The issue here is the context. That line and the omission of staring you also need a legitimate copy to dump the ROM with is a really poor way to present this.
Have you tried to play Age of Calamity on the Switch?
Oh give me a break, game is 2 days old and your going on a spiel about games preservation, from Nintendo who had proven in the past to preserve games so well the devs like SQE had to come to them to get the source code for mana 3
You know damn well not a single damn person itt is playing the game after "backing up their own copy"
And they explain how to pirate Metroid, not how legally emulate it.
Because it looks like shit on the actual hardware - and most games on the Switch also run like shit.
Yeah pretty much. This series needs a lot of love and doing stuff like this so soon is not going to help.
Yeah, me too.
The issue is that a lot of normal people don't have a hacked switch to dump their legally acquired game to the the PC to play on their emulator. More than likely they are just getting a rom off the internet and playing that. Which Nintendo has been known to kill individual Switch Game licenses.
Oof yeah those quotes are pretty unambiguous. Nothing about how to rip your games in there either.
^this is how I see it as well. If you're interested in spreading the good word about emulation's legitimacy then this ain't the way to do so..
Nintendo sells games to sell their hardware, MS and Sony sell their hardware to sell games. At this point they'd have to be legally forced, and I do mean that, to release games on PC.
"It's okay to pirate a game if it's not in PC" isn't a good take to defend emulation
I'm not overly sensitive to performance as I used to be, so I'm a bad judge there hah. Age of Calamity was fine for me, but I definitely understand performance issues can rub people the wrong way with their purchase. I think what I don't get is the continual point being made of Nintendo's hardware choices. It was outdated before it came out yes, but aren't all consoles? Plus it very clearly had to balance many aspects to achieve what it has achieved, so I can't really see that not being a complaint about hardware that had to choose the path it chose.
Sounds like this take is coming from a person who has no clue how to be objective.
I know I'm not the one you're quoting, but I'm kind of tired of this narrative where a game is unplayable just because it has a fluctuating or low frame rate. I've played Age of Calamity, and have beaten it 100% on the hardest difficulty and not once did the framerate suddenly make the game unplayable or hindered my experience past "Its choppy looking". I truly do not understand these complaints.If people could play OoT and Majoras Mask at a 20FPS TOP END and have the framerate dip and think those games are masterpieces, I truly don't understand how its suddenly "unplayable" now just because we have better.
Yeah its amazing how many people have working V1 Switches that they hacked, bought the copy of Dread, dumped it themselves and are now playing on emulators.
People will do anything to make themselves feel better about their own scummy practices. Really can't be surprised
What? That's not what I said.
Piracy is not okay, but emulating Switch games on PC is not inherently piracy.
If the big Nintendo leak has shown anything it's that Nintendo is really great about game preservation. You not being able to play it for cheap doesn't have anything to do with preservation though.
As someone who feels strong enough about emulation to snap post, it's strange you wouldn't immediately notice the problem with this sentence. The sentence is only true if you pirate Dread. It is not accurate if you were to emulate it by dumping your own copy.
The core emulation community is massively about preservation.
It is better not to look for it with an emotional lens or through the lens of morality.
Metroid Dread Is Already Running On Switch Emulators
Only days after release, the latest entry in Nintendo's classic franchise is running in 4K using an emulatorkotaku.com
s/o to the spotlight on emulators. emulators kick ass (also nowhere in this article does it state to go the pirate the game, so please don't bring that in here lol)
