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The emulation and homebrew scene is at a crossroads now. cemu [1] is on track to earn 250k through Patreon (h/t byuu), which is a good way to get stomped on by
by voltagex_ 10y ago
The emulation and homebrew scene is at a crossroads now. cemu [1] is on track to earn 250k through Patreon (h/t byuu), which is a good way to get stomped on by Nintendo legal.
Open source is critical for the success of projects like Dolphin, but what do you think the emulator developers of the future are going to do when they see the cash they can earn by being secretive?
[1]: cemu.info
- slantyyz 10y ago>> which is a good way to get stomped on by Nintendo legal. Having a pile of people running the Wii U version of Breath of the Wild on their gaming PCs will do it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmf0xA6aVM4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmf0xA6aVM4 I hadn't been keeping up with CEMU progress, but looking at the 1.7.3 progress preview video, it's damn impressive.
- cookiecaper 10y agoI just started playing with CEMU, very exciting piece of software. I'm looking forward to a world where systems have workable emulators within several months of release, not several years. That will only bring the legal issues into more stark relief. So few of us realize that our intellectual property regime is holding back a lot of major accessibility and practicality improvements. We need to fix it. Amazing projects like CEMU should not have to live in fear that someone is going to squash them and cause a lot of real harm just to protect someone else's bottom line.
- Retr0spectrum 10y agoI think emulators are great, but I'm certainly not excited by for-profit(?) proprietary emulators like CEMU.