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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • It’s silly, all the legal precedence we have for emulators were for commercial offerings. If Nintendo wants to hit you with so many invalid lawsuits that you’re forced to fold then this certainly won’t stop them.

    It’s just bullying and it’s going to keep happening until there’s laws in place protecting it.

    Some of the best inventions in history came from people reverse engineering the work of others. If we want to keep moving forward then we can’t let companies bully people out of innovating. It’s shooting ourselves in the foot.


















  • Maybe the article is being vague but stuff like this really doesn’t seem like it should be patented. Especially considering I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this done in games before. The simplest being Mario games giving you invincibility in a level after you die a set amount of times. Or I think A Hat in Time would shorten certain boss battle segments after you completed them already.

    The implementation here would need to be really new and impressive to justify this being a patent. And I’m guessing it won’t be, assuming they ever actually do something with it.