Nintendo has lost a major court battle today in Paris. Nintendo can no longer block the sale of DS flash carts in France. In addition, the judge suggested that Nintendo was illegally blocking homebrew development on their consoles.
MaxConsole, the "news" website owned by one of the defendants, Max Louran of Divineo, claims "The ramifications of this are huge, as it indicates that flash carts are actually legal. Moroever, it could have bigger implications for developers and the like because Nintendo is deemed to be 'illegally' protecting their system by locking users out. Therefore, developers should not actually require separate development kits and should just be able to develop applications as they wish on retail versions of Nintendo's consoles."
More information will be added as this story develops.

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