i would wager a lot of melee players in the scene do not own a copy, yes
It's more complicated than that. Bleem stood its ground and went to court, and won, and it was a landmark case that we talk about to this day. But they lost everything anyway. You pretty much have to be rich to go up against a massive company like this.
How many is "a lot"? Let's talk %s here...
technically there is no such thing as a legal copy of a game
It's much easier to say this when you're an anonymous internet guy and not the person who's going to spend the rest of their life paying legal fees from capitalist debtor's prison.
emulation is at odds with their future business. look at how many people derided the mario collection because they could just emulate the games for free. what if Nintendo wanted to make a Melee Online at some point down the line and the fan scene had done it for free already?
Is this true? My understanding of the issue comes from the Bleem! case, which protected the consumer right to copy a legally purchased game.
No.
It is legal to play a game you own on hardware it wasn't intended to be played on. This was established long ago.
whoa, I could be wrong there
That's a fair assessment. Nintendo has a history of claiming that things are illegal, when they aren't.
That's why its annoying as shit, Nintendo's basically going against what courts have ruled. Their only ground would be we all pirated melee or some shit, which is not in good faith to us as consumers.
Literally not related at all with what's going on but you just gotta get that zinger in, huh?
Comparing this to the Trump campaign's dumbfuck legal attempts to overturn the U.S. presidential election that get laughed out of court is not as solid a comparison as you seem to think.
1. Because it's a very deep game, and it's unique. Even the other Smash games don't play like it.
According to the wiki page, it's a Melee netcode tool. It's not emulating any functionality. I think you're mixing it up with the custom Dolphin branch with Slippi integration, which is the emulator.
We'll probably never know the official reasoning as to why but with what happened last summer it's not hard to imagine Nintendo being done with Smash an the esport community
The Slippi modification is for Melee and has no effect on Ultimate. The TO could have cut the online Melee tourney at Nintendo's request and still run Ultimate.
they probably just can't
Edit: Guess I shouldn't go there, but very strange of you to be upset over such a community
If that's really what this is about, then Nintendo won't just stop Slippi. They'll also stop Ultimate tournaments in general. After all, many (I think most, by far) of the players implicated in that travesty were Ultimate players.
The game isnt popular, but very vocal compared to other communities.
Not nice enough apparently
Ok my original post was 'why don't you shit in your bathroom instead of here' before anyone jumps on TuXx for this response
It is a popular fighting game. And even if it isn't, what does it have to do with anything?
