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Ah, and I was thinking of PS2 emulator they use for classics in PS+ :D

Switch 2 backwards compatibility won’t be streaming-based, it runs locally.

Yuzu is licensed under GPL so that’s a no go because of copyleft clauses. If they use Ryujinx code it’ll have to be listed in legal / copyright notices because it’s using MIT license.

Then again Yuzu devs were able to keep latest builds behind a paywall so they probably could get all of the developers to sign the rights over.

In-house solution would still be preferable to those. Yuzu and Ryujinx had to be reverse engineered and Nintendo has all the docs.

Not the most descriptive title but I’d be smug too ;)

Haven’t played other Nier games but I think older entries are quite different in general. If you didn’t like combat of Automata then it’s probably a dead end.

I think you misunderstand the root of the argument. You’re referencing Nintendo copying someone’s rip and that seems illogical - DRM circumvention is illegal under DMCA and similar laws, right? Nintendo is the owner of the license and not licensee for those things however so they can’t really circumvent anything and therefore there is no law against that. Nintendo can download Mario roms off the internet legally because they are the publisher and won’t sue themselves obviously.

Maybe not that much of a hidden gem but I don’t see it listed in your favourites and I would expect to based on the other entries - Nier: Automata?

Well, one of the most respected Nintendo console emulators around, Dolphin, was developed in a clean room environment despite documentation being available due to leaks for this precise reason. To this day they’ve been undisturbed by Nintendo so that seems to be working alright.

Law is a pedantic thing.

Meant Switch 2 obviously :) Corrected.

One has to admit Switch 2 games look pretty great, especially for a mobile device that’s quite thin. Battery life is at early Switch levels however which is probably what Nintendo decided to sacrifice as a tradeoff for fitting it into certain budget.

I didn’t want to report this issue because it would give away my sausage fingers. Thank you for coming out of the sausage fingers closet first, it gave me courage to admit it too.

For now I’m enjoying using Voyager like a Dark Souls of Apollo clones. It’s very good at teaching you about accepting loss which makes hair grow on your chest.

We won’t know the details for some time probably. Typically that would be running most CPU instructions natively or in a hypervisor (because it’s some ARM on both - that’s how Ryujinx on ARM Mac works) but mapping API calls to new libraries (like Wine does on Linux).

Was that emulator ever jailbroken to run other games? I thought it used some bespoke per-game config so it’s not as general as the Switch one appears to be. Nintendo compatibility list shows a very good coverage too.

I don't really get your point about politics as politics is everything so yes, it is a way to determine who's right or the most ethical as well as many other things, I think you might be referring to only electoral politics, otherwise I'm not sure how you could be seeing politics as a way to not determine that.

I disagree, people are forced into things they do not want to do all the time.

There is nothing in a liberal democracy that prevents people from voting in their own self interest and that’s how it is in general as a consequence of combining liberal democracies with selfish ideologies like neoliberalism. Given this reality we can’t use politics to enforce ethics because people will vote you out and a politician should be accountable to his voters, otherwise they start to vote for whackos like Trump out of spite which makes things even worse. That’s just the rule of the game unless you’re for some kind of progressive autocracy or worse.

This probably sounds like I think we should dump women and LGBT folk under the bus but I truly believe that if we improved livelihood for people they wouldn’t need to look for people they can abuse to feel better about their own situation. Left should be emancipating groups of people to give them the power for self determination so that they can organise against the oppression. Given systemic constraints left can’t fight this fight for them.

Importantly, left should never abandon wins they scored for women but things like abortion became like a political Afghanistan (unwinnable fight that burns resources but there’s one more analogy later on). In my country left „fights” (very feebly) for this right despite women not being for it. More young women vote for the far right than any left wing party. Why make them happy by force? It’s not what they want and moralising left detracts from real goal of emancipating new groups and allowing them self-determination.

People who know me long would chuckle seeing me write this but this is a result of wasting too much time with nothing to show for it. And I think there are people who agitate conflict across this line because they know it won’t achieve anything. They also know that keeping this conflict going makes their wealth safe.

I know this is incredibly depressing way to think about things. I understand now that we tried to go to the finish line via shortcuts and we left people behind. Took me years of trying different things, mostly failing, refusing to listen to some people who always turned out to be right while I hated them for it. I feel like I had to try everything else before coming to those conclusions but realistically we’re out of options.

Maybe, but it could be a lot fairer than it currently is, my hope is one day it won't be necessary though or at least not to the same degree that it is now.

I don’t get attached to details on the account of ADHD-like condition but also a track record of details not mattering over long spans of time. Our plans and expectations turn out to be silly all the time.

I think it’d be much easier for Nintendo to reference their own documentation. They have API docs, schematics, everything any emulator developer salivates over but can’t use for legal reasons. But who knows, it could be a part of the settlement deal even.

I am a cynical idealist so I don’t think there’s a way that doesn’t involve some sort of a compromise with people who think it should be different. Politics is not a way to determine who’s right or the most ethical but the means of working stuff out among groups with different interests. Maybe we can coalesce on something nice later on but for now we know that people can’t be forced into things they don’t want to be forced into. For now and probably forever we also need to coexist and that requires a common trading framework.

Something I was wondering about. Modern Vintage Gamer (YouTuber / developer for Nightdive studios / appears on Nate the Hare podcast) said it would be very tricky to run Switch games on any other hardware due to multiple quirks that are way beyond me. He even speculated that it wouldn’t surprise him if Switch successor wouldn’t run Switch games. I guess this is some answer to that speculation. This is also part of the reason why Switch 2 seems to be fairly powerful - they didn’t need that much hardware compatibility so they weren’t constrained by architecture that much.

So they pirated the act of piracy? What’s the law against that?

I can be called a commie and won’t flinch at it but currency is useful, you just don’t need to fetishise it. People should be rewarded for their work as long as it’s not some form of rentierism. How to organise it isn’t that relevant because there are many ways to achieve it.

Because some like proprietary and why would you make their lives harder? As long as it’s interoperable and a part of a broader healthy ecosystem there’s place for every approach.

Like, I wouldn’t mind if someone made a proprietary Activity Pub Reddit alternative. They could compete on some UI features, support, moderation etc. The more the merrier and we could all still talk.

What did they pirate specifically and why nobody is suing them for it? Please go ahead.