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[poppabk]

Probably looking for resellers more than individuals, but doubt they will have any problems scaring the shit out of single buyers also.

 

[MarkMe2525]

I want to purchase one now out of principle. Is Nintendo going to sue individuals for buying a product? I would like to see that.

 

[lordrand11]

I mean if you could still provide proof you owned the games and had receipts pre-dating the purchase I think you’d be fine. The flash cart in an of itself, being reverse engineered, isn’t something Nintendo would generally want to pursue a court case on IMO

It’s no surprise this case is wrapped up in pre-loaded cards. That’s a slam dunk

Nintendo would argue that each individual game has it's own identifying serial hardcoded into it and ergo they didn't obtain a legal copy of their own game and instead got one that's been shared around.

 

[VGEsoterica]

Mod chips, rom dumpers, and flashcarts are all completely legal. As are mod services. If this guy actually did preload his modded Switches with games thats a massive self-own.

A self own of epic proportions. Then Nintendo gave them an out and said “stop or else”…and they just kept going

Reminds me of “When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong”

 

[AJUMP23]

This is how the serve the court order.

 

[Red5]

A self own of epic proportions. Then Nintendo gave them an out and said “stop or else”…and they just kept going

Reminds me of “When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong”

How are they going to sue him while he's based in Saint-Petersburg from what I read?

 

[Northeastmonk]

I still haven’t opened my MIG switch package. I don’t even know why I bought this thing.

Destroy it.

Reminds me of a place we had in town back in the late 90’s. They were advertising modding game consoles for $50, but the worst of the worst is what they sold inside some glass shelves. You’d walk inside and see burned copies of Dreamcast and PS1 games being sold.
They put a switch on my Dreamcast to play imports. You still had to perform a disc swap with a legit game to use it.

I have seen those bootleg NES clones at the mall. They have ROMs of Super Mario Bros being played on the screen too. Feels like a modern R4 for NDS. Yeah, R4 didn’t sell the games in the chip.

 

[Stitch]

How are they going to sue him while he's based in Saint-Petersburg from what I read?

 

[West Texas CEO]

I want to purchase one now out of principle. Is Nintendo going to sue individuals for buying a product? I would like to see that.

 

[ReyBrujo]

have no problem when companies go after those profiting but if they start trying to ruin families over this there are plenty of other options out there.

I would think they aren't going for those individuals unless they were lazy enough to request having them preloaded. In that case yeah, crush them because of their stupidity. The "backup" scapegoat weakens when you add preloaded roms there.

Down here in Argentina for example you can get the MIG from a reseller and then they will tell you where to find a torrent with all the roms. I have seen videos in YouTube that are empty but got a magent link for a torrent to download the roms. And Chinese sellers send you a direct download link. Literally unless you get roms with the card it's worthless.

 

[Musashipan]

Good job Nintendo.
Keep going after those criminals!

 

[VGEsoterica]

NYPD : Special Gamers Unit

 

[digital_ghost]

Time to change my name legally.

 

[Sorcerer]

I understand that these dumpers could cause havok in the second hand market. I wonder if Nintendo wants a list of buyers so they can get an idea of where to look for problems when the affected games start showing up in the second hand market? I mean I don't know if this is Nintendo's problem but it seems it will be when customers buy non-working/flagged games from retail stores like Gamestop, I would think. But I could be offbase here.

 

[cyberheater]

The more Nintendo does shite like this the more folks think that pirating Nintendo is legit. Stupid company.

 

[DeVeAn]

I'm in the minority, but as a life long Nintendo consumer, Wii U burned me. Switch comes and everyone is praising Nintendo. I'm there thinking they want me to re-buy Wii U games on the Switch? Take away my VC collection from progressing into the Switch and want a sub for terrible online? Everyone loves the Switch because they must not have owned a Wii U. I just play the Switch only games and then is collects dust. I'm a SEGA fan and even the Saturn didn't disappoint me or the Dreamcast cut short.

 

[VGEsoterica]

I understand that these dumpers could cause havok in the second hand market. I wonder if Nintendo wants a list of buyers so they can get an idea of where to look for problems when the affected games start showing up in the second hand market? I mean I don't know if this is Nintendo's problem but it seems it will be when customers buy non-working/flagged games from retail stores like Gamestop, I would think. But I could be offbase here.

Nintendo will just outright ban those consoles who buy a second hand game that got dumped and pinged their security measures with the certs. Sadly Nintendo does not care if normal users get caught up in used game sales. If anything I’m sure Nintendo dislikes used sales as they see no revenue

 

[VGEsoterica]

Time to change my name legally.

Super Markio

 

[digital_ghost]

Super Markio

 

[SoloCamo]

Kiss my ass, Nintendo. I bought 3 of them.

 

[Battlesmurf]

I would think they aren't going for those individuals unless they were lazy enough to request having them preloaded. In that case yeah, crush them because of their stupidity. The "backup" scapegoat weakens when you add preloaded roms there.

Down here in Argentina for example you can get the MIG from a reseller and then they will tell you where to find a torrent with all the roms. I have seen videos in YouTube that are empty but got a magent link for a torrent to download the roms. And Chinese sellers send you a direct download link. Literally unless you get roms with the card it's worthless.

I don't know if this is applicable- but I had a friend who was selling (modified cable boxes? satellite dish things?). Essentially, he'd buy (something) from a website, meet with the people, and get them all the channels. I remember him doing it for a few years. One day, he got some legal paperwork- suing him for $100k or something spicy. The (dish/cable?) place had somehow gotten records of everybody that bought (the things) from the website, and said they knew what he was doing with each one. As a kid, it didn't sound legal, but I remember it scared the pants off him and he couldn't afford a lawyer. I think he settled for (less than 10k?).

I don't know that Nintendo is going to go this route, but there have been precedents (especially during Napster time) where companies went NUTS with legal letters and scared a lot of folks into handing over money.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[Astral Dog]

Lucky ones get to see Emio before everybody else