This is pretty disastrous, the things Nintendo is suing over are things that apply to pretty much all emulators, it would be a very dangerous precedent to set if Nintendo were to win this one

And even if they don’t win, it’s still very shit that they’re even able to use lawsuits as a scare tactic, that they can ruin people’s lives even without needing to win

Also, daily reminder that “piracy equals lost sales” is nothing but corporate propaganda, often it’s the opposite actually:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/pirates-more-likely-to-pay-for-legal-content-choice-survey/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-pirates-tend-to-be-the-biggest-buyers-of-legal-content

    • ShiningWing@lemmygrad.mlOP
      8·
      4 months ago

      Not really sure who would continue developing it though, it would have to be someone who already knows enough to do so but isn’t currently contributing, because the current developers almost certainly wouldn’t risk continuing to do so if they lose

    • ShiningWing@lemmygrad.mlOP
      21·
      4 months ago

      This is true but also it’s always morally correct to pirate Nintendo games

      It does very much bug me though how, unsurprisingly, there’s plenty of people on reddit and Twitter acting like piracy is the only reason one would use Yuzu, as if it isn’t such a huge value to be able to run games you paid for at a more playable framerate and better resolution than Nintendo’s outdated hardware

      Like, hell, Tears of the Kingdom having such awful performance drops on official hardware even compared to BotW is basically the big reason I haven’t bothered picking it up

  • mattreb@feddit.it
    20·
    4 months ago

    Yuzu […] allows for the play of encrypted Nintendo Switch games on devices other than a Nintendo Switch.

    That’s pretty much the whole statement, claiming this to be a crime is just infuriating.

    It’s like claiming that you can’t use the ink inside a printer cartridge you bought, unless you use it with the specific branded printer.

    • sovietknuckles [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      But Yuzu is not the thing that decrypts it. They’re saying that the fact you’re using Yuzu means that someone somewhere has done something illegally, and that Yuzu should be held accountable for other people doing other things.

    • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      4 months ago

      I’m fairly sure that’s a thing, too, lol. I went to buy a printer recently and couldn’t find a decent one in my price range because they’re all essentially leased nowadays. It seems you have to use their ink and you can only get it via monthly subscription. Even if your cartridge had ink left in it, you wouldn’t be able to print with it unless you had enough page credits. Fuck that.

  • PM_me_trebuchets@lemm.ee
    15·
    4 months ago

    If I could BUY a digital copy of Pokémon red I would. But I cannot. They won’t re-release it. So what am I to do? Same with all their other old games. I’d 100% pay for it if they sold it. But they don’t. Them not selling it doesn’t mean I suddenly don’t want to play it anymore.