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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.β
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they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"
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in reply to @goaty's post:
Good explainer by a lawyer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wROQUZDCIMI
yeah the post i linked explains what happened, and that dolphin's stuff is completely legal
Sure sure, selling another companies product that you absolutely did not license is totally legal.
Look, you wanna emulate, go ahead, but do it in ways that DON'T say you want major corporations stealing from other major corporations, okay? Emulation is not the end all be all of absolutely anything, it is an app that allows you to play games on defunct systems.
I'm talking about not being a whiny asshole about it. Stop flaunting it where the feds can see it. Jeez, how is it this hard to not be terrible?
Or are you saying you want to buy An EA developed and published Mario game on Xbox that nintendo was not involved in for twice the price Nintendo would sell it for?
what on fucking earth are you talking about? i think you fundamentally misunderstand what an emulator is, whether it is legal, the situation as a whole, etc.
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emulation is completely legal. distributing roms is not legal, which dolphin did not do.
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dolphin was not selling any nintendo games. nintendo didn't even file a DMCA take-down request, because they weren't distributing anything under copyright.
it genuinely sounds like you fundamentally misunderstand every part of this situation, and i don't mean any offense by that. i hope this clears things up!
The way I understand it, the dolphin guys got too big for their britches and had to be humbled.
Sorry if you are unaware of the importance of hardware preservation, but I like my games to NOT REQUIRE AN APP TO USE. I do not see how blatant theft is legal.
Ok yeah it sounds like you don't understand it at all lol. Nobody is saying you can't play your GameCube. Hell, I still play mine sometimes.
But the simple fact is that a lot of games for older consoles are completely out of print and can only be bought used, and there's functionally no difference between buying a used game and downloading a rom. Nobody who worked on the game makes money in either situation, and you're certainly not buying new GameCube or wii games.
But even before that, you can use emulation to play games you own physically. It's completely legal to back up your own games in case your hardware does not survive.
The fuck are you talking about? That's not at all what we were talking about.
The point is that Dolphin is a 3rd party app that was literally advertising itself as "We're theft". IF anything, you should be against them for trying to DESTROY emulation. They needed to be humbled, stop trying to gatekeep retro gaming.