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Do existence of a full fledged Switch emulator implies that it could have been build with $40000/month (from yuzu paetron page) and r&d or whatever cost it took was artifically inflated🤨
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
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So instead of making their games more easily accessible and re-releasing old games, which has been proven to reduce piracy and may even be profitable, they just throw money at a lawsuit attacking an emulator?
Wait, how does that reduce piracy?
Having a good service that's easily accessible and re-releasing games from older consoles (many of which people have been rallying for) = less of an incentive to pirate them. Obv it will still exist, but it'd be in less of a demand. I almost never pirate PC games since the vast majority of the ones I'm interested in are readily accessible, unless it's from a shitty AAA company like EA.
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If murder were legally, I know a place less than a day away from my current locations that I'd love to visit.
Sheesh calm down there Ducky
He travels around the world violently avenging Nintendo injustices
At this point, there's no other way to stop things like this from happening other than murdering the rich and all their family and associates. So, no, I ain't calming down until they're 600 feet under the ground, resting in piss.
"We need a revolution! Eat the rich!"
Someone suggests doing something towards that goal
"Noooooo, I only care about injustices as a hobby!!! Don't actually, plz!"
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Yuzu is open source though so can't people who don't live in the US just fork it? Copyright laws are a lot for lax outside the US.
Most countries mimic US laws on copyright. It doesn't help that Yuzu was in the US, but virtually no country is safe if Nintendo tries hard enough
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Yeah but if the primary maintainers are in the US it'll take a bit before a new group can really work on it in a productive manner
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Interesting that they're not suing Ryujinx. I wonder why.
My understanding is that Ryujinx has been a lot more cautious in general. When TotK was leaked, simply mentioning it in their discord instantly got you the pirate role (which means they won't give you any sort of support), and continuing to mention it got you a ban. Similarly they crack down hard on even the slightest mention of title keys or the like. They're very upfront that this is done solely for legal reasons, but they're also extremely thorough about cracking down on any discussions that could expose them to legal vulnerabilities.
They're more cautious in a few other ways, too. They have a patreon but you don't get any newer versions or improved features through it, just cosmetic Discord roles, whereas Yuzu offers the latest releases to Discord subscribers first.
Both of these things (Yuzu devs and moderators openly discussing how to get title keys in its discord, and the fact that they profited off the TotK leak by locking versions updated to support it better behind donations) were specifically mentioned in Nintendo's lawsuit, so it's likely that Ryujinx being more cautious around potential legal vulnerabilities is what kept them off of Nintendo's radar, at least for now.
(Of course, if Nintendo does well enough against Yuzu here they might move on to Ryujinx next - but it makes sense that they'd go after the easier target first.)
What's that?
Another emulator. Iirc some of the code running Nintendo's own retro gaming products was pirated FROM Ryiujinx
Nintendon't: sues for "facilitating piracy"
Also Nintendon't: facilitates piracy by restricting access to games people want to play
Also Nintendon't: facilitates piracy by pointing people to Yuzu
Also Nintendon't: facilitates piracy by hinting that "free" access to games might be at risk
Also Nintendon't:
1 step forward, 4 steps back!