HE Nintendo DS portable games console will feature locally developed software that allows players to wirelessly share a game without downloading a permanent copy to other machines.
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The software, RSA BSAFE, will be included in the console, which debuts on February 24.
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The encryption software, developed at RSA Security's Brisbane Development Centre, protects games as they are played and shared across wireless links.
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The software locks content so it cannot be illegally copied from the original cartridge or disk.
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Games software downloaded by other players during a session was erased as soon as the console was closed, according to a Nintendo Australia spokeswoman.
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"This protects Nintendo and our games development partners from piracy. "It does not have any adverse effect on consumers, nor on the play experience." The player with a DS version of Super Mario, for example, simply loads the cartridge into the console and then seeks other DS users in the neighbourhood to join the game.
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"They come along and decide to play, tap into it, and then play against each other," she said.
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"As soon as they shut their machine, they don't have the game any more. It's securely held on the cartridge owned by the first player."