f in the chat. settled with the big n to the tune of "pay us millions, shut down everything, never distribute it again". cool
one thing i see is "oh, they had a patreon, they were asking for it"
software preservation and emulation doesn't just fucking spring out of nothing, it requires people to work on things. it requires people to reverse engineer, to write code, to do tests and comparisons, to buy hardware and software so you can then tear it apart, and buy replacements
developing yuzu was effectively a job for people. taking things designed for one particular piece of hardware and opening it up to anyone with a computer, allowing them to be played, researched, preserved, experienced even without the required console -- that was still work.
and quite frankly nintendo can eat my entire ass. nintendo has explicitly called emulation nothing but the domain of pirates and constantly claims it is fully illegal. their money making literally relies on it not being accessible. nintendo can't charge you $5 + a $1 Foreigner Fee for lost levels if you can grab a copy of the disk someone saved 20 years ago and run it in something better (and more feature-packed).
"well they shouldn't have been profiting off of it" yeah, man. they should've been adtech developers in webshit making money selling everyone's data instead. you tell em champ
