• Nik282000@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    Fuck Nintendo. I would pay 60 bucks a game to get my entire N64 and NES library back but Nintendo will never make the bulk their older games available.

    • Pilferjinx@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      I normally stay away from in production emulation, however, after what they did to Yuzu, I stopped giving a fuck.

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        3 hours ago

        Isn’t the switch the only in production console that you can emulate and hasn’t it been like that for a long time?

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          47 minutes ago

          Define a long time. Weren’t both Dolphin and Cemu both in active development at times their respective consoles were on the market?

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    1 day ago

    Yeah, when I want to emulate old games, I don’t really care if it’s legal or not, especially when I’m emulating it bcz it’s not available anywhere else.

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      1 day ago

      Are you emulating it because it’s not available anywhere else? Because if you’re willing to put in the effort, most games are available elsewhere. Just because it’s not at GameStop doesn’t mean it isn’t “available”.

      But yeah, I don’t emulate new stuff. I emulate old stuff. And with even Nintendo’s digital stores closing down and being replaced with subscriptions, sailing the seas becomes more and more promising of a solution.

    • DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca
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      44 minutes ago

      The legal proceedings technically were. Nintendo screamed illegal so a bunch of unfunded dev teams got sued into oblivion. Admittance can be from a perspective of guilt too.

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    1 day ago

    sounds great, until you read literally the next sentence:

    They run afoul of the law when they bypass encryption, recreate copyrighted programs, or point users to pirated material.

    aka you can emulate stuff, just not for anything remotely modern.

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      21 hours ago

      Ryujinx did none of that, which is why instead of taking it down, Nintendo just paid off the main developer to take it down.

      Yuzu generated keys programatically, which was the issue, and Nintendo took that down directly.

      So according to Nintendo’s actions, they think Ryujinx was perfectly legal.

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      How does it bypassing encryption suddenly make it illegal??? That’s like saying you legally own this lockbox and can take it home however if you open it using anything but our official key you are breaking the law.

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      1 day ago

      Just because I’m legally not allowed to does not in the slightest mean that I can’t.

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    1 day ago

    Couple of weeks ago I played digimon world 1 on an emulator. After over 20 years of it releasing it runs flawlessly and looks much better than before, to make things even nicer it has been getting unofficial patches with the latest version coming out like a month ago. Games don’t need to die, we can keep them going forever.

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      How did you like it, btw? I loved the idea as a kid, but was pissed as hell I kept getting Numemon and dying. Didn’t get back into it until Digimon World 3, which was very different gameplay-wise.

      I may have just been a particularly dumb kid though, wondering if it’s worth giving another shot.