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 ...

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 ...

It has been confirmed that the recent High Court ruling that illegalised the R4 DS card in the UK has also illegalised a number of other devices designed to perform the same task on Nintendo’s ...

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More details have emerged from the High Court ruling that R4 cartridges have been banned in the UK. Eurogamer has obtained a copy of the High Court of Justice Chancery Division's judgement in favour ...

A newspaper report suggests that in North America approximately 90 percent of DS gamers are now using the notorious R4 piracy chip to get their illegal fix of hand-held gaming. “The implications are ...

Japanese authorities have finally implemented an import ban on R4 cartridges, devices used to play pirated games on Nintendo's DS handheld. A sales ban was issued for the cartridges three years ago, ...

Having enjoyed a tremendous launch in Japan over the weekend, Nintendo’s 3DS has already received its first bit of bad news – hackers have got the R4 piracy device up and running on the handheld.

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 ...

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 ...