I completely agree with that take, I was just making a joke about how the first sentence reads like the start of a comment that’s about to defend Nintendo

AFAIK the Yuzu accusations of containing code from the Nintendo SDK haven’t been proven and also didn’t come out until well after Yuzu had already shut down (it was drama surrounding the Suyu “devs” that tried to succeed them). The whole case was about them profiting off of their patreon and optimizing their emulator for a game that hadn’t been released yet.

It’s not that Yuzu used stolen code, it’s that they released updates that optimized for the leaked copies of Tears of the Kingdom, and charged money for it. If they waited to release builds until after the release, or if they had been doing it for free, they probably wouldn’t have been shut down. You might think this is a small difference, but it really isn’t because having the binary file of a game is not the same as having the code that made the binary. Realistically, if you are good enough at reverse engineering binaries that you can figure out the code well enough to make optimizations for it in the 2 weeks that the game was leaked for before it came out, you are probably getting paid enough that steaking your income on a community-driven emulator would be unthinkable.

Either way, Ryujinx, which didn’t profit like Yuzu did (and is written in a completely different programming language from Yuzu, with a completely different set of developers) still got shut down. Nintendo isn’t doing it because of stolen code, they’re doing it because it’s an emulator that exists.

Supporting unreleased games does not mean they used Nintendo code. The whole point of an emulator is to perfectly reproduce the original system. That means working on any switch game, regardless of whether said game has been released or even thought of. In practice it isn’t that simple because they are attempting to replicate a very complex system, so there will usually be patches whenever giant games come out that use the system in different ways. However, that doesn’t mean Nintendo code is being used at all.

I don’t think they paid him off, I think it was more along the lines of “We won’t do anything to you if you stop now”

You had me in the first half ngl (more like first sentence but close enough)

Aaand thats enough internet for the month

It is quite literally a foreign concept to anyone who only speaks English. That’s how foreign languages work.

How is the word pronounced though?

Checking in with my regularly scheduled F-Droid superiority post. Free, feature-rich, and no ads/trackers.

In all seriousness though, there are a lot of great FOSS apps on the stock repos and the IzzyOnDroid repos. Auxio (mp3 player) and Breezy Weather are probably my favorites at the moment.

Fair enough, I also looked through the code though and it looks like everything is done locally

It also isn’t actually in the code? That url isn’t the actual name of the app (parallax vs pallax) and from what I can tell looking through the code, that line doesn’t actually exist anywhere in it.

Edit: also the URL doesn’t exist anywhere in the code

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cd2a33fc-02c8-421f-bef9-bb40c32d93ec.jpeg

I think the answer is that it’s not actually there. The typo in the app name is another giveaway (parallax vs the app name, pallax)

Edit: also,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a3ce87c4-83fa-4cad-bfe2-d02098b8f708.jpeg

Even if they were rate limiting they’re still just using the bot to train an AI. If it’s from a company there’s a 99% chance the bot is bad. I’m leaving 1% for whatever the Internet Archive (are they even a company tho?) is doing.

What does this have to do with translation? I love bashing the US as much as the next guy (after all, so does everyone else in the US when they aren’t being hypernationalist 🙃) but we’re talking about subtitle translation, not conspiracy theorists. From a population perspective, there are more people watching who speak American English. If localization only has the resources to target one dialect, that’s probably the one they’ll go for. Fan-subs are another story (and are usually better anyway)

Me when I have to code something in JavaScript

Cable isn’t the same as OTA but from a viewer standpoint they’re both live TV. Live TV in the US is basically unwatchable unless you really like sports or 24/7 news commentary (even then live news is usually also available through phone apps) and don’t mind being interrupted by ads every 2 minutes.

Anything else is better watched with torrents/piracy streaming sites. They don’t stop the show to serve some random combination of medicine, home insurance, and car ads.

Hey look it worked!

Chat is he being serious?

Edit: Chat, look at his comment history, he was being serious

Suyu is technically still being developed but whether or not anything comes out of that is a completely different story. The few devs left are unfamiliar with the code (all the yuzu contributers left out of legal fear) and have super ambitious goals (they want to do a rewrite because the original code was allegedly based off of a leaked Nintendo SDK) so it’s unlikely it’s going to get anywhere.

I’m hoping Ryujinx forks that pop up after this have more success. I am glad that Citra survived the Yuzu crossfire though, Lime3DS seems to be doing well.

I was trying to look more into game dev crunch at Nintendo and the most recent articles I could find were about Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask (all for the Nintendo 64) and Metroid Prime (for the GameCube). From what I can tell all of their recent games have been delayed instead of forcing crunch.

That being said the difference in work culture means they probably still have longer hours but they aren’t giving their developers actual PTSD like EA and Activision. It is really sad that the bar for AAA game devs is not having devs hospitalized from overworking. Hopefully more game dev and software dev companies can meaningfully unionize to combat that.

Given that it was running until 2019 when it closed because it wasn’t profitable enough, I think it’s probably fine