No Canon DSLR timelapse control for the UK, apparently!

Posted at 6:02 pm on Dec 19th, 2008 by macegr

THOSE MOTHERFUCEKRS… HOMEBREW IS FREEDOME, HACK IS FREEDOME!!!!!!!! GIVE US OUR CARTRIDGES!!!!!!!!

Posted at 6:42 pm on Dec 19th, 2008 by xteraco

irreparably damages the DS? You serious? I’m feeling that if it does, then its a security glitch that bricks it in response to the cart. Or its just BS Nintendo UK lawyers come up with.

Posted at 6:43 pm on Dec 19th, 2008 by blizzarddemon

not fair. those cartridges could be used for so many beautiful things. it’s not only about theft. homebrew is wonderful.

Posted at 6:44 pm on Dec 19th, 2008 by g1rlb0t

the thing that pisses me off the most is that they are against homebrew. homebrew is legit and it encourages people to learn to code… if i code a game for the ds i have done nothing wrong, but if nintendo has their say then i should be givin the gas chamber… nazis

Posted at 6:46 pm on Dec 19th, 2008 by xteraco

Never let the brits have any video games. For the same reason we threw all that tea in the water, they should toss their irreparably damaged ds handhelds in the water. Sure the ds would sink faster, and leak more toxins into the water, but it would send a message to Nintendo. (almost didn’t capitalize Nintendo out of spite)

Posted at 7:27 pm on Dec 19th, 2008 by buffalobill

it’s a shame this site does not openly call the “damage to the consoles” bullshit and pass on the crap to the readers.

shame.

Posted at 7:29 pm on Dec 19th, 2008 by gabe

@buffalobill – this is hackaday. Capitalization will not appear on the website. HoWeVeR, If yOu CoPy and PaStE the TeXt into an editor, you’ll FIND how ONE capitalized THINGS!

Posted at 7:31 pm on Dec 19th, 2008 by ngth

but you know what ??
you can still buy them here with free shipping :P
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.15613~r.83188615

Posted at 7:53 pm on Dec 19th, 2008 by D3XTR

This guys mistake was preloading them with roms. He is a software pirate and was dealt with accordingly. however, this does not make the action taken by police okay, they should have only confiscated those carts which were loaded with commercial software. rather unfortunately the device itself is an illegal item under british law.

@blizzrddemon, gabe, the DSTT _DOES_ damage damage the dslite, but not irreparably. On some of the carts the contacts are spaced with a little less precision, due to about half that are shipped being fakes/knockoffs. this causes a short inside the connector slot blowing one or both of the internal smd fuses inside the ds. This is an easy fix. the real issue is that if you look at an authentic ds cart, there are pin centering ‘channels’ to ensure positive placement of the pins on the cart, on flash carts theses ‘channels’ are either half-height or missing entirely. the simple solution is to remove the casing from an official cart and stuff it with the flash cart electronics.

Posted at 8:02 pm on Dec 19th, 2008 by Eric

Ugh, sounds rather unfortunate. Though if it’s illegal there, then I guess he really ought to not be doing that.

Posted at 8:31 pm on Dec 19th, 2008 by Jaymus

Nah, I do illegal stuff all the time. My life would not be complete otherwise.

Posted at 8:52 pm on Dec 19th, 2008 by xteraco

After all, all homebrewers do illegal stuff!

Posted at 9:01 pm on Dec 19th, 2008 by xteraco

Only the very first slot 1 devices could brick a unit

Posted at 9:29 pm on Dec 19th, 2008 by BigD145

“Official statements by the Entertainment and Leisure Publishers Association claim that the hardware irreparably damages the DS handhelds”

Why why why why why do they always have to pad these stories with a lie. If the cartridges are illegal, and even if the law is retarded (which it is, then why do they feel the need to pad on something the discredit their own actions.

How about this, “authorities became concerned when the owner would change into a zombie-werewolf at night and feed on cadavers at the local mortuary”

Posted at 9:48 pm on Dec 19th, 2008 by ffs

I don’t get it. What’s the difference between this illegal cart and the R4 + micro sd that I bought from amazon.co.uk a couple of months ago!?

Posted at 12:51 am on Dec 20th, 2008 by David

The newer Flash Carts are kind of closer to outright illegality since they actually contain code which is a product of reverse-engineering the lockout mechanisms of the DS. Older First-gen Slot 1 cards Really weren’t anything but the IC, and firmware had to be loaded from the Transflash. It might be kinda like how some console modchips are loaded with an open-source BIOS that can’t boot copied games.

But, that’s just what I think.

Posted at 1:47 am on Dec 20th, 2008 by ArtemisGoldfish

The biggest problem with this that I have is that if I brick my DS or my PSP or fry my PS2 then its my problem. I spent a lot of money for what is essentially a crippled system, if I can use homebrew to do what I want then it’s my prerogative. Now i can understand if they were preloaded with roms, that’s blatant piracy, and should be dealt with accordingly, but homebrew is not illegal or breaking of copyright laws its just using something you own to do something it was not meant to do with original software or hardware, since I physically own this thing I should be able to change it break it or mess with it in any way i see fit. If we let them condemn the homebrew scene, then its one short step from being sued for doing home repair, or ordering replacement parts.

Posted at 1:55 am on Dec 20th, 2008 by mykeyFinn

Haha, I got my R4DS simply by getting my cousin to import one from the lovely pirates’ paradise of Indonesia (I’m English), cost me all of £10. Also, British authorities have been “clamping down” on selling these things when you can pick one up easily from amazon.co.uk. I’m thinking that the Establishment will turn a blind eye to corporations violating their own stupid laws (and it is a very stupid law) but kick any poor freelance sod in the arse given the oppurtunity.

