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Nintendo is trying to shut down almost all Switch Emulators, including Eden, Citron, Kenji-NX, and MeloNx (www.dsogaming.com)
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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Nintendo succeeded in killing Yuzu because they had decryption keys which Nintendo could argue is breaking their copy protection, which is why they settled for 2.4 million dollars in sales damages because they knew they wouldn't be able to win in court.

All of these forks have since removed the key and require the user to supply it (legally from your own console).

So in theory they should be protected under US law since emulation and reverse engineering is completely legal.

However

Nintendo also has infinite money to throw at the problem, and FOSS devs are usually not willing to deal with insane amount of personal liability because of a hobby, which is how they killed Ryujinx.

So you better hold onto your guts if you plan to fight Nintendo.

Or move to i2p so they can't disable you lol.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 5 hours ago

pokemon cards alone accounts for billions in profit/revenue. they have plenty of money.

[–] eli@lemmy.world 18 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Meh, emulate it and get better frame rates and higher resolution.

Why would I buy a console that plays the game at an inferior state?

Nintendo is free at any time to release their games on Steam or even their own PC storefront and if I could play it with my hardware then I'd buy most games at full price.

Until then, nah I'm good.

[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Agree, as long as we are forced to bullshit, I'll just keep my hands dirty.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 48 points 13 hours ago

I never thought to emulate the switch until they killed the first emulator. Now I download the latest emu and roms nearly every month. Fuck Nintendo.

[–] saphiron@lemmy.world 121 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Fuck Nintendo.

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[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Eden's primary git repo is self-hosted. This doesn't affect them at all.

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Nintendo's lawyers have reach beyond github. They only need to chat with your hosting company or nameserver.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 8 points 9 hours ago

There are hosts and nameservers located in countries that don't give a fuck about companies like Nintendo.

In fact, the recent backlash about everything being hosted in the US has started to make this even easier as companies in other countries are stepping in to grab market share as companies look to flee US hosting.

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 hours ago

Sure, but since the project itself is not illegal, they could just keep mirroring it and even throw it up on a .onion site or an I2P eepsite.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Do yo know which is the official website and repository? When I search different results popup and I don't know which is original.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 92 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Open source is hard to kill off forever. Someone, somewhere is gonna have the repo.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 18 points 16 hours ago (8 children)

Getting it off GitHub is usually enough to effectively kill it.

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I personally got ahold of the final version of the source code to Ryujinx after it was pulled from GitHub and put it on archive.org and I'm literally a random nobody who had nothing to do with the project so you are very incorrect. It was almost immediately picked up by other developers and is still seeing development to this day

[–] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 6 hours ago

Oh well if you archived it then its not dead!

[–] michael@piefed.chrisco.me 32 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Naa most projects are still fine off github. Theres a couple of emus that are now officially off gh and they are still being worked on.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Self-hosted gits in a country that doesn't care are becoming popular.

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[–] Cantaloupe877@fedioasis.cc 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I hate our timeline so much man...

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 points 9 hours ago

it won't fix itself. So let's get to demolishing.

[–] Nikelui@lemmy.world 37 points 16 hours ago (10 children)

And it will still not improve the sales of the Switch 2.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't it selling well?

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[–] qwestjest78@lemmy.ca 28 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I mean Nintendo could always lower games prices, add the features you get from emulators, and make the experience vastly superior on the console, then these emulators would be far less relevant.

No, I'm sure they will just keep killing better options and charging their consumers as much as humanly possible without having to innovate their products.

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[–] Sat@lemmy.world 24 points 17 hours ago

It's a meaningless battle.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Sony v. connectix and Sony v. bleem both established that emulation is legal. Nintendo can fuck off.

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[–] hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 points 16 hours ago (9 children)

It's crazy to watch a company burn a lifetime of good will in just a few years of chasing copyright litigation.

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

The NES required companies to have nintendo make the cartridges for them and approve of games before doing so. You can say it improved quality over other systems but its still heavy handed and shitty from day one.

I love the games and consoles over the years but fuck nintendo all the same. They are capitalist greedy pigs like every other big game company.

[–] hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 hours ago

Honestly, that kind of makes sense given the era the NES came out in. There was a fair amount of unplayable shovelware for the Atari, so having some oversight was probably good marketing at the time.

The practice of going after emulators and trying to establish exclusive rights to game mechanics that they didn't actually invent is a bit further.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 11 points 16 hours ago

They're selling $80 games with no problems so it seems to be working out for them.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 14 hours ago

Fuck Nintendo. Don't buy their shit.

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