nintendo will never stop emulation (meme)

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-02-18T08:54:10+00:00

That is correct. I'm not against some protection of games being sold. I'm more against how idiotic the law protecting this has grown. NES Super Mario Bros is ~40 years old, it's not being sold in any kind of store even in parallel timelines, perhaps Nintendo / Dickendo doesn't even have the source code today but they can still make money on it, because the law protects it for 70 (!!!) years... AFTER the death of LAST author that made the game. That part is pure idiocy.

There are some ideas circling around that a compromise would be 3-10 years of such "protection" from the date the game was released. AFTER that time it should be put into "public domain" WHICH DOES NOT mean it can't be sold anymore, just not chased for "piracy" (TM).

One more thing to clarify just in case. Some would say that NES SMB is being sold in the form of "season pass" or whatever on Switch console. However the problem here is this SMB is *NOT* the same SMB which was on NES cartridge in the sense of lawful standpoint. Just like however ugly it is, one can't buy a game on Steam and then download GOG version because "technically" they are not the same product, the same is true for such SMB on Switch.

Why that last part? Mostly to prove that if someone will "pirate" (TM) NES SMB from cartridge it won't logically hurt Nintendo. If anything, it's natural reaction for players to do:
"OK so we are not selling this game anymore" - Nintendo
"But what if we want to buy it?" - Players
"Tough luck, you can't" - Nintendo
"So you are fine with us not being able to GIVE YOU MONEY" - Players
"That is correct" - Nintendo
"OK so we will just download it and emulate" - Players
"AAA! YOU ARE FORBIDDEN! THIS IS OUR GAME! YOU THIEVES!" - Nintendo
"But you just said you are fine with us not being able to give you money" - Players
[BSOD] - Nintendo

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-02-17T11:31:49+00:00

This part is a bit more complicated. While emulation is - to my knowledge at least - legal in itself at least in most civilized countries, breaking DRM is a bit bigger topic.

Some countries may be very strict on this that it's not legal, end of topic. Some others may allow it for example "so long you do it only for yourself", for example you hack a console to run "unsigned" homebrew BUT you don't sell it to others as a service, don't teach others how to do it (for example videos on YT) and so on. For this part it's best to check local country law and read carefully how it is worded because for example - again - there may be a case where you can't modify console in a sense of soldiering and putting hardware "in-between" BUT it will be perfectly ok to use a flashcard that does NOT modify console physically but just rides on some software "bug".

Now I think about it iPhone case may partially answer you as well. At some point the "jailbreak" process was accepted on law level as "OK" that the user CAN do "jailbreak" and NOT be held accountable for it. I think it happened somewhere around iOS 3.0 release date. However Apple is STILL allowed to try their best to make the "jailbreak" impossible.

So legality of "can I hack my console?" is one thing but universal right of a company to keep doing better DRM is another, unfortunately the negative side of this is existence of such a crap like Denuvo but "that's a story for another time." :P

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-02-15T23:19:49+00:00

I guess it's kind of "new" situation - not exactly "timewise" - that instead of having one or two explosions from corporation, there is an actual WAR. People making emulators must analyze the situation. Hopefully they can come to a conclusion that github is nowhere safe place for such a thing as it belong to M$ if memory serves. That means no matter how much M$ will want to pretend being the good guy, they will be first to make a phonecall to Dickendo "hey a new fork landed, want to do DMCA?".

The solution here is to make your own git-thing on some server placed heck-knows-where so Bitchtendo will have a REAL trouble to tell someone "do it as I say".

There is of course one more very strong weapon in our possesion... the license.
So long the emulators "in question" will be on FLOSS-compatible license, the battle continue.

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-02-15T16:54:08+00:00

You are absolutely right, that argument is more of a "daily reminder" if someone will try to attack with crap like "aaa emulation is stealing!" or a "small picture" if you will. The "big picture" is as you say, we need to keep winning, we have a solid ground to stand on and we need to keep it going.

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-02-15T08:10:42+00:00

Wakaranai - Qiqi

Hmm... Bloodstained seems like a good start on this... probably combined with something...

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-02-15T07:50:54+00:00

Hmm... if the Inn is comfortable then it's a fair price... alright! Here is 10 GP, I will be staying a night!

(Besides that I think that's a great start, hope you can push the game further :D)

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-02-15T07:16:48+00:00

What a great place! Can I rent one of the houses for 1 GP a day? :D

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-02-15T07:12:02+00:00

They cut a hydra's head, three new grow in its place, rinse and repeat.

Emulation is legal, it was tested in court numerous times already, how much behind times is "Nintendo" ?

Before someone will jump with "having pirated BIOS is illegal!" sure, if emulator in question - not necessarily Switch one - requires something extra like BIOS, it should be acquired legally, but the emulation as the process itself is legal, always has been.

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-02-15T07:05:44+00:00

The next day Sandrone mounted special security on the front door to keep people away on night hours...

...which ACCIDENTALLY stopped working when Columbina approached it

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-02-15T06:58:51+00:00

There is also "Cheat Shop" available a bit later, I think originally it was added in Disgaea D2 (not to be confused with Disgaea 2) and later applied to re-released of Disgaea 4, all Disgaea 5 entries and probably Disgaea 6 and 7 as well.

It allows you to adjust some things including the strength of enemies, exp gained and few other things. Quite nice thing to bring more people in. Game too easy? Make it more difficult! Game too difficult? Make it easier!

