The Tokyo District Court has issued a ruling making sales of the R4 card, a device that enables the DS to play homebrew and pirated games, illegal. Last year Nintendo and 54 other companies filed a ...

In an attempt to thwart rampant piracy of their Nintendo DS line of video games, Nintendo has been combating the use of the R4 card and other methods of pirating for years. Finally, Nintendo has seen ...

3Ds has only been on sale in Japan since yesterday, and supposedly it has already been "hacked" to use R4 cards. According to a tipster of D'toid's, a YouTube video has been posted showing an R4 card ...

Nintendo’s new 3DS gaming device has only been available in Japan for a few days and hasn’t even started shipping worldwide as yet. But a few inventive hackers have already been able to modify the ...

The infamous R4 card, a device that allows DS owners to play pirated games and homebrew applications, has been successfully banned from sale in Japan. Kotaku reports that the Tokyo District Court has ...

The infamous Nintendo DS 'R4' emulator card and other similar devices have been declared illegal to sell in the UK by a High Court ruling, Develop reports. The R4 device and its ilk allow unauthorised ...

Nintendo has revealed a major breakthrough in its fight against the pirate cards that are wrecking DS software revenues – as online giants Amazon and eBay finally agree to prohibit the sale of the ...

High-fives all around at Nintendo HQ today, as the High Court has ruled that importing, advertising or selling R4 cartridges in the UK is now illegal. R4 cards can be used to download and play ...

It looks like Nintendo’s 3DS isn’t having trouble finding buyers in Japan. According to Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun (via Andriasang) gamers essentially exhausted Nintendo’s initial ...

R4 game cards are essentially blank cartridges designed for the Nintendo DS, allowing users to load homebrew software onto their DS systems. These cards have also been widely used for pirating ...