A Washington federal court has ordered r/SwitchPirates moderator James 'Archbox' Williams to pay Nintendo $4.5 million in damages.

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[–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You know, that's interesting, because I was never exposed to all the paid "freeshop" apps. Maybe it's because I has been pirating for quite a while at that point, or because I hung out on the forums where the developers discussed their projects, but when Freeshop stopped working I just used Boop.

The main issue I had with installing 3DS games was that you needed double the space on your SD card; for the installation files and for the game you're installing. Remote installation with FBI using Boop on PC was the solution to that after Freeshop died.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Yeah, the ease and safety (and incredibly good/available guides) of piracy on 3DS made it so a lot of kids/noobs got in during the freeShop days and just kind of expected piracy to always be that easy. "Actually finding and having a reliable source for the game files" is always the actual hardest part of piracy, but freeShop kids never had to do it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Oh I was pirating before 3DS piracy became easy. I got on as soon as browserhax was discovered, and then you still had to go through a whole process where your 3DS could get bricked if you did the wrong thing. RXTools made it a little easier, but the guides for it weren't that written for it, and eventually the creator ragequit because he hated piracy.

    Well then...

    Then Luma3D came and basically made piracy a one-click solution. Well, almost.

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