To Nintendo’s handheld game console DS, the emergence of writer card is a disaster. It enables game players to download game freely from internet and thus don’t need to buy genuine ones.
Andrew Mclennan of Metaforic Technology Company is an ex game developer in Britain, who once developed TV games, PC, NDS platform, and saw in person that his developed game could be downloaded prior to stepping into retail shop. In 17 years of his game developing work, nearly every style game has been copied unlawfully. Traces of DSTT are spreading around the world, players could play almost all NDS games only costing 10 dollars
Andrew Mclennan is not the only person who becomes crazy for this, r4 adapter should have bothered his head about this than him. In 2008, Nintendo once stroke out on his own, using legal means to force against the rampant burning card R4, with the statement that R4 burn card has caused very serious loss to not only Nintendo, but also the third-party vendors developing games for NDS Tokyo court granted Nintendo's request for R4 DSLINK's injunction in March this year, and the R4 DSLINK was defined as the illegal presence in Japan. It is said that Nintendo will also look into the R4DSLINK developing companies and defeat them completely
Though with less room to survive in Japan, R4 writer card continues to exist in twilight areas of other places throughout 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. Of cause, acekard definitely want to source from the vicious circle – burn cards to address this issue. According to Andrew McLennan’s words, Nintendo now wants to cooperate with the Metaforic Technology Inc, hoping the company on a global scale to h
Metaforic Technology Inc has detected R4 kernel and patch used to run ROM of the NDS games. It can be understood that Andrew Mclennan can't say too much about the developing skill against game pirate for now. The explaination on the concept of the skill is "We will put a set of safety program into NDS game ROM so that each game would have the in
Andrew Mclennan never exaggerates the 100% effect to prevent hackers by the security technology, and had to confess that hackers will finally be able to crack most of security systems if enough time, intellect, motion allowed. Nevertheless, he hopes hacke
Andrew McLennan still needs a lot of time to introduce this technology to fight with the burn card. While the R4 has already existed for many years and there are many sites for people downloading all illegal NDS games over the past four and a half years a The Times reported in 2007 that 35 million flash cards R4 had been sold. The number must much larger now.
Andrew said that their knowledge of R4 disks is still very limited; and for the official anti-piracy security technologies, R4 can continue to crack them by upgrading its firmware. But he stated that Metaforic Technology Inc’s technology solutions have the ability to prevent firmware upgrade, “The firmware upgrade can not break our protection system, even though we can not disclose more details.”
Although Andrew Mclennan is making efforts to prevent the rampant piracy from technical, also they thought there is no need to use legal means to cut off DSLINK cards, and gives respect to those who only used R4 to develop home-made software and self-made He added that presently law in relative areas is also absent, so it is difficult to prove the circulation of burning disks is illegal. Today prohibit one burning disk, maybe tomorrow a new disk will emerge. Therefore, Andrew agrees to apply technical meth
The new type DSI of ds tt card series which released in Japan last year has come into European market gradually. At the beginning of its releasing all the burn cards can't be used. However, against the efforts of Nintendo the hackers didn't give in, the Bearing mind that the more illumination, the more temptation, it appears that the road of anti-piracy is still a long way to go.
