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I feel like this lawsuit was a real Streisand effect for Nintendo. Now everyone know there’s a way to emulate the Switch.
It sure as fuck was. Half of the Nintendo community knows about this situation, and unless for some reason they still have respect for this evil company, they will now freely play whatever switch games they want without giving Nintendo a dime.
I’m sure most Nintendo “fans” aren’t a fan of the company itself, just the games
It genuinely surprises me the amount of diehard nintendo fans who will defend the corporation’s heinous acts tooth and nail that there are. They make good games, and they were my childhood, therefore their wrongs are excusable (or not wrongs at all)!
I’m sure most Nintendo “fans” aren’t a fan of the company itself, just the games
I think being a fan of any company is weird. I mean products, sure, there are good ones, some are definitely works of art. But companies?
I’m sure most Nintendo “fans” aren’t a fan of the company itself, just the games
Yup. I like their games and hate their business practices. Also been pirating their games since the 90s.
And the subsequent C&Ds/lawsuits to the idiots who are “forking” the tainted codebase will do an even better job of explaining “you fuck with Nintendo and we will literally own you for the rest of your life”
That also assumes the various projects have competent developers (unlikely since anyone with the technical ability knows why you don’t touch this code) and isn’t just a way to rush in some crypto miners and spyware to people who are mad they can’t have yuzu.
What I don’t understand is why developers ever put their names to projects like this. Create the project and distribute it via peer to peer
Because this is generally hundreds, if not thousands, of
yearshours of their life.Part of it is wanting to get some degree of recognition for that. Part of it is that this is very much part of their portfolio for future jobs searches.
Are you an elf? We humans usually don’t live that long.
@NuXCOM_90Percent @PopOfAfrica both recognition and showing the project in a portfolio and even receiving donations are more that possible using an alias. I don’t see any point at all in exposing yourself like that, specially when emulators are legal and your only threat, a single company with way too many lawyers, can be almost completely avoided by not saying the name on your ID and where are you currently living
Yes. I am sure someone could set up multiple shell corporations in different countries and receive all their money in crypto that goes through multiple tumblers. Sure. Regardless, this is not the board to really argue about people being compensated for their labor.
But I will say this. If a person I am interviewing talks about how they can show me the code they have worked on in their spare time but that I cannot ever tell anyone that they wrote it and it is on a different github account and blah blah blah: I am noping the fuck out of that conversation before I need to ask HR what my obligation is to report criminal activity.
@NuXCOM_90Percent WOW you didn’t read my comment at all. First of all, you are exaggerating the level of secrecy needed for getting money here. Nintendo isn’t gonna get the fucking FBI to search for where does the money end (and that’s assuming you’re from USA, good luck finding out where I’m from), so using any cripto currency and a crypto mixer should be enough. As long as you don’t move obscene amounts of money (which you won’t get from this alone), you should be good by just being officially a freelancer on your country.
And, again, EMULATION IS LEGAL, AND LITERALLY NO ONE CARES EXCEPT NINTENDO. If you go to a company and show you’re the developer of a successful piece of FOSS, they will literally just don’t give a shit how your account is named or if nintendo likes it or not. If you can’t understand that emulation is legal just keep shouting to a wall.
So… because this is 100% legal, people should… hide their name and run shell companies?
Because patreon tends to give a shit who they are mailing the check to.They won’t just leave it taped to a wall outside the local Denny’s and not ask questions about who picks it up. Shell companies can help with obfuscating that.
Relying on crypto DRASTICALLY reduces the likelihood people will make any donations to you. And is still incredibly easy to track, even through tumblers (there is a reason graph algorithms are such a hot topic and it isn’t just twitter).
Because, you are right: Emulation is legal (if you thread the needle). Which is why people who spend thousands of hours writing cool software put their name on it. Rather than jump through all these hoops and make themselves look like criminals.
A hydra never dies
To the surprise of literally nobody except Nintendo.
Somebody forked the repo and changed the name != the project is being continued
The power of open source compels you!
*compiles
That’s a bold strategy cotton let’s see if it works out for them…
And when I say works out I mean gets any updates
Imagine trying to defeat piracy.
Let’s go, as if this was ever going to work.
Ironic calling it suyu given the context, no?
You should really probably keep this on the DL. No reason to shut the project down regardless of what Nintendo does, but this needs to be done quietly now since it’s gotten a ton of attention.
Edit: Just bcz, fuck you nintendo, I’m never buying your consoles again. You lost any remaining sliver of goodwill you had with this move.
Waiting for the nuyu fork to spawn
