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That's because most emulator users are pirates. Few people bother dumping their games themselves.
by zirgs 3y ago
That's because most emulator users are pirates. Few people bother dumping their games themselves.
- satvikpendem 3y agoMany of them own the actual game, even if they don't literally dump it themselves. I wouldn't call that piracy.
- necrosyne 3y agoI have physical copies of the games I play in Ryujinx, and don’t dump the ROMs myself. I suspect I’m in the minority however.
- aqfamnzc 3y agoI agree with you. However, now that you bring it up, I wonder what the law says? My guess is it's technically still not legal, at least in the US. :(
- agloe_dreams 3y agoEmulator users are generally only pirates because they cannot just buy the software and dumping carts is costly due to proprietary formats. There is tons of evidence that most piracy is due to unavailability. I would 100% pay $70 to buy Zelda that just runs on PC at 4K...but nope, gotta have it at 720P @ 28FPS.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoModchips are available for every switch console now, and the early ones can be softmodded pretty easily. It's a bit hit or miss on other consoles, but it's often pretty straightforward to dump your own games. IMO, it's kind of dumb to make people "do a little dance and magical incantation" to make what they're doing "more legal" especially when there's little case law about it. Also, everything on the switch is ID-tagged. If nintendo wants to, they can ban carts, consoles, controllers, accounts, and more for arbitrary reasons.
- zirgs 3y agoMessing with modchips is a lot harder than simply visiting a rom site.