By the way. that was settled long time ago…
That doesn’t apply to this
Both in conclusion and in jurisdiction
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.
I normally stay away from in production emulation, however, after what they did to Yuzu, I stopped giving a fuck.
Isn’t the switch the only in production console that you can emulate and hasn’t it been like that for a long time?
Define a long time. Weren’t both Dolphin and Cemu both in active development at times their respective consoles were on the market?
Yes but don’t think they ran great at the time. Unluck switch emulation which runs better then the actual switch.
Cemu runs a hell of a lot better than the Wii U, or is that only a more recent development?
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.
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.
I mean, finding NES games that still play and dont require repair isn’t simple for a lot of titles. Not to mention the hardware requires modding in order to work on modern televisions.
I’d call that “not available” or if we want to split hairs “not reasonably available”.
Sure except some of those games are available on the Nintendo store for whatever console they have.
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.
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.
Sure and then paying the dev not to develope it is also legal. Who wouldn’t take it see that free program you are spending time on we well pay you not to do that.
Yes, but that doesn’t set a legal precident for future emulator development.
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.
Because the law says it is, so it’s illegal.
