Is there a reason why they shouldn’t do this?
My suggestion, get as many private copies of emulators you can before they go after all the Github ones. Seems to be more and more take-downs are happening lately.
It really is too bad we dont have a federated github alternative. I know theres some projects in development, but I can see the emulator scene getting harder and harder to get into if popular repos go down. Decades of work, gone.
We do have a federated GitHub alternative. Perhaps not too mature yet, but it does indeed exist. Forgejo
I just discovered that this is Codeberg - I’ve seen a lot of projects there and I had no idea that it was an instance of Forgejo
This is probably a good argument for torrents. Lame that something as gray as a simple emulator is catching flak but Nintendo can’t really play whack-a-mole with dozens or hundreds of random seeders
Emulators aren’t even grey, it’s settled law that they are legal.
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Get a device or two, as well.
Your computer may very well get obsolete when it comes to software support.
A handheld or console meant to be an emulation console won’t have to move through time. It’ll be as it is after the day you’re done setting it up, like a hacked console.
Your PC has to keep up with web standards, codecs, online goings on but dedicated, offline devices do not. I may choose an SBC to do this to, and make a copy of the partition housing the emulators and boot drive for safe keeping.
I also have two different raspberrypi emulation images. Since those are literally everywhere, it’s a sure bet you’ll be able to find one to put the sd card into, even years from now.
Just don’t play Nintendo games lol. That’s what I do. I didn’t grow up with these ‘classics’ and I don’t feel like getting into these as an adult. 🤷♂️
just don’t do it
Oh, that’s a good idea. Never thought of just tossing my entire childhood and lifetime hobby away because a stranger thinks keeping up with less than a terabyte of old games is hard.
Lmao. Some of us aren’t vegetables.
Some of us aren’t vegetables.
Oh someone having different opinion makes them a vegetable? Choke on that nintendick while they shove an unlubed dildo up your ass.
Get rekt by AAA cock, sheepdick. Pay that subscription lmao. Hail corpo!
Sounds like someone couldn’t get past the retroarch GUI. Oh well, maybe they’ll put it on gamepass for you someday.
You’re a special kind of moron, aren’t you?
Get rekt by AAA cock, sheepdick. Pay that subscription lmao. Hail corpo!
Fucking hilarious coming from someone giving a blowie to Bowser. Or other than scrappy Nintendo, every other game company is a AAA slop-serving corpo in your delusionland?
Sounds like someone couldn’t get past the retroarch GUI.
Ah elitism too. Figures. Are you going to say you Arch btw next? Which part of ‘I don’t give a shit about Nintendo classics’ was too difficult to get into your brain? Or were you too busy getting pegged by Princess Peach?
Fucking chutiya.
You’re a special kind of…
Copypasted reply? Really?
Fucking hilarious coming from someone giving a blowie to Bowser. Or other than scrappy Nintendo, every other game company is a AAA slop-serving corpo in your delusionland
Nah, fuck them too. They don’t get a pass. They’re in the sack with the rest of the greedy shits. Nintendo doesn’t even make up the bulk of most classic romsets size, Sony does.
Ah elitism too. Figures. Are you going to say you Arch btw next? Which part of ‘I don’t give a shit about Nintendo classics’ was too difficult to get into your brain? Or were you too busy getting pegged by Princess Peach?
Is arch another tree you can’t climb? Pegged by princess peach?
(if you must know, yeah, my desktop runs arch)
Quit projecting, bro. Insults don’t have to come from so deep in the heart. I don’t need to know you that well 🤣
Emulators should provide torrents for releases.
Stop making me sad sir!!!
Link for N64?
People are missing the point of this article a bit - It’s not just about Nintendo trying to remove forks/backups of yuzu/ryujinx. It’s that they are trying to subpoena Reddit as a corporation for user data. They want to pursue legal actions against anyone discussing Switch Piracy online. And then ask yourself - Do you trust Reddit as a corporation with your user data?
In addition to requesting records from Reddit, Nintendo’s filing also makes appeals for information from other companies, including domain registrars such as Namecheap and GoDaddy, along with firms such as Cloudflare, Github, Google, and Discord.
Reminder, that you do not own your social media accounts and that corporations might end up sharing whatever you post online with whomever. Privacy and anonymity are not guaranteed.
I always wondered what data does reddit actually have? Even if they had IPs and people posting, I’m John Smith, how exactly is Nintendo going to prove anything in a court of law? IP is not a person, and talking about shit online isn’t the same as doing it.
And most of all, are they going to sue and investigate 10,000 people?
I don’t get any of this fear mongering. I think this is all just aimed at shutting down communication channels, they aren’t going to go after individuals talking on the internet
So, Lemmy is a better place?
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Those dumbass mods at /r/piracy censoring the shit out of everyone to not post links and be uselessly vague to prevent from being taken down, and still get taken down even after all that stupid self censoring, is catharsis for me and ironic for them because it was useless to everyone that tried to look for help there since they deterred anyone from directly linking or name dropping sites or discord channels to locate piracy content. Even their wiki was dogshit useless.
So, good. Fuck them. They deserve it. Don’t self censor, don’t be vague, don’t discourage actual piracy. Which is what they did there. Fuck them. Fuck reddit.
I think the self-censoring was moreso out of concern for upsetting the Reddit admins than it was for companies like Nintendo.
Does your hypothesis change how you think about either of them?
Yeah I don’t get certain sub rules. For example on the VPN subreddit you couldn’t ask about or name ANY VPN companies. Like, what!? Then what the hell are we here for!?
