I really got surprised when the PS3 exploit thread had almost no one complaining. Really I thought it would get locked or no one would care lol
Emulation is essential for enthusiasts of the gaming medium because it is the only way console exclusives are ever divested (in their viable lifetime and possibilities of preservation) from complete corporate control.
You can run Wii and Wii U games in 4k. Right now. Some can even be modded with better quality textures as well.
That sounds extremely short-sighted. A console getting hacked early on is much much worse than finding out that there is a way to use emulators. Not everyone interested in a console is a PC gamer too and want the hassle of getting an emulator to work, that's like an extreme minority I'd say. But lots of console owners have no issue going through some hurdles to get stuff they want for free, as long as there is a relatively simple way of doing it. Hardware sales could go up that way though but software sales will go down, which in the end is a very bad situation, for everyone.
Booting mean that code starts to get executed. Running means that it gets to the point where a user can interact with the game.
And pc gaming doesn't actually exist because everyone there is a pirate right?
You're right it might not go mainstream these days, but I still think a hacked console is much worse than emulators simply since the small group of PC gamers who use emulators probably never had any plan to buy the console anyway. So there may not be any lost software sales really, just more talk about the games on social media and among friends etc, which doesn't have to be a bad thing depending on how the talk goes. Ie "This game on [console] is awesome! You need to try it!" = good. "This game is unplayable on [console]! Play it on PC instead!" = bad.
Not saying that Switch hacking is in that critical position right now, just debating the emulators vs hacking scenarios in general regarding their danger for any console.
Everyone knows emulation main intention is piracy. saying that is just a back up or for better perfomance is just putting the head in the sand and looking the other way trying to justify it side way. If Emulators were 100% commited only to performance, they will 1, not make it open source, 2) figure out a way that the game requires physical copy to run
yeah!! god forbid games made by a company be playable only on the console same company manufacture!!HOW DO THEY DARE!! D:<!!! =_____________=
making it open source means that even IF they were committed to filter out the possibility of piracy, someone else would get the code and remove said restrictions. CEMU is not on any grey cloud, CEMU rides the glory of a legal battle Sony lost that set a precedent that Emulation is legal. If Nintendo wanted to sue em about what is on teh emulator itself you think they wont be able to reverse engineer the emulator?
I know that it's not your intention or even the point of your post at all, but I would personally suggest that you're making too many assumptions about the crowd who uses emulators, and I'm saying that as someone who's been involved with the scene for 20 years and still owned every mainline Nintendo platform and handheld.
Yeah they obviously cant hit it now but its the same stuff they said about HD and wii. They obviously cant get to it now but when they release something that will they will definitely care
When I regarded playing the game enhanced on your computer as related to piracy, I was mostly referring to someone just downloading the ISO and loading it up on the emulator Willy nilly like any other emulation that exists. And since the person was asking for reasons beyond that, it would not be the point he wanted.
there is, but between confirming, tracking down and starting a legal battle is too much of a problem from a console that Nintendo emselves already phased out. if the same would be done on Switch they might pursue.
Which is why Yuzu is open source. They can very easily prove they are not infringing anything.
is not about legality is simple about making it work faster and later one anyone enable it as a piracy tool,
Oh I totally realize that. Might be more than 2 years. I'm at the end of Xenoblade 2 right now so it isn't like I'm waiting.
Man the Xbox is getting nothing though - dev mode is cool but really we've seen very little in the way of hacking for it, I get it's the least selling and least desirable console to hack however it didn't stop every other console ever made up to now.
so talking about the potential (and proved) wrong effect of emulation is bad for you, or this is wishful thinking and ignoring the inherited problems of emulation for companies and possible for players?
Talking about negative impacts of emulation is fine.
Week old lotto ticket numbers and the locker combination to your old cubby in highschool.
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Thank you Nintendo for being idiots with your encryption again.
what else will you talk about it then? emulator is not even out nor working and by all means CEMU is piracy behind the "better performance" excuse. and things like
