Annie D

counterfeits are so easy y'all.

you can go on aliexpress right now and get custom made knockoff carts of literally any game you can imagine, all the way up to fucking Switch now.

After all: it's just a few rom chips in a plastic shell. Custom chips make a few titles harder, but at the rate things are going, clones are inevitable. The market's there; people want this shit, and there's nothing stopping counterfeiters from providing what the "legit" market won't.

As far as I can tell, in fact, counterfeiting has ramped up harder since the Wata scam came onto the scene, because no normal person is stupid enough to pay 6 digits for fucking Mario.

Smash all you want, but it's like trying to drain a bucket one spoonful at a time. While it's sitting under a running faucet.

The Computist - For The Serious User of Apple ][ Computers (1986)

this is literally just a magazine full of cracks.

awesome.

I really think these are worth watching, because there's a lot of nuance that's been lost in a lot of the online discussion of these, and regardless of your opinion on emulation or piracy, it's incredibly important to know the actual facts if there's an actual legal threat to emulation as a concept.

It's a lot of video to watch, and I do encourage you to get the word straight from Moonie's mouth, but the short version is that emulation's legal grounds are not as strong as a lot of people seem to think, and Nintendo has found a novel legal interpretation that is specifically a threat to emulation of more recent systems.

There are also, frankly, some dumb shit some of the devs have done that rather invited Nintendo's wrath, that boils down to "no, you do not get to make money on piracy, and we all know that."