• Telorand@reddthat.com
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    8 months ago

    Honestly, I’m surprised this didn’t happen sooner. Emulating old hardware is one thing, but they have a current vested interest in their most recent console.

    Still, Nintendo’s lawyers can rub spurge on their eyes, and I hope the Yuzu devs find a great lawyer (or better yet, are safely hidden behind some kind of digital or geopolitical veil).

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      8 months ago

      safely hidden behind some kind of digital or geopolitical veil

      When will people learn that the safest place to develop a Nintendo emulator is Pyongyang?

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, it has always felt like we had something we couldn’t wish for or expect. And it’s a much better experience than using an actual switch.

      Sadly the only surprising thing about this is how long it took for Nintendo to do something, I guess they worked on having as good of a chance as they could.

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        8 months ago

        It would be a waste of time to litigate a case they think they’ll lose, after all. Unfortunately, once the devs included proprietary code in the application, they kind of sealed their fate.

        Maybe they got a little too excited over TotK and thought they were under Nintendo’s radar. Maybe they felt like they owed the community an app that could play Nintendo’s highly-anticipated game practically on day one. I dunno. Either way, it was a miscalculated move, and now they’re reaping the consequences.