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Got Eden on my Steam Deck, runs so good. Nintendo could learn a thing or two tbh.
Emulators are legal, there's enough precedent for that, Nintendo's just butthurt that their games run better on 3rd party emulators than they do on their own hardware.
Emulators are legal
With the caveat that an emulator cannot copy any copyrighted code to use in the emulation. They try to add as much proprietary code and encryption that it's nearly impossible to emulate without breaking the law.
It's scummy, but people have and will continue to find ways around it. But even the smallest of copyright infringements will result in Nintendo's wrath.
Which is why so many emulators require you to somehow acquire the console's actual BIOS binary yourself (by manually dumping it from your own hardware, of course, and by no other means at all) and drop it into a file folder for the emulator to use.
Even with this they fall back on the god forsaken Digital Millenium Copyright Act (at least in the states). Since they encrypt the system, if you have a key from your own system then it's assumed that you acquired it by violating the DMCA.
tbf, the Steam Deck's hardware blows the Switch away so of course they play better
That doesn't mean much when it comes to emulation tbh. If the emulator is shit, power won't help.
NEVER, ever, ever host your projects in the site of an American company.
Ok, but like honestly if GitHub kicks off my project then I can just move to another hosting platform. I would be mildly pissed that I lost the stars oh my repo. And then I would be minority inconvenienced that I have to find a new place to run my CI pipeline. I feel like there isn’t that much vendor locking with GitHub. Nothing they do is that unique.
It's about time people move the fuck off github
Eden wasn't really on GitHub, except for binary distribution (presumably because of the cost of doing that was $0).
What are some alternatives?
People have pointed to Codeberg, but I don't know how good it is
It's good. Just selfhost also.
Yes, I just moved from github to a self hosted Forgejo instance the other week
Android authority needs to shut the fuck up
This is basically "oh Nintendo! Look over here, your DMCA didn't actually do anything.. But they're over here now if you want to do anything about that...."
My guy, there is nothing said here that Nintendo or the people that work there don't already know.
It's like people keeping the "secret" of Usenet. Brother, the people you want to hide this stuff from already know because they put in effort to find it. What you're actually doing is suffocating the community for things like this because regular people won't find out about it as easily.
Regular people not finding out about things is what keeps things good.
There’s a difference between them Knowing vs the media bringing it to their attention so they actually have to do something.
Seriously. They will get to it eventually, they probably just got distracted with suing the Tump administration for their tariff refunds.
Despite that, they say that GitHub didn’t even respond to their counterclaims, and just shut the whole thing down the minute Nintendo asked.
You are a fly on the wall of one of the biggest tech companies in the world. They have no interest in going to court for you just so you can keep your emulator on their site.
Github is owned by a multinational megacorp and has been for 8 years, and given how they've severely botched windows 11 updates with impunity they're clearly only beholden to themself. It should come as no great shock at all that they only "care" what other multinational megacorps want.
Right?! Why is there this "narrative" that if something is banned from GitHub it's like the end for that software...
Who the hell is GitHub? Fuck em.
They're hosting their own Forgejo. Forgejo is easy to self host. There's even easier simpler stuff like Gitbucket. If you want something with a ton of features, Gitlab self host but that takes way more resources. Personally I have Gitbucket on my NAS for my basic stuff but am thinking about giving Forgejo self hosted a try. It looks better than gitbucket
I keep wanting to check things like this out, and then I remember there's not even any Switch games I want to play. I tried the open world Pokémon game when that came out years ago, purely just to see what they did (it was boring as fuck, as pretty much everyone agree). The only other thing is maybe TotK, but there's better things (in my opinion) that I still need to play. Shadow of the Erdtree, for example, is something I still need to get around to.
If anyone actually does think there are Switch games worth playing, in your opinion, what are they? I'm curious. I have to admit I avoid most advertising and don't follow Nintendo stuff, so there could be things I'm not aware of.
Here's my whole library if you want to see everything I like. Some notable exclusives:
Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom have an atmosphere like a Studio Ghibli movie. If that doesn't appeal to you than I guess you won't like those games.
The Xenoblade Chronicles trilogy if you like JRPGs.
Here's a suggestion you never see, but I loved it: Astral Chain.
Also, as others have said, Super Mario Odyssey is legit the best 3D platformer ever made.
Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury is also pretty great.
I really enjoyed Zelda BOTW. I beat it. Then I did this weird glitch that requires you to beat it twice more without dying once, but you get to keep this crazy Light Bow thing forever. I spend like a week accomplishing that glitch. Then I spent like 6 months hoping on it every once in a while, just to ride around the map and shoot things with that bow. Eventually I lost my game save, and now I don’t play it anymore… I would, if I didn’t have to spend another week on a glitch to get my bow back. Now I just look at it, remembering the good times.
While BOTW is a masterpiece in my opinion, it‘s not a Switch exclusive. You don‘t even need a Switch or Switch emulator to play it. Many people even recommend emulating the WiiU version specifically. The WiiU is a much better platform for Zelda games anyway.
eagerly awaiting federation for forgejo, Fediverse ftw
A DMCA takedown, huh? Sounds a lot like what they did with Youtube-dl a few years ago. And ultimately lost. Both youtube-dl and yt-dlp are still (again) on github.
Anyone have a reliable link for the bios?
All of them still work. I’m running Yuzu as my daily still.
Eden is a more advanced fork of Yuzu with better compatibility. No reason to keep using Yuzu IMO.
