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ctg867
@ctg867

Understandably a lot of focus on layoffs today. Meanwhile, Nintendo is currently trying to set a legal precedent that would be a death kneel for games preservation.

The majority of works from this art medium are no longer in physical print or currently available for digital sale. The only thing keeping them accessible today is (a) emulation and (b) piracy.

You can do whatever mental gymnastics you want to carve out exceptions here, but the precedent Nintendo would set by winning this case would have a chilling effect on all emulation development. This is a direct threat to this history and culture.


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I love emulation. But when the instructions are pretty much "you need a hacked Switch or a way of generating a code from one to use this emulator."

You don't try and preserve current consoles. That's just piracy. And I'm fine with piracy.

But obviously Nintendo ain't going to be cool with it.

Additional: like I don't think Nintendo will win, or it'll go anywhere. But as a business, of course they're going to go after Switch emulators.

More or less. I think they're trying to find ways to maximize revenue given the Switch 2 got delayed, and the legal team at NoA convinced corporate this was the way to do it.