Ganbat @ Ganbat @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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The thing is Romm seems to use emulatorjs to run emulated games in the browser, so they're actually running on your system. There's no system like that at all for native software. The closest would be streaming things like Moonlight.

Yes, the original code is copyrighted. A recreation of the code, however accurate, isn't. Do you really think Nintendo would let decomps of so many of their games fly if they thought they had legal grounds to remove them?

Also, I'm technically correct anyway: Microsoft owns GitHub, so it'd be the one acting on the copyright holder's DMCA request.

Despite what Take Two would like you to believe, reverse-engineering software isn't illegal unless it's for circumvention of security measures (oversimplified). Distributing copyrighted assets, on the other hand, is. Since the GitHub repo doesn't include the game assets, the only legal DMCA takedown that could be made here is against the Play Store app, in which case, Google would be handling it.

All that said, there doesn't even seem to be a repo for this. There's a different port done by someone else (fexed) last updated over two years ago, but this particular port seems to be closed source. Last update on Play Store was yesterday, but the last time any fork of the main repo was updated was last month.

Okay, but where's the part where he mixes in a bowl of hate and some hairs from his shitty thin beard?

I've shared it in the past, even have a writeup about it on some of my profiles. Not wanting to associate it with this account. I still do mostly safe stuff on YouTube under that name, and I do fucking inflation porn under this one.

Semirural.

I'm pretty sure this is one of those shirts you get from Walmart for $5.

Happens all the time. Usually it doesn't get picked up like this and they just get away with it. Source: It happened to me under a different, purely SFW name. I tried to bring it forward, to get the company to acknowledge it, to get gaming publications involved, no one cared. It's part of why I left digital art behind.

I'd go for it. Fuck, I'd go for anything right now. I'm paying $60 for a an average speed of about 1 mb down from T-Mobile, and that's the best option here.

Doesn't look like this is quite that, yet. The decomp is just the first step towards native porting. Banjo-Kazooie's been fully decompiled for somewhere around a year at this point, and there's still no ports afaik.

If AI is trained on stack overflow, it's only a matter of time until ChatGPT starts telling us that our questions are duplicates of something from 20 years ago

Source? None of that's in the article. The article simply says Valve shut it down for being "derrivative work," a term which would include all mods.

Maybe they wouldn't have needed to diversify into such predatory markets if their execs weren't pocketing all the money.

Me not expecting to see Ben Drowned today

The BBC:

I feel like the fact he worked for Microsoft before starting Valve adds a whole new layer to the story, too.

Ah, right. Got my wires crossed I guess.

The most dystopian thing I've seen... Fuck, idk, it's all pretty dystopian these days, I've lost count

IIRC, he didn't get sent it early, he got into Valve's servers and snagged it.

The kicker, and this is the part I always remember: he guessed Gabe Newell's password. It was gaben, same as his user name, same as his name name.

Not really.