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Would require decompilation of the Animal Crossing game code for the Switch. I believe DRM has gotten a lot better since the Gamecube days as well. Hypothetical

Would require decompilation of the Animal Crossing game code for the Switch. I believe DRM has gotten a lot better since the Gamecube days as well. Hypothetically possible maybe but good luck haha

vuciv 1y ago
I actually think now that I've gone through the process, memory scanning and writing will be enough... Except, they probably have different control codes that I'd need to reverse engineer.
- bigyabai 1y ago
  You should be able to run Cheat Engine on your emul*tor of choice to tweak New Leaf "and newer" titles. And if you're a stickler for pissing Nintendo off in very specific ways, LayeredFS + Atmosphere opens up some modding opportunities right on the console itself. Not sure how easy it would be to pull something like this off though...
  - sterlind 1y ago
    you really don't have to self-censor "emulator" here. HN moderation is not like social media platforms.
    - lazide 1y ago
      Social media platforms censor emulator?!?
      - Gigachad 1y ago
        Probably not. But silent deranking of censored terms has everyone paranoid that anything even slightly controversial will get hidden.
        bigyabai 1y ago
        I'm just covering my ass. Life is good right now and I don't want to meet any Nintendo ninjas, even for insinuated infractions. It's not so much a condemnation of HN, but the way IP is in the US. The only website I want hosting my comments on Nintendo modding is my own.
        0points 1y ago
        That's hilarious. That modder who had to pay 2M sold drm circumvention kits for the Switch. That's a pretty clear case. You pretending that saying "emulator" on a forum qualifies just makes you a extra special snowflake.
        rl3 1y ago
        >You pretending that saying "emulator" on a forum qualifies just makes you a extra special snowflake. Says the person going out of their way to attack another person over a single-character asterisk substitution. Seems fairly understandable to not want to piss off rabid lawyers, however remote the chances of angering them may be.
        bigyabai 1y ago
        Okay, lol. Special snowflake it is. All I'll say is that I've seen people arrested for discussing Switch emulation in-detail. Never saw that happen with Cheat Engine.
        0points 1y ago
        > I've seen people arrested for discussing Switch emulation in-detail. Nope, that didn't happen. Nobody got arrested for discussing emulation.
        jraph 1y ago
        I doubt a star will make Nintendo lawyers go "ow nose, they didn't spell out emulator in full, we can't attack them! Damn those star armors!". I don't think it changes anything technically. The only thing this kind of censoring does is countering basic censor bots I think, and somehow making swear words publishable in the US.
      - perching_aix 1y ago
        Yes. Facebook at some point filtered links to them from private messaging. I know this from personal experience. Not sure if they still do. Also fairly common on Reddit and Discord for communities to ban discussions of them, or even falsely claim they're blanket illegal outright.
        HeatrayEnjoyer 1y ago
        Why? An emulator isn't legally any different than a virtual machine.
        bigyabai 1y ago
        Low-level emulators can be legally identical to a virtual machine, but often isn't. Most modern consoles can't be emulated that way, and most require you to dump a bootrom from your own console hardware, alongside game keys and other dubious digital paraphernalia.
        lazide 1y ago
        Just like a PC, bare hardware without firmware or a boot OS is pretty useless. Same with emulators. Most distribute a pretty wide range of stuff along with them.
  - idiotsecant 1y ago
    I think my 'old man shakes fist at clouds' thing is this. The social media platforms that censor you do it to make your content easier to sell ads against. It's actual corporate badthink correction that is rebuilding the English language. STOP VOLUNTARILY DOING IT WHEN YOU DONT HAVE TO. You should not sacrifice your free thought on the altar of quarterly results. Say the whole fucking word.
looperhacks 1y ago
Switch DRM, running custom code and interacting with RAM is a solved problem on the Switch (1). There are some really impressive mods, like a multiplayer implementation for Super Mario Odyssey
lawlessone 1y ago
I am curious. Does the kind of DRM used to prevent decompilation come with any performance costs?

