I buy my games.  Sometimes to my dismay (point in case Spore where I got burned for buying instead of stealing it) even.  But I don't see why they want to ban things like this, or actually have sadly banned here in the US, that have a whole side to it that provides more features and a platform for people to develop for.  Yes, there will be people that feel the need to download and play games that they do not own, but why do we always punish the masses for the few?  I modded my original xbox back in the day because I needed something I could play while traveling back and forth from the hospital a few hours away while my daughter was there.  I slapped in a 250GB HDD into it, and then copied over most of my games.  I tossed on a few tv shows and a bunch of music just to top it off.  That mod also enabled me to use the xbox as a media center extender, as well as for streaming feeds from either a PC or the internet.  Funny how many of these additions were or, as in the case of downloading a game to the HDD (mostly), are added to the Xbox360.  They saw what people wanted, and they added it.  Sony saw people doing this with the PSP as well and made some changes.  I had my original PSP modded to play t he games I owned because I was tired of the crappy disc cases breaking with normal use (the clear cover falling in) and rendering my favorite games useless.  So I had the old one modded and had those games put onto a memory card.  Now they are meeting at least half way and letting you purchase full PSP games online, and then download them to your memory stick for on the go.  Same with PS1 games (though I wish they would hurry the heck up with that.  That's my rant for now, I'll be back later with some more. 

Jeremy Powers, aka Zen

Why doesn't Nintendo do what Gametap does, where you can pay so much a month and download whatever games you want?

--- Official Protector of Videoland!

i honestly don't get this whole mod chip shpeal.

its like saying Nero is there specifically for me to pirate DVD's and video games.

it is NOT, and never was. (for those who don't know Nero is a handy program for burning CD's, DVD's, and backing said material up. it also allows you to burn DVD files to a DVD player readable disc.)

i don't mod chip, as it causes more harm than overall good, but i also find region locking shit then sealing games/movies to one area is stupid and annoying.

companies need to step up and just sell their stuff internationaly and stop licensing them between other companies.

IMHO its held a lot of good games from the markets outside of the home country of certain games.

like the A.C.E (Another Century's Episode) series of games for the PS2. it can't and won't make any other markets outside of japan just because of its use of a multitude of various anime mecha (Things from Aura Battler Dunbine, to Gundam 0083, on up through Macross plus) personaly i learned of the games while i was stationed in japan, and i fell in love with it. Ran out after duty on the release day of A.C.E 2 just to grab a copy even, and bought a japanese PS2 just to play it on.

Or it coyuld be that they haven't released a decent DS game in a very long while. Poke'mon doesn't count.

I've had some form of the gameboy/DS since the Gameboy color was released. However, with the advent of the DS,  my handheld game purchases declined signifigantly. I had around 30 gba/gb games. I have 3 DS games.

My R4(among other things) lets me screw around with embedded programing in a strange structure though... not that I can get anything useful working.... I can make the screen flash!

The problem is they want to "protect" every kernel of "sand" in their hand and that leads to poor business practices and dispositions, so what if some "steal" from you they are only doing so because its popular if there was not as much fame and profit there would not be any nibbling from the gray sector.

Nin should embrace it and sell roms and stuff as cheap "one off" downloads that way if its lost it can be easily re bought that would bring a influx of so much profit it would not matter if you have 15-30% not buying in because you just effectively made millions out of nothing!

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Sadly, all the fuss about the 'legalisation' of mod chips in the UK was shortlived. The full judgment in the Higgs (Mr Modchips) case showed that modchips are still unlawful in the UK. It was just that the prosecution put forward a bad case in the original trial.

The R4 would also fall within the prohibtion, as set out in Higgs, as would Datel's Freeloader. Nintendo have a patchy record about pushing these cases though. Sony have a much more pro-active record when it comes to pushing ELSPA into these cases.

...Wait, 14 pounds? Why have I only seen them marked at $40, at the least?

Freaking Amazon.

I feel the R4 chip is a great advancement, piracy is a good thing - for every 1000 titles that the gov manages to stop, only 1 extra legal puchase IS MADE. The modchip is a brilliant invention.