Fuck Nintendo. I would pay 60 bucks a game to get my entire N64 and NES library back but Nintendo will never make the bulk their older games available.
I normally stay away from in production emulation, however, after what they did to Yuzu, I stopped giving a fuck.
Isn’t the switch the only in production console that you can emulate and hasn’t it been like that for a long time?
Define a long time. Weren’t both Dolphin and Cemu both in active development at times their respective consoles were on the market?
Admits? Was it ever up to them?
The legal proceedings technically were. Nintendo screamed illegal so a bunch of unfunded dev teams got sued into oblivion. Admittance can be from a perspective of guilt too.
Yeah, when I want to emulate old games, I don’t really care if it’s legal or not, especially when I’m emulating it bcz it’s not available anywhere else.
Are you emulating it because it’s not available anywhere else? Because if you’re willing to put in the effort, most games are available elsewhere. Just because it’s not at GameStop doesn’t mean it isn’t “available”.
But yeah, I don’t emulate new stuff. I emulate old stuff. And with even Nintendo’s digital stores closing down and being replaced with subscriptions, sailing the seas becomes more and more promising of a solution.
sounds great, until you read literally the next sentence:
They run afoul of the law when they bypass encryption, recreate copyrighted programs, or point users to pirated material.
aka you can emulate stuff, just not for anything remotely modern.
How does it bypassing encryption suddenly make it illegal??? That’s like saying you legally own this lockbox and can take it home however if you open it using anything but our official key you are breaking the law.
Or distributing the emulation.
Couple of weeks ago I played digimon world 1 on an emulator. After over 20 years of it releasing it runs flawlessly and looks much better than before, to make things even nicer it has been getting unofficial patches with the latest version coming out like a month ago. Games don’t need to die, we can keep them going forever.
How are you liking it, btw? I loved the idea as a kid, but was pissed as hell I kept getting Numemon and dying. Didn’t get back into it until Digimon World 3, which was very different gameplay-wise.
I may have just been a particularly dumb kid though, wondering if it’s worth giving another shot.