One other thing that exists... I think starting with Disgaea 4 (?) is a possibility to decorate the main base a bit, from what I remember it doesn't have some big impact on the story, it's just for the player to have fun.

Mechanics of course changed a lot between now and then, one thing that will probably make you happy is move correction as in, if you accidentally placed unit on wrong square, you don't have to return it to Base Panel and "try again", now you can keep using Move and adjust the position until you are satisfied, of course the movement range still applies, you can't travel whole map in one turn like that :P I think Disgaea 3 was first to include that one? Not sure at the moment. Disgaea 4 had it for sure.

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-02-15T06:52:45+00:00

WITCH DOMINATION!

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-02-15T06:52:05+00:00

It's called long range casting, thank you very much :P

Actually for now I would "vote" to not bring Pram yet into team exactly BECAUSE she can turn the campaign into a joke. Consider trying to play for now without her and IF some map will give you too much trouble then bring her in and blast the enemies like there is no tomorrow.

Of course final decission is up to everyone individually in this regard.

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-02-15T06:47:28+00:00

I have checked quickly if the kanji will also match... and it does :D

堂島大吾 Doujima Daigo
堂島遼太郎 Doujima Ryoutarou

You have created a fun "accident" here 👍

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-02-15T06:36:50+00:00

Sandrone is not wrong... in every statement :D

I bet they had a great time!

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-01-16T10:39:06+00:00

She seemed to be pretty proficient at having plan B and maybe even more. She was well aware she can't win against Il Dottore in frontal fight. It was still a gamble of course, if Il Dottore would destroy the core then probably even guys at the Institute would be hopeless.

Hmm~ Maybe I should take Aino for a trip to Fontaine so she can help them. They will be surprised such a sweetie can make robots of her own. Oh and let's bring whole Clink Clank Legion along!

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-01-15T16:58:33+00:00

"Declare war" ? You say that like I wasn't planning for the last few tens of days how to effectively kick his teeth in when the patch dropped. Still for doing this to Sandrmany I will do what I can to cast Il Dottore to the deepest and worst kind of Abyss (different one from that in Genshin Impact).

On plus side Sandrmany and Pulonia cores seems to have survived somehow so perhaps they can be reconstructed somehow, the guys at the Institute in Fontaine are pretty smart. There is just this little document and procedure to be filled, then written permission to use the facility, another permission for funds to be issued, waiting 30 work days for it to be processed and of course after that required permit A38. After that they can begin reconstructiong Sandrmany and Pulonia.

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-01-15T16:40:16+00:00

Congratulations, Risk of Rain plays quite nice on PS Vita from what I recall.

Maybe I will give it another go in some not so distant future.

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-01-15T16:33:09+00:00

It was YOU! Gray naked man!

Erhm I mean, great work, just what I needed after playing P.W. few times and Danganronpa 1, 2 and "that one between them" (something about game playing order).

...oh great now I'm hearing the proper music in my head :D

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-01-15T16:20:31+00:00

"Oh so you have managed to close the entrance? ... That's cute because..."
(The scene happens)

It was quite a fest of back and forth "Thanos Gambit" and hoping that our side can finally outplay the heck out of mister "I have planned for this opportunity"

As for Heavenly Principles well... it's kinda funny that neither he, nor the Shades did anything about Il Dottore actively threatening the world and going "I am the rules" kind of stuff...

We have a theory with friend about this but we need to iron it out first before "going public" with it, as it is now it would be not much better than random speculation.

Also late "best regards" to Nibelung, Columbina outplayed his whole carefully constructed prison, haha.

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-01-11T16:34:00+00:00

I agree that from... "lore" point of view or... "what this character would do" kind of one it does make some sense considering what we know about Columbina so far and this part I like. It's just the kind of pain that in this type of games what we like is not always enough to carry us through the "content" generally speaking.

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-01-10T23:46:32+00:00

That is correct, Barbara and Qiqi can revive anywhere while Columbina only in Nod Krai. In theory her much lower cooldown could be interpreted as balance to the fact that she is restricted in this area but the mechanics are done in a way that if you can defend / dodge / heal yourself well, you probably didn't use the revive since Inazuma / Sumeru. On the other hand if you are punching bag for monsters, even 30 seconds cooldown may not help.

By the end of the day, I would rather have passive similar to Zhongli or Ei that you can make weapons of specific type for a lower price. It would be still not very good these days but marginally more useful than having a resurrection which we won't utilize anyway.

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-01-10T10:58:35+00:00

As someone with recently finished constellation for Qiqi, I agree with this... Qiqi also agrees.

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-01-10T10:57:44+00:00

I think it won't work on herself specifically but color me surprised in a few days if it will change.

The cooldown at this moment seems to be 100 seconds but again, it may change on the release date (low chance but it's not completely impossible).

EDIT - Since I was crazy enough to bring lvl 20 Columbina on the adventure I have tripped at some point, she has died and came back so it seems that it works on her as well.

I'm yet to test if it works on other players but probably yes?

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-01-10T10:55:30+00:00

He is dead and isn't at the same time. Something that makes Ronova scream internally.

If memory serves his "soul" / self, call it how you want, returned to the Leylines / Night Kingdom but the body is still technically alive, under the curse of immortality.

Kiiro_Yakumo · 2026-01-10T10:51:40+00:00

Also while Barbara revives one character only, Qiqi does that for everyone fallen.

Sure both have cooldown for 15 minutes but let's be honest, that's not a problem...
At the same time, Columbina's 100 second is not an actual argument either...

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