One of the pioneers of the memory based flashcarts for the Nintendo DS, the Superacard team has officially announced that they are now developing the next successor of their highly popular Supercard DSONE.

The Acekard and EZ-Flash Team have finally released the much awaited firmware update on their respective flashcarts to counter the previously released Nintendo DSi firmware 1.4 card blocker.

It seems Nintendo's effort to squash down piracy on the DSi won't be as easy as one, two, three as the EZ-Flash Team has revealed that it only requires a firmware update to bypass the recently released DSi firmware 1.4 using the EZVi flashcart.

Nintendo released a new DSi firmware update last week that blocked all DSi-compatible flashcarts, but don't look now -- the R4i Team has just posted a video showing the new R4i working on DSi firmware 1.4. Watch the video after the jump.

With the DSi now available across all major markets, numerous reports have surfaced telling of certain bootleg games not working anymore. Could the DSi have sturdier anti-piracy measures implemented as one of its other upgrades? We have heard, after all, of how the European DSi seems to be well protected against the Acekard 2i flash cart. Though Nintendo's always exhibited a strong effort to fight piracy, they seem to be mum on the matter of DSi's anti-piracy measures.

Uh oh. Looks like the pride and joy of DSi homebrew had a setback. According to a recent report, the Acekard 2i flashcart is being blocked by the European DSi.

Thanks to Philipp for the tip!

The efforts of Nintendo (and 54 other game developers) to stop piracy are finally getting some results. Japan has now officially - and legally! - banned the selling and importing of R4 flash carts for the DS.

Like whoa: two terrabytes of data storage?! What the hell are you gonna do with all that? Read 'em and weep 'em buckoes. Sony and SanDisk have announced their joint development project which will expand memory stick formats to proportions yet unheard of.

We've known about this for some time, but now we get official confirmation from Nintendo that the DSi is indeed incompatible with the R4 flashcart. Guess they're getting serious.

Ohhh, sneaky, sneaky Nintendo! Early reports have come in that the new DSi is not - repeat, NOT - capable of booting existing flash cartridges, including the R4 and the EZ Flash V. Looks like Sony's not the only one getting all crackdown on homebrew and piracy.