1Emulation announces partnership with ModMyDS.com!

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1Emulation is now partners with a rising online retailer: ModMyDS.com! Formerly known as "GetYourGamesHere", they now primarily deal with the Nintendo DS, but also several other consoles, including the Nintendo Wii. ModMyDS sells flashcards, modchips, accessories, and all the other items that us emulation fans love to purchase. Their services are very secure with 256bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) security (industry standard) and they accept all major credit cards through CardService International and PayPal. Buyer reviews have also been flawfless so far on ResellerRatings.

 

 

ModMyDS.com is an online retailer for video game related items located in North Texas. Our product line consists of M3 Perfect, Supercard, R4 DS, DS-Xtreme, and Shock! items at this time, for use with the Nintendo DS, GBA, GBA SP, GBA Micro, and NDS Lite. We ship fast - normally within 24 hours of your purchase. We sell to both regular customers and to wholesalers.

Through our partnership, every month we will be receiving 1-2 sample products from their website for exclusive 1Emulation reviews.

Therefore, expect an entire lineup of reviews to come!

 

Lastly, this would have never been possible without a thanks to our connections with the R4DS Team and Vincent from the Sales department.

 

»» ModMyDS.com

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Well Done GC that will make the site more energatic.

[Alpha]

Well Done GC that will make the site more energatic.

This is definitely a big step up for 1Emulation.

 

Hopefully, both sites will use it to their advantage and we'll see how things prosper along.

[L.S.D]

Congrats, GC.

 

Hopefully, we can get some understanding for R4DS. I want to know more before commiting to buy it

[James]

Well done, This sounds like a good move

[Robert]

Not sure what it all means, but sounds good.

[Madman]

well, flame me. But i doubt that

[gavin19]

I don't get it. How come there are these rules about roms, linking to external torrent sites etc, but yet it is ok to go into partnership with a site that sells sd cards which are primarily used to play illegally downloaded roms with?

Personally I don't care, I'll download anything that moves, but it just seems a bit strange to me. I get that telling people directly where to download roms is an obvious no-no, but this is almost as bad?

[Rag]

Either way this site just gets bigger and bigger. Keep up the good work Cop.

[Mooney]

Good job, GC! Any chance of getting in on those 1-2 sample products per month?

[iq_132]

Do you get referral cash? I'll definitely buy from there if so. ^^

[Smilee]

Congratulations on the partnership, 1Emulation is getting bigger everyday.

[sgstair]

G19: I'll answer this - I'm not a lawyer but some things are pretty well defined.

 

Legality in this country in many cases is defined mostly by proving intent, and there are a large number of legal uses / intentions for using flashcards. Consider for example, knives... They can easily be used to kill people, but have countless other legal uses as well. Obviously the flashcard doesn't have such an overwhelming number of legal uses compared to the illegal ones, but they still exist, and stores that sell them use that to their advantage. The bottom line is: the act of selling a flashcard isn't illegal, as it's difficult / impossible to prove that the flashcard is intended for illegal purposes; the act of downloading a pirated Rom file is illegal, as it's blatantly copyright infringement, and very simple to prove. So, there really aren't any problems with the logic of selling flashcards and also banning links to commercial roms.

Of course, the situation is a good deal more complex than this, but this is a reasonable representation of how things are.

 

-Stephen

[Ayur]

Well, that's great news. With more people posting, there will be more to reply to, meaning more posts overall. And, exclusive DS Emu swag is always nice.

 

It's all fun and games until someone pokes an eye out with a lawsuit.

[Alpha]

Well, that's great news. With more people posting, there will be more to reply to, meaning more posts overall. And, exclusive DS Emu swag is always nice.

 

It's all fun and games until someone pokes an eye out with a lawsuit.

If you read sgstair's response, nobody is going to get a lawsuit. At least not now... maybe in the future... and if anything they'd attack the big boys first (ex: Divineo). Most of all, if they had a reasonable intent to sue, they wouldn't be sueing us, but only the retailers.

 

If Nintendo can prove that a company has an device that is sold with an intent to perform illegal activities, and can prove it, they will certainly sue.* Right now, they simply can't prove anything, and the same goes with Sony and Microsoft when it comes to modchips. Remember, flash cards have legal use as well which are homebrew applications and/or public domain roms.

 

Using this device is similar to using a DVD player to me. It all depends on how you are using it.

 

What are legal to use:

1. Play MP3/Video (legally owned by you).

2. Play homebrewed games (free download from the net).

3. Develop DS games. With this, you can use the tool to write your own game and test it in this device.

4. Play commercial games (legally owned by you).

 

What is illegal to use:

Play MP3, Video, games that you do not own.

 

This device does not even rip the game off the game cartridge. It is like a DVD player that you can play the DVD movies that you legally owned or not. The only difference is that DVD format is public, but the NDS game format is not.*

 

Lastly, the only cases that Sony and Nintendo were able to sue retailers were for the products like Flash Linkers and Modchips coupled with an HD-Loader because they allowed the consumers to backup/copy/rip the games on their computers which is against the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).

 

* Quote from SgStair via Windows Messenger

* Taken from FatWallet Forums