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Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games (www.retronews.com)

submitted 9 hours ago by moe90@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 109 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

...Recent laws in Japan have criminalized console and game modding, as well as save file editing....

WHAT? why?.....what???

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 40 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

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.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/abk551/save_game_editors_and_console_modding_now_illegal/

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.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

In other words, Japan apparently hates property rights.

[–] Fijxu@programming.dev 22 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

For some of us, finding ways to cheat IS the game.

[–] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 33 points 7 hours ago

Can’t wait for Nintendo to sue Microsoft because VS Code can be used to edit save files.

[–] neblem@lemmy.world 39 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

Successful lobbying by Sony and Nintendo I imagine.