After being stolen from a Chinese factory and torn apart for the world to see, according to this Chinese website it seems that the parties involved in the theft have already hacked the Nintendo 3DS and granted it the ability to play ROMs (pirated nintendo 3DS games that you can freely download from the web).

It’s still only a rumor, but it would ve very sad after all the efforts Nintendo has made to try and make the console unpirateable.

The original handheld had a huge problem with piracy so let’s hope that this Nintendo 3DS hack can be patched with a firmware update as soon as the console is released.

What do you think about this new Nintendo 3DS hack? Will the japanese company be able to stop the inminent avalanche of Nintendo 3DS pirated games?

http://www.bestnintendo3dsgames.com/?p=126

Original article is from here.

http://www.gamrade.com/article-523-1.html

That didn't take very long. Poor thing didn't even make launch before it was opened up to piracy.

well. this is to be expected.

look at DSi, hacked before launch. Nintendo doesn't care at all, not when it helps boost hardware sales.

Has nintendo done ANYTHING to ease piracy on DS platform? don't be surprised if the trend continues

We will see 5 weeks from now, but I think this is just a rumor. 

....HAS NINTENDO DONE ANYTHING AGAINST PIRACY? Are you serious? (I find king of wale posts funny as hell, namely after his horrible prediction of epic mickey, it is funny he quotes horrible predictions...since he himself made one.)

They have created games so that they would not work on flash carts but those were quickly fixed and made to work on them.

Other than them tracking down resellers and such I am not sure if they have ever found a way yet to stop it.

Pretty much huge conquest to get things at the source, which has worked, since a lot of stores have been shut down, but the problem will always be the wonderful nation of china... and how companies can really do nothing against anything. 

Getting the resellers hasn't really stopped anyone. For a while it was thought that they defeated the creators of the R4 but it turns out that they did not.

It is hard to do so when these flash carts do not ship with the firmware on the chip.

True or not, it´s inevitable....there´s no light at the end of the tunnel for the console makers, they might win some battles against piracy, but not the 'war'.

Yeah I was surprised by that too, but I can not find any at the moment.

R4 while the most popular is the weakest and slowest in my eyes. It takes forever to update when new games come out with new methods....(months), compared to other flash where it takes 1-2 days. 

''...granted it the ability to play...pirated nintendo 3DS games that you can freely download from the web''

Err WHAAAAAAT!?