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And Nintendo fans will respond by obediently lining up to immediately buy the Switch 2 and every single re-re-re-rereleased game for it the second it launches.

If anyone was curious, Echoes of Wisdom is totally playable on the Steam Deck

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.

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.

Successful lobbying by Sony and Nintendo I imagine.

They'd sue you for playing their games on their hardware if they could

Theres a reason I havent owned a nintendo console or branded item since the gamecube.

and its not because of money.

its because Nintendo, as a company, is an enormous cunt that I wish would fall into ruin.

Yeah, I have zero desire to give them money. Luckily, there are solid options that aren't them, notably the steam deck for portable gaming and pc/xbox/ps5 for home gaming.

99.999999...%

Nintendo does still make good games, and they're the only ones who seem to care about multiple people playing together while sitting on the couch, as opposed to focussing only on online multiplayer.

Which is why it's so annoying that they do evil shit on the side like this. Nintendo are litigious to an absolutely callous degree. Wankers.

Game engines and servers are great candidates for developers to collaborate their ideas into FOSS projects, but the model is harder to sustain for complete works.

While internet games can have subscription models where you pay them for doing game master type activities, moderation, and access to a hosted game server, static games are more like static art where you run into issues getting food and housing when you make your work output available for free. Crowdfunding / patreoning (in the larger sense of the word, not necessarily the app) creators / collectives can be a way for that to work, and we need to support more creators trying that model if we want to see more of it.

Who said this?

It doesn’t matter if it’s emulated legally or not. They can issue a takedown for showing gameplay captured from an NES hooked up to a CRT if they want.

A fair use defense has to be defended in court, and it’s not just about whether you’re right but also about whether you can afford to fight.

It’s also not certain that a fair use defense would fly. One of the elements for determining whether fair use is market impact, and I suspect that Nintendo’s lawyers would argue that demoing that their games can be emulated - even if the specific demoed games are not being sold - has a negative market impact, since it makes people who might buy a Switch and a Nintendo Online membership to play the official emulated games less likely to do so.

Lots of channels getting strikes are showing anbernic and steam decks and the like running the roms featuring Nintendo games being emulated on said device and not just a video capture of the game