[bigyabai]

You should be able to run Cheat Engine on your emul*tor of choice to tweak New Leaf "and newer" titles.

And if you're a stickler for pissing Nintendo off in very specific ways, LayeredFS + Atmosphere opens up some modding opportunities right on the console itself. Not sure how easy it would be to pull something like this off though...

[idiotsecant]

I think my 'old man shakes fist at clouds' thing is this. The social media platforms that censor you do it to make your content easier to sell ads against. It's actual corporate badthink correction that is rebuilding the English language. STOP VOLUNTARILY DOING IT WHEN YOU DONT HAVE TO. You should not sacrifice your free thought on the altar of quarterly results. Say the whole fucking word.

[sterlind]

you really don't have to self-censor "emulator" here. HN moderation is not like social media platforms.

[lazide]

Social media platforms censor emulator?!?

[Gigachad]

Probably not. But silent deranking of censored terms has everyone paranoid that anything even slightly controversial will get hidden.

[bigyabai]

I'm just covering my ass. Life is good right now and I don't want to meet any Nintendo ninjas, even for insinuated infractions.

It's not so much a condemnation of HN, but the way IP is in the US. The only website I want hosting my comments on Nintendo modding is my own.

[jraph]

I doubt a star will make Nintendo lawyers go "ow nose, they didn't spell out emulator in full, we can't attack them! Damn those star armors!". I don't think it changes anything technically.

The only thing this kind of censoring does is countering basic censor bots I think, and somehow making swear words publishable in the US.

[stavros]

The asterisk would make it so they can't just search for "Nintendo emulator" online and find their comment.

Until I typed this, I guess...

[bigyabai]

Look; if you want to risk your chipper little lifestyle explaining the various ways to run New Horizons, be my guest. I've insinuated enough already, anyone who cares about the discussion on-grounds wouldn't have anything else to ask.

[0points]

That's hilarious.

That modder who had to pay 2M sold drm circumvention kits for the Switch. That's a pretty clear case.

You pretending that saying "emulator" on a forum qualifies just makes you a extra special snowflake.

[bigyabai]

Okay, lol. Special snowflake it is.

All I'll say is that I've seen people arrested for discussing Switch emulation in-detail. Never saw that happen with Cheat Engine.

[rl3]

>You pretending that saying "emulator" on a forum qualifies just makes you a extra special snowflake.

Says the person going out of their way to attack another person over a single-character asterisk substitution.

Seems fairly understandable to not want to piss off rabid lawyers, however remote the chances of angering them may be.

[perching_aix]

Yes. Facebook at some point filtered links to them from private messaging. I know this from personal experience. Not sure if they still do.

Also fairly common on Reddit and Discord for communities to ban discussions of them, or even falsely claim they're blanket illegal outright.

[HeatrayEnjoyer]

Why? An emulator isn't legally any different than a virtual machine.

[bigyabai]

Low-level emulators can be legally identical to a virtual machine, but often isn't. Most modern consoles can't be emulated that way, and most require you to dump a bootrom from your own console hardware, alongside game keys and other dubious digital paraphernalia.

[lazide]

Just like a PC, bare hardware without firmware or a boot OS is pretty useless. Same with emulators.

Most distribute a pretty wide range of stuff along with them.