• @LouNeko
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    140 minutes ago

    Emulators are for Nintendo what loud chewing is for most people, not exactly illegal but if you do it you’re gonna get decked.

  • @[email protected]
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    163 hours ago

    What I don’t get is why emulator devs don’t develop completely anonymously, you can’t shut them down if you don’t know who they are

    • @SkunkWorkz
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      Okay but they still need to distribute it if they want others to use it. And you don’t reach a lot of people through sneakernet alone. Nintendo will just shut down every place the software gets distributed. Then no legitimate site wants to touch that with a ten yard stick.

  • @[email protected]
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    897 hours ago

    You don’t admit that something legal is legal. You’re the asshole that says “OK, maybe you’re right.” I’m fed up with their crap, I’ll emulate everything from now on.

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      133 hours ago

      I wrote my own NES emulator out of spite

    • @[email protected]
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      64 hours ago

      They set the stage that they never said otherwise, but circumventing piracy protections is somehow illegal…

      Now the question arises, what counts as piracy protection? Is a nag enough? Can you be criminalised in clicking away a nag you dis not read?

      🤔

      • DacoTaco
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        Piracy protection is things like encryption, firmware checks, pairing systems, unique game identifiers per instance of game, unique console id’s, … Basically any system put in place to make, or identify, a game/console to be genuine or make sure a genuine game running on genuine hardware and nothing else.
        These are all systems the switch had btw.
        Switch emulation bypassed or faked all of those, which counts as piracy protection circumvention.

    • @fne8w2ahOP
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      247 hours ago

      Emulation ahoy!

  • @rtxn
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    297 hours ago

    So what’s the current state of emulation on Linux? I still have both Yuzu and Ryujinx installed, but has either been superseded by a fork?

  • @[email protected]
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    37 hours ago

    They didn’t shut down anything, they asked and people took them down voluntarily. Legally speaking that’s what happened.

    • @tabular
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      345 hours ago

      Mafia boss found not guilty. Made an offfer the individual couldn’t refuse, finds judge.

      • @Cosmonauticus
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        When reached for comment Nintendo is quoted as saying, “Stop busting my balls and fuhgeddaboudit.”

    • @OrganicMustard
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      356 hours ago

      Not true. They filled a lawsuit against Yuzu and Citra and the developers had to pay 2.4 million dollars to Nintendo. They probably threatened the Ryujinx dev to do the same.