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

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Nintendo has been actively taking down YouTube videos that feature its games being emulated or modded, which has sparked significant discussion and concern within the gaming community.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People got way too greedy with Switch emulation

The fact emulators are faster than the real hardware, can you blame them? Also, modding games is vastly easier, and people like mods.

Nintendo is just shooting themselves in the foot by not making these things more accessible. its a service issue. But nintendo prefers to invest in lawyers and not into their engineers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The fact emulators are faster than the real hardware, can you blame them?

This is a problem Nintendo has had a few times before, choosing weaker hardware makes it much easier for other platforms to match and outpace them.

My first time playing Pokemon was emulating Pokemon Red on PC. For some reason they put it in Australian stores around a month after the US release so emulation was the only way.

Similarly GBA was playable on PC very early in its cycle. DS/3DS was a bit less attractive because of it screen layout and inputs but that kind of quirk aside underpowered handheld hardware is just asking for emulator support.