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
the profit thing bugs me so much because you can look back over the years and Nintendo sure didn't care about "they were making money" when it came to other (fan!) projects
shit like this means that they don't have to take you to court. they send you a nasty C&D saying "hey buddy. those are some nice kneecaps you have. if you stop now, you won't end up like the last person" as they jerk their thumb over to the latest smoldering mess
or have we all already forgotten the "oh good, a major outlet is covering a nintendo fangame, hope you downloaded it before-- aaaaand it's gone"
"oh but yuzu was asking for it making profit, nintendo doesn't want to go after all emulation" eat my entire fucking asshole
Nintendo Issues DMCA Takedown for Lockpick, A Tool Used for Switch Emulation (10 months ago)Two crucial components in the emulation ecosystem are Lockpick and Lockpick_RCM. These tools enable users to extract unique keys from their Nintendo Switch console, which are necessary for several Switch homebrew applications, such as the Ryujinx and Yuzu Switch emulators.
Although Lockpick has been available for a long time, Nintendo has reportedly decided to take action against it by issuing a DMCA takedown to the GitHub project page. This move has caused concern and debate within the community.
what's your explanation for this one, then?
the only answer is that nintendo fucking sucks shit and you don't "gotta hand it to them".