It's injected several times at certain points. The location of the code will vary from game to game.
Rayder said:I'm wondering if this "new protection" is the reason many of the more decent games are getting pushed back. As if they're banking on the fact that it will actually work to stop (or at least drastically slow down) piracy.
I also wonder if it will prevent cheat codes from working. From what the article says about how the protection works, there's a very good chance it will.
I really hope that good games will start getting released for the DS because of this protection. Of course, the term "good game" is highly subjective. It seems a vast majority of games that people call good are complete crap to me. But you know what I mean.
I hope the hackers don't let us down when this protection starts being used.....if, in fact, any of this protection talk is even real. I don't know about anyone else, but I've gotten way too comfortable with the free-ride on the DS to go back to actually buying games for it. Everyone seems to think the protection will be cracked instantly, but what if it's not? There is the very real possibility that this protection might just destroy our comfortable little piracy party.
Then there's the release list.....will the list suddenly become full of completely unplayable games? Will the method at which games are released to the scene change from the "clean ROMs" to only being cracked ones, complete with useless intros and whatnot? Or will it just become a mess of unplayable games and any cracks will be separate from the releases, ruining the release list as we know it?
Very valid questions, I think.
hahaha! well spokengacktgacktgackt said:I love how loads of users in this thread are all "it'll work this way, it'll do this, this is what will happen" when in reality none of you have a single clue about what it will actually be.
I bet my right bollock that the very first game to come out with this "protection" (if it does ever happen, I'm doubtful it will) will be cracked within about 30 minutes, making all subsequent protected releases crackable within the same amount of time.
It's a case of yet again another company thinking they can get one-up on people who pirate material, the recording industry has been failing for years, the movie industry has been failing for years, the games industry has been failing for years and now it's time for yet another company to try and solve the problem, only to fail miserably.
This won't change ANYTHING. There won't be a big massive war, there won't be any huge problem to overcome, this won't be the end of DS piracy, it's a complete non-story.
EDIT : Just noticed this lovely quote from the man :
He claimed that Metaforic's solution is firmware patch resistant. "There is no firmware patch that they can apply that will stop our protection -- I can't tell you why that is, though."
Yeah, you can't tell us why because you've more than likely just lied through your teeth, not because you've made some magical security routine.
It's possible... Could be someone we wouldn't expect like bill gates or another worldGameSoul said:Ever think one of us is working behind the scenes giving info to the enemy?
GameSoul said:Ever think one of us is working behind the scenes giving info to the enemy?
Rayder said:GameSoul said:Ever think one of us is working behind the scenes giving info to the enemy?
The "enemy" doesn't need anyone feeding them info, they can come to this site and see everything without ever having registered.
Ever notice on the portal how there is almost ALWAYS 2 to 4 times as many "visitors" as there are registered members on the site? I wonder how many of those visitors are what you called the enemy.
Now, this extreme amount of visitors disturbs me on many levels (enemies gleaning info anonymously, server load, every little kid having access to the cheats without registering, etc.) and I suggested to the admin that maybe something ought to be done about it, but they didn't seem to think it's anything to worry about.
1. No. It's using the R4 as the gold standard to stop, but it will affect other flash cartridges too.Antoligy said:Doesn't this mean that only R4 users are affected?
Also, reguarly updated firmware shouldn't be affected too much...
Unless this protection changes for every game...