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Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games (www.retronews.com)

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[-] [email protected] 124 points 9 months ago

...Recent laws in Japan have criminalized console and game modding, as well as save file editing....

WHAT? why?.....what???

[-] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Because:

Due to an amendment in December 2018 of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act in Japan, certain gaming-related activities and services have now been declared illegal. This includes:

Distribution of tools and programs for modifying game saves

Selling product keys and serials online without the software maker's permission

Game save and console modding services
As such, sales of products such as Pro Action Replay and Cybergadget's "Save editor" have been discontinued.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/abk551/save_game_editors_and_console_modding_now_illegal/

It's meant to ban sale of hardware devices and services that allow playing pirated games on Switch and such, but due to the way it's worded it just bans them all.

[-] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago

Can’t wait for Nintendo to sue Microsoft because VS Code can be used to edit save files.

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