Mutant Mudds dev concerned by potential Nintendo 3DS piracy

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Mutant Mudds and Dementium developer Jools Watsham has expressed his concern over potential Nintendo 3DS piracy after a hacker claimed full control over the system.
A hacker called Neimod (via TinyCartridge) appears to have assumed full control over an unmodified 3DS, although he said it could be patched easily and insisted he had no interest in allowing others to use the hack to load pirated software.
Following the news, Watsham, who runs indie developer Renegade Kid, published a blog post in which he said rampant piracy could seriously affect developer support for the 3DS. He used a comparison of his DS games Dementium and Dementium 2 as evidence of the effect piracy can have on sales.
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