Mhmmm 2077
Member
Dumping your purchased copy should be legal then, in my country (most of EU countries, I assume) it's perfectly legal to create a backup copy of software you bought.
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Porcile
Member
I was just making a snarky comment about the cost of their museum/glorified gift shop ticket compared to just playing the same games at home.Oh good grief, dude. Enough with the ridiculous hyperbole. Nintendo’s gonna pull brand new sealed NESs and SNESs manufactured in the 80s and 90s from their corporate archives, for the public to use? It’s just not practical, in any way. Not to mention hooking them up to modern displays.
Just accept that it makes sense in this situation, as a practical matter. Even if you don’t like it.
Also, Nintendo has entire arms of the company that literally exist to build emulators and middleware, for their own internal and external use. And have for decades.
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Dr. Wilkinson
Member
You’ve clearly not seen what all the museum experience offers if that’s what you think of it. Playing games is not the main draw, in the slightest. And not to mention the games on demo there are extremely old and not for sale by Nintendo, anyway. They’re just part of NSO now. They’re just there to play, purely for nostalgia. Heaven forbid anyone is allowed to just enjoy something anymore.
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Sorcerer
Member
That's a weird situation. I mean it is Nintendo's intellectual property. Do they not have a right to take that rom from a site and use it at will?
If I saw that someone made a copy of my IP I would feel that work is still mine. I wouldn't care how it was made. I think that is the risk you have to take when you mess with other peoples IP. You can put all the work into you want, but it's not yours at the end of the day, no one asked you to copy the IP.
I could be off base here, just my thoughts.
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Unknown Soldier
Member
Nintendo has literally never gone after NES, SNES, N64, GCN emulators
They've been after Switch emulators because people literally only use them for piracy
Why is this so hard to understand if you don't have NDS (Nintendo Derangement Syndrome)?
They've been after Switch emulators because people literally only use them for piracy
Why is this so hard to understand if you don't have NDS (Nintendo Derangement Syndrome)?
nkarafo
Member
LOL
There is no such thing...
Please, stop being be an ignorant corporate apologist and research what an emulator is.
It most likely is not. I'm not aware of any emulator made by Nintendo themselves that runs on Windows. And those are clearly Windows PCs (judging from the USB sound cue).
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nkarafo
Member
So you are saying people who use NES/SNES/N64/GC emulators don't pirate the roms?
How about people who have a Switch + PC and actually buy the Switch games but prefer to play them on PC for better visuals and performance?
Nintendo is in the wrong here. Emulators are legal. Pirated ROMs are not but that's a different thing. But they didn't go after the ROM sites, they went for the emulators. And they knew they don't need to be on the right side of the law because that's only for those who can afford the legal expenses. I don't know about Yuzu but the authors of Ryujinx would be able to win the case if they could afford it. Of course the author settled or whatever that went behind the doors. They would be stupid not to.
LordOcidax
Member
OverHeat
« generous god »
You know it was a joke right?
LordOcidax
Member
. Don’t ruin the party 
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
For some reason, this quote keeps popping into my head when I think about Nintendo:
