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MDMAlliance on 23 June 2013
LemonSlice said:
acdcste said:

The only people who buy these things are the people who will never ever pay for a game, thus hurting the very companies they "support".


So not true...

Having all my DS games on a single flashcart with me is very, very convenient. Add to that backing up/downloading saves, cheats, quicksave, undubs, fan translations, homebrew... many many awesome things that a flashcart can enable.

Also when my DS got stolen, I was very glad I lost just the flashcart instead of many of my games on cartridges.


With the exception of cheats, undubs, and fan translations (not including homebrew because you can't even do that on 3DS yet), the 3DS already has a way for you to do some of these things.  eShop download to have them all in one place, back-up just came around, and there are a lot of games with the quicksave function now.



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Mnementh on 23 June 2013

Didn't know, that there was a working flashcard for 3DS.

And for all the people who say this is good and 'blah piracy blah': I used a flashcard on DS for homebrew. It brought me an application for taking notes, a decent mobile music-player besides other stuff. And look what the 3DS has now built-in: a decent music-player and an application for taking notes. Where did Nintendo had it's inspiration? They probably wanted to reduce the desire for flashcards. Homebrew is a good thing.



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aikohualda on 23 June 2013
thismeintiel said:
Not sure why this is news worthy. With every FW update, flash cards have been disabled. Of course, it only takes the hackers a matter of weeks before they have bypassed the security, again. I should know, I have one. Mostly just for emulating old systems. It's awesome playing the classics on a handheld, lol. Got my PSP hacked for the very same reason.


i sometimes kick myself for leaving my psp halfway around the world... i prefer playing final fantasy on my psp....



 

Turkish on 23 June 2013

Hopefully another, better flashcard will emerge. Im sick of Nintendos regionlocking, why cant I play American or Japanese games on my Euro 3DSXL, its ridicilous, Nintendo needs to fix this shit so we dont have to rely on flashcards.



DieAppleDie on 23 June 2013

i support anti piracy policies, cause piracy destroys the industry, is that simple



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Scisca on 23 June 2013

The moment a working flashcard is released, I'm getting the 3DS. I hate cartridges on handhelds, so I used a flashcard on my DS to have all my games with me the whole time without having to carry an additional bag for the games. That's also what I love about the Vita - all games are available in the PSStore. The only thing I need for Vita now is a 128 GB memory card ;)



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Spazzy_D on 23 June 2013
MDMAlliance said:
LemonSlice said:
acdcste said:

The only people who buy these things are the people who will never ever pay for a game, thus hurting the very companies they "support".


So not true...

Having all my DS games on a single flashcart with me is very, very convenient. Add to that backing up/downloading saves, cheats, quicksave, undubs, fan translations, homebrew... many many awesome things that a flashcart can enable.

Also when my DS got stolen, I was very glad I lost just the flashcart instead of many of my games on cartridges.


With the exception of cheats, undubs, and fan translations (not including homebrew because you can't even do that on 3DS yet), the 3DS already has a way for you to do some of these things.  eShop download to have them all in one place, back-up just came around, and there are a lot of games with the quicksave function now.


3DS can do DS homebrew, just nothing that uses the 3DS capabilities.  He also mentioned DS games, not 3DS games, which you can not download via e-shop.  I agree the 3DS already has many of the advantages of the card.  I might like the idea for a 3DS flashcart at some point because of the region locking on the system, but as I can download games via e-shop and because Nintendo is doing a great job at localization, I'm not worried about it.  I'm glad they blocked this cart, becuase I know that 95% of the people that use it are using it to pirate software.  Still glad I have my DS cart though.



orniletter on 23 June 2013
Scisca said:
The moment a working flashcard is released, I'm getting the 3DS. I hate cartridges on handhelds, so I used a flashcard on my DS to have all my games with me the whole time without having to carry an additional bag for the games. That's also what I love about the Vita - all games are available in the PSStore. The only thing I need for Vita now is a 128 GB memory card ;)


You can buy almost every single game from the eShop (like on the Vita, without those overpriced memory cards)



MDMAlliance on 23 June 2013
Spazzy_D said:

3DS can do DS homebrew, just nothing that uses the 3DS capabilities.  He also mentioned DS games, not 3DS games, which you can not download via e-shop.  I agree the 3DS already has many of the advantages of the card.  I might like the idea for a 3DS flashcart at some point because of the region locking on the system, but as I can download games via e-shop and because Nintendo is doing a great job at localization, I'm not worried about it.  I'm glad they blocked this cart, becuase I know that 95% of the people that use it are using it to pirate software.  Still glad I have my DS cart though.


I know, I was just referring to the 3DS games and capabilities.



cunger on 23 June 2013

I never really got the whole thing about roms being ok because it allows you to legally back up your own games. Serioualy?  It just sounds like a BS excuse to justify the existance for roms. I've never broke a game in my life and if I did and it was a cherished game I'd probably just rebuy it to play that game the proper way off a genuine game.