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| To this end Nintendo took legal action and managed to secure a ban on imports (which was ultimately futile) of these flash cartridges into the USA as most of the carts were manufactured and distributed out of Hong Kong and similar areas. This being said a good deal of work did take place on flash cartridges within the USA. | | To this end Nintendo took legal action and managed to secure a ban on imports (which was ultimately futile) of these flash cartridges into the USA as most of the carts were manufactured and distributed out of Hong Kong and similar areas. This being said a good deal of work did take place on flash cartridges within the USA. |
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| This situation was short lived and by the time of the new [[Game Boy/Advance|GBA]] this ban was no longer applicable and flash carts once more began to come about. After a few very poor initial attempts at commercial GBA carts (they were not much more than re-engineered GBC flash carts which meant the ROM images needed speed patches as well as numerous save patches and a whole host of other problems plagued them) new carts based on good designs and equipment appeared thus really starting the [[Game Boy/Advance|GBA]] flash cart era. There exists numerous GBA flash carts and to detail them all would make for a fairly unreadable article, [http://wiki.pocketheaven.com/ the pocketheaven wiki] is a good resource if you wish to know about GBA carts. | | This situation was short lived and by the time of the new [[Gameboy Advance|GBA]] this ban was no longer applicable and flash carts once more began to come about. After a few very poor initial attempts at commercial GBA carts (they were not much more than re-engineered GBC flash carts which meant the ROM images needed speed patches as well as numerous save patches and a whole host of other problems plagued them) new carts based on good designs and equipment appeared thus really starting the [[Gameboy Advance|GBA]] flash cart era. There exists numerous GBA flash carts and to detail them all would make for a fairly unreadable article, [http://wiki.pocketheaven.com/ the pocketheaven wiki] is a good resource if you wish to know about GBA carts. |
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| With regard to the [[Nintendo DS|DS]] flash carts exploits were discovered (see [[DS commercial roms (running) and general usage#The methods|this article for more on these exploits]]) that allowed the [[Nintendo DS|DS]] to run [[Nintendo DS|DS]] based code from the [[Game Boy/Advance|GBA]] port thus enabling people with minimal extra hardware to run [[Nintendo DS|DS]] code (homebrew and roms) with their [[Game Boy/Advance|GBA]] flash carts. This has since become the standard method although companies have started on the DS port side of things. | | With regard to the [[Nintendo DS|DS]] flash carts exploits were discovered (see [[DS commercial roms (running) and general usage#The methods|this article for more on these exploits]]) that allowed the [[Nintendo DS|DS]] to run [[Nintendo DS|DS]] based code from the [[Gameboy Advance|GBA]] port thus enabling people with minimal extra hardware to run [[Nintendo DS|DS]] code (homebrew and roms) with their [[Gameboy Advance|GBA]] flash carts. This has since become the standard method although companies have started on the DS port side of things. |
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| == The Scene ==
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| {{Note|These links are pretty old, the community has changed drastically since then.}}
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| The term "the scene" as far as this article/wiki is concerned generally refers to the group(s) of people who partake in running of code be it homebrew (code written by people other than official developers) or copies of commercial code known as ROMS or ISO's normally via [[flash carts]], it also deals the modification of consoles and also includes [[emulation]] of consoles.
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| Some consider it a façade for piracy and depending on who's definition you use (some people define "the scene" as the groups of people responsible for distribution of rom images) that could well be the case, most however define the scene as in the definition above.
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| It is generally centered around news websites which deal with things that happen that come under the collective interest of "the scene" as well as forum sites and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat IRC channels].
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| There is no offical language of "the scene" with numerous sites and channels having different standard languages:
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| A brief list and by absolutely no means definitive of general "scene" sites:
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| English language:
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| *[http://www.ds-scene.net/ DS-Scene]
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| *[http://www.gbatemp.net/ GBATemp]
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| *[http://www.advanscene.com/ ADVANsCEne]
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| *[http://gbaemu.dcemu.co.uk/ dcemu]
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| *[http://www.pocketheaven.com/ pocketheaven]
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| *[http://www.gbadev.org/ gbadev]
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| French language:
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| *[http://www.playeradvance.org/ Playeradvance]
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| *[http://www.emu-france.com/ emu-France]
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| *[http://www.metagames-eu.com/ Meta Games]
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| *[http://mobiles.gx-mod.com/ GX-Mod]
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| Italian:
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| *[http://www.gbarl.it/ gbarl.it]
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| Chinese Language:
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| *[http://www.ndsbbs.com/ ndsbbs]
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| *[http://www.yyjoy.com/yy/ yyjoy]
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| The sites above either provide news on roms releases and may also assign them numbers although these numbers can and do vary between the sites, they may also provide news on new emulators and code and tricks released as well as more general news like the shipping of new iterations of consoles.
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| Many house/are forums where people can go and post questions and news of things.
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| Quite in fact this wiki is a project that grew out of the [[EZFlash]] specific forums on [http://www.sosuke.com/ezflash/ Soukes's]
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| == Sources ==
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| * [https://ezflash.sosuke.com/wiki/index.php?title=Flash_carts EZ-Flash Wiki - Flash Carts]
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| * [https://ezflash.sosuke.com/wiki/index.php?title=Scene EZ-Flash Wiki - Scene]
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