• Yash Raj@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Nintendo competing to get the most evil corporation award from activision.

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      They’ll release a new Mario game and everyone will forget

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        Those loyal fans love sucking off Nintendo and defending every decision they make even when it fucks them in the ass in the long run.

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          You know those movies that were clearly made to sell money, instead of say anything interesting? It was as good as the last F&F movie.

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    Lots of optimism for Yuzu living on in some fork of the code, but I don’t expect it will be that simple. Qualified new devs will not be likely to invest anywhere near the time and energy the original devs have. If they’re smart, they’ll avoid taking direct donations, which means the project will at best be a side hobby. Switch emulation will become a lot harder to document if development fragments into smaller forks. Not sure if a game is compatible or what settings to use? Maybe you’ll find some recommended settings for Yuzu Fork A, but not Fork G you set up because it has better compatibility with another game you were interested in. Information is going to be confusing, inaccurate, and inconsistent as the scene goes underground. Links and other sources won’t be as trustworthy or safe. What was once a fun and easy way to play games will become a risk and a chore. I’m glad there are immediate efforts to get the project back online, but I can’t see this settlement as anything less than a massive blow to emulation and game preservation as a whole. Decades of legal precedent that developers have relied on to safely do their work is being thrown out. Things are objectively worse now than they were before. We are already exiting the golden age of emulation.

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      Switch emulation is not going anywhere, and will likely continue to be built off the foundations laid by Yuzu.

      The biggest takeaway from this is I imagine Nintendo had the devs dead to rights on promoting piracy directly, rather than focusing on only communicating how to play legitimate back-ups only.

      So going forward any smart dev-team would make sure to wait for a game to launch before producing an updated version to support it, as well as being vigilant that all communication through official channels avoids any discussion that enables piracy or directly links to a secondary source that does so.

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      Just one of many “forks” we’ll see pop up over the next few months. Maybe this one has actual developers involved and isn’t just a repo, but it’s too be seen. Funny name, though.

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    Nintendo being Nintendo. They’ve killed websites, device vendors, projects and more. Otherwise Liksang and Bung would still be around. They take the same destroyer of worlds tactic to any meetings. Crush the opposition, no survivors.

    This time I think the internet may surprise them, unless they just get a blanket order on anyone hosting copies of the code or related materiels.

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    Look forward to them using the code in their new product and not giving two shits about the oss license. Again.

    Anyone know what nostalgia resale era they’re into? N64 I would guess… gotta make sure everything sells for $70 or more for all time.

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      Nintendo is past their era of selling the same games to you over and over. Now their old games are subscription based, so you can never stop paying them and never own your childhood classics.

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    (Obv. not legal advice) Step 1: Create non profit for “supporting emulation” Step 2: Use non profit to support devs by helping them create llc’s for their emulators (cause no liability on the persons) Step 4: Whenever nintendo sues (and maybe wins), help them regroup under a new llc Step 5: whatch them play whack-a-mole

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    If I was able to continue dev on an emulator I would totally name it like that. Or 2 YU 2 ZU and just at 2’s to the split pieces on the logo.

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    1 year ago

    – A wild Codeberg appeared. –

    Codeberg is a collaboration platform providing Git hosting and services for free and open source software, content and projects.

    Website: Codeberg.org


    The organization selected the European Union for their headquarters and computer infrastructure, due to members’ concerns that a software project repository hosted in the United States could be removed if a malicious actor made bad faith copyright claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

    Wikipedia: Codeberg e.V.


    In June 2022 the Software Freedom Conservancy’s “Give Up Github” campaign (in response to the GitHub Copilot licensing controversy) promoted Codeberg as an alternative to GitHub.

    Conservancy: Give Up GitHub!