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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fuck Nintendo. I haven't bought anything from them or for their systems in nearly a decade now, and a large part of it is their greedy assholery. Their bullshit has probably cost them a grand from me alone, and I'm thankful for the savings.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Emulation is the way 😎

[+] [email protected] -7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How is it greedy if they don't want their current system games to be stolen?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They don't want people to play their old games either. Nintendo creates an artificial scarcity by only occasionally releasing older titles to their newer consoles, despite that those older titles are quite literally running on emulators... Emulators that use a lot of the open source code the community they hate has created.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Last I checked, no company wants any of their games to be played for free.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

And yet there's an incredibly high demand for playing old Nintendo games. When Nintendo occasionally sells emulated old games on newer consoles, they tend to sell pretty well. The NES and the SNES mini were much sought after and best-sellers.

So imagine if Nintendo offers the games in their entire retro library (that they are licensed to offer) with an official emulator for people to buy. That would evaporate the piracy of retro Nintendo games pretty quickly.

However, Nintendo doesn't want that. They like completely manufactured, artificial scarcity. And so there's piracy. A lot of piracy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Emulators that use a lot of the open source code the community they hate has created.

Do you have a source for this claim?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I might. Was quite a number of years ago when this was a hot topic on GBATemp when someone looked at the code of the NES mini.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Emulation isn’t inherently theft. Nintendo leverages emulation themselves.

Edit: Jesus your modlog is a shit show. Completely unsurprised you’re a corporate bootlicker.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

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