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WTF - Rest in peace... I hope no one has to pay any legal fees. Wish you all the best!

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[-] [email protected] 102 points 2 weeks ago

Let the infinite forking on infinite platforms commence.

[-] [email protected] 57 points 2 weeks ago

Barbara Streisand Effect x 8000.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

So which github projects are interesting?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Fork yourself, nintendo!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Unlimited Fork Works

[-] [email protected] 81 points 2 weeks ago

Stop using GitHub. Especially if you're working on anything that corpo interests will frown on, but just generally, there are plenty of alternatives (both git and non-git) that aren't owned by Microsoft.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

The reasons cited here are… not really convincing

[-] [email protected] 58 points 2 weeks ago

Well, just to the next. Hope Nintendo wastes more money on legal.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well it's probably cheaper than to innovate on the hardware front (display, performance, Joy-Cons, etc.) . And since they have an insane amount of money, it think they can keep doing this for quite some time...

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Their innovation on that end is going to the electronics warehouse with a box and getting the cheapest things you can get...

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

I mean it's easy to shit on the switch now that it's a 7 year old console, and don't get me wrong the joycon drift is fuckin ridiculous, but the switch was kinda impressive when it came out.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The switch isn't impressive. It used old hardware Nvidia had a bulk of their failed shield project, and they stuck it in a tablet. There were no reasons nintendo couldn't produce something equivalent to the steam deck in 2017 with their infinite money. But that's not what Nintendo do. They always opt for the cheapest way to sell new hardware because they know their fans will buy anything from them no matter how shit it is.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ahh yess they could easily have produced something equivalent to a product introduced 5 years later. It was literally the most powerful handheld of all time when it came out and had almost double the graphics processing power of the Xbox 360 and ps3 with the dock, and still more than either without it. Could it compete with the ps4 and Xbox One? Absolutely not. Precisely because of the form factor. To think otherwise is hilarious. I do think their addition of all the random bullshit nobody uses that drives up price was dumb.

Also, every time Nintendo makes a cutting edge box-console to directly compete with Microsoft and Sony they just lose sales, so why even try?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Most powerful only because their only competition was the ps vita which was already quite old. And the steam deck isn't revolutionary. It's just laptop hardware in a handheld format. Noone said it needs to match the ps4 or xbone because that would require lugging a massive cooling system. Its just sad the switch barely handles 60fps in docked mode...

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It's basically just an Android tablet with shitty controllers on each side and some proprietary OS. The only thing that makes the Switch special are the exclusive Nintendo games.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You've basically described all gaming consoles lol

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The one thing that impresses me about consoles though: How tf do they manage to run even graphics-intensive games on such low-end hardware? I mean sure, frame rates aren't great, but the fact that these games still run and are somehow playable amazes me.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I think it's because they're targeting a very small number of devices as opposed to the infinite number of possible combinations of hardware a computer could have.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Right, that makes sense

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It was underpowered when it came out and didn't introduce anything their other consoles didnt already have (nor have I ever seen someone use half the features).

What's really impressive is the devs making games for it, showing off how much the mobile gaming market is holding us back by making Candy Crush Soda Ultra Supermax

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

and didn't introduce anything their other consoles didnt already have (nor have I ever seen someone use half the features).

I don't remember undocking my PS4 to play it on the go.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But you may have with your Gameboy, gameboy advanced, Ds, dsi, dsiXL, 2ds, 3ds, wiiu, PSP, or PSP vita.

And if you consider a portable HDMI output important, laptops and phones could do this probably half a decade before the switch came out

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I remember a lot of problems on launch

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

It is almost a zero cost. They already have the legal-ish ruling. It is just filling out a form letter and sending it out.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Still a lawyer doing it. If everyone ads a repo every day, they would waste a lot of funds on fighting against windmills.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

You don't need a lawyer to file a DMCA request. You just need to be ready to get one if someone disputes it.

And Nintendo almost definitely have lawyers on retainer, if not in house. The added cost of this is the effort it takes to search github for "uzu" and send an email.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

There are law firms that work on contract specifically to do this work. And it's not like the senior partner is doing it repo by repo, it's a junior paralegal searching GitHub for "yuzu.cpp" or whatever and filing one big takedown request for all the results.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hmm I smell another "DeCSS" coming along...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

If there hadn't already been a court ruling-ish (it is complicated) giving Nintendo the "right" to do this? Sure

As it stands? It very well could be an intern filling out a word document

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Technically you don't, but they are still used.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

They almost certainly have in house legal teams and those lawyers are salaried.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

No they usually use big international lawyer firms. Or at least thats what i got from them.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

just to the next

who distributes ROMs on Discord. I guess most emulators will be fine.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago

I hope this doesn't spread out towards other emulators just as a matter of "principle" (by Nintendo's definition)

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

This is why I keep a physical backup of all my emulator installers on an external hard drive. They get rid of some emulators, I still got my personal copies!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah I've been playing Pokemon Sacred Gold on my phone, really gives me GBC pipes with the size and everything it's like childhood all over.

I have the emulator and the games on my pc and my phone though so fuck Nintendo.

I'm playing a 15 year old game someone improved upon that I already owned on hardware I can't buy anymore.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah totally worried for Ryujinx. I don’t see how they can survive.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

If Nintendo stays consistent, they went after Yuzu because they were accepting donations. They went after ROM sites that had advertising. They left everyone else alone if they aren't making money off their games. Right now Ryujinx has a Patreon page...

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Torrents people.

Say, anyone want a yuzu magnet

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I don't give a rat's dick about Nintendo and their shitty games and I will torrent it out of pure spite

Send me the link

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:404295db91d035ae11395ad1755ab7e5dc8b6f19&xt=urn:btmh:1220f2bd7dbfd7ec2e25c9e848cf0b17d771332e57e3ba109368e111c0a45967966e&dn=yuzu-full-archive&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.auctor.tv%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.tracker.cl%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3a451%2fannounce&tr=https%3a%2f%2fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3a443%2fannounce&so=0-23

Idk if it still works

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Thoughts on Forgejo? Heard about that one for selfhosting git

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is there a p2p based equivalent?

I don't even know how would that work, but seems something that would fit here.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I mean, the alternative is Ryujinx, which Nintendo has for some reason ignored for now.

(Ryujinx's devs are much more cautious about things like banning any references to piracy in their discord and avoiding anything that could look like getting money in exchange for access, both of which may have given them less legal exposure.)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I think a federated version should work....

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Here's a link to an instance of radicle for Yuzu. It's a p2p git server implementation. I haven't looked too much into it yet, but the tech seems interesting.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

As the article mentions, they're releasing the Switch successor soon. I suspect the real reason for this push is to try and scare people off from developing an emulator for that one, at least during the lifetime of the console - it's a bit late to try and kill Switch emulation given that nearly fully-functional emulators already exist.

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