It's tricky to broach the subject of mods and hacks on Nintendo hardware, as they can prompt diverse and at times feisty debate. This is in part driven by the severe damage that R4 cards did to the DS ...

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 ...

The Nintendo 3DS has proved a tough nut to crack, but hackers have finally managed to get the system to run homebrew code. Back on December 16, hacker Yellows8 posted images of the 3DS with the screen ...

So, R4 cartridges. These are the devices that allow gamers to circumvent the security measure on a DS to run custom code — often referred to as homebrew — and illegally download copies of games. While ...

What you’ll need is... Presumably you’ve already got a DS or a DS Lite and you now want to know what else you need to get your homebrew on and start your cheap, touch-screen gaming. Unfortunately, ...

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 ...

The R4 doesn't look like much: just a generic Nintendo DS cart. What it does, however, causes Nintendo no small headache. The device, and others like it, bypasses the system's firmware and with the ...

Hello,<BR><BR>I have a 'game' (more of a service) for the DS that I would like to distribute. <BR><BR>There are enough homebrew type cartridges out there but they focus on holding alot of, well, ...

Though both the DS and PSP have become firm favourites in the homebrew content scene owing to the ease in which hackers have been able to crack the systems, products such as the R4 are beginning to ...

&#151; -- Though Nintendo's revamped DSi has been out in Japan since the start of November, Americans won't get to enjoy its new features-including a slimmer profile, a VGA camera, and music playback ...

Ironfall: Invasion, the indie multiplayer shooter for the Nintendo 3DS, has been pulled from the Nintendo eShop following the revelation that it can be used to boot homebrew apps and games. The ...