• Nik282000@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Emulation is not a crime. Refusing to re-release existing games should be.

    No company hates its fan base more than Nintendo.

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      2 months ago

      Emulation is not a crime.

      Yes.

      Refusing to re-release existing games should be.

      …what?? Lol

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        2 months ago

        Nintendo has hundred of games that people are willing to pay massively inflated prices to play, but Nintendo would rather sue emulation projects.

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            2 months ago

            Nintendo shouldn’t be allowed to litigate against people they accuse of cutting into sales of not-for-sale games. They know there is a demand for their old catalog but do not release it for sale, forcing a market for piracy.

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                2 months ago

                It’s the combination of suing for sales that do not exist because they choose not to make those sales. I can’t type it any slower, man.

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                  2 months ago

                  I don’t like that Nintendo can sue people for something I don’t think should be illegal. So what THEY do should be illegal instead!

                  Is that what you’re getting at? Lol

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        2 months ago

        Refusing to re-release existing games should be.

        …what?? Lol

        I agree, saying that not continuing to make a copyrighted work available should be a crime is ludicrous.

        What failing to keep such works available actually should do is simply immediately cause the copyright to expire and for them to become Public Domain.

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          I agree to an extent. There should be a reasonable time period from which availability of software and hardware ends and the work becomes available.

          It should also only apply to that particular work, and not to any of its contents (so Mario or even his depiction in Super Mario Odyssey shouldn’t become public domain just because they stopped selling the game for a few years).

          I don’t think I want it to be legal for people to sell ROMs, either. I think making them public domain would do that. I know there are already people doing that, but I think the complete removal of legal repercussions would increase that.

          Overall, I agree with your sentiment, but I don’t know enough about copyright law and public domain to know if I agree on the specifics.

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    2 months ago

    Excellent. I have no real qualms with the existing deb package, but this greatly simplifies using it on anything else.

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      2 months ago

      For example, bazzite. I basically skipped the gamecube for various boring reasons, so I’m excited to revisit that era, maybe find some nice games to play with my kids.

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    2 months ago

    Whenever I read a “Dolphin emulator” headline, I always brace myself for the worst. Thankfully, it hasn’t happened yet.