I was going to play the first one on PS3 before playing through Part II, but if the Collection comes out on PC before then, I might buy it and play both games on PC instead.

Most likely they use a translation layer (think Wine, Proton or DXVK) rather than emulation, since the Switch 2 hardware is not completely different from Switch 1 and it’s not as costly as emulation, so I would say neither.

Edit to clarify emulation vs translation layer:

Emulation re-creates the entire hardware, while translation layer translates programming instructions intended for one platform to another, just like you would translate “one plus two” from English into “um mais dois” in Portuguese for exemple.

Since both Switch don’t have completely different hardware (unlike PS3 and PS4 for example) it’s probably easier and much more efficient to simply translate instructions that were specific to Switch 1 into Switch 2 instructions.

Edit 2: also Yuzu and Ryujinx are designed to emulate Switch on the x86 architecture, and since Switch 2 (and Switch 1) run on ARM, I’m pretty sure these emulators wouldn’t run on Switch 2 without massive re-engineering efforts. Also, as someone else said, these projects are reverse-engineered, it makes much more sense that Nintendo engineers create an emulator from scratch using their own internal documentation of Switch 1 architecture (again, it’s unlikely they went for emulation as I stated above) so the result is much more reliable than both Yuzu and Ryujinx.

That sentence intrigues me

we did something that’s somewhere in between a software emulator and hardware compatibility

What do they emulate vs. what was added in hardware to ensure compatibility?

Chrome and Firefox do as well

I believe the anticheat for Fortnite it the kernel-level flavor or Easy Anti Cheat the article mentions, and I think that by its nature it cannot be easily ported to Linux, Epic would have to drop it altogether in favor of the “vanilla” flavor of EAC.

Epic putting the work to make their anticheat compatible with Windows-on-ARM but cannot be bothered to do the same for Linux… 🙄

Yep, introduced in Android 4.2, disappeared with Android 5.

I especially like Heavy’s “bratatata” after a while hahaha

Yes it did. I left out this paragraph that explains what changes with this decision (emphasis mine)

Dstorage’s final avenue was the French Supreme Court, where it argued that a court order was required before it had to remove specific content from its file-sharing services. The court rejected this argument, and that will be the final judgment in this matter.

Nintendo has won a lengthy legal battle in the French Supreme Court against the company Dstorage, which owns and operates the file-sharing website 1fichier.com, in a judgement which the Japanese giant trumpets as a victory “for the entire games industry.”

The verdict follows years of hearings and appeals, and means that any file-sharing company based in Europe must remove illegal copies of games when asked to do so by the copyright holder. If they don’t they can now be held accountable for the content, and face huge fines.

[…]

Nintendo took action against Dstorage after the company ignored requests to stop hosting illegal copies of Nintendo software. In 2021 a Paris court found that Dstorage was indeed hosting pirated games and ordered that it pay Nintendo €935k (£783k / $1 million) in damages. Dstorage appealed this decision but lost in 2023 and was ordered to pay further costs.

Dstorage’s final avenue was the French Supreme Court, where it argued that a court order was required before it had to remove specific content from its file-sharing services. The court rejected this argument, and that will be the final judgment in this matter.

(emphasis mine)

TL;DR: 1fichier argued that court orders were required to remove content they host and the French Supreme Court confirmed that they should remove on rightholder’s request (as the law already specifies)

If I understand correctly, they will adjust Switch 2’s production capacity based on feedback from April’s Nintendo Direct and hands-on events. So I guess given the lead times required to produce consoles we should expect a release in June?

Hello,

As far as I know, lock screen widgets are only available on Android tablets running Android 15. On other devices I believe you would need to root it to add the feature (unless some OEMs added them to their versions of Android already?)

The metacritics score is in the low 60s and having played the game at release I was mostly underwhelmed.

I’m not one to defend DRMs, but they rarely play a part in games sales. In the case of BF2042, I believe other factors played much bigger roles: bug-ridden beta (and early release), confusing hero system and gameplay, and missing features.

Well, I was thinking that what’s missing was Tomb puzzles, so maybe that would help?

I’ve been playing Tomb Raider 2013, I’m 6 hours in and I think I’m already bored. The gameplay loop is unfortunately rather repetitive: platforming, stealth, kill tens of assailants while crouching behind cover, platforming, stealth, kill tens of…

Finally! I have been waiting for a PC port for so many years! I might have to buy and replay Part I tho, I haven’t played it since its release on PS3… 11 years ago?!

It’s amazing how PC Gamer are able to spin lenghty articles out of a couple of sentences from the Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary documentary. It’s the third one so far according to my own count.

What are you using GitHub on your phone for? The mobile Web UI is good enough for most use-cases, I’m not sure how an Android client would improve the user experience.

It’s a tool that makes a survey of Steam games ownership and play times based on public information on Steam Community. It’s useful to game developers and journalists as it allows them to know what is popular.

Oh and Steam Spy has been developed and released before he joined Epic Games.

It looks cool but sadly on PC it’s a Meta Quest exclusive 😢

That new cylindrical Series X looks like a Wi-Fi router lol

Somehow I was convinced that Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart was Insomniac’s first always-on ray-tracing game and that non-raytraced graphics had been added to the PC port but I was completely wrong.

Sounds like “Steam doesn’t allow X? We will allow X just to have you because we are so desperate for revenue”

My guess is that they wanted to target the widest audience possible and with the PS5’s backward compatibility they got to release it on the PS5 for “free”.

(yes, they are missing the Xbox audience, but technically you could play the Xbox 360 version on Xbox One and Series)

That’s not what I wanted, I wanted RDR on PC 😟

Anyway, it’s extremely weird that they chose to release it on PS4 with backward compatibility to PS5 🤔 (according to Rockstar)

Payday 2 wasn’t looking very modern either, but it was fun nonetheless!

Great, first the game requires the player to always be online, now paying gamers have to endure DRM that will only delay releases of pirated copies for a few days/weeks…

Edit: Oh yeah, and it requires a “Starbreeze Nebula” account, whatever that shit is (see the SteamDB page under “3rd-Party Account”)

Seems like someone (you carrier) or some app is trying to do a Man-in-the-Middle attack. I guess it only happens on this kind of website?

I guess you should start by checking for rogue apps installed on your phone.

I’m not sure to understand: you can’t connect to WiFi? I would just like to know if this issue only happens on cellular in order to narrow down the causes.

I think none of this has to do with Private DNS (which is what you found on the internet refers to).

Does the issue only happen on LTE or at home? My guess is that your DNS configuration on your home router or from you cellphone provider have been modified to use OpenDNS’s (or any other DNS that cause an issue)

Also, could you provide a screenshot of your browser telling you the website isn’t secure?

I would have IF it had been the solution Reddit had came up with in the first place AND they hadn’t destroyed my trust in them with their handling of the protests.

I have an issue with your proposed solution though: it does not address the use case of moderation / accessibility / utility tools and bots.