Ryujinx did everything right and legal. Let's see how Nintendo supporters try to justify this one.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2024
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I'm not Nintendo supporter and play Switch games on emulators. But one justification is, that this is current generation system. And while the developers are not responsible for, this enables easy piracy, and basically each first party game got leaked early and was playable before or shortly after launch. So lot of these people connect the wrong dots and say that the emulator "supports" piracy, which is not true, but depending on the view could be interpreted by some haters.
The Ryujinx isn't illegal and I am pro emulation (I have terabytes of Roms for all kind of systems) and Open Source. The above statement is not MY justification, but what I think is what most Nintendo supporters will say. I talk about this subject with my bro, watch YouTube videos and read forum comments and that is what I get from them.
For those who've been paying attention, this has been known a long time. Remember when Nintendo would falsely claim gaming videos on YT and take all of the earnings just because one of their games made an appearance?
Entire history of video games shows that when piracy is on decline, ripoffs intensify.
my theory is that this will harden the next generation of nintendo emulator devs to be more anonymous and uncontactable.
i also suspect that nintendo has only delayed switch 2 emulation which is probably really close to switch 1 and can be trivially emulated relatively speaking.
i do think they're going to partner with denuvo though which with make piracy harder, but i think the switch will also be cracked.
Any info on what exactly the dev got out of the deal? Huge sum of money? Big titty waifu? Unreleased version of Smash with Waluigi?
Likely not getting his life destroyed by a lawsuit
It would be sad if that’s what Nintendo convinced him into believing, because as the article points out, there’s legal precedent for emulators
Even so, you can't win a legal battle against Nintendo that easily even with precedent. It will cost you money which you might not have...
yup, the system is rigged from the start. Big corpos can easily bully an everyday person by stalling the legal process and stack up your legal fees until you cannot afford them and had to settle.
They have lawyers on staff earning a salary, so stalling literally costs them no extra money.
Yeah, Bleem won that lawsuit. And the next lawsuit. And the next.
And then they ran out of money.
They sent goons to his house.
What he got out of it is, they left.
Given Nintendork's history, this wouldn't surprise me.