Interview: Combating Flash Card Piracy On The DS

Not sure if this is the correct section to post this.Interview with Andrew Mclennan, CEO of U.K.-based Metaforic, regarding MetaFortress a new anti-flash card system.http://gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=23529Some more info about what MetaFortess does http://metaforic.com/content/default.asp?page=s10Sounds serious :(Edit: Found out some more info about this here http://www.bestsecuritytips.com/news+article.storyid+681.htmThis is obviously not just for DS roms but can be applied to any software. The plot thickens.

In the defense of the free software movement...YOU'LL NEVER GET US! MUAHAHAHAHA! ;D

^Lol. Not 100% complete yet.

Well, this may suck. I have 1000's of hours of unplayed games stored for a rainy day anyway. When this is about to come out, the scare will get me seeded like crazy! lol ^.^

Either way it goes it might slow things down, but it won't stop it. there is always a way around things. puts me in mind of that "Fade" programing they talked about some years ago that when you burn a "copyrighted" Cd after time the programing fades to where it will not work anymore...so far I haven't seen it happen yet, think it was more of a scare tactic than anything.

i have like 300ish ds roms on my computer... and i have had my R4 for about a month.... so im not very far in any of the games... even if this did stop the piracy in the near future... i still have lots of games to work through :P

Replying to #6

Don't worry, it won't stop piracy.It will be a laughable speed bump. Much like SecureROM, etc. This article is merely some company trying to sell their cool new protection software.

the harder they try, the more resources are spent on making these so-called anti-piracy systems. unfortunately for them it's not exactly well-spent money. their intention is in the right direction, but come on-they can't stop this many hackers around the world like that

thats good... that would suck if it actually did work and they put it in Loz: ST.... :o

This is such bS. HAHA dude really thinks he he can make people believe that....

Replying to #10

The company has just recieved a two million dollar investment, this is no joke.The thing that puzzles me is why an announcement, normally new security measures are not spoken of. They must feel very confident that this works.We will know soon enough ->
http://www.darkreading.com/security/app-security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212300341&subSection=Storage+security

how would nintendo get the protection on there?
would they introduce a dsi update on the dsi that detects any games that don't have the metaformic data stored onto the card?
can't we just not use an update if that happens?

Replying to #12

They can't do that because none of the existing games have it so it would totally break compatibility with existing games.

Penguin360 · #12how would nintendo get the protection on there?

The only thing I know about Nintendo's intentions regarding this new security is that by December it will be used in new roms.

this is bad :/

This will probably be like Spore's "un-crackable" copy protection which was broken before its release... :P

haha nahh im not worried i may not know much bout hacking gfames but i suspect this is just a trick to scare us besides why else would they announce it so every hacker in the world can see it
anyway for all we know it could be cracked easily i say their wasting money

I'm not too worried.1.While I wouldn't hold my breath-people will crack these.2.There are plenty of roms still up for grabs :D3.I buy most of the up and coming games anyway-hence why I don't do those security patch required games-too much trouble XD

I'm not bothered by this. There's more hackers and flash-card users, and they're increasing. We'll find a way...if they ever can attempt to try and stop the rom piracy.