And I thought Britain was above all of this DMCA-style bullshit. My respect for the Government is waning.

Posted at 2:06 am on Dec 20th, 2008 by asdfwoo

I bet the guys in the meth lab next door were sure glad the police got those carts off the street. Nothing poisons todays youth more than homebrew!

Posted at 6:49 am on Dec 20th, 2008 by Pouncer

“I bet the guys in the meth lab next door were sure glad the police got those carts off the street. Nothing poisons todays youth more than homebrew!”

LOL

Posted at 6:53 am on Dec 20th, 2008 by xteraco

Well I’m glad to see the police have their priorities in order. It’s not like there are real criminals out there or anything.

Posted at 6:57 am on Dec 20th, 2008 by fsphil

damn homebrew is destroying the world!

Posted at 7:14 am on Dec 20th, 2008 by xteraco

[pouncer] was close, they were actually afraid the kids would grind the flash carts up and smoke them, thus installing the pirate software in their brains!

Then they’d have no choice but to confiscate them surgically. Not like the cart-smokers would miss them anyway, it would make their head easier to hold up, right?

Posted at 7:31 am on Dec 20th, 2008 by Hollister Man

So instead of Nintendo adding a flash drive to the DS and perhaps some decent memory they are going to let their product die off with Intel Atom powered tablet PC’s. Good choice Nintendo, ignore the innovations of your consumers.

Posted at 7:47 am on Dec 20th, 2008 by Neagle

Nintendo is just playing stupid. Piracy made Commodore sell C64 by millions. If Nintendo knew what is good for him it would allow free download of limited crippled trial games and would offer flash carts for free. I would call that *fair use* right.

That would kill the need for the piracy and would be the best marketing ever.

Posted at 12:55 pm on Dec 20th, 2008 by space

well if nintendo just came up with a proper internet browser cart for their DS/lite then this wouldn’t be an issue. Personally I say just ditch their overpriced junky mainboard and roll your own that fits into the existing case. A bonus if you got your DS wet and its an expensive brick.

You can probably buy most of the parts online already, and the DS’s touch screen is a standard part so should be easy to drive.

-A

Posted at 2:57 am on Dec 21st, 2008 by andre

omg! quick! call the police. I have about 2000 cd-r’s that -could- be used to pirate software with.

Posted at 5:29 am on Dec 21st, 2008 by tecNik

“I bet the guys in the meth lab next door were sure glad the police got those carts off the street. Nothing poisons todays youth more than homebrew!” = lulz

Posted at 4:40 pm on Dec 21st, 2008 by Zypher

Sorry but the technology in question was not seized because of piracy, in fact it was alien technology from the future and we could not have it in our world.

Posted at 5:23 pm on Dec 22nd, 2008 by Jack Harkness

Modchips are legal in the uk. Hence amazon selling them.

http://team-xecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47710

Posted at 3:07 pm on Dec 27th, 2008 by anon

the cards dos not damage to the consoles that is what they wont you to think and if you are playing homebrew that is not wrong and in the us you can not get in to trubull for playing homebrew and use the r4 cards they are so much bater.

Posted at 9:04 am on Jan 26th, 2009 by joshua lee

“omg! quick! call the police. I have about 2000 cd-r’s that -could- be used to pirate software with.”

lulz… xD just what i was thinking…

Posted at 12:08 pm on Feb 26th, 2009 by rkr

Hacking is freedom eh ? I guess,when somebody hacks your bank account,the it wouldn’t be freedom anymore,eh?

But i do agree, flashcarts alone do NO harm.Selling them is your business.Why are guns allowed then? (in my country is different – no guns allowed to civilians exceptions taken for those who got some sort of death threats and must hold a licence.period)

I also tried a sony SD card and it loaded my NDS roms in the main menu. I can also get some radio transmissions.I read in another post,another person had similar experience.

Posted at 5:28 pm on Apr 16th, 2009 by ForgetAboutit

ForgetAboutit: weird… I can load all the roms as if the games were original from a local-brand SD card named; Kurac-Pizda (KP)23i …it sells for like 5 EUR.Well i did modify it with Jebemti Mater hack ;)

Posted at 5:31 pm on Apr 16th, 2009 by Whoa

you realize that the Microsoft and the like would love nothing more than to extend this to pcs by locking out and outlawing any non-commercial software. the scary thing is os software and cpu hardware is pursuing just that under the guise of drm.

Posted at 5:56 pm on Apr 16th, 2009 by Mike

hmmm. yep as far as i can see amazon are still breakin the law! and how come the flashcard makers havent been targeted? i have an r4 (amazon) and a cyclo (much better) and nobody came to me in a hurry with the handcuffs. admittedly if he was selling them with the roms thats not so good but if it was homebrew… as many others have explained WTF!

cheap ass government (uk)

Posted at 2:45 pm on Aug 16th, 2009 by deathshells

If they make nds flash cartridges illegal then why not make blank dvd’s and Cd’s illegal too?????? those are the main source of pirating lmfao it would be retarded wouldn’t it??!!! therefore making the ban of flash cartridges RETARDED!!!! anyone who disagrees go pour yourself a big tall glass of shut the fuck up!!!!

Posted at 1:38 pm on Nov 2nd, 2009 by Danny Hicks