"Emulators are only OK when we specifically release them for our own hardware to run an extremely limited catalog that we hand pick and then charge the price of a brand new release for. Everyone else get fucked"
Meanwhile there's a bunch of evidence suggesting Nintendo used pirated ROMs for their own emulators.
Hey, remember that game you loved as a kid and wanted it on your newest system with minor quality of life changes? We made a mobile version that kills the style, has a shitty controller layout that you cant change, and its $59.99 more than when it originally released 30 years ago
The fact that SNES games were $60 30 years ago and games are still that price means we are actually getting a deal. Except the physical part is what made the $60 feel worth it, the cart, the full color 30 page manual and sometimes posters! Now games are digital they should be like $10 max from Nintendo.
They were also complete games rather than having content carved off of them to sell as MTX.
Inflation never hit Arby's -Nick Thune
Final Fantasy VI could have had such a beautiful post SNES legacy.
The pixel remaster is a solid version. Could have used the GBA dungeons, but the music is very well done.
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My rule is that if they don't sell the game for the original system anymore, then it's not stealing.
Stealing from who. The used market?
Obviously these are all legitimate backups from games I own.
Doing the lords work
Barring me from getting old games in a modern platform will not stop me from playing old games on a modern platform.
The sooner they realize that and plan accordingly by releasing their old catalogs for appropriate pricing, the sooner they will get what they want and piracy and emulation will plummet.
When people have a cheap and easy way of doing something without wondering if they're about to get SWATed, they're way more likely to actually do that.
I'm sure you meant it as hyperbole, but SWAT will not actually show up to anyone's home just for pirating video games. At most, a handful of local police or FBI may knock on your door, but SWAT are not called in for something like that. Not unless you have some history with the police of extreme violence or you have given them reason to suspect you are going to put up a fight.
A person is most likely to recieve a letter in the mail or an email from the lawyers of Nintendo before police are invovled.
Every time I hear Nintendo issues another C&D, I have a new emulator to download before they get forcibly taken down.
It's 100% the streisand effect.
"Oh you're whining about another small group of people passionate about your past games? Well let me pile onto your woes. Asshole."
I do not understand how one company can have so much dedication from fans while simultaneously despising them.
If YOU aren't going to offer a 100% obviously and clearly above board, legal, safe, option for games anymore, someone else WILL and you get absolutely nothing from it.
And I also don't understand why a company with no intention of ever selling something again still has the ability to sue people while claiming lost revenue. Get fucked, and stop bitching. It just makes me never want to buy Nintendo products ever again.
But that won't stop me from playing Nintendo products.
There really needs to be "Use it or lose it" system when it comes to intellectual property.
Not selling Manhunt 2 anywhere? Can't bitch when I find a cracked copy...
I'm just kidding, Rockstar doesn't because they realize they're not losing money on a product they literally don't sell or even acknowledge that often.
Piracy is not a crime, it is the preservation of art.
I tried to run suyu yesterday and found out that Nintendo actually succeeded in practically killing the development of yuzu and its' forks.
Suyu and sudachi are dead and torzu is hosted/developed by a single developer who admits they wont be able to properly keep on development.
It's reasonable, because apparently yuzu used Nintendo code from a devkit, which makes the whole codebase radioactive. But yeah: Nintendo actually succeeded in the end. :/
There is a actually a method to Nintendo's madness. As part of IP ownership, "Reasonable Measures" must be taken to defend your IP or you risk losing the right to defend them. That said they can gobble my ryujinx
I am definitely not a lawyer.
If they sold emulators on steam or gog I would probably pay a reasonable amount for them. But they don't, so I pay nothing.
Nintendo Switch has a bunch of emulators. You need a premium subscription though.
IMO, a subscription service is almost worse than not selling them at all.
Either I buy them individually for a reasonable one time fee, or I don't and get them for free.
I don't want to play on a switch though. If I play on my computer, that's a platform that's going to be around for ages. And had no subscription fees.
And a Switch, of course...
I recently jailbroke my Wii and ripped all my current games, so this is surprisingly relatable to me right now.
I also got a low firmware PS4 to jailbreak so I can rip those in preparation for ShadPS4, an up and coming PS4 emulator. Bloodborne is running on it now, though it's still far from playable.How about you re-release your older games on platforms I'm willing to pay for, ones that aren't tied to an arbitrary subscription service or apart of a digital storefront that can go down at any time?
Literally what happened to me. I have a modded switch but still bought games for it, when they shut down yuzu I packed the switch up and play exclusively on PC now.
This meme works especially well because Pam's line immediately before this is "I could give a shit about your happiness"
This is what I did, although I went a step further than emulating. I'd always been planning on hacking my Switch once the next one came out, but when Nintendo went after Yuzu, I said fuck 'em and hacked it then and there. They won't be getting any more sales from me this gen.
Yeah, I'm kinda pissed about this stuff. I watched Noodle's video about the motorstorm series and come to find out I have to spend a bunch to get the original hardware or just not play it because I can't find any ROMs online anywhere.
What? Search nointro on archive.org for collections of cartridge games. Search redump there for disc based.
Anything not on archive (usually newer releases, or disc based games from PS2 or later), try some of the resources from the wiki/megathread on db0.lemmy.com's piracy community.
"no results found" when searching for motorstorm.
The 2 lists I pulled up didn't even have PS2/3 on there.
I've given up searching for it anyways.
There are a few sources you could check. One place is nopaystation.com. There's another good source I'm aware of, but I'm on mobile and don't remember the specific link.
I ripped my own copies of Motorstorm 1 & 2 and it's pretty great on RPCS3. Would recommend.
If you want to rip copies yourself it's not that difficult to do. You don't need a jailbroken PS3 to do it, just a compatible Blu-ray drive from RPCS3's compatibility list and a program called PS3 Disc Dumper or something like that. Through that method alone I've been able to rip over 110 PS3 games since November '23.
I will emulate even their wives
(I'm kidding with the last part)
Nintendo isn't even losing money. There so people still buying Nintendo products. Probably cause they don't know how to emulate and such.
I got a confirmation on my MIG being shipped just a few days ago. Also finally managed to cancel my Nintendo online subscription, they couldn't have made that more difficult.
What's that supposed to mean?!
Nintendo has a long history of trying to kill emulation, even legit ones, and on PC, it's very easy to emulate stuff including by legit means, so the joke is that Nintendo is saying to stop emulating, and PC gamers out of spite answer by emulating more (and if it's "emulating more" by legitimate means or otherwise, it's not clear).
Nintendo ruined the 8-bit computer game culture and I will never forgive them.
How so?
I second this question.
