In the game industry, for Nintendo's DS handheld game console, the burning disk is no doubt a disaster. Burning disks allow players to easily download games from the internet for free, rather than buy originals.

Andrew Mclennan of Metaforic technic company formerly was a British game developer. He has developed games for TV game, PC and NDS flat, he also helplessly watched the game which he participated developing hasn't yet come into market but can be downloaded He worked on game developing for 17 years, and nearly every game was illegally copied. Writable cards exist all over the world, and just only 10 dollors can make game players freely play almost all NDS games.

Andrew Mclennan is not the only game person who feels crazy about it. nintendo ds lite should be more nerve-racking than he. In 2008, Nintendo once stroke out on his own, using legal means to force against the rampant burning card R4, with the statement that R4 burn card has caused very serious loss to not only Nintendo, but also the third-party vendors developing games for NDS In this March, Tokyo Court approved requirement by Nintendo to deliver injunction of R4 DSTT, which made R4 DSTT as unlawful existence in Japan. And it is said that Nintendo would claim to R4 DSTT developing companies, in order to destroy them thoroughly.

Although living space of writable card in Japan becomes small, it still exists between law grey area (between legal and illegal) in other districts of the world. Burn card itself is technically legal, but downloading the game ROM is clearly not legitimate, so a combination of both is difficult to define. Of course, acekard 2 wants to trail to source of the vicious circle---writer card. According to Andrew Mclennan, Nintendo now seeks to cooperate with Metaforic company in a bid to solve the R4 writer card problem in the globe and even take suit of what

Metaforic has detected the kernel and patches of burning disks R4 that are used to run the program of NDS game ROM. We can understand Andrew Mclennan now could not disclose too much about developing anti-piracy technology, and fortunately that there are explanations about this technique concept, "we would insert safe program into NDS game ROM, which can make every game

Andrew Mclennan never exaggerates the 100% effect to prevent hackers by the security technology, and had to confess that hackers will finally be able to crack most of security systems if enough time, intellect, motion allowed. Nevertheless, he hopes hacke

But Andrew still needs a long time to come up with the technology while R4 has existed for many years and countless websites throughout the world could download all illegal games in the past four years. In 2007, British Times reported that 35 million R4 disks had been sold. This figure must be even bigger up to now.

Andrew said that their knowledge of R4 disks is still very limited; and for the official anti-piracy security technologies, R4 can continue to crack them by upgrading its firmware. But he declared that Metaforic's technical solution has preventing ability against the upgrading of firmware: "The upgrading of firmware cannot breakthrough our protecting system, though we cannot disclose more details right now."

Though Andrew is trying to stem anti-piracy wave through technological efforts, he think it is unnecessary to ban R4 through legal measures. He even say he respect those who only use writer card to develop software and games, though there are only a small He adds that currently the laws in relevant areas is vacant, therefore, it is difficult to prove that the circulation of DSLINK card is a violation of the law. Today, we forbid a DSLINK card, maybe the next day there will emerge a new kind, so Andrew Mcle

New series of dstt game consoles released last year in Japan are now on sale in western market. And writer cards are indeed inapplicable to them at their initial sales. But facing Nintendo??s efforts, hackers refuse to cave in and now writer cards There is still a hard slog lay ahead for Nintendo??s anti-piracy struggle.