Would require decompilation of the Animal Crossing game code for the Switch. I believe DRM has gotten a lot better since the Gamecube days as well. Hypothetically possible maybe but good luck haha

vuciv 1y ago

I actually think now that I've gone through the process, memory scanning and writing will be enough... Except, they probably have different control codes that I'd need to reverse engineer.

bigyabai 1y ago
You should be able to run Cheat Engine on your emul*tor of choice to tweak New Leaf "and newer" titles. And if you're a stickler for pissing Nintendo off in very specific ways, LayeredFS + Atmosphere opens up some modding opportunities right on the console itself. Not sure how easy it would be to pull something like this off though...
- sterlind 1y ago
  you really don't have to self-censor "emulator" here. HN moderation is not like social media platforms.
  - lazide 1y ago
    Social media platforms censor emulator?!?
    - Gigachad 1y ago
      Probably not. But silent deranking of censored terms has everyone paranoid that anything even slightly controversial will get hidden.
      - bigyabai 1y ago
        I'm just covering my ass. Life is good right now and I don't want to meet any Nintendo ninjas, even for insinuated infractions. It's not so much a condemnation of HN, but the way IP is in the US. The only website I want hosting my comments on Nintendo modding is my own.
        0points 1y ago
        That's hilarious. That modder who had to pay 2M sold drm circumvention kits for the Switch. That's a pretty clear case. You pretending that saying "emulator" on a forum qualifies just makes you a extra special snowflake.
        rl3 1y ago
        >You pretending that saying "emulator" on a forum qualifies just makes you a extra special snowflake. Says the person going out of their way to attack another person over a single-character asterisk substitution. Seems fairly understandable to not want to piss off rabid lawyers, however remote the chances of angering them may be.
        bigyabai 1y ago
        Okay, lol. Special snowflake it is. All I'll say is that I've seen people arrested for discussing Switch emulation in-detail. Never saw that happen with Cheat Engine.
        0points 1y ago
        > I've seen people arrested for discussing Switch emulation in-detail. Nope, that didn't happen. Nobody got arrested for discussing emulation.
        jraph 1y ago
        I doubt a star will make Nintendo lawyers go "ow nose, they didn't spell out emulator in full, we can't attack them! Damn those star armors!". I don't think it changes anything technically. The only thing this kind of censoring does is countering basic censor bots I think, and somehow making swear words publishable in the US.
    - perching_aix 1y ago
      Yes. Facebook at some point filtered links to them from private messaging. I know this from personal experience. Not sure if they still do. Also fairly common on Reddit and Discord for communities to ban discussions of them, or even falsely claim they're blanket illegal outright.
      - HeatrayEnjoyer 1y ago
        Why? An emulator isn't legally any different than a virtual machine.
        bigyabai 1y ago
        Low-level emulators can be legally identical to a virtual machine, but often isn't. Most modern consoles can't be emulated that way, and most require you to dump a bootrom from your own console hardware, alongside game keys and other dubious digital paraphernalia.
        lazide 1y ago
        Just like a PC, bare hardware without firmware or a boot OS is pretty useless. Same with emulators. Most distribute a pretty wide range of stuff along with them.
- idiotsecant 1y ago
  I think my 'old man shakes fist at clouds' thing is this. The social media platforms that censor you do it to make your content easier to sell ads against. It's actual corporate badthink correction that is rebuilding the English language. STOP VOLUNTARILY DOING IT WHEN YOU DONT HAVE TO. You should not sacrifice your free thought on the altar of quarterly results. Say the whole fucking word.

looperhacks 1y ago

Switch DRM, running custom code and interacting with RAM is a solved problem on the Switch (1). There are some really impressive mods, like a multiplayer implementation for Super Mario Odyssey

lawlessone 1y ago

I am curious. Does the kind of DRM used to prevent decompilation come with any performance costs?