If there's one thing that Nintendo loves, it's free advertising. But if there's one thing that Nintendo positively hates, it's piracy.
Taking these two things into account, we're not sure how the company will feel about its Nintendo DS console appearing on the hit US television comedy show
Modern Family.
In one scene, a child happily taps away at his beloved handheld, but on closer inspection it appears that the cart inside the machine shares a few similarities with the many flash cartridges currently doing the rounds at the moment – you know, the ones that Nintendo is
desperately trying to eradicate.
How the cart in question was able to get screen time on such a huge TV show is a mystery, although it's likely few people actually realised the nefarious nature of the device.
Anyway, it just goes to show how ubiquitous piracy on the DS is these days.
[Via
Kotaku]
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I think its because you can buy the 100 games in 1 carts. You need absolutely ZERO tech know-how - all you do is plug it in and you've got 100 games at your disposal.
And no, I don't own one or condone the use of pirated material
tim
raindog469 | 24 November 2009
Um, they probably had to use a flash cart in order to put whatever code they needed on it to trigger sound effects and the like. Remember that the intent of DS flash carts was originally running homebrew (the first one in common use being GBA Movie Player combined with a passkey)... but I wouldn't expect a "journalist" to have that long a memory.
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