Time to start pirating Nintendo games again
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2024
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again? why did you stop?
Remember, pirating Nintendo is never wrong!
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Saving this site. I was still using 1337x through a proxy.
Edit: Actually just clicked the link and noticed that I used it before I think for 2 trails games, maybe. I had already bought it on PlayStation and wanted to play it on PC as the whole trails series is on PC and not PlayStation and I owned most of the games at the time on PC so wanted the last of the 2 cold steel games to finish the collection and that way they were in one place.
Should I use a VPN?
For direct downloads? No. For torrenting? YES, and make damn sure that you're doing it correctly.
Yeah, with torrenting I know I need tk be hyper cautious. But alright. Download it is without VPN
Depends on your country i guess
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No fun allowed
Well it's time for the broken clock to be right for once. Gmod is not a safe place for kids and it absolutely should not have kids content on it.
Why shouldn't children use gmod? Are adults not allowed to enjoy Nintendo?
Your opinions are weird.
Why shouldn’t children use gmod?
You press the server list and the first thing you see is just a massive list of Nazi Germany RP going by as many names as you can think of. You keep scrolling down looking for a normal sever and learn every possible way to code "you play as the Nazis in this server" as you go.
Oh damn, I haven't played in a long time. That's a genuinely unusual thing and kids probably shouldn't be a part of that.
I was a kid playing gmod but I just got into programming because of it lol
Yeah it's absolutely gone to shit. I remember learning lua playing back then, pretty good language.
Fixed:
Gmod is not a safe place for kids and it absolutely should not have kids ~~content~~ on it.
I heard if you go into your bathroom and turn off the lights. Then close your eyes and spin around three times well saying "Nintendo, Nintendo, Nintendo!"
It will summon their lawyers and they will drag you to court through your bathroom mirror for violating copyright.
How efficient is it to antagonize people that are actively promoting your own content for free on other platforms? Does this actually work for Nintendo?
Nintendo is a "family friendly" brand before all else and really only cares about the experience of children playing their games and adults buying their games for children to play. They count on their core IPs to draw in those kids as adults, but don't put much effort in catering to an adult audience. They put more effort in with the Switch (game store with more adult oriented games), but still minimal effort - their original properties are family friendly.
They see other people using their IP as diluting their brand value rather than promoting it. They think their characters are what makes people nostalgic for their games and drives brand value. So they want you to only be able to see your "favorite Nintendo characters" from Nintendo official sources and have complete control over that experience.
I think they're wrong about most of that. The characters are, for the most part, pretty generic and simple. What people like about Nintendo is that the games are accessible, they played when they were kids, and they were often introduced to those games by parents or older siblings. There's a social context to Nintendo games that is unique and nostalgic. They're often some of the first games you play as a kid, and they're the first games you think of when you want to introduce your own kids/nieces & nephews, etc. to gaming. I don't think that unofficial Super Smash Bros tournaments or Gary's Mod having fan-made Mario models in it dilutes that in the slightest but Nintendo does drive away adults who are the primary drivers of the Nintendo brand's popularity (as they are the purchasers). Once it's these young adults' turn to share Nintendo games with the next generation, I think Nintendo's litigiousness will hurt them because it will have driven many of these people away.
People that don't know of this (or don't care) will indiscriminately buy their products. To unseat them it would require a handheld that targets the same market and a killer game for that handheld.
I guess they antagonize anyone that has moderate exposure using their IP
In some countries copyright law says that if you let people use your copyrighted material with little to no impediment then you cannot suddenly request whoever is using your material to stop
Let's say that Nintendo allows fans to make fan made Mario games for 5 years. Then they suddenly sue everyone and say "hey you have to pay for copyright or shutdown". A judge can decide that since they didn't enforce their copyright for some time they cannot sue people that are using their IP.
From a legal perspective the act of policing your own copyrighted material is the company's responsibility. This law prevents companies from relaxing their copyright claims for years (essentially allowing people to use it) and then suing everyone for using their IP. In other words Just let everyone use it, then sue them. The law is there to prevent that
Nintendo is likely super strict because "let people use your copyrighted material with little to no impediment" has room for interpretation in a court room. So they go to the conservative side and shut down everyone. Also consider that they're right next to China. The piracy capital of the world. It's not a surprise they're scared about their copyright.
I'm not saying that what they're doing is right. It's not. But I see where it comes from.
Nintendo have permanently lost a customer in me because of their recent behaviour.
Recent? They've been pulling bullshit moves like this since the 80s, when they successfully killed off the game rental market in Japan. To this day you still can't rent games in that country.
This is why it's always morally correct to pirate Nintendo games, and thankfully Nintendo consoles have had a history of being among the easiest to emulate, especially the N64, Wii, and Switch. All three of those systems had working emulators while the consoles themselves were still in their peak years.
Honestly, unless you're a young teen or schoolkid, they don't put out much content worth it anyway. Unless you consider endless variations on Mario innovative.
I might get a switch 2 only after it's hackable. I thought of doing it with the switch but it seemed too complex for me. At this point I'm really fed up with Nintendo's anti consumer bs. And I'm not just referring to the copyright takedowns and closure yuzu but things like the Mario all stars collection which they then created artificial scarcity around and the Zelda anniversary where they release a HD remaster of skyward sword which is seen as the weakest of the series. I do enjoy the odd Nintendo game but I've had my switch since the year after it came out and I've only beaten 4-5 games on it and I've only 10-20 at most on it and those are mostly indies.
My laptop sucks though so I can really only run anything up to Super Nintendo on it
There are so many good games for the SNES. You are good to go.
Their games have been easily pirated for a while anyways
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