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by Pfhreak 1992 days ago
A couple days back Nintendo was on the front page of HN for threatening people and tailing them, iirc?

Also, they've been pretty assertive about DMCA, and they aren't very kind with streamers from what I understand. (Also, they really seem to not be interested in supporting the tournament communities for their games like Smash.)
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NRinc 1992 days ago
I asked this a few days ago but did not get any responses...

Given that I find myself strongly compelled to stand up to this ridiculous behavior on the part of Nintendo and I have the time and resources to do so ...

I am going to purchase, on ebay ... what ? A plain old retail Nintendo Switch ?

Then I will send that switch (or two, or three) to ... who ?

Let's say I have a budget of USD $10,000 - who can I pay to do original, clean-room reverse engineering of this device ?

The goal here would be to publish everything that I can pay people to find.

Suggestions ? Who should I be in contact with ?

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Pfhreak 1992 days ago
No clue. And I'm not sure your post even makes sense?

Like, what are even hoping to achieve? Aren't modders and the like probably already trying to do what you are trying to do?

And why do you think $10k is a significant amount of money to anyone who could achieve what you want done?

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abnercoimbre 1992 days ago
Wait, isn't $10k a seriously meaningful amount to hobbyists? E.g. Cleanly reverse-engineering SM64 was done by clever folks in their spare time.
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adventured 1992 days ago
What difference would $10,000 make? That's the primary question.

You can buy a decent engineer's spare time for two or three months, if they're being generous about it and particularly want to help. Where would one place $10k that it would meaningfully accelerate reverse engineering the Switch?

You either do it for anything but the money, or the money has to be a lot larger than $10k.

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NRinc 1992 days ago
"Like, what are even hoping to achieve?"

I am hoping that Nintendo attempts to stop me from doing this.

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tubularhells 1992 days ago
That would be via lawyers, not private eyes.
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moonchild 1992 days ago
https://yuzu-emu.org/

https://ryujinx.org/

https://github.com/dekuNukem/Nintendo_Switch_Reverse_Enginee...

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watwut 1992 days ago
> Also, they really seem to not be interested in supporting the tournament communities for their games like Smash.

In this one in particular, they dont have to be supportive of anything at all. Why would there be an entitlement to get support from them?

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eredengrin 1991 days ago
Calling it lack of support is probably a bit misleading, in reality they are actively undermining the competitive scene by things like shutting down tournaments/streams, preventing outside orgs (eg evo, mlg) from picking up smash, etc. Some of the other commenters gave links which have more details on this.

Given the recent events in context of the past 2 decades of nintendo's behaviour, the smash scene would love for nintendo to not be involved at all. There is no entitlement whatsoever for nintendo's support (unless "support" literally just means allowing us to run events with no help of any kind from nintendo other than not shutting it down, in which case it really doesn't strike me as too unreasonable).

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city41 1992 days ago
That tailing took place years ago. Nintendo has never been kind to anyone using their IP in ways they don't like. I love Nintendo, but there's no denying they can be very fierce and litigious.
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