Nintendo Anti Piracy site shut down, now redirects to main Nintendo site - Sensationalist Headlines

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Boy, Mario sure looks mad.

you'd be upset too if you had to see several edgy ROM hacks of yourself where you get guns instead of fireflowers

I mean if I was Mario I'd rather a gun than a short range fire attack. Now if it was a gun mixed with a Fireflower, as in, range of a gun that shoots fireballs, well then.

To be fair they hadn't updated the site since the DS days. I think there were press releases about Nintendo winning lawsuits against R4i sellers It's funny because this didn't cover the fiasco that was the 3DS' rampant homebrew and piracy scene.

They have a Hackerone page now which is probably way more effective for that.

They actually fixed the piracy issue themselves. The whole thing was a monumentally stupid part of how the 3DS handled game purchases from the eShop. It turned out that when you buy a game, it gave you the title key. Think of it as a ticket to play the game. The 3DS didn’t actually check if it was your ticket. So people were ripping title keys and making database websites. For a while there was even an eShop client that just let you download anything you wanted, since all you needed was the title key database. For a long while you were able to pirate games as soon as they dropped on the eShop. It finally got patched in 2018 and the scene kinda faded after that. they never patched this stupidity on the Wii U, it’s still dumb easy to do this sort of thing on there as far as I know

I really really dislike nintendo managing to win a court case here in Spain against the R4i, like what the fuck, if it was like those xbox drive mods that existed solely for piracy (you couldn't run unsigned code) I'd understand it, but a bloody r4??

The DS was by far and away their most pirated-for system. The R4 was the number 1 flashcart.

... And? the point is that the R4 was useful for reasons other than piracy, if we are going to ban things because they can be used for piracy should we just ban emulators?

You do realise that Nintendo and others actually do want to ban emulators? It's a big deal and those of us more in the scene for this stuff are pretty much always afraid that emulator devs are going to get taken down hardcore by Nintendo and the like.

I know, which is why I said I dislike nintendo managing to win a court case against the r4 here, they should have never won that. I was responding to "The DS was by far and away their most pirated-for system", as if that was a justification to banning the r4.

It was though. R4i's and other flashcards are great for ROMhacks and homebrew and all, but let's be honest, what were the vast majority of people buying R4i cards for?

The same could be said of emulators though, just because some people use it for evil does it mean we have to ban it?

There is a difference between 'some' and 'the vast majority'.

Yes, that's what they want. Nintendo hates flashcards and emulators equally.

I know they hate them, but you are acting as if that was a justification to ban them. The problem is that there's a legitimate use for them, and there's no alternative (unless nintendo officially supported homebrew, which is not happening). By this argument it would be reasonable to make custom firmwares illegal, to make emulators illegal, to make jailbreaking illegal, which just makes no sense to me. I understand nintendo wants it to be banned, but we as users cannot accept a justification like that.

The vast majority of emulator users just download roms from some site on the internet. That's technically illegal even if you own your own physical copy of the game. It's only actually legal if you ripped your own personal copy of the rom. Something basically nobody does. So under this logic, what EIREXE was saying is still entirely valid.