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  • Yozul@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The actual answer to that question is that the Switch 2 will be out soon. Nintendo doesn’t actually want to go to court over emulators, because there’s a real chance they lose. They were willing to push the devs with Switch emulators though, because that’s the current console generation, and that REALLY pissed them off. They’ve basically accepted that emulators are inevitable even if they don’t like it, but emulating the console they are currently releasing new games for was a step too far as far as they’re concerned.

    • gradual@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Maybe it’s just me. I don’t know much about emulation or console hardware, but I find it hard to believe that the architecture of the Switch 2 would be so radically different from the Switch 1 that developers would have a significantly harder time creating an emulator for it. What would be the purpose of making radical changes?

      Yuzu had been around for years before it got taken down. I’d like to see a Switch 2 emulator pop up as soon as possible, of course.

      • Yozul@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        Well, part of the problem with modern emulators is that more and more consoles are just relying on regular off the shelf hardware components. That means more of what makes them unique is in software, which is a problem, because emulating software is a lot harder to defend legally, especially in the US and Japan.

        So, realistically, the sooner you see a Switch 2 emulator pop up, the faster it’s likely to be taken down by Nintendo’s lawyers.

        Also, they’re probably not going to screw up and leave in a hardware recovery mode that bypasses all their security again, which is a big part of why Yuzu could get started so fast.

        • gradual@lemmings.worldEnglish
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          3 hours ago

          It’s not really an issue. Emulator developers should already be doing their work anonymously.

    • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Fair, but also the Switch 2 has some backwards compatibility to Switch games. So they may still have an interest despite Switch 2 being out to prevent games that could still be sold on Switch 2 to be emulated via this.