Fuck Nintendo.
Ryujinx did everything right and legal. Let’s see how Nintendo supporters try to justify this one.
I’m not Nintendo supporter and play Switch games on emulators. But one justification is, that this is current generation system. And while the developers are not responsible for, this enables easy piracy, and basically each first party game got leaked early and was playable before or shortly after launch. So lot of these people connect the wrong dots and say that the emulator “supports” piracy, which is not true, but depending on the view could be interpreted by some haters.
The Ryujinx isn’t illegal and I am pro emulation (I have terabytes of Roms for all kind of systems) and Open Source. The above statement is not MY justification, but what I think is what most Nintendo supporters will say. I talk about this subject with my bro, watch YouTube videos and read forum comments and that is what I get from them.
nintendrones are the most brainwashed corporate bootlickers I’ve ever encountered
As a person that has grown up in a poorer country I never have played any nintendo games as a child so I don’t have that nostalgia factor. The recent nintendo games I’ve tried were just okay, nothing to write home about in my opinion. I really cannot grasp why these people with hundreds of nintendo merch do what they do, is the feeling of nostalgia really such a great factor?
They have a lot of perfectly fine games. If they were priced appropriately.
Mario, Donkey Kong, Metroid are all pretty good 2D platformers (with Metroid obviously being one of the original sources of metroidvania as a genre). But tech has advanced to the point that one person, or a small team, can make 2D games every bit as good as theirs, many small teams have (with better art in some cases), and there are many better options that start at lower prices than their “huge discount mega-sale” price of $40-45, and discount even further beyond that.
Their games sell well enough, so clearly it works on some level, but it’s just generally doesn’t make a lot of sense to get a game like Metroid Dread over a game like Ori or Hollow Knight. Games aren’t fungible, and I get that, but I genuinely think a lot of indie games are better, better looking, and much more substantial than a lot of their 2D offerings.
Yes
Same, old NES and SNES were pretty good for its era but for the last 30 years nintendo managed to produce exactly one game series i mildly wanted to play, Fire Emblem, and ever since i played it on emulator recently that want disappeared, it wasn’t even very fun.
For those who’ve been paying attention, this has been known a long time. Remember when Nintendo would falsely claim gaming videos on YT and take all of the earnings just because one of their games made an appearance?
my theory is that this will harden the next generation of nintendo emulator devs to be more anonymous and uncontactable.
i also suspect that nintendo has only delayed switch 2 emulation which is probably really close to switch 1 and can be trivially emulated relatively speaking.
i do think they’re going to partner with denuvo though which with make piracy harder, but i think the switch will also be cracked.
Entire history of video games shows that when piracy is on decline, ripoffs intensify.
Any info on what exactly the dev got out of the deal? Huge sum of money? Big titty waifu? Unreleased version of Smash with Waluigi?
Likely not getting his life destroyed by a lawsuit
It would be sad if that’s what Nintendo convinced him into believing, because as the article points out, there’s legal precedent for emulators
Even so, you can’t win a legal battle against Nintendo that easily even with precedent. It will cost you money which you might not have…
yup, the system is rigged from the start. Big corpos can easily bully an everyday person by stalling the legal process and stack up your legal fees until you cannot afford them and had to settle.
They have lawyers on staff earning a salary, so stalling literally costs them no extra money.
Yeah, Bleem won that lawsuit. And the next lawsuit. And the next.
And then they ran out of money.
They sent goons to his house.
What he got out of it is, they left.
Given Nintendork’s history, this wouldn’t surprise me.