What a horrible take. I know Icon Era is anti PC, but Emulation is preservation. Emulation allows you to play games Nintendo would have no business re releasing 20 years down the road. If it wasn’t for Emulation people wouldn’t be playing Wind Wakee or Twilight Princess HD. You would still need a Wii U for that.
Nintendo sue creators of emulator "Yuzu".
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Icon Era isn't a hive mind. There's no "they" here. You think this is all about preservation. There is, however, a strong argument to be made that this is about piracy. Emulation facilitates both. Since we have no data on the people using Yuzu, it's difficult to get an accurate picture on why they are using it. There's also people who simply want to enjoy Nintendo games with better performance. It's a multi-faceted issue.
I can also see it from Nintendo's perspective.
There's ways to keep them going (especially carts, disk rot is a one way street while battery saves can be replaced with standard lions.) Eventually the answer does become buying a re-release or accepting not having access to the game anymore. As to games themselves, pretty much every major company currently has data preservation specialists and Nintendo has been saving their stuff meticulously since day one in gaming.
Nothinig to do with anti PC
This is s Switch emulator, people can go buy those games right now, nothing to do with Past games or preserving them. They are making money off selling a emulator and then 99% of the people using it are pirating those games.
Cheapskates need to buy the game, simple. Whether its Xbox, Nintendo, PS or PC games
Nintendo are assholes for alot of things. This isnt one of them, they have every right to protect there current games against pirates
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This is the company that tried to have 30-year-old issues of Nintendo Power taken off Internet Archive even though they don't offer their own way of viewing those issues.
There's already precedence that emulation is legal, so Nintendo will likely lose. Even if they somehow win, Yuzu is open source and so many people have it, it's completely impractical to actually stop usage of it in any meaningful capacity. This is purely a scare tactic.
Furthermore, this lawsuit seems less about copyright infringement and more about circumventing the console's DRM to make the emulator in the first place. But lots of emulators do that anyway. Yuzu is not special for doing this. And on top of all that, if you read the legal documents, Nintendo outright admits they want to corner and monopolize the ability to play old Nintendo games on new hardware, which is completely infeasible because there's over 3000 NES and SNES games and only about 150 of them are on NSO. Do we actually believe Nintendo will put the rest of them on there? Do they own sellable versions of every single one of those games that they can put on the NSO? And if they do, can they guarantee access to them forever?
Fuck off, Nintendo.
There's already precedence that emulation is legal, so Nintendo will likely lose. Even if they somehow win, Yuzu is open source and so many people have it, it's completely impractical to actually stop usage of it in any meaningful capacity. This is purely a scare tactic.
Furthermore, this lawsuit seems less about copyright infringement and more about circumventing the console's DRM to make the emulator in the first place. But lots of emulators do that anyway. Yuzu is not special for doing this. And on top of all that, if you read the legal documents, Nintendo outright admits they want to corner and monopolize the ability to play old Nintendo games on new hardware, which is completely infeasible because there's over 3000 NES and SNES games and only about 150 of them are on NSO. Do we actually believe Nintendo will put the rest of them on there? Do they own sellable versions of every single one of those games that they can put on the NSO? And if they do, can they guarantee access to them forever?
Fuck off, Nintendo.