In emulation you create software that "looks like" hardware - and doing
so is perfectly legal. Then the games can be copied (illegally) and
played on the emulator with no changes. No security measures are
circumvented during emulation.
In the case of the N-Gage they create a custom piece of software to
(supposedly) allow the games to be played ONLY on their device, despite
the fact that the OS is quite common. Somebody wrote software
specifically to circumvent a known security measure.
In other words it's a lot less like a Gameboy emulator than like copying
a windows game to another machine. Or perhaps an even better analogy
would be cracking an X-Box title to be played on any Windows 2000 PC.
Jim Davis
-----Original Message-----
From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:19 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Ngage just doomed?
Can't really blame Nokia there.
There were emulators for all versions of the Gameboy very soon after
they were released as well.
There is even one for the Gameboy Advanced that plays games
fantastically on the PC.
;-) *wink* *wink*
-Gel
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
What I find the most interesting is the speed with which the N-Gage's
security (if any) was cracked. Perhaps Nokia doesn't have any
experience in securing their operating systems (other than basic stuff
like sandboxing J2ME) and was totally unprepared for the N-Gage's fate
at the hand of clever hackers.
Also, it's a pain in the neck to get new game cards installed in the
N-Gage - another bad design choice on Nokia's part.
- Jim
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