Agent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThe official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassingwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square190fedilinkarrow-up1888arrow-down120cross-posted to: piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.comnintendo@lemmy.world
arrow-up1868arrow-down1external-linkThe official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassingwww.pcgamer.comAgent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square190fedilinkcross-posted to: piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.comnintendo@lemmy.world
minus-squarejmcs@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·2 months agoThat’s definitely not the case for Switch emulators.
minus-squareturtletracks@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down10·2 months agoYuzu was charging for early access to their emulator, which is what prompted Nintendo action. Ryujinx doesn’t seem like any legal action was taken, sounds like the creator was given a chunk of cash by Nintendo to take it down. I hate Nintendo, but you gotta keep the facts straight
minus-squareZangoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 months agoI 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”
minus-squarejmcs@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down3·2 months agoThey also shut down Yuzu forks using the DMCA. If they paid Ryujinx’s dev it was the equivalent of the Mafia bribing a judge while waving a picture of his family.
That’s definitely not the case for Switch emulators.
Yuzu was charging for early access to their emulator, which is what prompted Nintendo action.
Ryujinx doesn’t seem like any legal action was taken, sounds like the creator was given a chunk of cash by Nintendo to take it down.
I hate Nintendo, but you gotta keep the facts straight
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”
They also shut down Yuzu forks using the DMCA. If they paid Ryujinx’s dev it was the equivalent of the Mafia bribing a judge while waving a picture of his family.
Totally the same /s