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Soleron on 31 May 2013
MDMAlliance said:
Soleron said:
FarleyMcFirefly said:
People who come up with this shit piss me off. If everybody did this there would not be any quality games.

Firstly, being able to rip, emulate and play ROMs is essential for the long-term preservation of games. 

I think FarleyMcFirefly is talking about piracy.  Especially when the games are just coming out.  If people could just get the games for free and do it easily, people wouldn't buy the games.  This would especially harm games that already don't sell too well, as even more people would pirate it.  People can argue that piracy means more exposure and that it actually helps but there really aren't any solid cases people can use to support that argument.  

In order for this device to exist, a method of cracking the 3DS ROM protection must exist, and a method of loading that into 3DS firmware must exist. Piracy is inseperable from those two things.



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MDMAlliance on 31 May 2013
Soleron said:
MDMAlliance said:

I think FarleyMcFirefly is talking about piracy.  Especially when the games are just coming out.  If people could just get the games for free and do it easily, people wouldn't buy the games.  This would especially harm games that already don't sell too well, as even more people would pirate it.  People can argue that piracy means more exposure and that it actually helps but there really aren't any solid cases people can use to support that argument.  

In order for this device to exist, a method of cracking the 3DS ROM protection must exist, and a method of loading that into 3DS firmware must exist. Piracy is inseperable from those two things.


Well the video I linked seems to show a 3DS cart have ROMs downloaded onto a microSD, slipped into the (presumably) empty cart and play the game (which I hear is an untouched ROM file??).  That would mean all you need is at least one microSD + the cart to accomplish the piracy, because the 3DS ROMs (still encrypted) exist.  

Of course I really have no idea if this is really what's going on with the video, but that's what I'm reading people say about it.



walsufnir on 31 May 2013
Soleron said:
 

In order for this device to exist, a method of cracking the 3DS ROM protection must exist, and a method of loading that into 3DS firmware must exist. Piracy is inseperable from those two things.


Actually like I read it this is wrong. The sd-card has to be formatted to a special format and dumps are already possible. With encryption and signing. No hacking involved (by now). Just a smart way to mimic the Nintendo-way.



WagnerPaiva on 31 May 2013
walsufnir said:
I had one! I sold it to poor people (really) for a low price as I didn't have the time back then. Sold it with a lot of classics like Virtua Fighter 2, Segs Rally, Ultimate Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter Alpha, Tomb Raider and many other classics. I played the hell out of Daytona! I had to buy via XBLA! :) Although it's an arcade port and therefor different to Saturn-version. Had all achievements within an hour! :)


Very cool sir! =D 



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