In the game industry, for the Nintendo handheld game console DS, the appearance of DSLINK card is undoubtedly a disaster. The DSLINK card allows players to download easily for free games from the Internet, rather than buy the legal copy.

Andrew Mclennan from Metaforic Technology Corporation is a British former game developer, who has ever developed games for TV games, PC and NDS platform, and has ever helplessly seen games that he participated in developing to be downloaded in the interne Almost every game he developed had been illegal copied since he engaged in game developing. Flash card can be found everywhere, so players can get nearly all of NDS games only by paying US$10

Andrew Mclennan wasn't the only one annoyed by the situation. r4i had more troubles than him. Since 2008, Nintendo had hard strikes by forbiden burning cards of R4 with the legal methods. It claimed that the useres of R4 burning cards were doing serious harm not only on Nintendo, but also on the third part factories of other NDS developers. In March this year, Tokyo court had admitted the requirement of restriction on R4 burning cards of R4. R4 burning cards had became the illegal existance in Japan in official. It was said that Nintendo would charge on the developing companies of R4 burning

Though the existance space of burning cards in Japan had been limited, they still exist in the grey zone (the position between legal and illegal) in law in some other parts of the world. Flash card itself is legal in term of technology, while the games of ROM format provided to download are obvious illegal, this combine makes it??s difficult to define whether legal or illegal. Nintendo would like to solve the problem from burning cards, the source of the vicious circulation. According to Andrew Mclennan's words, for now, dstt wants to cooperate with Metaforic technology company to get the help on the problem of burning

Metaforic technic company tested the R4 burn card's core and patch etc to run the programm 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 didn't boast that this technology can defend hacking 100%, and he also admitted that hackers have enough intelligence, time and motivation, which might eventually make most security systems cracked. But he hoped that hackers would spend as much tim

Andrew McLennan still needs a lot of time to introduce this technology to fight with the burn card. While the R4 has already existed for many years and there are many sites for people downloading all illegal NDS games over the past four and a half years a In 2007, "The Times" in England had reported that 350 million R4 had been sold. The number must be even bigger till now.

Andrew said their knowledge of R4 is still rather limited and it could break through the official anti-piracy program through upgrading. But he claimed that the skill solve plan of Metaforic technology company had the prvention ability to updating firmware. "The updating of firmware can't break through our protection system though for now we can't say too much about the details."

Andrew Mclennan is making technical effort on preventing the pirate from spreading, but he thinks there is no need to prohibit writable cards by means of law method. He said he respect those people who use writable cards to develop homemade softwars and g He said that the related law in the zone was lacked. It was hard to prove that the circulation of burning card was breaking the law. The forbidden on certain burning card, there might be another new kind of them. Andrew Mclennan agreed on that the problem

New machine type nintendo ds lite series sold in Japan last year are also successively on the market in the occident. At the begining of its selling, all writable cards really can not be used, but against Nintendo's effort, hackers are sure to push a face. Co This is what we call "while the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten." The road of anti-piracy is still very long, and the load is very heavy.