"I should be able to play any game i want at any time i want, and a company is not allowed to have any say in this, my scheduling should be their scheduling else I pirate" time saved: 7 minutesd and 35 seconds.

I completely agree on all points related to game preservation. It's like many instances of piracy of different mediums - there are cases where the piracy isn't just because someone is an immoral fuck who doesn't want to pay for things, but rather there is no viable legal alternative. As you say, the 3DS store is closed down. 3DS is not sold in stores anymore, (and a few years from now, the same will be true of the Switch, and the new Nintendo system (Switch 2 or whatever it may be) may or may not have a Switch game card slot - if the rumours are to be believed, it won't because of piracy concerns). So you end up with scenarios where your console breaks and you can't buy a new one in store or directly from Nintendo, or where you want to buy a game and there is no legal way to buy it, whether it's a physical copy or a digital copy. I mean fuck, it's 2024. How is this still a problem? People love to debate about what 'next gen' features they'd like to see in consoles, etc. Here's the biggest one that we should be seeing in the next consoles - fluidity of your digital games library. If I buy a game on a particular system, years from now I should have a legal means to still play that game. Steam does it already - you can buy a new PC with different hardware years apart and your games will still work and your saves are still there. It's paramount the console makers figure this out. For this reason, even though I've bought a PS1 through PS4, I haven't bought a PS5. I've just been waiting out for the PS games to come to Steam, because I want all my games in a centralised location where I know they will still be accessible into the future, and the hundreds of hours I put into those game saves are still there for me to go back to if I so choose. This should be standard.

Ryujinx is alive and Citra and Yuzu are 100% open-source (even the Patreon versions). So it's not totally gone (The advantage of settling out of court is not starting a legal battle that they could lose and set a precedent), though expect the forks to brush what it's based on under the rug.

Yuzu was paywalling. Thats why Nintendo sued. Since Yuzu was easily in the wrong they immediately settled to pay damages instead of going to court over it.

Im not on the side of Nintendo. but lets call a spade a spade bro. Yuzu was pushing their luck way too far with paywalling premium and android software. The premium version also giving acces to totk before it launced. their greed was their downfall. look at dolphin is still well and alive after all these years. yuzu team bit of more than they could chew sadly, RIP. at least we still got Riujinx and yuzu was open source so i bet people will revive it.

@grygaming5519

4 ай бұрын

Nintendo is actively scummy...they even went after Video Game History Foundation several times already. However the biggest issue is the ESA who has done everything to halt preservation.

Switch Emulation is NOT dead. Ryujinx never stopped existing and there are already 2 new forks from Yuzu's code being worked on by new developers. Other than that based video. Actually giving consumers the option to play the games works. It works on me for sure. I have not used Xbox 360 Emulation because I can play many of the games on my Series X and it even enhances some of them. Even if I emulate the 360 at any point, the most convenient way to get the games would be to put the disc in my 360 or download my digital copy, install the game to a USB drive and then move it to my PC. Hell I am even played a game through backwards compatibility on Series X while watching this very video. Sony doesn't do that great but at least they still have the PS3 store up and listened when people told them not to shut it down so I can still pick up PS3 games. Nintendo really is scum and I will never stop reminding people that pirating Nintendo games is ALWAYS morally correct. And I am saying this as a former Nintendo fan who has NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Wii U, 2 Gameboy Colors, 3 Gameboy Advance SPs, 2 DS Lites and 2 3DSs.

Yuzu was open source, so hopefully other coders continue to work on it and distribute it via other means but under a different name.

lol theres like 3 other switch emulators that have just as good of performance i feel like people are just hyping this up for views....they had a PATREON thats why THEY got sued into the ground and not the other emulators

If Yuzu didnt paywall to make money off their Emulator....this wouldnt be an issue. However Nintendo has been chided several times for its piss poor ability to preserve video games. This is history and what Nintendo is doing amounts to digital arson if not destruction of cultural landmarks.

Why is it that the overwhelming majority of people that complain about Nintendo are PC gamers who don’t buy Nintendo games or consoles, yet will pirate their content, citing some moral crusade as their reasoning? The PC Master Race wants their cake and to eat it too. Just say you want free shit. I’ll respect that a hell of a lot more than all these rants about morality and “game preservation”. Emulating widely available Switch games isn’t even remotely about preservation.

@tristanedwards7302

4 ай бұрын

100% it is and he covered it in the video - the 3DS store is closed down. 3DS is not sold brand new in retailers anymore. If not for emulation, how do you play 3DS games beyond paying exorbitant amounts to game collectors online? How does the average consumer wade through those waters of complexity? Wanting to have your games somewhere where you can always play them and always access them != 'I want free shit'. I pay for all my PC games and spend plenty of money on PC games. I would like to be able to play Nintendo games as well but not in the current form where they have such short sightedness about the longevity of those purchases. As we go forward with new consoles and new features and where we have significant diminishing returns on graphical fidelity improvements (formerly the main selling point of new coneoles), obviously we are reaching a point where this is a feature that needs to be considered.

@grygaming5519

4 ай бұрын

Look up the Entertainment Software Association. the ESA was founded on video game preservation and only 13% of all games produced have been preserved. Nintendo has fought against the ESA for years to make sure any of the modern games could not be backed up to a database. This is not a PC gamer issue, its a history issue.