It looks like Nintendo is now trying to shut down almost all of the remaining Nintendo Switch emulators, including Eden and Citron.
  • eli@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Meh, emulate it and get better frame rates and higher resolution.

    Why would I buy a console that plays the game at an inferior state?

    Nintendo is free at any time to release their games on Steam or even their own PC storefront and if I could play it with my hardware then I’d buy most games at full price.

    Until then, nah I’m good.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Nintendo succeeded in killing Yuzu because they had decryption keys which Nintendo could argue is breaking their copy protection, which is why they settled for 2.4 million dollars in sales damages because they knew they wouldn’t be able to win in court.

    All of these forks have since removed the key and require the user to supply it (legally from your own console).

    So in theory they should be protected under US law since emulation and reverse engineering is completely legal.

    However

    Nintendo also has infinite money to throw at the problem, and FOSS devs are usually not willing to deal with insane amount of personal liability because of a hobby, which is how they killed Ryujinx.

    So you better hold onto your guts if you plan to fight Nintendo.

    Or move to i2p so they can’t disable you lol.

    • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Nintendo succeeded in killing Yuzu because they had decryption keys which Nintendo could argue is breaking their copy protection, which is why they settled for 2.4 million dollars in sales damage

      Was not it also because they have their Patreons subscribers things such as early access to leaked games?

      IGN Article

      From the article;

      Nintendo’s suit also claims Yuzu’s Patreon page allows its developers to earn 30,000 a month by providing subscribers with “daily updates,” “early access,” and “special unreleased features” to games like Tears of the Kingdom by circumventing the protective measures Nintendo has in place to prevent piracy of video games.

      I despise Nintendo but if this claim was true, they were earning money with pirated content, right?

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Sony v. connectix and Sony v. bleem both established that emulation is legal. Nintendo can fuck off.

  • tidderuuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I never thought to emulate the switch until they killed the first emulator. Now I download the latest emu and roms nearly every month. Fuck Nintendo.

  • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Good thing I’m not bothered by downvotes, because here they come.

    As a retro gaming nerd with a ton of older Nintendo hardware, as well as modern emulation hardware, I don’t think it’s ethical to emulate the current gen. If the current gen supports the software, buy the game and play it on the current hardware. Shit, the physical games from prior eras have outperformed my retirement account in some cases.

    That said, when you are given no legitimate options to purchase and play the game, well, you know, use your “legally acquired backup”

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I probably wouldn’t disagree that it’s not exactly ethical, but given the current state of society, it’s kind of at the bottom of a very large list of really really awful, unethical, shit that actually deserves my attention.

      • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        As I stated to the other person that said this, all Switch games are backwards compatible with the switch 2. Compare that to the 3ds or DS. Nothing is in current production that will play those games, at least not physical copies.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I don’t think it’s ethical to demand that if people want to play your games, they have to do so on your shitty $500 DRM machine.