Development of the Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator was halted permanently, but it will continue to live on thanks to new projects
    • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Honestly, anyone that was gonna emulate switch already knew, and nintendo has all their big hitters out of the way so isn’t going to be loosing much in terms of sales to piracy at this point. they just want a chilling effect for switch 2

      • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        If I had to guess the reason they’re going after yuzu so hard is that the Switch 2 is going to be architecturally identical and that you will be able to run Switch 2 games.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      6 months ago

      And the subsequent C&Ds/lawsuits to the idiots who are “forking” the tainted codebase will do an even better job of explaining “you fuck with Nintendo and we will literally own you for the rest of your life”

      That also assumes the various projects have competent developers (unlikely since anyone with the technical ability knows why you don’t touch this code) and isn’t just a way to rush in some crypto miners and spyware to people who are mad they can’t have yuzu.

      • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        What I don’t understand is why developers ever put their names to projects like this. Create the project and distribute it via peer to peer

        • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Because this is generally hundreds, if not thousands, of years hours of their life.

          Part of it is wanting to get some degree of recognition for that. Part of it is that this is very much part of their portfolio for future jobs searches.

    • kworpy@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      It sure as fuck was. Half of the Nintendo community knows about this situation, and unless for some reason they still have respect for this evil company, they will now freely play whatever switch games they want without giving Nintendo a dime.

      I’m sure most Nintendo “fans” aren’t a fan of the company itself, just the games

      • victron@programming.devEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I think you underestimate the level of fanatism of many of those fellas, they would give Nintendo their first born if they had one.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 months ago

          I think you over estimate it. I have loved Nintendo games since I was five, but absolutely fuck the company for doing shit like this.

          • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 months ago

            Yeah it doesn’t take a genius to hate Nintendo for simple things like artificially limiting amibos stock to make more money

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    You should really probably keep this on the DL. No reason to shut the project down regardless of what Nintendo does, but this needs to be done quietly now since it’s gotten a ton of attention.

    Edit: Just bcz, fuck you nintendo, I’m never buying your consoles again. You lost any remaining sliver of goodwill you had with this move.