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Nintendo's real intent is doubtless to try and ensure that nobody ever makes a functional emulator for the upcoming Switch 2.
Good fucking luck, the hardware will likely be a 2022 tablet if the switch is anything to go off of. Considering as well the console will likely have similar architecture, and switch emulators already exist, I'd give it about 3 months.
seems like there have been multiple contributors. so many clones of the repo....
Need to do something! As for YouTube and ad-blockers
they probably would have been fine if they weren't shown as being used to play the leaked echos of wisdom....
Don't think so, one day it would be shutdowned by Nintendo
Goddammit!
Why won't Nintendo just FUCK. OFF. with this crusade of theirs??!!
^(And^ ^before^ ^anyone^ ^mentions^ ^it,^ ^yes,^ ^I'm^ ^aware^ ^as^ ^to^ ^why^ ^they^ ^don't.^ ^The^ ^question^ ^was^ ^rhetorical.)^
...Okay.
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Someone will take his place and continue the work. Someone who is more robust and has a will to not cater to such dumb demands.
Yah sure keep thinking that. Hasn’t happened for the other emulator taken down.
It may happen once the Switch has reached its end-of-life. There would be less chance of N going after someone if their console is dead.
No, not impossible. I know they went after the melee community. But whoever picks up the torch would have less of a crosshair on their back at that point in time.
Yuzu was made with ill gotten software (switch SDK,)
RJ did not and Nintendo knew that
Man you're so defeatist. Do you dare call yourself a pirate still with that kind of mentality? If so, please excuse yourself by not representing of being a part of the pirate community.
Because we don't have time or patience for that shit. Things shut down all the time, but things also come back. People within rank will pick up what's been left behind. The only people dumb enough to say the shit you've said, are simply just leechers. Leechers who take and take but give nothing back. You're nothing.
"pirate community" lmfao
A retard. LMAO
as of now, nobody took the place of yuzu devs, for example
suyu (the most famous yuzu fork) got just 50 commits in the last 6 months and are almost all of them are tiny changes to the readme where they only change the discord link or just memes
So an alternative will pop up right? At this point pirating nintendo games is a moral obligation
There are only so many programmers who are good enough to create an emulator, and a lot of them are already doing other projects. The Switch is also a very complicated system, and it needs a small team to pull it off.
It's Nintendo practically daring people to do it.
And they will.
"What are you gonna do, stab me?"
- Quote from man stabbed
The agreement: You agree to take it down and we agree not to take your house and 30% of your salary until you die.
I'm not so sure. It's possible Nintendo opted for a carrot rather than a stick in this case.
This doesn't seem to have been started with a public C&D letter like usual. Yuzu (the previous Switch emulator that was taken down) incorporated some proprietary Nintendo information, which is why Nintendo had a legal lever against them. They don't have one in this case, yet it still came down. Plus, everything seems to be have been going on very quiet behind the scenes.
If you were an emulator writer and Nintendo came and offered you life changing money in exchange for ending the project, would you take it? I would have a very hard time turning that down. Nintendo also doesn't want a flood of yokels trying to start the project up again hoping to receive the same offer; most would fail, but one or two might take off. Better to let the threat be implied.
This is just speculation, of course, but something about the way this has unfolded feels a little different.
"Agreement" is quite a fucking twist on "threat."