Agent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agoThe official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassingwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square180fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassingwww.pcgamer.comAgent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square180fedilinkcross-posted to: piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
minus-squarejmcs@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·24 days agoThat’s definitely not the case for Switch emulators.
minus-squareturtletracks@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·24 days agoYuzu was charging for early access to their emulator, which is what prompted Nintendo action. Ryujinx doesn’t seem like any legal action was taken, sounds like the creator was given a chunk of cash by Nintendo to take it down. I hate Nintendo, but you gotta keep the facts straight
minus-squareZangoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·24 days agoI don’t think they paid him off, I think it was more along the lines of “We won’t do anything to you if you stop now”
minus-squarejmcs@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·24 days agoThey also shut down Yuzu forks using the DMCA. If they paid Ryujinx’s dev it was the equivalent of the Mafia bribing a judge while waving a picture of his family.
That’s definitely not the case for Switch emulators.
Yuzu was charging for early access to their emulator, which is what prompted Nintendo action.
Ryujinx doesn’t seem like any legal action was taken, sounds like the creator was given a chunk of cash by Nintendo to take it down.
I hate Nintendo, but you gotta keep the facts straight
I don’t think they paid him off, I think it was more along the lines of “We won’t do anything to you if you stop now”
They also shut down Yuzu forks using the DMCA. If they paid Ryujinx’s dev it was the equivalent of the Mafia bribing a judge while waving a picture of his family.
Totally the same /s