Even the Switch is pretty standard phone hardware

There are PS2 that had this function removed?

Or using the old hardware like the PlayStation 3 BC for instance, they literally had the PS2 hardware in the PS3 to handle BC.

And the PS2 likewise literally had PS1 hardware to handle BC.

Minetest. The game is way more open and customisable, and you can add in whatever rulesets you like.

To be more specific, you can, it’s just an esoteric piece of shit mechanism that’s way more complicated than it needs to be.

https://framedsc.com/GeneralGuides/steam_update_guide.htm

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3232095313

That’s unusually really cool of them! Mad props!

I mean personally I think it’s closer to those point and click adventure games, just shrunk down to be appropriate for a handheld of the day

Linux Foundation - Linux is GPL and would be massively, negatively affected by an ability to suddenly un-GPL code

Google - their consumer OSes (Android and ChromeOS) use Linux as their base, not to mention their servers are almost entirely Linux.

IBM/Red Hat - RedHat is a billion dollar company specialising in providing Linux OSes.

Microsoft - surprising I know, but a lot of their internal and cloud stuff uses GPL code, including Linux.

Oracle - they ship a lot of GPL code, including a Linux distro.

EFF - The ability to un-GPL code would have catastrophic consequences on the internet, and this will be an issue they will weigh in on.

Apple - their servers don’t run on macOS.

And just about any company you can think of with a Linux server.

I mention Linux a lot, but that is because it can’t be understated how important it is in our global infrastructure. Linux is as much GPL as Yuzu, so if code can be retroactively un-GPL’ed from Yuzu, it can be done with one of the most important software projects in the world.

I mean, many thought the same of Yuzu.

Problem is, Yuzu team were breaking other laws. They were tweaking their codebase based on leaks.

I would not be shocked to see Nintendo either attempt to un-GPL the code, claim some sort of copyright over forks, or even to maliciously inject new code in an attempt to gain access to user IP addresses and just send out letters to every Yuzu user. Nintendo really is that petty, look at what they did to Gary Bowser. They will 100% go after other emulators like this now that they know the developers will just give up in a week.

Do you know how much of society depends on GPL code? Every Android phone, every Chromebook, most servers and many billion dollar companies rely on GPL code. Nintendo attempting to un-GPL Yuzu will wake some sleeping giants, who will realise other people might attempt to do the same to the projects they rely upon. As a result the defence fund for anyone Nintendo goes after like this will end up VERY well funded. As in, make-Disney-shit-their-pants well-funded.

As for your point on Gary Bowser, you’re kinda leaving out that Nintendo had a MUCH stronger case against him. Unlike emulators, the development of piracy modchips is very much illegal.

Nope. There have been monetised emulators before that have been deemed legal (see Bleem!)

Also if you break copyright law, the rights holder can come after you regardless if you are making money or not.

Exactly. And even if it did go to court, it wouldn’t be hard to get EFF and the Linux Foundation to help Suyu.

The monetisation part wasn’t what fucked them over, it was merely what made their more illicit activities worse.

The Yuzu team were using leaks to tweak their code, namely the ToTK leak.

They’d face a mountain of opposition from the open source community at large.

Yuzu was licensed under the GPL. Even if Nintendo are the new owners of the Yuzu code, they cannot retroactively close-source the previously open code, per the license.

If they tried that and it looked like they could set a precedent, it could spell serious trouble for other GPL projects like the Linux kernel. And they’ve got some serious financial backing.

To be fair, the Yuzu team weren’t exactly running a moneyless operation, like most emulators do. That’s what’s being sued over here

There is no precedent. The case never made it to court.

Not being able to rely on RCS from rooted phones makes sense security-wise. You can’t trust what’s attached to that message. It could be a code injection hack.

It makes no sense at all security-wise. It is always a bad idea to rely on the security of a client that you don’t own or control.

Your statement makes the assumptions that Google can detect every rooted device and there’s no possible other way to send RCS messages. Neither are true.

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html

patreon income surged when tears of the kingdom came out, and maybe that is enough to say that they enable pirates and thus should cease all operations.

