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[–] [email protected] 115 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's funny, before this, I was just going to buy a legit copy and play it on my Deck (I have a Switch, but prefer the Deck)

Now, fuck those guys. If I play at all, it'll be on a pirated copy.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago

Deck is superior to Switch! And obligatory F—- Nintendo, and their 1990’s mindset with games and hardware. I’m convinced they’ll have to financially fail to start caring. Even a 30% reduction in their sales and player counts should quickly seize their attention.

At this point 2024 is looking like the Year Of Nintendo’s Failures starting off with Palworld. They certainly deserve to fail!

[–] [email protected] 96 points 8 months ago (2 children)

With all that free money, it looks like Nintendo will be just fine if I never purchase another one of their games. Hell, I may even offer to hack some of my friends' systems just to spite Nintendo.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

I'm gonna rcm my switch now and copy my animal crossing island to my PC to be emulated. Shoulda done that a long time ago to have a backup that I actually own instead of having to pay Nintendo to keep my save data backed up. I see no reason to play any more Nintendo games on my switch, much less purchase any more when I have my steam deck.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Absolute chad. Keep fighting the good fight.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 8 months ago (2 children)

So this defensive strategy was planned from the beginning. The L in LLC stands for limited. It means Nintendo won't get any money. Tropic Haze LLC declares bankruptcy and tells Nintendo "our assets are two rolls of toilet paper and this empty can of coke, GL with getting your millions". Certainly cheaper than fighting a top lawyer team with unlimited funding

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

Yeah the LLC structure always seemed weird to people. After what happened to Bowser serving prison sentence and having his future earnings garnished for the rest of his life, this might have been the smart play. Yuzu group will never be able to pay the 2 mil. Company goes under and owners walk away from this escaping real harm.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is that really how it works? Good for them in that case.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's complicated. I'm no lawyer so take this with a grain of salt, but LLCs don't offer blanket protection. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil

It is possible to go after people directly, and side step the LLC protection in certain cases. Depends how much Nintendo wants to screw these guys.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And no one ever pirated a Nintendo game ever again.

In other news:

  • Switch sales up 2000%!
  • Nintendo stock reaches all-time high!
  • Half-Life 3 released!
[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The poor Nintendo executives can finally afford to go to space, like they deserve!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Fuck Nintendo. Find better games for your kids to play. Buy a Sega genesis with an everdrive or set up a raspberry pi or something. Tux kart is better than Mario cart these days anyway.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

They settled.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (13 children)

Saw this coming and made sure to update one last time. Ill probably just switch to Ryujinx at some point.

RIP Yuzu

[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It isn’t dead yet. The source code was downloaded by a bunch of people when the lawsuit was announced, so there’s already forks being uploaded to other accounts.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Its dead. Another project based on it source code might arise but it won't be the same team and will take a while before it would be smart to trust the new project.

My guess is the most recent version of Yuzu, as a stand alone, will probably work for a long time anyway. So i guess there is that...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That’s what I mean. They say you aren’t truly dead until the last person forgets your name. Yuzu might not have the same team going forward, but the source code is there, and somebody will continue the project. We won’t forget where it came from, and so Yuzu will live on.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

True just look at how long project64 v1.6 has been around

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago (2 children)

And just like that, Nintendo have guaranteed to never get a dime of my money again 🏴‍☠️

What a greedy corpo. I'll be waiting on the MVG video covering all the legal details whenever that drops

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Same, and they fucked up the Citra Emulation too, and it's the only 3DS Emulator. Nintendo may makes great games, but they are better in a museum than fucking up the industry like that.

Sony will follow these steps.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago (1 children)

nintendrones are the most brainwashed corporate bootlickers I've ever encountered

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

There’s a steam deck discord that was muting people and banning some people for even saying the word “emulation”

The mods were quite scared and authoritative and acting powerless at the same time.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

As of right now Citra and Yuzu are both available via Flathub!! If you want them there's still time!!!!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lol install statistics shot up when initial news broke last week.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

nintendo? more like nintendon't!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are there any viable Yuzu or Citra forks?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I wouldn't put anything on GH at this point, not with lawsuits going around.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

More important than maintaining the source code though is forming a new group to manage the continued development of Yuzu and Citra. Hopefully they don't fracture into ten groups all making parallel improvements.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Anyone know where to get the most recent linux build as a .deb? I wanna have an installer in case I have to wipe my os or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I heard the flat pack is still up

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

@mr_MADAFAKA between this and sending Gary Bowser to jail and taking money from him while in prison ... i will NEVER buy another nintendo product. I should have come to this conclusion LONG ago ... but i guess better late than never.
#fucknintendo

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Fuck Nintendo. Bunch of money hungry cunts. I hope their sales plummet. Emulation isn't illegal but here fucking are being forced to buy their horrendously shitty console to play a game. Glad I bought mine secondhand and already sold it. You once had honour. Now you can commit seppuku

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

this case does not set any legal precedent, but it's still a shame they settled.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

I guess this is damage control, since they are afraid of setting a precedent of potentially killing off legal emulation in the US for good.

There's no chance, an emulator dev team can take it up against Nintendo's lawyers.

Don't blame Nintendo, blame capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Both. Blame both.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

This is just encouragement for ryjunix to prep for new console (which is probably going to be almost the exact same)

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