In short, if you happen to hack your Switch or run emulators, you may find that it winds up getting bricked entirely.
Nintendo is Nintendoing again!
I’m gonna emulate even harder now.
Right? This just makes me want to emulate every Nintendo everything from now on.
This is why I pirate.
I’m tired of companies telling me what I can and can’t do with something I’ve purchased.
Anyways. I’ll be gaming on my PC if anyone needs me.
Preventing me from accessing Nintendo network and store is one thing. Somehow bricking my physical device, that I own? Fuck them
Steam over here just open sourcing their full ass os and you can literally do anything you want. Best money ive spent
Same. Possibly getting a second
I have 2 because i got the white led. dunno what to do with the 2nd
Nintendo is such a shit company now. I’d be surprised if they ever innovate again. They’ll just sit around and sue and release mediocre to bad bullshit.
They always been like this.
Half disagree. They’ve taken a lot of risks in the past with designs that other companies wouldn’t have. Things that didn’t always pan out well and became the butts of jokes.
But yes, they’ve been a litigious company with ties to the Yakuza that people frequently forget as well.
I don’t buy physical objects and then agree to not own them. I don’t even like that shit with digital goods. I don’t need someones authorization to “allow” me to use what I buy as I see fit. If buying isn’t owning than pirating isn’t stealing.
So if I never buy a Nintendo product, I’m fine to emulate? Got it
Joke is on them. I have had every NES and SNES rom ever made for a long ass time. I need to make sure i have every N64 rom (even if I don’t play that often) and now every GameCube.
I still don’t have a Wii emulator or even looked into that.
Dolphin, the gamecube emulator is also a fairly complete wii emulator. The wii was basically 2 gamecubes duct-taped together.
I have dolphin, thank you for mentioning that.
And how exactly do they intend to detect or prevent emulation?
As of right now, it seems like the only way they can detect a hacked Switch is if its user goes online for a game in the emuNAND. I don’t think there is a way for them to detect emulating on PC, unless you’re like that streamer who publicly flouted Nintendo’s cease and desists
I’ve decided that I’ll skip Nintendo consoles moving forward and just use emulation if there’s a game I really want. I’ll buy the cartridge to cover myself ethically and just put it in a drawer.
Since Nintendo games never lose value apparently, just keep it sealed and sell it off when you get bored for a break even.
Honestly, I’m an advocate for emulation and game preservation and all that, but I’m surprised this is only now the case. I don’t have the nerve to try to hack my device if it’s the currently being supported platform. If they’ve already abandoned it then it’s fair game but the currently active console with your current actual information on there that gets regular updates? You’re just playing with fire.
It’s like taking it upon yourself to make an “HD remake” of the IPs owned by famously stringent companies who aren’t afraid to put the hammer down on these things.
I generally agree, I only really hack consoles that aren’t being supported anymore, but I don’t like how over-reaching the end user agreement is sounds like it’s likely to be abused
I don’t have the nerve to try to hack my device
their device. Your own device, such as a Steam Deck, you don’t have to hack, you can run anything on it however you like.
laughs in steam deck You know, I didn’t really have a lot of interest in emulating old Nintendo games, but now I think I’ll do it just because Nintendo doesn’t want me to.
Thank god I own a PC and not a corpo platform.
Sigh. They’re really trying to turn into the villain this generation aren’t they?
Nah, all the big names (Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft) are shit this generation. This is the worst console generation so far.
Says the internet every single console generation
Enshittification is apparently a journey, not a destination.
even older consoles will cause your nintendo switch to brick???
They wish they could stop me from emulating old games lol
Fr tho
At this point if you’re buying their stuff, you’re the reason they get away with it and you’re the problem because you can’t control them, you can only control you… and you didn’t.
