Japan arrests Majikon video game piracy suspect

[Lord Killington]

The case involves the sale of Majikon - adapters which accept memory cards containing software.
When plugged into a console's cartridge slot the machine activates a special interface which then allows the user to select which program to run off a SD memory card.
Majikon manufacturers claim the equipment is designed to allow gamers to run home-made software.
However, they have been widely used to play pirated games downloaded from the internet and copied onto the SD cards.

So yeah, the Japanese are arresting people who pirate DS games.
Full story here

 

[Shiny Charizard]

I miss the days where all they did was make hilariously awesome piracy protection like in Earthbound where the enemies were a LOT more common and it froze during an endgame battle which then erased the data...

 

[Lord Killington]

I miss the days where all they did was make hilariously awesome piracy protection like in Earthbound where the enemies were a LOT more common and it froze during an endgame battle which then erased the data...

Yeah, or like BFME where after a few minutes, your buildings would explode, your soldiers die, and you lose the game

 

[DaivdBaekr]

Time to find my Acekard and throw it into the fires of Mt Doom before it's too late.

 

[Shiny Charizard]

Yeah, or like BFME where after a few minutes, your buildings would explode, your soldiers die, and you lose the game

PS: Fire Red saying buy the game or die :3

 

[KinCryos]

first time jump in Chrono Trigger being in an infinite loop

 

[Isil]

or more recently, the super fast, invulnerable pink monster that followed you around in Serious Sam 3

 

[TEhMAn92]

or more recently, the super fast, invulnerable pink monster that followed you around in Serious Sam 3

Beat me to it

 

[SPYderman]

So yeah, the Japanese are arresting people who pirate DS games.
Full story here

How Ironic

 

[AfireAzuaki]

Lol, they can't hunt ALL the people who pirated DS games
:D

 

[DJ Über Space Whale!]

wait, how exactly would they know u have a pirated version? sorry for me stupidity

 

[Isil]

wait, how exactly would they know u have a pirated version? sorry for me stupidity

iunno

 

[Perseus Dash Jackson]

The piraters didn't get around to cracking it yet, that's how.

 

[Lord Killington]

wait, how exactly would they know u have a pirated version? sorry for me stupidity

What it is, is that these Majikon people sell kind of an SD card, which you can plug into the DS to play games you've downloaded from your computer. So you'd know if you were doing it

 

[Xel'Naga]

I miss the days where all they did was make hilariously awesome piracy protection like in Earthbound where the enemies were a LOT more common and it froze during an endgame battle which then erased the data...

I wrote up an article about this a while back.

http://www.thegamingvault.com/2011/12/anti-piracy-throughout-the-ages/

 

[Lord Killington]

- vid -

That level looks a lot like Defiance from UT3

 

[Shiny Charizard]

I wrote up an article about this a while back.

http://www.thegamingvault.com/2011/12/anti-piracy-throughout-the-ages/

..I'd download a bear :|

 

[Lazlo]

I actually know how to pirate DS games liek a baws, I sell em, $10 each in Bathrooms of my school's Cafeteria.