The R4 Revolution is an adapter to connect a Nintendo DS with a flash memory card

The R4 Revolution is an adapter to connect a Nintendo DS with a flash memory card. It is easy to use and opens a great potential for the handheld. Although this is an accessory for Nintendo hopes stays firmly on the shelves this Christmas.
Despite the many just uses of the device, Nintendo are only concerned with one. Is a use not see advertised in the stores where they sell for less than the cost of a single DS game. The fear is that the device allows piracy of video games.
Video games piracy is fairly common on systems that use media available to consumers in the form of writing. This includes PC games copied from original DVD to a recordable disc. A little harder to pirate console games are games ranging from DVD. The disc can be copied in the same way, but the hardware must be modified to circumvent the mechanisms to combat piracy.

The Nintendo DS is a system that so far free of piracy due to the use of cartridges that can not be written in the products on the market. On the other hand, flash memory cards are easy to write and R4 Revolution Nintendo DS allows to interact with a flash memory card, thereby allowing piracy.

As with the advocates of illegal music downloads, video game pirates claim that they are charging too much for games, with many games reworks of existing titles from older systems and blame corporate greed. Opponents defend themselves by arguing that the number of hours of entertainment with a set of balances costs.

Nintendo is expected to fight piracy by improving anti-piracy technology on cartridge. More likely is that a few months later the pirates have found a new way to avoid this. It is largely an ongoing battle.

The legal issues surrounding the R4 Revolution were subtracted from the most honorable reasons to buy the device. Makes possible the use of unofficial software does not infringe copyright. This is the type of software that is taken for granted in personal computers. When a Dell PC is purchased, the consumer is not only arranged the use of approved applications by Dell.

Under the current market, the software for the Nintendo DS is only produced by large organizations, if they believe they can recover heavy costs of production, publication and distribution. This leaves no useful application, but applications are not as profitable. For example, a translator or a word processor handwriting recognition circulating on the DS would be useful, but not enough to become a profitable company. Using a device like the R4 Revolution these possibilities open.

Besides this, the applications to be popular in the open market, but have not been developed by the main producers are available for download and play through an R4 Revolution. Some of these allow the DS to be used as an MP3 player, PDA or even a mobile phone (using VOIP technology to support the connection of Nintendo DS Wi-Fi).

Another possibility opened by the R4 Revolution is the ability to have all the software that belongs to a DS owner stored in a single piece of media. This allows users to switch between games and other applications without the need to change cartridges, ie there is no need for separate cartridges around with the DS.

Software produced independently of large manufacturers adds great value to personal computers and mobile devices. The possibility of this for the Nintendo DS and other handhelds is intriguing. Although most discussion on the R4 Revolution is currently about piracy issues, it should be noted that the device has many legitimate purposes related to the purposes of CD / DV