This won’t fix your slumping sales Nintendo
Funny, here I am still using Yuzu
I love when this shit happens and it’s like oh, not the one I know about that literally has torrents bundling single games on pc to one click run the games lol
I don’t understand. How will Nintendo shut down an emulator? does the emulator need Nintendo server to play the game?
If you read the article they speculate it’s to slow down the development of a Switch 2 emulator.
I was considering a Switch 2 but now… not so much.
Just wait until an emulator for switch 2. Then don’t buy it.
Good to know, will get them now
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.
Emulation isn’t protected.
That was the use of emulators in advertising to show performance differences.
It does not protect emulation as the company went bankrupt before that could be decided.
No that’s was the second lawsuit, Sony v Bleem!, which was a different emulator.
which is how they killed Ryujinx.
Plus sending goons to his house.
Allegedly.
pokemon cards alone accounts for billions in profit/revenue. they have plenty of money.
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.
God I would play all the Zelda games I missed not hassling with their consoles if they put them on Steam. Last Nintendo Console I owned was Wii.
Agree, as long as we are forced to bullshit, I’ll just keep my hands dirty.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Fuck Nintendo.
Fuck Nintendo’s lawyers
FTFY
They still make banger games and consoles.
Who do you think they work for
It must be someone who doesn’t understand the situation. Surely not Nintendo. My parasocial relationship with that company tells me they’re swell!
Lick more boots
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.
Yeah me too, i used to stick to the classics, gba and all but after they took down yuzu and eden became a thing i started using it
Open source is hard to kill off forever. Someone, somewhere is gonna have the repo.
Getting it off GitHub is usually enough to effectively kill it.
I personally got ahold of the final version of the source code to Ryujinx after it was pulled from GitHub and put it on archive.org and I’m literally a random nobody who had nothing to do with the project so you are very incorrect. It was almost immediately picked up by other developers and is still seeing development to this day
Oh well if you archived it then its not dead!
Naa most projects are still fine off github. Theres a couple of emus that are now officially off gh and they are still being worked on.
Self-hosted gits in a country that doesn’t care are becoming popular.
What makes you say that? Probably 95% of FOSS projects I see are still hosted on GH.
Maybe 95% of your FOSS projects aren’t “free” enough ;o
They’re not XD
I should clarify, self hosted Gits for projects that may fall under targeted harassment by corporations (Eaglercraft, Switch Emulators, etc…) are becoming popular.
Ryujinx, operating out of Brazil, couldn’t be taken to court by Nintendo. So a lot of projects that could have Nintendo’s eye of sauron on them are looking for a safe country and self hosting as guaranteed insurance from a Yuzu situation.
Lemmy is a bit of an echo chamber in that regard
Primary hosting, but they can always have a fallback for at-risk projects or even just use p2p. Of course that already increases the risk of a potentially hacked provider/repo or just fake/malware versions in the wild
They’ll need to proactively clone it to a non-github repos before its shutdown.
Doesn’t matter if they clone it or not.
Why? Why is it harder to get it from codeberg or even self hosted forges?
It’s not like most people find it by randomly browsing Github
It’s not harder to get it from there, it’s harder to get contributors.
It’s not like most people find it by randomly browsing Github
They absolutely do, that’s why devs are always begging for “stars”.
Until someone puts it back…
And it will still not improve the sales of the Switch 2.
I mean, wasn’t switch 2 the fastest selling console of all time?
I mean, wasn’t switch 2 the fastest selling console of all time?
No, the fastest selling NINTENDO console (IIRC)
I think I was misremembering a few recent milestones actually. The Switch recently overtook DS to become Nintendo’s best overall selling, while Switch 2 has already sold more than WiiU.
Selling more than the WiiU is a very low bar.
Agreed but it’s still remarkable given the time frame.
Isn’t it selling well?
Unfortunately, yes. They outsold switch 1 by about 2 mil so far in it’s first year and there’s still a few months to go. I will eventually get one I’m sure, but probably second hand.
Honestly, it could hurt it sales a lot. Historically, a lot of successful Nintendo systems had backwards comparability as a major selling point.
I don’t understand your point. How is blocking emus ruining the Switch 2’s backward compatibility?
I’m saying that blocking backwards comparability can hurt sales, not the other way around. If the Switch 2 can run GBA or DS game, it’d be a huge selling point.
Oh ok, so not really relevant to the anti-emu topic—but I totally agree with your point. Imagine if they released an attachment that let you assemble the joycons and the screen in a vertical position for DS games? If they have the google thing for Virtual Boy, I don’t see how they couldn’t make this possible. In the meantime, I play GBA to 3DS games on my hacked 3DS.
I mean Nintendo could always lower games prices, add the features you get from emulators, and make the experience vastly superior on the console, then these emulators would be far less relevant.
No, I’m sure they will just keep killing better options and charging their consumers as much as humanly possible without having to innovate their products.
It’s a meaningless battle.
It’s crazy to watch a company burn a lifetime of good will in just a few years of chasing copyright litigation.
They’re selling $80 games with no problems so it seems to be working out for them.
The NES required companies to have nintendo make the cartridges for them and approve of games before doing so. You can say it improved quality over other systems but its still heavy handed and shitty from day one.
I love the games and consoles over the years but fuck nintendo all the same. They are capitalist greedy pigs like every other big game company.
Honestly, that kind of makes sense given the era the NES came out in. There was a fair amount of unplayable shovelware for the Atari, so having some oversight was probably good marketing at the time.
The practice of going after emulators and trying to establish exclusive rights to game mechanics that they didn’t actually invent is a bit further.
Sony v. connectix and Sony v. bleem both established that emulation is legal. Nintendo can fuck off.
Didn’t help Bleem.
It’s not about emulation, it’s about bypassing copyright protection. Different laws cover that.
