Heh! "PunkBuster"... you're a "Battlefield" player I take it? Yeah, there are people out there who run a clean game on the consoles, and there are others who don't. The key to it is keeping up with (or ahead of) the cheats and programming against it. "Battlefield 2" is a great example of that. Before you get into a game, the online interface does a check completely independent of DNAS encoding checks to see if you're using any modifier programs and it says "PunkBuster" on the loading screen... and that is for a system that's a lot more sophisticated & much less regulated than a Nintendo product...
Nintendo has all of it's DS games flowing through the NWC, and if that's not a centralized server there are at least a few-enough number of them handling DS gaming traffic that puting a carrier signal on the games and seeing what pings back isn't possible, sifting out the code that doesn't come up smelling Kosher, then I don't know what is... I'm not a programmer or an I.T. specialist so perhaps I have it completely wrong. But it seems to me that logically this shouldn't be that tough a thing for them to combat.
I know that they are probably a bit more worried about all of the piracy, but this is highjacking of a similar sort - Nintendo is allowing the brigands and punks to dictate to them how their system will be used. You would think they'd want to take back their rightful ground but it's not something they see as important, obviously. I love my DS... I love my GameCube, and I really enjoyed the N64, SNES, and thank Jah for the NES which proved that home gaming wasn't an out-moded or dead concept. I have the most respect for Nintendo out of ALL the game makers and system inovators because they consistently show me a weird idea (two screens? touch screen? Wii-mote with a nunchuck-WHAT???) that inevitably make me delight in playing games for another season, after my first game of "PONG" back in the later 1970s (that's right, y'all... I'm so old I remember seeing my first coin-op "PONG" in the front door vestibule of a local waffle house). Nintendo is and always will be the most creative and diverse experience in the market...
... but when they take such a weak, dead fish stance on cleaning up a rather poopie messy diaper that is the DS online gaming experience, as it stands as of this posting it undermines my faith in the company. I think they are well aware that they have a rampant problem... and perhaps it's not nearly as bad as the techno-rape that's being perpetrated on the competition's hand-held, but it's still in really, really bad shape.
PLEASE, NINTENDO... TAKE BACK THE ONLINE TERRITORIES... HIRE A WYATT ERP OR A KENSEI TO CLEAN UP THE CRIMINALS IN OUR OTHERWISE PRETTY LITTLE TOWN OF DS ONLINE GAMING!!! WE NEED YOU TO HELP US!!! THE ROBBER-BARRONS ARE OUT OF CONTROL AND WE NEED SOME CLINT EASTWOOD ****!!!
Signed,
The Nintendo WiFi Community In Hiding
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