Say it with me once again:
Fuck Nintendo.
They’re the Disney of the video game industry.
Yeah, I have zero desire to give them money. Luckily, there are solid options that aren’t them, notably the steam deck for portable gaming and pc/xbox/ps5 for home gaming.
Theres a reason I havent owned a nintendo console or branded item since the gamecube.
and its not because of money.
its because Nintendo, as a company, is an enormous cunt that I wish would fall into ruin.
They’d sue you for playing their games on their hardware if they could
I bought a used Switch and run custom firmware on it. Nintendo execs seething right now cause that’s perfectly legal. I am untouchable
Nintendo once again treats its fans with contempt and hostility. It’s not a good look.
And Nintendo fans will respond by obediently lining up to immediately buy the Switch 2 and every single re-re-re-rereleased game for it the second it launches.
If anyone was curious, Echoes of Wisdom is totally playable on the Steam Deck
Just got it up and running today. Runs perfectly with a few tweaks and mods.
Just finished it today on yuzu, only issue I had was some of the coloring on the rifts in the overworld. I used the 18.1.0 firmware for anyone that wants to know
Soooo they’re banning 99% of pokemon content?
99.999999…%
…Recent laws in Japan have criminalized console and game modding, as well as save file editing…
WHAT? why?..what???
Because:
Due to an amendment in December 2018 of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act in Japan, certain gaming-related activities and services have now been declared illegal. This includes:
- Distribution of tools and programs for modifying game saves
- Selling product keys and serials online without the software maker’s permission
- Game save and console modding services
As such, sales of products such as Pro Action Replay and Cybergadget’s “Save editor” have been discontinued.
It’s meant to ban sale of hardware devices and services that allow playing pirated games on Switch and such, but due to the way it’s worded it just bans them all.
Can’t wait for Nintendo to sue Microsoft because VS Code can be used to edit save files.
In other words, Japan apparently hates property rights.
lol man is just a game. Let me have fun exploring hidden rooms. No one is committing a crime by modifying their own game save.
For some of us, finding ways to cheat IS the game.
We really need to push for more right to repair laws and things not produced by the copyright holder (say for 5 years) should lose all copyright protections.
Successful lobbying by Sony and Nintendo I imagine.
Really hope that when one day Nintendo dies due to their own incompetence/negligence, everything they’ve ever done becomes lost media and they fade into complete obscurity.
If they don’t want to have their shit preserved then so be it, they’ll be forgotten and the world will move on without them.
It’s easier to resell if it isn’t preserved
Another Nintendo classic. Never given em any money and ain’t about to start.
How would they know it’s emulated and not video captured from a real device? Are they only targeting when emulators are mentioned / shown in the window?
More reasons to switch to owning your content and hosting on your own platform or a PeerTube instance instead of only hosting on YouTube / Twitch - you can actually fight the takedown notice in court instead of having to accept that YouTube doesn’t. Not a legal expert but this seems like a winnable fair use case if you can prove you own the game legally and are using your own rom dump.
Lots of channels getting strikes are showing anbernic and steam decks and the like running the roms featuring Nintendo games being emulated on said device and not just a video capture of the game
“Nintendo targets free marketing that’s much more effective than their really, really weird ads featuring skinwalkers from an alternate reality attempting to appear like normal humans doing the gaming.”
Who said this?
Jesus of Nazareth
- Michael Scott
P Diddy
Barbara Streisand
Yet another abuse of the DMCA. They seem to think the takedown process applies where any copyright infringement takes place. It only applies if the material is copyrighted by them. Even if the game was pirated and someone in the video explicitly said that, DMCA takedowns would NOT apply.
Nintendo declaring war of its own.
Have fun not having my money!
They are on a witch hunt, but for what? Or is it a case of windmills?
Maybe they fear switch 2 sales would plummet if emulation and PC handhelds stick around when they launch. I disagree coz the two attract different kinds of gamers, but they aren’t cool like that.
Arin was right.
