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"reminder that Nintendo is made out of pure evil"

If that was the case, why do you want to replicate their walled garden so urgently?

There's so many YouTube videos on how to play ripped Switch games on SteamDeck that I would be truly surprised if that didn't affect cross-platform sales numbers. So maybe Nintendo is even being pressured themselves by their developer/publisher partners.

And those Yuzu people were happily looking the other way when people posted pictures of FTP servers and their ROM lists in the official discord. I wouldn't be surprised if this emulator had a similar type of users.

I'm conflicted about this because I want to see old games preserved. But "preserving" Zelda a few weeks before its official release painted a huge target on that crowd.

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"Boohoo Nintendo is evil for not allowing me to pirate their current console and games" is such a ridiculous rationale, and I think it is very much counter productive to game preservation.

Once people started emulating their current console, Nintendo should absolutely use every legal mean to shut it down, and the awful copyright laws we have in place results in an outreach. More than any other company, they live and die by their IP, which is extremely valuable. What exactly people expected Nintendo to do?

The emulation scene had been going strong for a long time, but it was always older generation consoles being emulated, games that were not supported anymore, etc. The morons that went for current games, "emulating" (actually pirating) games that were recently released, and so on are the ones threatening all of that. Nintendo is far from wrong.

And I say all this as someone that loves emulation. I am a retro gamer at heart, even if I also play some contemporary stuff. Obviously I am someone that thinks game preservation is important.

I also hate copyright laws as they are. IMO, the laws should allow distribution of old games (and by old I mean 20+ years), and be clearer on what constitutes fair use.

Oh well.