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!
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.
Been thinking of getting a used Switch Mini exclusively to solder in a chip and use it as a nice emulation handheld. As long as it doesn’t rat itself out over Bluetooth or something to its older brother gathering dust behind the tv (which has never been touched by the light of piracy), I should still be good I guess.
It’s unfortunate, but what I’m actually worried about is that world where different devices will report on each other.
And how exactly do they intend to detect or prevent emulation?
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.
I’m gonna emulate even harder now.
Right? This just makes me want to emulate every Nintendo everything from now on.
This Community : but but but. I only use emulators to play my backed up cartridges I’ve never pirated one game before.
Pirating Nintendo games is a good deed. Everyone should be proud of it.
Nintendo could make fucking bank if it was easier to actually pay them to play their old games. They have no leg to stand on since I can’t.
They’re not stupid, they’re manipulative. In my experience, that’s always the case in situations like these.
It boggles my mind that they aren’t just packaging up old games into an exe and posting them one by one on Steam. Its free money.
They could literally just sell ROM files, bring your own emulator
If I ever get sued by nintendo for some reason I’m making a large part of my case to try and convince investors how much money they could make having games available on pc, I doubt I could win a lawsuit but I will do my best to be a seed that changes your company forever
How is retropie still able to operate? Seems like 9 out of 10 people who buy a raspberry pi are using it with retropie to play retro games. Seems like something that holds that much of the emulator industry share would be targeted by Nintendo.
Subsequently, if I know someone who knows someone who has a retropie for gaming, what’s the worst case scenario that could come from Nintendo shutting down retropie’s ability to provide the means to emulate? Will it be fine as long as the OS isn’t updated any further? Just run the emulators and roms already installed on it as long as no new emulators or roms are added after the possible crack down?
You can say 9 out of 10 buying a raspberry pie are setring up retro pie for emulating, but 98 out of 100 people emulating aren’t using a raspberry pie to do it.
I mean the statement was heavily implied to be anecdotal to my experience but I’ll add to it by also saying I haven’t met a single person who runs an emulator console using anything but raspberry pi hardware.
What are the 98 out 100 people that you know using? Mini desktops?
You’re just speaking of dedicated emulator systems? I’d agree with those numbers of yours then. I was just speaking of what people use to emulate old games in general. Almost everyone just uses a pc, laptop, or cell phone. The numbers for dedicated systems that look like retro Gameboys and stuff like that are outnumbered by like 100 to 1.
