Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks
-
If that’s the limit of your knowledge, I can’t help you. Read more on the subject maybe.
-
Technically, you're allowed to make copies for personal use unless doing so requires bypassing DRM, encryption, or some other lockout mechanism.
Emulation is still not piracy and neither is making a personal backup, but if making that backup requires anything more than a standard disc drive or a cart reader then it is a DMCA violation.
-
Codeberg can suffer from the same DMCA requests but at least is not managed by Microsoft.
To really avoid(or ignore) DMCAs you need to self-host/use a vps for your own version control tool like Forgejo/GitLab or use a decentralized one like Radicle. -
What gives them the right to take down emulators? It's just code someone wrote that happens to be able to interpret bytes from a switch cartridge?
Why wouldn't they take down a company like analogue for example for making a hardware level gameboy emulator?
-
Didn't tears of the kingdom got pirated in like 1 week within release? That must have affected sales in some degree
-
Sorry I accidently insulted your mother or something
-
Lots of theoreticals and assumptions. Not seeing any evidence here.
I also find it laughable that you want to compare Nintendo to some scrappy artist. Piracy does not impact everyone the same way.
-
Nah… I suspect that Sony simply doesn’t want to anger hackers again. The cost of downtime is likely to be higher than the imaginary profits they get from harassing emulator communities. I doubt they think their reputation is worth much but maybe they have started to see some value on it.
Japanese gaming companies often don't seem to understand the value of the reputation / honor which is really weird considering that it's one of the things japanese culture is supposed to value.
-
Emulation = online piracy
Did I say that? I did not. I said the game was pirated in 1 week which it definitely happened unless everyone who emulated it was using it legally.
-
I have no issue with emulating games. But I also have no issue of a company trying to stop their games from being emulated.
This was literally your starting argument.
-
I'm not that person you're referring to tho
-
The patents on the Game Boy hardware expired years ago, so that's what gives Analogue the right to do what they do. As for these Switch emulators, I have no idea, but I'll guess it's just Nintendo trying to scare people without their own legal departments into complying.
-
The reality is that Nintendo removed your ability to buy those old games for $10, because they'd rather rent you those games forever on their subscription service. If they were on Steam for $10, I'd have bought those old ROMs.
-
Ok? My mistake aside, this entire conversation was about how someone thought companies are right to stop people from emulating.
-
duckstation works damn fine on my pixel. favorite psx emulator
-
IIRC, part of the argument is that Switch games are encrypted, and the emulator uses real Switch keys to read the games. So Nintendo claims that by using official Nintendo Switch keys, it is violating Nintendo’s copyright and is subject to DMCA claims.
The argument is shaky at best. But the problem with DMCA is that combating it actually requires taking the claimant to court. So that’s a prohibitively long and difficult process, just to be able to go “hey Nintendo doesn’t actually have any claim here. Restore my repo.” Especially when Nintendo has a known history of drawing out long legal battles to exhaust defendants’ time+resources.
-
From my understanding the repos wouldn't include the keys (or if they did then they definitely shouldn't). But yeah I understand the long legal battle thing.
-
To play games they own on other systems?
-
Nobody is talking about piracy.