I wonder if their intent was to help people find a good VPN or to be the place people who want to find a VPN go and then give up looking for one.
Seems like the best way to get people to hate something isn’t by going around telling people that they should hate it. It’s by becoming a spokesman for that thing and telling people they should love it while making them hate you (and everything associated with you).
Numerous schools of thought here BUT setting the “arbitrary” line for “shilling” at specific brands does have the benefit of helping to remove astroturfing.
The skincare subreddit and cerave come to mind.
With vpns you can at least talk about the technology and benefits of protocols and whatnot so that people know what to look for in a company.
This is of course me taking the most open minded stance I can wrt their rules
The big ones:
Now Nintendo is seeking the court’s approval to actually subpoena Reddit for user records. These records, if shared, could identify additional moderators or users tied to the r/SwitchPirates subreddits. Nintendo argues that these records are critical to building their case against others in the alleged piracy …
In addition to requesting records from Reddit, Nintendo’s filing also makes appeals for information from other companies, including domain registrars such as Namecheap and GoDaddy, along with firms such as Cloudflare, Github, Google, and Discord.
Kinda weird that I’m rooting for reddit, a company I hate, against Nintendo, a company that usually brings me joy.
But here we are.
Any time Nintendo is involved in a legal case, you can pretty safely assume they’re probably wrong.
On the other hand, r/switchpirates is transparently a community for the express purpose of pirating Nintendo games for their current system. It’s one of the rare cases where I think they probably can make a slam-dunk legal case to shut it down.
To shut it down, sure. To get information on accounts simply for posting there? They can fuck off.
Nintendo is definitely overstepping with that request, but I can’t say I feel bad for the subset of Redditors shitting their pants because they admitted to distributing* ROMs. Trusting a corporation to protect you from the consequences of your actions is a level of stupidity beyond deserving sympathy.
*Specifically distributing. Not downloading. Not discussing. Distributing.
Talking is irrelevant. It’s debatable whether they’re actually entitled to even compel the sub to be closed, as they didn’t allow links to anything infringing, and discussion is protected. I just ignored that because I don’t care.
Nothing there says anything that indicates there is any effort to restrict the information gathering to people actively distributing anything on the relevant platforms. Trying to demand the personal information of participants in discussions without direct, explicit proof that that account actually distributed pirated content makes them bad people. It is not excusable behavior.
Talking is irrelevant. It’s debatable whether they’re actually entitled to even compel the sub to be closed, as they didn’t allow links to anything infringing, and discussion is protected. I just ignored that because I don’t care.
There’s a distinction between talking about piracy and admitting to committing copyright infringement on a public forum: the former is discussion, and the latter is self-incrimination. It’s not going to actually matter unless that person makes themselves worthwhile to go after, but that doesn’t make it any less stupid of an idea to admit to it in the first place.
Trying to demand the personal information of participants in discussions without direct, explicit proof that that account actually distributed pirated content makes them bad people. It is not excusable behavior.
I’m not sure where you got the idea that I’m excusing Nintendo’s overreaching demands from. Nowhere in my comment did I claim that Nintendo is entitled to any of the requested information.
They used to be pretty strict about posting links. If that’s still the case, it’s literally just a discussion forum discussing and promoting something illegal and not necessarily doing anything illegal. I’ll wager that the judge would only sign off on information from users that Nintendo already has enough evidence against. But I guess we’ll see.
Subpoenaing Reddit for user records because some guy emulated a videogame made for your crappy handheld console.
Target them all you want, the links are on gdrive and mega and the owners will just move to advertising them somewhere else, Tumblr, throwaway eBay listings, Spotify playlists,… here.
Entire romsets for gb, gbc, gba, N64, SNES, etc have all been on piratebay for over a decade, not to mention the 4-5 300Gb+ curated sets out there… wherever they are.
Good luck there, Nintenbros. Keep swinging that axe. We’ll keep growing heads.
It also helps that the golden age is over and each system now only gets around 10 or so exclusives worth a shit so there’s less Switch games needed for a good set compared to past generations. Thanks, Nintendo. Quality over quantity.
The main thing they are trying to do is make it more difficult to find this stuff via google, which tbh is still easy without reddit.
But even Switch homebrew has been a pain. Most of it is one off software made years ago because no sane dev wanted to actually keep up with all the firmware releases and limited control of CFW. Github/Gitlab repos keep getting banned left and right for tools not even related to piracy.
3DS has full fledged apps with teams behind everything and HShop which makes it very easy for everyone. Switch still doesn’t have a definitive method of handling NSP/XCIs, and all the auto download internet repos are invite only to hide from Nintendo.
I’m really hoping someone finds some serious hardware bypass in their next console after what they did to the emulation scene. They really deserve to go through the insane R4 piracy age all over again for nuking everything online.
Not to mention discord channels you have to be invited to.
It also helps that the golden age is over
Even the stone age is coming to an end - in favor of clay dicks. Talking about games.
So what? Nintendo expects us to wait for their lazy asses to release older games?
They’ve released like 1% of the NES library on Switch and it’s been years.
Not only that. In South America, it is impossible to legally purchase digital Nintendo games. The only options are: overpriced physical copies (like, 2 or 3 times the original value), or create a US account (so, lying in the personal data) and buy prepaid cards online (also severely overpriced).
For some people, piracy is the only option.
Emulators do what Nintendon’t.
Cut off one head and two more shall take its place, business as usual
I’m playing the world’s smallest violin
