— Metaforic’s Andrew Mclennan discussing his company’s anti-piracy tech for Nintendo DS games, MetaFortress. He didn’t share specifics behind the feature, but he did say that it ostensibly detects the form of patching that flashcarts use to load ROMs, and then “kills” the ROM.

“We take any DS game and inject a security scheme into the game itself. It turns each game into its own security system. Every time we apply it to a different game, it’s a different security system.”

Nintendo and “six leading third-party DS game publishers” will include MetaFortress’s anti-piracy features with their DS games by 2009’s holiday season. Note that because this is an opt-in game-by-game solution, it should not affect homebrew releases for the DS.

I plan to talk more about piracy throughout the day, what with this news and the DSONEi announcement, so set your afternoon plans accordingly. We also have a special guest who will stop by to drop some knowledge on the flashcart/game hacking scene. Look forward to it!

See also: Flashcarts defeating anti-piracy measures with anti-anti-piracy feature

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