Nintendo: "Heyday of Piracy" Is Over
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It's like Sony's PS3. They locked and loaded it with anti-modding, yet someone managed to hack it down to the core. Though technically, it took 3 years to crack it open for the first time.QuirkyTambourine said:
Probably because they were only effective against people who swapped and copied disks with friends, who would have to find a photcopier to duplicate it. These days people download instead. Scanners are also better these days. If it cannot be scanned/photographed it will be far too hard to read.Formica Archonis said:
Well Nintendo, you might as well have just said something like "The members of our design team are placing bets on how soon you guys can crack this. Please crack it as soon as you can."
Perhaps Nintendo should have their design team start making extendable bear pokers instead.
Perhaps Nintendo should have their design team start making extendable bear pokers instead.
Explains the black-on-red things that flummox a monochrome copier, but code wheels? With a three-layered code wheel you can either take forever copying each permutation or dismantle the code wheel and copy each layer and make people build their own code wheel, which is a crafts project most people won't bother with.Bad Jim said:
Nintendo, you can't beat Piracy, you can just fuck over your actual paying customers.
Seriously, Pirates will always find a way around your hardware, ALWAYS.
Seriously, Pirates will always find a way around your hardware, ALWAYS.
That is completely inaccurate.GeneticallyModifiedDucks said:
After Ubisoft introduced that 'online DRM thing' it took less then a day (maybe two) to remove it and to make the pirated version better then the brought version. Since of course the brought one had their crap and restrictions on it while the pirated one didn't.
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Much like how pirates will make the 3DS better once they hack it, allowing region free and the like.
Another reason why the PS3 took so long to hack, because it was mostly region free anyway.
Bad call Nintendo. People will now laugh at you for months after your pirate-proof 3DS is cracked faster than you could ever imagine.
Seriously, it always goes like thisTestECull said:
Big Company: Our new product that comes out in 2 months is going to END PIRACY
Some Hacker Bro: HACKED, *****!
Big Company: How is that fucking possible? IT'S NOT EVEN OUT YET!
Some Hacker Bro: Hacker magic.....*****!
Big Company: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!
Will they never learn?
A few notes here:
a) I'm amazed Nintendo finally managed to get me interested in the 3DS, cause the lulz from this and the aftermath are something I'm definitely going to keep track of. Still won't buy one though, cracked or no.
b) I have a sneaking suspicion that not only is it going to be cracked sooner rather than later now, but with them touting that it's a complicated, nigh-unhackable system I will not be surprised if someone does it in the simplest way possible, like paperclip simple (Don't laugh, older PSPs would give you root access if you just clipped off one of the battery's contacts.)
the letter after 'b')Now, I'm saying this for argument's sake, but what if this is just some crazy stunt by Nintendo to maximize first day sales? As what better way to do so than by challenging a bunch of people so they'll get enraged and buy it, if only for the sole purpose of proving it can be done? I'm reading reports that sounds like they're jumping the gun on the release, and, you'll pardon my saying it, but the launch titles don't seem that special (Seriously, Zelda in June?) And it's not like Nintendo wouldn't just phase out the specific loophole with the inevitable 2nd, smaller, cheaper model 3DS (As done with the switch from 2000 to 3000 model PSPs).
Plus, even with the use of flashcarts on the DS/DSi, how much of the established user base actually owns one or even knows what they are at the moment? I'm not trying to justify their use here or there mind you, I just mean if it does get cracked, even by cart this time around, how widespread would it actually get?
a) I'm amazed Nintendo finally managed to get me interested in the 3DS, cause the lulz from this and the aftermath are something I'm definitely going to keep track of. Still won't buy one though, cracked or no.
b) I have a sneaking suspicion that not only is it going to be cracked sooner rather than later now, but with them touting that it's a complicated, nigh-unhackable system I will not be surprised if someone does it in the simplest way possible, like paperclip simple (Don't laugh, older PSPs would give you root access if you just clipped off one of the battery's contacts.)
the letter after 'b')Now, I'm saying this for argument's sake, but what if this is just some crazy stunt by Nintendo to maximize first day sales? As what better way to do so than by challenging a bunch of people so they'll get enraged and buy it, if only for the sole purpose of proving it can be done? I'm reading reports that sounds like they're jumping the gun on the release, and, you'll pardon my saying it, but the launch titles don't seem that special (Seriously, Zelda in June?) And it's not like Nintendo wouldn't just phase out the specific loophole with the inevitable 2nd, smaller, cheaper model 3DS (As done with the switch from 2000 to 3000 model PSPs).
Plus, even with the use of flashcarts on the DS/DSi, how much of the established user base actually owns one or even knows what they are at the moment? I'm not trying to justify their use here or there mind you, I just mean if it does get cracked, even by cart this time around, how widespread would it actually get?