Nintendo has an army of high-priced lawyers, but a random YouTuber probably knows better than them, maybe? Come listen to a biased overview of the Yuzu and ...
I know, call me a hater, but switch emulation was a bad idea. I argue that it was less emulation, it was more piracy why they got involved.
Sure we like to say that emulation is okay, but that wasn’t really the thing here. The problem is this was taking money directly out of Nintendo’s pockets.
Now, I don’t like Nintendo, their lawyers are too trigger happy - but switch emulation basically loudly stuck out a collective middle finger at Nintendo - and they saw it. Of course it was doomed to be taken down.
Further, I think it was bad for the emulation community. By emulating modern current Gen games and essentially encouraging piracy, it tainted what the emulation goal is - which is to preserve games. Most older games we can point to a case on our shelf and say “I just want to play that again” but can’t because the old hardware died.
By emulating current Gen switches they made emulation about piracy, not saying it didn’t involve some of it, but it made it seem like pure piracy instead of about preservation.
I don’t support pirating anything that is readily accessible. I’ve never touched Yuzu or Ryujinx.
But I also think it’s important that these projects are developed sooner rather than later, before the things we want preserved disappear. Later is too late. Some Switch titles already have been delisted, but we’ve saved them thanks to these efforts.
Yes and no. Yuzu had it coming because they bragged about running leaked games and profited from it. Ryujinx was entirely legal and ethical even if they were way early to the game.
The goal of emulation is to play games on other platforms. Preservation is a nice benefit.
If that doesn’t work without official permission then it doesn’t work at all. Fuck their bottom line. You have a right to culture, and a right to run software as you see fit.
I own a switch and a steam deck and I’ve bought my switch games. Nintendo is telling me I’m not allowed to run the games I legally purchased from them on my steam deck. Fuck 'em. Piracy isn’t a new thing, you don’t even need emulation to pirate games on the PC but PC gaming is thriving.
I know, call me a hater, but switch emulation was a bad idea. I argue that it was less emulation, it was more piracy why they got involved.
Sure we like to say that emulation is okay, but that wasn’t really the thing here. The problem is this was taking money directly out of Nintendo’s pockets.
Now, I don’t like Nintendo, their lawyers are too trigger happy - but switch emulation basically loudly stuck out a collective middle finger at Nintendo - and they saw it. Of course it was doomed to be taken down.
Further, I think it was bad for the emulation community. By emulating modern current Gen games and essentially encouraging piracy, it tainted what the emulation goal is - which is to preserve games. Most older games we can point to a case on our shelf and say “I just want to play that again” but can’t because the old hardware died.
By emulating current Gen switches they made emulation about piracy, not saying it didn’t involve some of it, but it made it seem like pure piracy instead of about preservation.
I don’t support pirating anything that is readily accessible. I’ve never touched Yuzu or Ryujinx.
But I also think it’s important that these projects are developed sooner rather than later, before the things we want preserved disappear. Later is too late. Some Switch titles already have been delisted, but we’ve saved them thanks to these efforts.
Yes and no. Yuzu had it coming because they bragged about running leaked games and profited from it. Ryujinx was entirely legal and ethical even if they were way early to the game.
The goal of emulation is to play games on other platforms. Preservation is a nice benefit.
If that doesn’t work without official permission then it doesn’t work at all. Fuck their bottom line. You have a right to culture, and a right to run software as you see fit.
I own a switch and a steam deck and I’ve bought my switch games. Nintendo is telling me I’m not allowed to run the games I legally purchased from them on my steam deck. Fuck 'em. Piracy isn’t a new thing, you don’t even need emulation to pirate games on the PC but PC gaming is thriving.