Nintendo can go fuck itself, making a guy in forever indentured servitude, they truly can go fuck themselves. It's korally right because of their bullshit that you should pirate their shit.

They were absolutely shutting down any emulators and rom sites they could during that era too. This is far from new for them.

I’m pretty much always on the side of defending emulation, but that tweet does bring up a very damning point. As far as I’m aware, a lot of the biggest emulation groups over the years have tried very hard to decompile the source code and write their own from scratch for precisely this reason. It’s part of why…

They’re not ‘protecting’ their creativity and work. They’re not even holding it ransom. They’re just burying it in a metaphorical hole and telling the public to f*** off. The social contract around which copyright and IP laws are based is made with understanding that you make your protected works available for public…

Nintendo’s insistence on reselling the same games to us over and over again would be more tolerable if those games were readily available, and close to the same technical state that emulation offers.

I’m right there with most of Nintendo’s argument if it were, say, against Yuzu. But Dolphin primarily allows users to play games that Nintendo is no longer making available for sale. Whose creativity are we protecting, exactly, when these artists are no longer able to be paid for these works in any meaningful sense?

Noticed right away it wasn’t a vector and just wasn’t impressed.

A bit disappointing that it's the Arcade 1Up version. Those games really shine on a vector monitor.