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[Icymanipulator]

People keep buying their stuff in droves even after they put that guy in jail for selling Zelda save files, among other atrocities Nintendo as committed, I dunno, I don’t think it should stop. I think every time they do something draconian people should speak up, and better yet, stop supporting them if it means anything at all to you. NeoIkaruGAF
But people don’t seem to care and they will continue to buy terribly optimized Pokemon games regardless of how Nintendo treats gamers. They are ruthless to their fan community as well. C&Ds left and right like they are going out of style.

The increase aggression against emulation is not cool, no matter how you try to spin it. Emulation provides more value beyond just pirating games.

 

[ultrazilla]

With the PC gaming market exploding in Japan, I think this is all happening because Nintendo is planning to "test the waters" for
releasing their games to PC. The shareholders gotta be driving Nintendo nuts with the untapped market Nintendo is missing out on.

Or they're simply getting ready for the Switch 2 announcement and don't want emulators looking/performing better than the new hardware
they're going to release.

Something is brewing with Nintendo.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

People keep buying their stuff in droves even after they put that guy in jail for selling Zelda save files, among other atrocities Nintendo as committed, I dunno, I don’t think it should stop. I think every time they do something draconian people should speak up, and better yet, stop supporting them if it means anything at all to you. NeoIkaruGAF
But people don’t seem to care and they will continue to buy terribly optimized Pokemon games regardless of how Nintendo treats gamers. They are ruthless to their fan community as well. C&Ds left and right like they are going out of style.

The increase aggression against emulation is not cool, no matter how you try to spin it. Emulation provides more value beyond just pirating games.

Dude, nobody is trying to spin it. Again: literally nobody is saying this is cool. But you gotta admit, if people were emulating Nintendo’s currently available system openly and unashamedly, there isn’t much to complain about. They’re not being the bad guy there. Now, C&Ding people showing SNES F-Zero running on an Anbernic whatever? Yah, that’s shitty. Nobody, absolutely nobody, argues with that being shitty. Still, it’s Nintendo’s right to do so. And not buying a poorly optimized Pokemon game has very little to do with that (and just to put this out of the way, the last time I bought anything Pokemon was in 2016).

Again: when, around 20 years ago, some Asia-based companies were selling stuff that allowed people to make *ahem* unorthodox use of PlayStation hardware and software, Sony took action just as drastically as Nintendo. The difference is that they clearly don’t care about their retro catalog (“Who would want to play this?”) as much as Nintendo. Their choice.

 

[cireza]

Now, C&Ding people showing SNES F-Zero running on an Anbernic whatever?

The issue here is that Nintendo are selling a service that allows renting these games for a paid subscription, and playing them on TV or handheld. Obviously the Anbernic guy didn't put his SNES cartridge inside the console, so he necessarily downloaded a rom.

Everything started when ToTK got emulated better than on real hardware, two weeks (more ?) before launch, and this was largely communicated, which was an incredibly dumb move. Nintendo are trying to make money out of these games, so they do have a valid ground of attack, and they are using it. Be it modern releases or old games through the NSO. Personally, I play all my Nintendo oldies through NSO, this is a quality service.

The conclusion is that the emulation scene should have shut their mouth.

 

[ReBurn]

The issue here is that Nintendo are selling a service that allows renting these games for a paid subscription, and playing them on TV or handheld. Obviously the Anbernic guy didn't put his SNES cartridge inside the console, so he necessarily downloaded a rom.

Everything started when ToTK got emulated better than on real hardware, two weeks (more ?) before launch, and this was largely communicated, which was an incredibly dumb move. Nintendo are trying to make money out of these games, so they do have a valid ground of attack, and they are using it. Be it modern releases or old games through the NSO. Personally, I play all my Nintendo oldies through NSO, this is a quality service.

The conclusion is that the emulation scene should have shut their mouth.

Anbernic gave me the roms when I bought my RG351M device. It shipped from China with roms installed on the SD card. As long as that's happening Nintendo is fighting a losing battle, at least from a legacy perspective.

 

[cireza]

Anbernic gave me the roms when I bought my RG351M device. It shipped from China with roms installed on the SD card. As long as that's happening Nintendo is fighting a losing battle, at least from a legacy perspective.

Sounds super legal.

 

[SHA]

Always relevant:

Keywords,
Nintendo
Uncle

Hmmmmmm.

