Capcom, Nintendo and 53 DS software manufacturers have filed a lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court against four companies alleged to have been importing and selling the R4 Revolution game copying device.
The firms are seeking an injunction to block the distribution of such devices as well as damage compensation.
In February, the court ruled in favour of the game companies and made it illegal to import and sell the R4. But Capcom said in a statement that game copying devices are still widely available, leading the companies to take legal action.
“,,, Since we observe many cases that the vendors ignore our warning or the vendors do not show any sincere response to our warning, we decided to take legal action at this time.
“We are expecting the entire society including users to recognise that our company and other software manufactures have extremely sustained damages from proliferation of illegal instruments, such as the game copying devices, and the computer industries have sustained serious damages because of those vendors, and we expect to influence the society to eliminate such illegal instruments from the market.”