how do i.......?

What do you mean backup? Your saved games? If that is so, you can try going to:

c:\system\apps\.....

Look for the directory the game you want to backup and copy it to your MMC

nah dude i mean put a full game on an mmc or is that warez or wotever

Which games?

If you mean the N-Gage games that are sold on MMC-cards, then there is no way to back them up on your own.

There are pirated/cracked versions of many/most such games, but doing that (breaking someone's copy protection or encryption schemes, distributing someone elses property that you have no rights to, etc.) is illegal in most countries and not permissible on/through this site.

Distributing is against the law,but backing up any kind of medium for personal use is not,at least in Europe.I think Nokia should make a backup procedure available on their website and make it really simple.

Do you know that Microsoft has a policy that makes a illegal copy of Windows legal if you own the original.

Originally posted by GhostDog
Distributing is against the law,but backing up any kind of medium for personal use is not,at least in Europe.

One law for "fair use" (or whatever it is called) that makes it legal to make backup copies of digital or analog electric media you may have (even if the manufacturer/seller tries to say otherwise) for your own use (or even to family & friends).

Another law that makes it illegal to break encryption or copy protection mechanisms.

They are separate and in effect simultaneously.

When both laws are in effect simultaneously, you are still breaking the latter of these laws if you make a backup of something that which needs to have its copy protection or encryption broken.

I don't know how the legal systems handle the case where you haven't actually broken the copy protection/encryption yourself, but someone else & you're only obtaining and using such a broken/unencrypted copy while retaining the original, too.

I don't know if this has been resolved in any court in any country yet with such laws.

And, of course, selling or widely distributing (crossing the boundary of "fair use"😉 someone elses property or copies of it without the permission of who owns it is illegal, too, in these same countries.

hmm.....ok. its just that a friend told me i could copy my games onto mmc so i wouldnt have to keep switching cards when i wanted to play diffenent games. i think he might have been jus trippin, thanx for the help anyway guys😊

malice

possible but illegal

Why would nokia make it simple to backup games?Unless they had somekind of restriiction to allow the games to only work on 1 ngage, people would just take advantage, and distribute them illegally. Do you think developers would actually pay to make new games if they would be backed up and then distributed hours after release.

For starters,read Ewan's Article

Personally,i think that making backups legal and easy would turn away users from warez communities and cracked and unstable games that could possibly damage your device.Not all games work on other S60 devices and probably in the future,none of them will or the playing expirience will not be so enjoyable with the use of N-Gage specific APIs.

So the people who do the right thing (buy games legally)get punished by having to charge up the battery constently from gaming and the dirty warez people can have a crapload of games on an mmc, have longer lasting battery and pay nothing...

Nowonder game companies charge so much for games, they have to compensate for all the warez going on, so the non-warez gamer loses again by having to pay top dollar for games.

What really annoying is i dont think it can be stopped, how could it be? Unless people just relize ripping off games just steals money from the companies and then they have no money to make new games.😞

That sux😡

Generally I dont think warez increases game prices much the same way that Napster did nothing to harm the music industry - its what is called a scapegoat.

The amount of music that was purchased legally becuase of the free promotion that illegal file sharing caused would have cancelled out any loss in record sales.

Just the same way that Nokia would have had to pay millions in marketing to get so many people who would not go near an N-gage to see the true value of the games and the device through WAREZ.

It is illegal but dont be duped into thinking the coorperations dont use the benefits that it can bring.

Corporations do lose money its fact because we are able to get our hands on the same media for a lot less but unfortunately the money does not come out of the pockets of the top execs but from the hardworking joe average because he gets fired because the boss still wants the new Merc and will do anything to keep it that way (human arrogance). So I do not condone filesharing and piracy because I think we should pay for the services others provide us with, but I also think that the prices we pay for some of these services are rediculous. So both sides are a necesity really the company always wants to make money so will always introduce new products to get their hands on our hard earned cash and the piracy file sharing to teach these people that they are not invincable and that they can get away with what they are doing. My 2 cent