Problem is, what part of that is Yuzu’s fault? They themselves stressed not to go down the piracy route.

Ripping the game from your own system/cartridge is legal, downloading an identical copy from the internet is not.

Hi, almost all android phones support keyboard and mouse. You can use a USB-C adapter to plug them in. Ditto with screens. You can use an unofficial Switch dock to do the job.

Totk can barely run on the Switch. It is pretty much up against the limits of what can be done on that hardware.

Deus Ex

True about Deus Ex. But then the original was very much an early 2000s PC shooter (which do not work on consoles) and Invisible War was a disappointment.

Mortal Kombat

The first reboot didn’t change the gameplay all that much. It was more of a story-necessity to do a reboot: Armageddon ended with all the fighters dead. Ditto with MK11 but MK1 did change up the gameplay a bit more.

Mario

Mario? Mario as a franchise never really has been rebooted. Certain genres of Mario have though, like New Super Mario Brothers on DS.

Sonic

Oh boy…are you talking about 06 or Boom? Actually it doesn’t matter… Both are examples of how not to reboot a franchise.

Tomb Raider

The tomb raider reboots (both of them) do kinda make sense as all three eras are completely different gameplay styles.

Can’t comment on NFS, never really paid attention to the franchise.

AAA simply means a huge ass budget. Most AAA games stick to tried and true formulas because they are less risky

I believe that is SR3 you’re talking about. SR4 ends on a fairly generic boss fight.

The main IP rights holder for Star field is the same as that of Skyrim (aka: Bethesda)

RomHacks wasn’t a widely publicised title selling nearly 20 million copies in a month

It really is a masterclass in remakes done right. The design changes they have made are few but extremely clever

Zelda is the better game. Problem is (sales wise) the Zelda franchise isn’t nearly as popular outside of gaming circles, and access to this game is locked to those that own a Switch, whereas HL is on all platforms

Imagine what the developers of Rogue must feel. Games in that vein are still called Rogue-likes 43 years later

They didn’t directly take BoTW’s sound track and put it in. The most they did is use very similar concepts. Which is legal.

Pokémon doesn’t own the concept of cute magical anime animals either. Infact I’m pretty sure it’s a common anime trope.

If they could do shit about this, Digimon and Yokai Watch would not exist.

Well no shit, it’s copyright infringement. That’s what DMCA Safe Harbour provisions are there for.

Mario + Rabbids

There’s a bit of a tonal difference between an unrealistic, brightly coloured cartoony hand cannon not unlike mega man and an AK47. Just saying.

And let’s not pretend that Pokemon isn’t a glorification of actual fighting to solve things and go up the ladder…

The thing is, Nintendo puts a hell of a lot of effort into pretending exactly this. Not to mention the similarities to IRL various animal fighting tournaments that are absolutely fucking barbaric.

edit: changed comparison slightly. The Rabbids guns are even more cartoony than I remembered.

Ah damn, if only my gf had a gaming PC. I think she’d like this a lot.

As someone who has not played Palworld but practically swore off mainline Pokémon since Sword and Shield (made an exception for Arceus), I couldn’t agree more with this.

Now I’ve looked at the Palworld trailer and not only does this look like more than just a Pokémon knock off like Digimon or Yokai Watch, this looks very competently made. Sure the guns might be shock value, but the point is they’re doing more with the concept than the same shit Game freak has been doing since 1996 on the fucking Game Boy. They certainly aren’t relying on that shock value.

I’m actually tempted to buy Palworld.

It wasn’t stuck on Apple Arcade. There was an Android release well before.

Machine Games are pretty well known for their first person shooters (they made the modern Wolfenstein games), so it is kinda reassuring they’re sticking to first person, even if they’re clearly not going for a Wolfenstein feel.

Jesus fucking Christ, why not charge a subscription for notepad.exe while you’re at it.

The worst I’ve personally seen was a subscription for an Android launcher. No actual cloud services attached and no way to pay outright. They wanted for a subscription for an app that launches other apps.

And the Wii wiped the floor with both PS3 and 360

They tried this and found it didn’t work.