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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (11 children)

Agreed, but this asshole deserved it. He

  • Streamed unreleased games
  • Handed over prod.keys and firmware files to anyone who asked.
  • Told Nintendo "I can do this all day" after being copyright striked.
  • And set up a CashApp to make money from all of it.

All while using an emulator. That kind of shit makes emulation look like a tool for bad actors and pirates, which is going to ruin it for the rest of us.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today -1 points 3 days ago (6 children)
[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

You're entitled to your own opinion, but keep in mind that it's people like him who make corporations condemn the technology instead of the users of the technology. He's blatantly pirating, trying to profit off of it, and taunting Nintendo to do something about it.

And what they're doing about it is not just going after him but also the people who created the emulators, so more people like him can't exist. Nintendo wasn't nearly as aggressive about going after emulators until people started using them to play unreleased games, and now, in the span of a year, they took out the main developers of both major emulators.

As someone who suffers from severe motion sickness and uses emulation with framerate unlocking patches to alleviate it, these people's actions are screwing over me and other gamers with accessibility challenges.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

Good point.

Personally I belive that even absent of people like this, corporations would be assholes.

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