- missingno ( @missingno@fedia.io ) 3•1 hour ago
Sounds like this was more of a bribe than any legal case against the emulator. In which case nothing is stopping anyone from putting a fork back up, and gdkchan gets to laugh all the way to the bank.
- webghost0101 ( @webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ) 16•3 hours ago
I dont have any nitendo emulations but i guess this tells me i should collect some and save em on a harddrive just in case i ever need it.
Software preservation is a nobel act after all.
- VulKendov ( @VulKendov@reddthat.com ) 9•2 hours ago
Inventing dynamite is also a Nobel act.
- vonbaronhans ( @vonbaronhans@midwest.social ) 1•14 minutes ago
Or giving yourself ulcers
- NateSwift ( @NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•5 minutes ago
Looks like the github is still up if you’re willing to build yourself
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 20•3 hours ago
This reads a lot like Nintendo just paid the dev to take it all down.
- NateSwift ( @NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•2 hours ago
literally what happened
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 2•58 minutes ago
Sauce?
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English1•55 minutes ago
The article being posted…
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 2•50 minutes ago
It says nothing of the sort.
- NateSwift ( @NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•53 minutes ago
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 3•48 minutes ago
That’s not the developer, that’s a Discord mod, and they said in that message specifically that they haven’t heard anything from the dev. It also says nothing about what “the agreement” is. It could very well be a legal settlement.
- NateSwift ( @NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•6 minutes ago
He is a developer (github) and in fact had a pull request merged in August. I suppose it’s possible it was a “legal agreement”. It seems implied that it wasn’t, and that was what I remembered when replying
- coyotino [he/him] ( @theangriestbird@beehaw.org ) English5•3 hours ago
Shiiiiiit. Now I’m really regretting not finishing TOTK on my PC back when I had that set up.
I don’t remember the order I did anything in, but I maxed out the batteries, did 3 of the towns, and was about to start the 4th.
Then I put it down because I was bored of playing basically modded BOTW again. This was like a year+ ago. I’ll probably never go back.
- iltoroargento ( @iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org ) 8•3 hours ago
Lol it’s like Nintendo just wants to back itself into a corner and waste away with its IP. Jeez. I honestly have no desire to purchase anything from them anymore.
I still emulate a solid amount of their games I’ve had for most of my life because I don’t want to wear down my old hardware.
They haven’t gotten a cent out of me since the GameCube, though, so I understand I’m probably not going to be their target audience anymore.
Edit: Mobile, *its not “it’s”
- Chozo ( @Chozo@fedia.io ) 10•2 hours ago
Lol it’s like Nintendo just wants to back itself into a corner and waste away with its IP.
This is a Switch emulator, meaning these are games that are still available for sale. It’s not like taking down a SNES emulator or something Nintendo hasn’t made available for 30+ years, it’s involving games they’re selling today. Taking down an emulator is literally Nintendo protecting its IP.
I honestly have no desire to purchase anything from them anymore.
If you were using this emulator, you weren’t likely purchasing anything from them in the first place. And I’m no doctor, but… I’d have to imagine that’s likely the reason Nintendo took this down to begin with.
- missingno ( @missingno@fedia.io ) 3•1 hour ago
While I don’t support pirating products that are currently for sale, I do think it’s essential that emulators like Ryujinx are developed now in order to preserve titles for later. Some Switch software already has been delisted, and someday eventually all of it will be.
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 3•51 minutes ago
While I don’t support pirating products that are currently for sale
I do when Nintendo refuses to make them available on other (higher quality) hardware and also treats their paying consumers and fans like scum. I can boot up Doom on any of a dozen different computers 30 years later and play to my heart’s content but that’s not an option for Nintendo. Piracy generally is completely justified by a vast array of anti-consumer bullshit. If they can’t make games without resorting to that bullshit, fuck 'em. I hope they go under.
- iltoroargento ( @iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•1 hour ago
I getcha, just have not been stoked about Nintendo’s continual deathmarch against the hydra of emulation.
I honestly think it’s more of a waste of money than it’s actually worth and the publicity of taking down emulation sites is pretty bad for them (especially when they take down ones which deal with largely abandonware or really old games, like Vimm’s lair did).
Without getting into the debate over the ethics of piracy or anti consumer practices, jumping into the fray by aggressively litigating and making a splash like Nintendo and Sony seem to focus on likely hurts their bottom line and certainly hurts their reputation with consumers.
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 4•57 minutes ago
No one hates Nintendo players more than Nintendo
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 4•3 hours ago
I wonder if Cemu is next…
- coyotino [he/him] ( @theangriestbird@beehaw.org ) English7•3 hours ago
It’s a fair question, but honestly I think Nintendo generally focuses on emulators that they perceive as affecting their current or near-future income. The Wii U is fully dead to Nintendo, at least for the moment.
- unalivejoy ( @joyjoy@lemm.ee ) English4•3 hours ago
They’ll probably use one of these emulators in the future to emulate switch games on the switch 2.