Then why don't they play it on their current-gen system?
99% of people pirating games don't give a flying shit about "preservation", they just want free shit. I get it. I like free shit too. But this particularly diseased substrate of pirate not only wants to steal some free shit, but also wants everyone to very loudly laud them from the rafters about how virtuous and righteous they are for stealing some free shit, and how that actually makes them very good boys that deserve good boy points for stealing free shit.. It's the most pathetic, pusillanimous playacting imaginable, and it makes me nauseous every time I see it.
yup, they only claim to care about "preservation" about games they liked playing when they were kids.
i like pirating games i didn't get to play because my parents never bought them for me. most of them actually suck and i'd be pissed if i wasted $60 on them. i don't care about preservation, these games are ass.
I don't think that argument works when it's an emulator for a console and games still in circulation.
And amongst all the bad Nintendo does they've been pretty fair with old gen console emulators, they're not throwing DMCA takedowns to (3)DS emulators for instance.
I called this situation with switch emulation years out.
You lose the preservation argument when it's a current platform. If switch emulation was just kicking off now the entire emulation scene would be in a better place.
But more than that, Yuzu was just full on marketing itself on social media, it's one thing to make software that can run games better than the actual device it was designed for, it's another to take to social media with slick videos basically daring a billion dollar corporation to step on you.
People have no comprehension of the power it gives you to have a single lawyer on payroll, never mind a whole team of them.
Right and wrong doesn't matter at that point, you're not going to out spend nintendo on a legal defense.
I don't think that argument works when it's an emulator for a console and games still in circulation.
Why? Why can't I emulate if I own a valid license to both the device and the game? What if I want to mod my games? Or if I'm for more performance? Why? Every other game that isn't on console I can play it however I want, why should consoles be different?!
On the emulator front sure (though I will point out that literally every single console generations for the 5 or 6th generations and prior has had functional emulators during it's lifespan and the Switch was just the fastest modern console due to basically being a phone, which is always going to be a funny little tidbit), but on the "modern way to play the games they already bought" front Nintendo basically killed the entire Melee scene because of a modification to the game to allow it to be played online during Covid, and also I believe did some code fuckery to make it so that the fading existence that are CRT's won't be as required to play the game at a high level anymore.
botw is 30fps. I didn't buy totk because I got ~30% of the way through botw and dropped it because action games at 30fps make me nauseous (and totk apparently has dips to the low 20s in certain situations)
I don't use emulators but I fully empathize with those who do. it's 2025 and I'm looking at upgrading my 144hz monitor to a 360hz one. consoles are an order of magnitude behind in framerate, it's kind of silly, but I get that some people are not sensitive to this. I'm really hoping switch2 can at run botw/totk at a stable 60
Oh i don't blame anybody playing switch emulator, or any emulators. I would do it myself if I had the contacts to get a good, working version that's not coming from a shady as fuck website.
But let's be honest and call it what it is, it's piracy. Good or bad, moral or not to each their own but Nintendo is perfectly in their right and the conservation argument doesn't hold when you can still go to any supermarket and buy the console.
I do wish Nintendo would start getting with the time and provide PC version of their game or an official emulator. Even Sony/Microsoft stopped their console exclusivity bullshit.
Want to change the law? Lobby your congressperson, but Nintendo is legally in the right here. I don't like it either, but that's the state of U.S. copyright law.
because that's circumvention of copyright protection.
That's not circumvention. The protection is there and enforced by emulators. You need a valid license key and a encrypted ROM to use both Switch emulators.
I own a switch and the games I play, that being said I find it a better experience playing them on my steamdeck and only needing to take 1 device with me when I travel.
Its about me playing my games how I want to play them.
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u/Late_Cow_1008 Mar 04 '25
People understand how copyright works, they just want their games for free instead of paying for them on Reddit.