 

[Toons]

Company protecting their ip is not something im going to decry if it seems fairly reasonable. Nintendo has more than enough justification most of the time

 

[AngelMuffin]

 

[keefged4]

Oh look, another day, another instance of Nintendo acting like cunts

 

[AJUMP23]

It is time to WAKE UP when it comes to Nintendo. they released a new Alarm clock.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

It is time to WAKE UP when it comes to Nintendo. they released a new Alarm clock.

Fans now have a convenient way to sound the Alarmo when they see someone sneakily launching a NES rom on some Chinese handheld device on TikTok.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Company protecting their ip is not something im going to decry if it seems fairly reasonable. Nintendo has more than enough justification most of the time

Going after emulators only protect the shit IQ and performance of their IPs. They should go against ROMs distributions.

 

[ReBurn]

Sounds super legal.

All they mention on their website is the number of compatible games with each model, but they don't mention that those games are pretty much every commercial game from the 8-bit and 16-bit eras as well as a pretty hefty MAME rom set and a handful of PS1 and N64 roms. The Anbernic devices I bought from Amazon in the US didn't come with the games, but the one that shipped from China certainly did. Definitely not legal in the US, but China just doesn't care.

 

[A.Romero]

Disgusting, specially considering it's free publicity for Nintendo. Only Nintendo's most dedicated fans will spend time making and watching the videos.

It's ironic too considering many brands do all sorts of things to be covered by youtubers.

 

[Toons]

Going after emulators only protect the shit IQ and performance of their IPs. They should go against ROMs distributions.

Whether or not their performance is to your standards has zero bearing on their right to protect their property, you can't say "your performance sucks so I should be entitled to steal from you"

 

[Ornoku]

With the PC gaming market exploding in Japan, I think this is all happening because Nintendo is planning to "test the waters" for
releasing their games to PC. The shareholders gotta be driving Nintendo nuts with the untapped market Nintendo is missing out on.

Or they're simply getting ready for the Switch 2 announcement and don't want emulators looking/performing better than the new hardware
they're going to release.

Something is brewing with Nintendo.

I think there's about a 0% chance nintendo comes to pc within the next 20 years. They have so many untapped markets they could be making money from on their own hardware. You don't need to overthink this, it's just Nintendo, this is what they do.

 

[ManaByte]

Anbernic gave me the roms when I bought my RG351M device. It shipped from China with roms installed on the SD card. As long as that's happening Nintendo is fighting a losing battle, at least from a legacy perspective.

 

[drotahorror]

The issue here is that Nintendo are selling a service that allows renting these games for a paid subscription, and playing them on TV or handheld. Obviously the Anbernic guy didn't put his SNES cartridge inside the console, so he necessarily downloaded a rom.

Everything started when ToTK got emulated better than on real hardware, two weeks (more ?) before launch, and this was largely communicated, which was an incredibly dumb move. Nintendo are trying to make money out of these games, so they do have a valid ground of attack, and they are using it. Be it modern releases or old games through the NSO. Personally, I play all my Nintendo oldies through NSO, this is a quality service.

The conclusion is that the emulation scene should have shut their mouth.

Retro Game Corps goes out of his way to show you his equipment he uses to rip his original cartridges. Has many receipts.

Nintendo I believe is responsible for 2 out 3 strikes for him. 3rd one and this guys hobby/job is gone. He will be safer in the future I'm sure but time will tell if another company decides they don't want you showing their emulated games even if you own the games and ripped them yourself.

 

[chromhound]

It is time to WAKE UP when it comes to Nintendo. they released a new Alarm clock.

Might sue other clockmakers

 

[lh032]

Doesn't matter a single bit what people do or not. Legal emulators are legal. Period.

Legal for pcmr.

Can afford a gaming PC but can't afford a handheld or complain about full price games.

 

[BouncyFrag]

Monsters. Pray for Mario.

 

[cireza]

Nintendo I believe is responsible for 2 out 3 strikes for him. 3rd one and this guys hobby/job is gone.

More like making money from his hobby is gone. He can still enjoy whatever he likes, he simply needs to turn off the camera.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

They're probably going to market the Switch 2 as a good option for playing Switch 1 games at higher resolution/performance, at least until a healthy software library is built up for the device.

That's my take on why they're going after emulators now.

 

[Team Andromeda]

Nintendo are utter Scum

 

[rodrigolfp]

Legal for pcmr.

Can afford a gaming PC but can't afford a handheld or complain about full price games.

You have to rip your own bought games using the handheld, ignorant.

Whether or not their performance is to your standards has zero bearing on their right to protect their property, you can't say "your performance sucks so I should be entitled to steal from you"

Emulators can't steal anything, ignorant.