Where is it illegal to sell Backup Cards?

As of 11/16/2010:

Europe: 

UK: Illegal

Germany: Illegal

France: Legal

Spain: Legal

North America: Unknown

South America: Unknown

Australia: Illegal

Africa: Unknown

Antarctica: Unknown

Asia: Legal (Duhhhh)

Nintendo wins Australia payout over game-copying device

Add the Continent of Australia to the list where Game backup cards are illegal to sell…

SYDNEY (AFP) – Gaming giant Nintendo said Friday it had won 556,500 US dollars’ compensation from an Australian firm for selling illegal game-copying devices.

Nintendo said it won a Federal Court case against online console and accessory seller GadgetGear over the gadgets, known as R4 cards, which pirate games for its handheld DS system.

“GadgetGear and its directors have now acknowledged that game copying devices infringe both Nintendo’s copyright and Nintendo’s trademarks and that they are illegal circumvention devices,” the Japanese company said.

“As a result, GadgetGear and the directors have agreed to permanently refrain from importing, offering for sale and/or selling game copier devices.”

GadgetGear and directors Patrick and James Li were ordered to pay Nintendo 620,000 Australian dollars (556,500 US dollars) in damages and hand over all its stock of copiers for destruction.

Nintendo said it was mulling further action against other Australian sellers of pirating gadgets, and would use “all means available to it under the law”.

This month, an Australian man agreed to pay Nintendo 1.3 million US dollars in an out-of-court settlement after illegally uploading New Super Mario Bros. to the Internet six days before its global release.

DSbible – Read the Word of God on your DS!

DSbible is a Bible-reading app for Nintendo DS. It includes 4 translations (one of them French) and allows you to read, search, look up, and bookmark verses.

Click HERE to get it.  You know the drill to install it.

Warhawk DS

Warhawk DS is based on a much earlier game released on the C64 in 1986, and is more of a re-imagining than a remake.

One thing that was intended to retain was the ‘old school’ feel to the game, and this is hopefully something has been achieved. The downside to keeping the feel is that those of you brought up on present day games may find this a little difficult?

It is not an easy ride to clear the 16 levels, though a concession has been made for the modern-day gamer in the addition of continues.

To go to the site and download Warhawk DS, click HERE

Your Nintendo DS can be a calculator!

But not just any calculator, it can be a Texas Instruments TI-83!

How do you do this?

Download Wabbit DS from here. Unzip it.

Move the WabbitXXXXX.nds file one level up.

/—WabbitXXXXX.nds

|

|–WabbitXXXXX

WAIT! You are going to need the firmware from a TI-83……but it turns out that the update from TI contains the firmware you need, so go to the TI website and download this update “TI83Plus_OS.8Xu”.

Rename the file to TI83Plus_OS.rom.

Copy this file into the WabbitXXXXX folder.

Now copy WabbitXXXXX.nds and the WabbitXXXXX folder to the root of your SD Micro card.

Put your SD Micro card into your AceKard.

Put your AceKard into your DS and turn it on.

Navigate to and Highlight the WabbitXXXX.nds file and press “A”.

The first time, the system will prompt you for a ROM to load. Navigate to the WabiitXXXXX folder, and select the TI83Plus_OS.rom file and press “A”.

Wait a few minutes for the system to initialize. Now go out and have fun!

Note: The folks from TI want you to know that you can use that ROM as long as you OWN a TI-83…..