R4 Cards Banned in the UK.

It is many times said and also on the site of my favorite magazine [N]Gamer, it is too late! Plus, you can still order them on the internet! So, nothing very bad happend....The only bad thing is that the market is corrupt now and some teams have issues like the Ez Flash team.But look on the sunny side! France and Spain still have them, and I would not be confused if you guys name more countries.

hey guys..
i just went on some uk flashcard websites and then i saw that some flashcards are still being sold (including the iedge + r4i SDHC + acekard 2i + acekard 2.1 + dstt + edge).
so these ones are currently not illegal so you can still go and buy these off www.all4consoles.co.uk.
which means you can still get games for free (to test of corse) so get them while you can.
which is good that there is still cards that you can get in the uk :)

I've already got my cyclo, so i'm o.k.

[quote="Kiekoes"][color=purple][b]Oh it is true, almost every child I met with a DS i met, had something like a R4i Hyper Mega Super 1.45 v2.10t or something.
[/quote]it's true i'm also from holland and every friend who has a flascart has a r4(i) i'm happy with my acekard.

Replying to #44

Yoshi2889No it is just that they cannot afford €40,- for a flashcard.
They're not crazy anyway.

And I am gonna be happy with my SuperCard DSTWO when I get it.NO R4 FOR ME ANYMORETHOSE PIECES OF SHIT CANNOT DO ANYTHING BUT CAUSE TROUBLEEDIT: So every friend has a R4 card eh...then you are no friend of yourself.

They said R4. They said nothing about Acekards and SCDS2s.

Replying to #46

markswanExcept that they are banned too.
http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6271374.html
Quote from the article: "As well as the R4 DS, the ruling covers the following: M3 DS, DS One Supercard, DSTT, DS Linker, Acekard, CycloDS Evolution, N5, and EZ".

All are banned.

Replying to #47

Damn.What if you make your own? LOL! Like, fuck with an existing flash cart until it becomes a monster of your own creation? Hehehe, THEN it's legal."Officer, this isn't covered by the law, because this is the SuperAcekard DS Revolution!"

Replying to #48

Actually anything flash cart would be banned, even if your own.Unless you just keep it to yourself and never sell it...like my copies of all the movies.Just because i downloaded and copied everything I once had doesn't mean it's illegal (unless I'm caught, especially if I'm trying to sell XD)

Some people buy the ds(phat, lite,i,i xl) because of the r4. Banning them and making it a bit harder to obtain or keep will probably make ds sales decrease.Post Merge: [time]1281727501[/time]
Found this on gamespot

"Whoa! I can play DS games for free? Wow, tell me more!"Publicizing anti-piracy legal matters and such only promotes piracy itself. Those whom aren't familiar with the devices now are, especially since this article gives a lovely list of such cartridges. If GameFAQs/GameSpot wants to express support of the anti-piracy efforts (as they do through not permitting discussion of carts on the boards), their most potent weapon is the power of shutting up.Pez2k, it's unfortunate that your educational utility of the device is being (supposedly) threatened by those of us that refuse to purchase games at retail. I happen to be one of such people. I don't pretend to have any noble cause for downloading games. I do it simply because I like a free lunch, and I can obtain that lunch without the emotional and physical consequences that would result from, say, actual shoplifting. In regards to consequences, piracy of video games is as much of a crime to me as taking a few packs of ketchup back home from McDonald's.

The reason I didn't buy an xbox360 was the cost of the games ( and reliability ), same goes for the PS3 the PSP and the wii. The sale of DS's, DSi's,DSixl's and the like will be significantly less I'm sure, Nintendo will be shooting them selves in the foot. They should have embraced the idea and worked with them on the flash carts. In all the time I have been using flash carts like the R4 or DSTT I have seen how a lot of the games are quite crap, what I mean to say is a game that has a capacity of say 8mb ( not really thought about the game play here ) and a game with a capacity of say 256mb ( more work involved, better game play) could both be on the game shelf for the same price. So Who is ripping who off? It would have been so much easy-er to have a game download like the MP3 site Napster where you pay a small fee for how ever big or however much better the game was developed, It could have been uploaded to a card that had no removable micro SD card and everybody would be happy.
Any way should you be struggling to get a card try here http://www.mobymemory.com/ .

lol my dad said this ages ago XD i got 1 for my birthday and nones gunna take it out eccept for its self because now i gotta blow into it and my ds like 43 times a day to get it to run its like gunna die :( just wishing it wont :S

People have used R4 in england will find a loophole and start downloading them on emulators on their computers.

Replying to #53

What do you even mean. Most ds emulators are better than the shitty R4.

this happened ages ago and really hasn't had much effect.

Well I'm in the UK and very easily bought a flashcard a month ago. The digital-Gestapo haven't smashed my door down yet.

err when i heard of it about months ago i still see em in normal shops like cash converters and money traders ect like computer shops and market i bought a ttds from money traders

Lol did the england police hunt you down like a serial killer.

-King-Just pointing this out to thatonemexicanguy.

I did not see EDGE there. WHY?!

I didn't even know this was illegal yet I got 2 R4's in the last year without anything happening.