Nintendo’s new 3DS gaming device has only been available in Japan for a few days and hasn’t even started shipping worldwide as yet. But a few inventive hackers have already been able to modify the ...

The DS family of systems has long since been replaced by the 3DS, but almost as an ironic tribute to the slowly grinding gears of legal systems, Nintendo and around fifty other companies have just ...

3Ds has only been on sale in Japan since yesterday, and supposedly it has already been "hacked" to use R4 cards. According to a tipster of D'toid's, a YouTube video has been posted showing an R4 card ...

It looks like Nintendo’s 3DS isn’t having trouble finding buyers in Japan. According to Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun (via Andriasang) gamers essentially exhausted Nintendo’s initial ...

The Tokyo District Court has issued a ruling making sales of the R4 card, a device that enables the DS to play homebrew and pirated games, illegal. Last year Nintendo and 54 other companies filed a ...

In an attempt to thwart rampant piracy of their Nintendo DS line of video games, Nintendo has been combating the use of the R4 card and other methods of pirating for years. Finally, Nintendo has seen ...

R4 cartridges, which allow Nintendo DS users to play pirated video games, can no longer be sold or marketed in the UK The High Court has ruled that R4 cartridges -- which enable Nintendo DS users to ...

R4 game cards are essentially blank cartridges designed for the Nintendo DS, allowing users to load homebrew software onto their DS systems. These cards have also been widely used for pirating ...

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