present and let it solve the problem of burn card worldwide, and even follow the legal method which they used in Japan.
Metaforic Technology Corporation detected kernel and patch of R4 writable card which are programs used to run NDS game ROM. We can understand Andrew Mclennan now could not disclose too much about developing anti-piracy technology, and fortunately that there are explanations about this technique concept, "we would insert safe program into NDS game ROM, which can make every game has its own safe system. Every different game would be a different safe safe system."
Andrew Mclennan does not promise that this technology can 100% protect against hacking, while it has to admit that hackers have sufficient mind, time and motivation, they may ultimately be able to crack most of the security systems, but he hoped that at least the hackers should spend as much the time as possible on the crack, and the best is to make them headache when hackers are cracking the course.
Andrew Mclennan still need long times before the skill can be published to fight with burnning cards. R4 had existed for many years. All illegal NDS games in the past four and a half years can be downloaded on numorous websites in the world. In 2007, British newspaper [The Times" reported that there're 35 million R4 cards have been sold out. Of course, the figure is bigger till now.
What`s more, Andrew McLennan said that their knowledge for all kinds of R4 is still very limited, and corresponding to security system of the official anti-theft technology, R4 can continue to crack by upgrading its firmware. But he asserted that the technical settlement of Metaforic company is effective in preventing upgrading, [it can`t break through our security system through upgrading of hardware, but we can`t uncover too many details by now."
Andrew Mclennan is making technical effort on preventing the pirate from spreading, but he thinks there is no need to prohibit writable cards by means of law method. He said he respect those people who use writable cards to develop homemade softwars and games - although they are only the minority. He adds that currently the laws in relevant areas is vacant, therefore, it is difficult to prove that the circulation of DSLINK card is a violation of the law. Today, we forbid a DSLINK card, maybe the next day there will emerge a new kind, so Andrew Mclennan at last agrees to use technical means to solve this problem, rather than legal means.
DSi, a new type of NDS had been released in Japan last year, and then appeared in Euramerican this year. All of the flash card became useless at first, but hackers surely didn`t surrender to Nintendo`s efforts, launched again another kind of flash card specific to DSi. It can seen that "While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten". Obviously, the anti-pirate road shoulders heavy responsibilities and still has a long way to go.
British Game Developer Say About Nintendo Anti-Pirate Road
