Nintendo Keeps Trying to Kill Emulation

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Nintendo really grinds my gears when it comes to emulation. Shutting down sites that are doing their best to archive old titles that would be lost otherwise is really scummy. I hate that they have such a huge problem with consumers wanting to enjoy their older titles. I'm even angrier with them for shutting down Switch and 3DS emulators, cutting off preservation efforts even further.

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My big problem with the way Nintendo went after YUZU was they tried to make the legal argument that you don't own your games. If it went to court they would have said even though you bought a game even a hard copy, you own the plastic but the game files are still Nintendo's property. So even if you dumped your own game you pay for Nintendo say that is illegal. I can't support a company that doesn't think when I buy there product I don't own it. That why I am not getting the Switch 2. Good video it pisses me off too.

xin

The dumbest part about them being so strict is that they literally aren’t making money off the old games either way. I understand how there is an issue with pirating games that are available in stores, but if the game can only be bought through resale, why do they care at all?

patrickburk

I often wonder when these older games will be public domain, just like an old book or movie.

McLovin_

this is why i bought a steam deck, Nintendo turned me into a pirate lol

coldhands

I know companies like Capcom and Konami have made certain digital collections based on some of their properties (Contra, Castlevania, Mega Man, etc), and thankfully aren't all that expensive to get, so those guys at least have ways around that sort of. Though I don't think owning a physical copy of said game you want to emulate should be completely necessary. For one, physical copies tend to go for ridiculous amounts of money if you try to get said game online, even when it depends on what game you're looking for. Also, it's an even bigger problem if you don't have a local flea market or retro gaming store near your area, or if you do have one, it's most likely you won't find a certain game you could easily buy.

Emulating any game you want, whether you own it physically or not, shouldn't be seen as a bad thing. It'll be a long time before Nintendo finally realizes that emulation as a whole... is kind of an important tool to preserve older games that would be lost to time otherwise. It hurts even more when they start going after fan projects, for what feels like no reason. Sure, they did that with AM2R because they were making their own remake, via Samus Returns. Understandable, but still technically wrong. Sega by comparison embraces fan projects based on some of their properties, mainly Sonic, and in turn, even ended up hiring some of those people to come work for them on actual Sonic games. That tells me Sega is at least more understanding with their fans.

AkiraStrix

Older retro games are becoming so expensive that for most people emulation is the only option to play the older titles. Plus the original hardware is not going to last forever. Stupid Nintendo.

bit_Retro

Hi. 39 years old, Emulation has become my lifeline to the games i loved before the hobby was ruined beyond recognition by corporatism, whole other rabbithole. Just giving my take to yall on Emulation, especially when it comes to litigious Nintendo... F*** them! Seriously. F***. Them.

If I bought a game in the past from Nintendo, or any company tbh, its mine. Forever. Don't care if the original hardware is no more.
Not going to advocate Piracy of course, But if i bought a game, i own it, period. I paid money. How I play it in the decades ahead is my choice. Not interested in "well its not the original copy you bought" - The developer's didn't sit down and make the game over and over individually for every copy did they? They made it ONCE, Got paid for it ONCE when it was newly released, and now it's just another forgotten gem.

You think the developers that did the original work are getting paid for all these inferior re-releases with either cut content, added PAID content or other just plain bad user experiences? Of course not. Nintendo's Overlords, CEO's and shareholders are sucking it up. F*** them.
If the re-releases they put out were of matching quality to the originals at bare minimum, I might feel differently, but they never are.

I'm not re-buying things in perpetuity that I already paid for.

So F*** them.

Sometimes it's not the people, but the Law that's in the wrong.

QUADRAXIS

some corporations are now defunct or bought out by bigger ones. in these cases I find it really weird anyone bothers taking down one of their games from an online archive.

skepticaltile

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Josh-hiti

Okay, I understand why nintendo would want YUZU developers to cease development, but what I can't understand is nintendo sending legal threats to the CITRA team... is the NEW 2DS XL going to be announced soon?

lstairvideos

Japan is weird with IPs. They also do not have similar laws to the US regarding emulation. Preservation is not a priority to a company that must put out new hardware to keep it's hold on a certain niche. Think about it, the games are not the only thing that makes Nintendo unique...it's the hardware that plays a major part of what makes them relevant in an era of high power consoles that are basically specialized PCs. No one would even consider a box that maxes at 720p in 2024 if it didn't do something the other boxes didn't. Now take that away and they have only a handful of IPs that could survive in the existing ecosystem and they know it.

AncientPangolinGaming

Dude… Nintendo and Apple are both quickly losing me as a customer because of how absurdly greedy they are especially in this field.

patrickburk

Nintendo is challenging law with how much they can legally get away with.

Which is a thing most companies do, often pushing predatory practices more and more until ppl complain and then they do 1 step back to make everyone happy; which ppl will ignore the other 18 practices because the 19th was changed back. It's mental manipulation at it's finest and companies like EA games and Ubisoft often do this; Nintendo hasn't done it yet but you can see how they're trying with what they can take down and can't by law.

They will keep pushing the law in their favor as far as they can until they can't, to which they will back off and stay there; knowing what they can and can't do to it's peak. Well unless the law itself starts to take notice and update itself to avoid something like Nintendo arresting people for say... playing a gameboy game on a custom gameboy someone made; which they would if they could. But law rarely changes, so that is the least likely thing.

I don't hate Nintendo. I was a huge nintendo fan in the 20's and early 2000's, but this isn't the Nintendo I knew and if it was; they weren't that agressive.

WakoDoodle