Maybe customers are not willing to pay real money for that feature, so the product vendors are not willng to invest their hard-earned cash to create "best" product in the world.
That’s…sort of the complaint about Nintendo’s N64 emulation: It isn’t willing to put in the work for the sake of making a quality emulator—even though it could—but it’s also asking people to pay real money for that feature. The fact that Nintendo owns the source code to the Switch and the N64 makes the failure to craft a quality emulator all the more ridiculous.
The pirates simply have no right to use nintendo's intellectual property to compete against nintendo.
Piracy wouldn’t be nearly as big an issue if Nintendo would release more of its classic library to the Switch. When the only way to legally play Metroid Fusion (the direct predecessor to Metroid Dread) is to find a Game Boy Advance and a physical copy of the game, piracy begins to look a lot more enticing.
Why cant they build their own games and make them successful and then build emulators?
If they’re building their own games, they don’t need to build emulators for them. Please seek professional medical help for your early onset dementia.
Nintendo usually does exactly that: When someone uses Nintendo IP for their own games, Nintendo shuts that shit down. Exceptions exist—primarily ROM hacks, including randomizers for games like Super Metroid—but anyone making a standalone game using Nintendo IP tends to get stomped on like a Goomba more often than not. The most enterprising creators can (and sometimes do) pivot to using original IP after getting stomped.
Nintendo literally owns the source code for the N64; that it can’t create a functional emulator for the N64 that is at least on par with the best non-Nintendo emulators is less an indictment of…whatever gobbledygook you just said and more an indictment of Nintendo perpetually half-assing its approach to handling older games. Piracy isn’t an excuse for that.
The fact that no one has touched your code in years despite its availability should tell you something—and it’s not “my product is so good that no one wants to mess with perfection”.
The PS5 may not be around as long as your website, but it will certainly be far more successful than you and your website have ever been or ever will be.
Nintendo’s issue isn’t with the age of the games in question or piracy/emulation; neither one affects the market for people who want to play older games but don’t want the hassle of setting up emulators. It’s with Nintendo’s “homegrown” emulation being worse than emulators developed by other people—which is rightfully fucked up.
By your own admission, your software has no users. We can thus safely assume nobody has pirated your software. That means you have no one to sue, since no infringement has occured and you lack standing to sue for any other reason (including your imagined right to a mansion paid for by your government).
It’s a Gish Gallop. He wants you to hit back at every point he makes, all so he can dismiss it with a paragraph or two of more inane bullshit, another list, or both.
You’re literally making the best case possible for destroying copyright. Which is weird, since you go through so much trouble to kiss copyright maximalist ass in nearly every other comment you make.
Please seek professional medical help for your early onset dementia.
Nobody here has ever acted like ROM Universe was “some innocent site”. Even back when that saga first began, numerous commenters (including myself) were showing little-to-no mercy to the site precisely because of its profit scheme. Those of us who knew the full details of the situation had no illusions of the site being “some innocent” ROM archive or whatever.
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That’s…sort of the complaint about Nintendo’s N64 emulation: It isn’t willing to put in the work for the sake of making a quality emulator—even though it could—but it’s also asking people to pay real money for that feature. The fact that Nintendo owns the source code to the Switch and the N64 makes the failure to craft a quality emulator all the more ridiculous.
Piracy wouldn’t be nearly as big an issue if Nintendo would release more of its classic library to the Switch. When the only way to legally play Metroid Fusion (the direct predecessor to Metroid Dread) is to find a Game Boy Advance and a physical copy of the game, piracy begins to look a lot more enticing.
If they’re building their own games, they don’t need to build emulators for them. Please seek professional medical help for your early onset dementia.
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Nintendo usually does exactly that: When someone uses Nintendo IP for their own games, Nintendo shuts that shit down. Exceptions exist—primarily ROM hacks, including randomizers for games like Super Metroid—but anyone making a standalone game using Nintendo IP tends to get stomped on like a Goomba more often than not. The most enterprising creators can (and sometimes do) pivot to using original IP after getting stomped.
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No. No, it is not.
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Nintendo literally owns the source code for the N64; that it can’t create a functional emulator for the N64 that is at least on par with the best non-Nintendo emulators is less an indictment of…whatever gobbledygook you just said and more an indictment of Nintendo perpetually half-assing its approach to handling older games. Piracy isn’t an excuse for that.
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The fact that no one has touched your code in years despite its availability should tell you something—and it’s not “my product is so good that no one wants to mess with perfection”.
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The PS5 may not be around as long as your website, but it will certainly be far more successful than you and your website have ever been or ever will be.
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Given the state of the emulation, one could argue that even with N64 games, no one has a good reason to purchase NSO+.
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Good thing you don’t have customers to worry about.
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Nintendo’s issue isn’t with the age of the games in question or piracy/emulation; neither one affects the market for people who want to play older games but don’t want the hassle of setting up emulators. It’s with Nintendo’s “homegrown” emulation being worse than emulators developed by other people—which is rightfully fucked up.
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By your own admission, your software has no users. We can thus safely assume nobody has pirated your software. That means you have no one to sue, since no infringement has occured and you lack standing to sue for any other reason (including your imagined right to a mansion paid for by your government).
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It’s a Gish Gallop. He wants you to hit back at every point he makes, all so he can dismiss it with a paragraph or two of more inane bullshit, another list, or both.
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It isn’t piracy, either.
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Again: You don’t need “copy protection” if nobody is ever going to copy your product in the first place.
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You don’t need “copy protection” if nobody is ever going to copy your product in the first place.
Please seek professional medical help for your early onset dementia.
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You’re literally making the best case possible for destroying copyright. Which is weird, since you go through so much trouble to kiss copyright maximalist ass in nearly every other comment you make.
Please seek professional medical help for your early onset dementia.
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Nobody here has ever acted like ROM Universe was “some innocent site”. Even back when that saga first began, numerous commenters (including myself) were showing little-to-no mercy to the site precisely because of its profit scheme. Those of us who knew the full details of the situation had no illusions of the site being “some innocent” ROM archive or whatever.
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Please seek professional medical help for your early onset dementia.
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Shiva Ayyadurai still didn’t invent email, Hamilton.
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Nah, too clunky.
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I’m leaning towards “both”, at this point.
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