Unsurprising move. People should’ve moved them elsewhere.

  • naticus
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    407 months ago

    Only thing surprising is that it took this long for it to happen. Everyone else knew that there would be immediate forks made but seems they took a month to catch up to speed with the internet.

    • @ExfilBravo
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      467 months ago

      Nintendo is not an internet savvy company. You can tell by how they implement online gaming features like “friend codes” and pushing everything to a phone app for communication (Splatoon).

      • @[email protected]
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        27 months ago

        Should I be the one mentioning that Steam integrated friend codes?

        And it’s not an old feature…

          • Capt. Wolf
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            187 months ago

            It also actually makes it significantly easier to find someone when their user name happens to be the same as 5000 other people.

    • William
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      57 months ago

      I think it’s by design, not because they’re stupid. They saw those forks right away and decided to let them get settled in and comfortable, and then removed them. Knowing that the hammer will come down eventually is really demoralizing. Knowing it’ll come down right away means you can test the waters and see how it goes without much personal investment.

  • ‮redirtSdeR
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    157 months ago

    considering downloading the roms of my games out of spite

  • @TheEighthDoctor
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    47 months ago

    Is it technically possible to have the emulator work without the use of the prod.keys ?

    • @[email protected]
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      27 months ago

      My understanding is the prod keys are required to tell the software (e.g. games) that it is running on an authorised device and passes certain checks / DRM.

      To run the software without prod keys would require (I think) patching each game individually to skip those checks. So it could be possible but wildly impractical unless some other work around is found.

      • @TheEighthDoctor
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        47 months ago

        But it could be something that the user has to provide, like the BIOS in PS emulators for exemple

        • @[email protected]
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          27 months ago

          Yeah for sure, I think the user had to provide keys in the latest Yuzu anyway?

          It was donation builds with support for tears of the kingdom before released that screwed the project. The code itself was legal afaik.

  • @Cybersteel
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    17 months ago

    I wonder when would ryujinx get hit next.

    • @ampersandrew
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      27 months ago

      Rumor has it that Yuzu and all of its derivatives violated the DMCA in a way that Ryujinx did not, in that Yuzu was allegedly developed inappropriately using proprietary information from Switch SDKs, where Ryujinx is doing it legit via “clean room” reverse engineering. So Ryujinx is likely safe, but anything using Yuzu code is legally poison.