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juaifan
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 Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 5:20 pm
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Nintendo does not hold back it seems.
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ChrissyC
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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 6:17 pm
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What an insane company.
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Green1012
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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 7:02 pm
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Tbf the reason he got caught was selling the modified consoles online. Even here in the USA you can get in trouble for that.
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BadNewsBlues
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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 9:50 pm
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| juaifan wrote: | | Nintendo does not hold back it seems. |
| ChrissyC wrote: | | What an insane company. |
Blame Japan for having such weird laws.
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Piglet the Grate
Joined: 25 May 2021
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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 10:48 pm
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| Joanna Cayanan wrote: | | ...on the suspicion of welding modified parts to the circuit board of second-hand Switch units... |
Bypassing copy protection or...?
Pretty sure "welding" is a translation error, as one would solder a chip to a circuit board, since either a gas or arc welder would melt all the nearby circuits and set the board (typically a thermoset polymer) on fire.
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JuJuBee
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Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 4:48 am
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This reminds me of a story posted here a while back about the person that was hacking pokemon cartridges to get people tons of pokemon. I can't help but wonder what precisely they were doing in this case, since clearly there was a market for these alterations.
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juaifan
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Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 5:09 am
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| JuJuBee wrote: | | This reminds me of a story posted here a while back about the person that was hacking pokemon cartridges to get people tons of pokemon. I can't help but wonder what precisely they were doing in this case, since clearly there was a market for these alterations. |
I would say play pirated games maybe but I feel there are easier ways to do that.
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FishLion
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Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 9:41 am
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| JuJuBee wrote: | | This reminds me of a story posted here a while back about the person that was hacking pokemon cartridges to get people tons of pokemon. I can't help but wonder what precisely they were doing in this case, since clearly there was a market for these alterations. |
I heard the issue is they were selling switches for the cost of a $200 equivalent but with a ton of free games. According to PC Gamer it was 27 free games.
I do think a fine would have been sufficient but when you are selling hacked consoles with free Nintendo games on a current console I am not surprised the law got involved.
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