“Emulators are only OK when we specifically release them for our own hardware to run an extremely limited catalog that we hand pick and then charge the price of a brand new release for. Everyone else get fucked”
Don’t forget releasing pirated copies on our stolen emulators that we are now charging money for!
Wtf? That happened to Nintendo? O.o
(I thought that was the PS mini)
They’ve been suspected of selling downloaded ROMs several times, but the incident with the most evidence was when they released a port of a GBA collection of Medabots games on the switch eShop using a pirated version of the mGBA emulator. Like: there were strings of code matching from the original emulator.
The EULA of mGBA actually allows commercial use, but Nintendo didn’t credit the emulator or the author, making it piracy.
Given that Nintendo probably doesn’t develop Medabots games, wouldn’t that not be Nintendo that committed piracy in that case?
Just looked it up – not even published by Nintendo.
It isn’t eBay where anybody can sell anything. Nintendo curates and specifically authorizes all games sold on the platform, and they also license the right to emulate their legacy hardware in commercial releases on their platform.
They charged money to allow the sale of pirated software.
I think that’s a bit of a stretch. To what extent do you think Nintendo was aware of the particular details in this situation?
Wow, TIL
What’s the story here?
I thought this was a 3rd party company, not a Nintendo 1st party product. I can’t remember the name, but it was a company that rereleases out of print games on physical cartridges.
“Don’t mind if I do!”
uses their official emulators to play roms on SNES Classic and Switch
“no wait, not like that!”
Meanwhile there’s a bunch of evidence suggesting Nintendo used pirated ROMs for their own emulators.
Hey, remember that game you loved as a kid and wanted it on your newest system with minor quality of life changes? We made a mobile version that kills the style, has a shitty controller layout that you cant change, and its $59.99 more than when it originally released 30 years ago
The fact that SNES games were $60 30 years ago and games are still that price means we are actually getting a deal. Except the physical part is what made the $60 feel worth it, the cart, the full color 30 page manual and sometimes posters! Now games are digital they should be like $10 max from Nintendo.
They were also complete games rather than having content carved off of them to sell as MTX.
Inflation never hit Arby’s -Nick Thune
Final Fantasy VI could have had such a beautiful post SNES legacy.
Wait…FFVI was for the SUPER NINTENDO??? I love that game, why did I think it was a PlayStation original, along with VII?
Edit: I looked it up and it’s blowing my mind that it came out in 1994.
SNES was home to some of the best RPGs. Chrono Trigger, FFVI, Mario RPG, Secret of Mana, Tales of Phantasia. I remember when FFVII came out it was a heated debate of which one was the best between VI & VII.
Shows how timeless the games you listed are, I played most of them in the mid-late 2000s as a kid and never thought of them as “old” like I do with the SNES, lol.
Your thinking of Fanal Fantasy Anthologies which includes FFV and FFVI which were both originally SNES. First FF game on PS1 was FFVII.
Weird from my perspective for someone to think FFVI was first on the PS1 but I grew up playing NES-PS2 during grade school.
Your thinking of Fanal Fantasy Anthologies which includes FFV and FFVI which were both originally SNES
Europe actually didn’t have FF Anthologies 🥲 I played both VI and VII while visiting my family in Europe, and my cousin had them as standalone games (and I am forever grateful he was kind enough to trust a snot nosed brat like me with his precious PlayStation)
You beat the Nazis but you couldnt beat PAL. Sorry Europe missed out on a great game.
It gets even weirder, as the US only got FF1, FF4, FF6 originally and the latter two were renamed to FF2 and FF3 when they were localised.
The pixel remaster is a solid version. Could have used the GBA dungeons, but the music is very well done.
I have pretty much the entire N64 library on a cartridge that plays on my N64, an SD card in my Wii, and my computer. Obviously these are all legitimate backups from games I own.
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My rule is that if they don’t sell the game for the original system anymore, then it’s not stealing.
Stealing from who. The used market?
Obviously these are all legitimate backups from games I own.
Doing the lords work
It’s not easy having to pay to keep a warehouse with every arcade cabinet, game cartridge, and game disk ever made, but we can’t be violating copyright, now can we? Think of the corporations!
If they sold emulators on steam or gog I would probably pay a reasonable amount for them. But they don’t, so I pay nothing.
Nintendo Switch has a bunch of emulators. You need a premium subscription though.
IMO, a subscription service is almost worse than not selling them at all.
Either I buy them individually for a reasonable one time fee, or I don’t and get them for free.
I don’t want to play on a switch though. If I play on my computer, that’s a platform that’s going to be around for ages. And had no subscription fees.
And a Switch, of course…
I recently jailbroke my Wii and ripped all my current games, so this is surprisingly relatable to me right now.
I also got a low firmware PS4 to jailbreak so I can rip those in preparation for ShadPS4, an up and coming PS4 emulator. Bloodborne is running on it now, though it’s still far from playable.How about you re-release your older games on platforms I’m willing to pay for, ones that aren’t tied to an arbitrary subscription service or apart of a digital storefront that can go down at any time?
Literally what happened to me. I have a modded switch but still bought games for it, when they shut down yuzu I packed the switch up and play exclusively on PC now.
This is what I did, although I went a step further than emulating. I’d always been planning on hacking my Switch once the next one came out, but when Nintendo went after Yuzu, I said fuck 'em and hacked it then and there. They won’t be getting any more sales from me this gen.
Yeah, I’m kinda pissed about this stuff. I watched Noodle’s video about the motorstorm series and come to find out I have to spend a bunch to get the original hardware or just not play it because I can’t find any ROMs online anywhere.
What? Search nointro on archive.org for collections of cartridge games. Search redump there for disc based.
Anything not on archive (usually newer releases, or disc based games from PS2 or later), try some of the resources from the wiki/megathread on db0.lemmy.com’s piracy community.
“no results found” when searching for motorstorm.
The 2 lists I pulled up didn’t even have PS2/3 on there.
I’ve given up searching for it anyways.
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This meme works especially well because Pam’s line immediately before this is “I could give a shit about your happiness”
I will emulate even their wives
(I’m kidding with the last part)
I got a confirmation on my MIG being shipped just a few days ago. Also finally managed to cancel my Nintendo online subscription, they couldn’t have made that more difficult.
What’s that supposed to mean?!
Nintendo has a long history of trying to kill emulation, even legit ones, and on PC, it’s very easy to emulate stuff including by legit means, so the joke is that Nintendo is saying to stop emulating, and PC gamers out of spite answer by emulating more (and if it’s “emulating more” by legitimate means or otherwise, it’s not clear).
I was making a joke. It’s the next line of dialog in that scene of the office :)
Ah, I see. Never watched the series so wasn’t familiar with the scene itself. "<.<
Nintendo ruined the 8-bit computer game culture and I will never forgive them.
How so?
I second this question.
Nintendo isn’t even losing money. There so people still buying Nintendo products. Probably cause they don’t know how to emulate and such.
